Body Composition Challenge (Page 7)

Hey Abbie,

I found a new use for Justin's Peanut Butter to keep you from eating half a jar at a time.  My jar now holds up my plant board in my office.

Everyone--Have a FANTASTIC WEEKEND!  Be good, follow your plans, and enjoy your workouts---remember--Monday is stat posting day in your Logs.  I will be checking your log to grab the data so we can track progress.  Monday is also photo day--there won't be much change yet but there will be!  We will build a time sequence video out of the stills just in time for the Holiday season that will motivate us to stay healthy for the LONG (life) term.

KEEP ON ROCKING THE BC CHALLENGE!

My sales team had a lunch meeting today, we went to a Mexican place.  People were having margaritas and went thorugh 2 bowls of chips, not to mention the dessert chips that arrived with cinnamon and sugar on them.  I didn't have any.  I ordered a ceasar salad, no cheese and no dressing with grilled shrimp.  Lunch was a plate of romaine lettuce with 6 grilled shrimp on top.  It came with croutons which I pushed off to the side.

I told myself, "nothing on this table tastes as satisfying as seeing the 120s on the scale and seeing a strong, defined body in the mirror"

I shopped again when I got home from work and got a good answer--193.0 which is 1.2 lbs down from the morning.  I wonder if the 50 min run had anything to do with it---nah!

Keep shopping until I find the right sale--I am a weight shopper. 

Dangerous cycle.

Why I won't keep one in the house now.  A weigh in at the gym or Dr office is sufficient......as long as those numbers are pretty similar.

Awesome, Abbie! I love the quote! I've been telling myself something very similar

My sales team had a lunch meeting today, we went to a Mexican place.  People were having margaritas and went thorugh 2 bowls of chips, not to mention the dessert chips that arrived with cinnamon and sugar on them.  I didn't have any.  I ordered a ceasar salad, no cheese and no dressing with grilled shrimp.  Lunch was a plate of romaine lettuce with 6 grilled shrimp on top.  It came with croutons which I pushed off to the side.

I told myself, "nothing on this table tastes as satisfying as seeing the 120s on the scale and seeing a strong, defined body in the mirror"

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

Did you try the diet? Before IM training I ate mostly like this (slower or low carb) and naturally just ate/drank more on the weekends. But for the last year and a half its been a free for all and now it catching up to me w/ low training and no running!

A few of you have commented about my determination to run.....I LOVE running.  It is what got me interested in tris.  Last year I had a string of PR's in half mary and 10K events.....then as I was building for my first HIM I wound up having a terrible asthma flare.  Spent a month on steroids which totally screwed up my sleep (as in under 2 hours of sleep a night) and took an antibiotic.....LEVAQUIN. 

What ever you do, DO NOT take this antibiotic as an endurance athlete.(it likes the achilles tendon and causes a tendon injury as soon as 4 hours and up to 6 months after taking it!!)  I dropped out of the HIM because I missed a month of training but was going to do sprints with one Oly.  A week after that OLY my leg started acting up (this was about 6 weeks after the Levaquin).  I stayed off the run but kept biking cause that didn't hurt (at the time)

Eventually gave in and saw a doctor.....Tore my left gastrocs.  Spent a month in a boot.  Spent close to 10 months in PT.  He had me out the door in January but on that last visit my other leg went ballistic so I wasn't released from PT until the end of April.

During all this time I did a whole lot of reading.....Matt Long's :The Long Run gave me my mantra to get back.   If you don't know  his story you really need to read the book.  He's a NYC FF who raced IMLP then ran a BQ msry in the NYC marathon.  Got hit by a bus while out on a training ride.  His injuries were horrific.  He spent YEARS in rehab.  His mantra became mine......I WILL RUN.

So......I am determined to rebuild my run cause the PT told me he doesn't think I have another half mary or 10K in my legs and my goal is to prove him wrong.

A few of you have commented about my determination to run.....I LOVE running.  It is what got me interested in tris.  Last year I had a string of PR's in half mary and 10K events.....then as I was building for my first HIM I wound up having a terrible asthma flare.  Spent a month on steroids which totally screwed up my sleep (as in under 2 hours of sleep a night) and took an antibiotic.....LEVAQUIN. 

What ever you do, DO NOT take this antibiotic as an endurance athlete.(it likes the achilles tendon and causes a tendon injury as soon as 4 hours and up to 6 months after taking it!!)  I dropped out of the HIM because I missed a month of training but was going to do sprints with one Oly.  A week after that OLY my leg started acting up (this was about 6 weeks after the Levaquin).  I stayed off the run but kept biking cause that didn't hurt (at the time)

Eventually gave in and saw a doctor.....Tore my left gastrocs.  Spent a month in a boot.  Spent close to 10 months in PT.  He had me out the door in January but on that last visit my other leg went ballistic so I wasn't released from PT until the end of April.

During all this time I did a whole lot of reading.....Matt Long's :The Long Run gave me my mantra to get back.   If you don't know  his story you really need to read the book.  He's a NYC FF who raced IMLP then ran a BQ msry in the NYC marathon.  Got hit by a bus while out on a training ride.  His injuries were horrific.  He spent YEARS in rehab.  His mantra became mine......I WILL RUN.

So......I am determined to rebuild my run cause the PT told me he doesn't think I have another half mary or 10K in my legs and my goal is to prove him wrong.

Based on your numbers and pics, I'm not sure what your goals are.....your seem very fit already!

I tried it for a very short time, but could not give up my fruit. As I had mentioned I work from my car, so keeping fruit in the car is easy and I don't have to keep it cold.  Mentally I was not ready to make the changes that I am now. 

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.

OK back from my 2000+ mile drive trip.  Did pretty good on the food intake except a couple of Chick-Fil-A shakes but don't hold it against me!  I will hit the scale in the morning.  Now it is grocery and laundry time!  Hope to sneak a late night bike ride in - need to hit the road to get ready for my race in September!

Have a great weekend everyone!