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Good for you! I often think about your challenges related to swimming that you have discussed while I swim and how you are trying to overcome them. That helps me to complete my task. Keep at it and have no fear!!!

Enjoying this tonight.  I saved it till last due to the fact that it advertises fruit and honey.  It tastes alot like many IPA's I've had and is quite good after my run today.  recovery drink.

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Love the label! It is well deserved. To celebrate your beer I am having my wife's fav beer (I hope she does not follow this group) Paulaner Octoberfest.

Hi All:

I have to get going here at work but I need to make a quick pledge to the group... Last night and this morning, my eating has gone down the toilet.  I think I'm back on track at least for now, but want to promise the group that I will stick to the menu for the rest of the day.  If I go off the reservation again today - no beer for a week.

Will post a new plan later. Thanks

Our fearless leader needs some encouragement! You can do it and we can all help by tightening up our diets.

Healthy eating plan for today:

breakfast (done): 2 eggs scrambled in coconut oil, 2 tomatoes, half avocado and cilantro (took 5 minutes)

lunch: smoked salmon filet, other half avocado and apple at some point

dinner: not sure yet.

no beer today.

1.5 hour bike done.

Back on track for you! Get 'er done!

Make sure you are fuelling yourself! Eat healthy but make sure you are eating enough! With the amount of workouts you are doing, you will need more to eat!

Great job on the 30/31 challenge!

Well she is a toasty -46F with windchill today...Damn wind!

It is a crazy day today with spin class this morning, swimming after work followed by the inaugural cycletrainer drop in at the fitness center. 30/31 is in my sights!

Oh man! thats cold buddy!

Well yesterday turned into a rest day due to a small plumbing catastrophe involving our kitchen sink. The faucet imploded under the counter, but I am happy that we got it taken care of before too much water damage was done.  The new faucet took me a little while to get installed but I was happy with the end result and my wife picked out a nice faucet.

Hoping to get in a spin and bike, with a side of Yoga. The 30/31 is slowly slipping out of sit but I still feel happy with my effort this month.

I love it.  You passed that glorious point where Fahrenheit is lower than Celsius.   We only at -27F and -33C with the windchill.   Forgot my running jacket but borrowing my buddies.

Thanks. I have been slightly trying to get under 200lbs before things ramp up in my training plan for April race. I have been trying to fuel around my workouts and I certainly do not feel starved. I am getting ready to start doing nutrition on long bikes/runs. Gaterade and Gaterade chews work well on the run and banana with lara bars are doing good on the first part of the bike. I know that hitting hard training is not the time to cut back on your fuel but staying at the same weight for months despite a ton of activity can drive ya nuts. I think the answer is dialing back into tight nutrition.

On the HIM they have powerbar products so I am going to try some of them as I move into my longe brick workouts.

We have all have setbacks.  One thing I do is to make sure I log everything in myfitnesspal.  Even Christmas and my birthday.  I might estimate, I might simply quick-add a round calorie number, but it's all there - the last 171 days and counting.  

After I did P90x, I made a spreadsheet of my calories eaten, calories burned, and my estimated BMR, and I found that, lo and behold, over a 90 day period, 3,500 calories per pound = net calories burned; the math was only off by about 2,200 calories, which was a 3% margin for error.  

My point is, keep the faith, and keep your journal.  Over time, any one day doesn't mean anything.

That could count as a swimming workout if it was long enough... 

Ah, what does everyone say...? At least it is a dry cold...or...At least it is sunny! Man great job getting out there for a run! Don't freeze off any appendages!

Swimming?  At that temp you are lucky just to find water that is still fluid and not frozen over   I am a cold water weenie.  My pool is in the 60s so I have to leave the house and go to a public one that is heated.  I know I said I like the cold but cold water is a different story.

Haha this is true!

David,

So you fell off the wagon, so what! you are still an inspiration to all of us and a great mentor/ team leader. We all have off days, also you have to allow some flexibility because that is just life!

I know you will get back in line, and I will do my best to hold you accountable, but hey dont beat yourself up over it!

This actually made me cry...

Congrats on 36/31.  That is something to be proud of!

As DH, Thor, and Kevin kept telling me - don't be worried.  You could do it tomorrow if you had to.  I checked your logs and you are logging enough miles to make it happen.  It wouldn't be fun but you would get it done.  So think of the next couple months as icing on the cake.  The more you put in (and 36/31 means you have been putting in a lot), the more you will enjoy your 70.3.

Hey Lennie - Keep it up!  Good work on the exercise and for starting the pushup challenge.  If you keep working out - it's only a matter of time before you hit that goal weight.  And here's some more good news.  The fitter you are - the longer you can work out.  The longer you can work out - the more calories you burn.  The more calories you burn, - the more beers you can drink.

Thanks all for the support!  This morning - I needed accountability and I'm happy to report that I am 500 calories to the good (despite the poor start to the morning)...  I've got 10 pounds to lose (aren't those the toughest?) and here is my plan for making it happen.

1) Record every calorie before I put it in my mouth.

2) Going over one day is one thing.  Eating more than my limit 2 days straight or for the week = no beer for the following week.

3) Going into high calorie situations, I will create a liberal plan not only for that meal but for my next meal as well.

4) All days end with ice cream - one bowl measured out...

As for the 30/31 challenge - as of today - I'm at 33 so, I should finish the month at 37/30 (to be fair, I'm counting my yoga and stretching sessions that lasted at least 30 minutes in that number.

Thanks again!