Fred D Mentor Group Part III (Page 56)

Thanks so much! I will try to get one tomorrow.

I think all I have this year is a 2k OWS.  I'm the defending AG champ.  Don't ask how many people were in my AG though. 

Were you ever able to schedule the 2nd annual doughboy 5168 (can't remember the exact number)?

I am in the same boat.  I am by no means overweight.  But I have excess weight to lose.  I am working on the discipline part now and am finally making progress.  I signed up for some nutrition coaching via Precision Nutrition and they basically have a process to help you change your habits slowly over time.  I have basically eliminated all processed food completely from my diet, really reduced the size of my portions, learning to eat slowly so that I can actually judge when I am full, and only eat to 80% full (to which they simply mean eat until you are no longer hungry, not until you are full).  I still have the occasional ice cream or beer, still a bit more then I should, but I am working on it.  It is a slow process cause I don't have a lot to lose and they slowly change your habits to help make it a permanent change.

not this season, I finished the year pretty darn early but looking to start racing again in Feb if I can get my on call schedule to work out

Oh yeah, almost forgot. Will probably be Monday the 12th. My wife has off work, and I take Mondays generally. Our pool is open at 7am, so that makes for a good start time. She wants to do the bike and run with me. She can't swim yet. 

BTW, 5168 is exactly the number. Good memory!e

I am going to try what Bryan D suggests and cut out gluten. I do eat a lot of wheat and I do feel bloated a lot, so we'll see what happens. I'll let you guys know

Weight.

I have never been what I would consider thin. I am just a hair under 5'3" and my body seems to like 130-135. I am 139 right now, so I feel a little heavy.

I would like to be 115-120, but I'm not sure I can get there. In the past 18 months, I have been as low as 128, but I couldn't maintain it.

Well, "couldn't," but we know what that means. I ran out of will power and let some bad eating habits creep back in -- like half and half in my coffee instead of milk. Ice cream. Chocolate. I love chocolate. (After my trainer ride this evening, I treated myself to a Starbuck's caramel hot cocoa. Bad, bad, bad, but oh, so good.)

As an adult in my late 20's, I went on weight watchers and got down to about 105. People thought I was anorexic, but emotionally, I felt very comfortable at that weight. At my age now, that probably is a little thin. But for a 20 something, it seemed ideal.

One of my hangups with weight comes from Junior High (whose doesn't?) -- I was barely 5'2" and 105 pounds. I was considered "fat" by my female peers because I weighed over 100 pounds. I never got crazy about it -- I didn't purge, starve myself, or take diet pills like some of my friends did -- but every morning, I would knock on my hip bones to be sure that I could feel them. To meet the standard for "skinny" (which is what we all wanted to be) our hip bones were supposed to be visible through our pants.

It's pretty pathetic when I think about it, but I admit that I still look for those hip bones. It's hard to shake some of the sick-think surrounding weight standards. I weigh myself every day. Sometimes two or three times a day.

Anyway, I need a nutrition strategy. I shop at the edges of the grocery store, going into the interior only for staples like flour, sugar, pancake mix (!!) etc. I drink soda only very rarely. I drink a lot of water, tea, and some coffee (and hot cocoa every now and then). I eat whole grains, fruit, veggies. I'm ambivalent about protein most of the time, but I do eat meat. I'm not into fast food -- if I grab something fast, it's usually Subway or Jimmy Johns.

I will say, however, that while my weight hasn't changed much in the past year (up and down 5 pounds), my clothes fit better now than they did a year ago. I try to feel good about that, but I still obsess about what the scale says.

My real season ended 9/2, but I'm just doing this OWS race for run.  Next real race isn't till February.

Got my 910 in the mail today and it works great.  Instant run pace is not bad...probably similar to my 405.  If I'm runnin 8:50's it pretty much stays between 9:15 and 8:30...not like the horror stories other people have been saying and I didn't even update my firmware yet.

Swimming function was pretty good.  Didn't miss a length.  Not sure if I'll actually use it for pool training though as I think a simple pace clock or a regular sport watch does the job just fine.  I'll try to take it in the open water this weekend to see what that's like.

Mine arrived yesterday in Ottawa. duties seem to be the price of fed/prov taxes or 15%. I have not seen the invoice yet, but there does not seem to be crazy brokerage fees.

So Thursday I received a box with shoes and a crank, yesterday a watch and tires....the wife asked me if I had done my own Christmas shopping and if she didn't have to worry about it this year. Hint, hint.....

but Thanksgiving isn't until next October!

I like it Fred!  I'm currently 168 and I'd like to get to <166 by then.  My strategy will be to just eliminate the little unneeded extras like getting home and eating a granola bar and a handful of almonds before supper and sometimes I have two bowls of cereal for a late snack rather than just one...

I have no weight lose goal.  It is strange to say I want to lose weight and yet have no number in mind I suppose but I have learned that the number is just a number.  What I do want to be is lean.  If that is at 125 or 135 I do not care.  I am currently taking girth measurements every week and skinfold measurements every 3 months.  I just want to see those go down.  Right now I am still losing weight while managing to maintain muscle so that is good but I am guessing at some point soon the weight lose will stop but I will still be losing some girth.

As I mentioned I am doing nutrition coaching and so my goal is around what I actually am eating.  So my goal is to be more inline with what I am already suppose to be doing and to stop eating so many chocolate chips.  I have gotten into this habit of taking a few at pretty much every meal and it just isn't helping.  So from now until we establish our next goal no more chocolate chips as a side snack throughout the day.  It seems small but for me it is huge

Great idea, Fred.

I would like to hit and maintain 135 by the end of November. That's four pounds, which will take some real effort.

I'm going to skip the cupcake/cookie at lunch. If I can't do it, I will stop eating at the cafeteria.

No snacking after 9:00 p.m.

It sounds like you're due for some kind of foot trouble.

I had PT about a year ago for SI joint problems and hip bursitis. It seriously kicked my butt -- sometimes she had me in tears on the table. But it really did help.