Body Composition Challenge (Page 6)

Exactly, and that's why strength training and exercise are so important. The flip side is, I can have great muscle tone from working out, but still have too much fat and be overweight from eating too much.

Heck yeah!  I love my blender bottle.  After getting one, I have yet to have clumps of protein shake powder in my shakes.  I only wish that I had discovered them earlier (well, my brother introduced them to me... so "technically" I didn't "discover" them...).

Celebrate with me!!  I ran 4 miles tonight! 

The longest run since July of 2010 before the gastrocs tear.  Felt AMAZING every step too!

Congrats!  Glad to hear that it went so well!

Pay attention to how your legs feel.  Be proactive in gentle use of massage stick or foam roller.

Regular massage as able

Gentle stretching post run

REST days, the body will need those off days or easy cross training days

Compression gear isn't pretty to look at, nor is it inexpensive.....but it is helpful.  So is ice. As in a water bottle frozen for a moments notice to rub down as needed and occasionally in the ice bath.

Pay attention to going easy on the easy days and not always going for speed.

WEEEEEEEEEE HOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

this really needs to be put in a place of prominence. They are all pieces of something more than advice. All things that I heard of, yet learned by painful example to listen to. And none are hard to do (except the compression-wear is indeed, expensive).

Hey everyone!  Late comer here...

So I picked up a pair of calipers from GNC today but I'm not sure I'm doing this properly.  I followed the instructions on the website but in the past I've used a special scale at my gym and my % body fat has always been around 23-26% - same weight (can't seem to budge from 140) - granted I'm working out more and am leaner but... 17% ?? I'm the skinny arms/legs type with body fat on my abdomen.  I'm taking a measurement on my tricep and thigh which don't have a lot of meat on them and then that spot above your hip which fills the caliper   When I JUST use the suprailium measurement and refer to the chart in the kit's instruction booklet it says I have 26.3%.  What should I go with?  Not sure what's more accurate.  Please let me know if this sounds like I'm doing something wrong...

Here goes:

Date August 4th
BMI 22.6
Weight 139.9 (yes that .1 counts - took me a year to lose!)
Tricep Fat: 14mm
Thigh Fat: 11mm
Suprailium Fat: 16mm
% Body Fat ??%
Lbs of Fat 24lbs or 36lbs ?

Goals - I'm liking Abby's but will try to be a bit original:

1) Become leaner - lose the handles/inches - especially on lower abdomen
2) Finish HIM on Sept 11th and feel good
3) Drink more water and take required supplements
4) Continue on clean eating path and try to convert family
5) Resume resistance training post HIM
6) Attempt something new post HIM - thinking about joining a boxing gym & taking up skipping

I would also look into the Galloway Method, it incorporates some walking into the program as well as starting your run a bit slower in pace.  I finished all 3 of my marathons this way.  Just because you add some walk breaks into the run does not mean SLOW finish times.....we had plenty of people in our group qualify for Boston using this!

Great job, everyone ... on the weight loss and the running!

I've got a well-deserved rest day today... AND my weight is down about 1.5 pounds.  Of course, weighing in on Monday might be a different story.... Hee...

Hope everyone has a great Friday!

UGh! Scale NOT moving in the right direction here. However, there is a good chance that that has a temporary biological reason.

I am taking the time this weekend to plan out food and have the correct food on hand. It has been a difficult week to do anything much in the way of planning.

I am also going to be doing some canning of veggies this weekend. That always makes me smile to have a little bit of summer on hand all winter and it makes me feel better to have local home-grown  organic veggies to eat for cheap.

So I might be a bit too obsessed about food.  Last night I had a dream that my parents and I went out for breakfast and there was pancakes on the table. My mom told me "just try a piece, they are fabulous!"  So I took a small piece and as I was eating it, I kept trying to calculate the carbs and sugar content in one bite!  LOL

That is just funny.

Ha!  But were you counting the butter and syrup?  Now I'm craving pancakes...  Well, I know what I'm having for breakfast tomorrow morning.

Back again! Sorry I haven't been around. Work was so busy this week and I left for FL yesterday which I'm currently taking a break from laying out. Here's my bio:

ht: 6'1

wt: 161- heaviest in 4 yrs, but also after a night of drinking/excess water consumption post workout

thigh-21.5 in

waist- 27in

hips- 37.5 in

New goals- Started reading a very interesting book on the plane- The 4-Hour Body. I highly recommend it. Going to be following the nutrition plan at least a month to see if I get results. Check out my blog for more details!!! Keep up the good work everyone!

Tried multiple time to upload before pics... Does anyone know how to make them smaller than 100?

A number of ways to do this, but I usually use this website:  http://www.resize2mail.com/

Yep, I have that.  Very interesting book and the science behind it!!!

Laura--I sent you a PM but then thought that everyone may want to use a method on their computer instead of an outside web source.  Instructions for PCs below:

-Right click on photo in Windows Explorer
-Use the "Open With" tab and open your photo with Microsoft Office Picture Manager (I hope you use windows and not mac).
-ONce open click "edit pictures" in the top menu bar.
-A pop-up should apear on the right side of the picture
-click "Compress Pictures" at the botton of the pop-up
-click "webpages" and then okay
-Save your photo in a new folder labelled "BT Photos" (I do this but you don't have to--I just keep track of all my uplads this way.

I hope this helps.

I am know officially a "weight shopper".  I stepped on the scale this morning more than once hoping for a different answer--shopping for weight.  It never makes a difference but I still do it.

EMBARASSING!

I havn't heard that expression but I do that through out the day. Always hoping for a better deal: 10 % discount, half price sale, or something. I got to a point where I weight only 2/week. That is a much saner place to be for me.