Subject: RE: Weight loss then fitness or weight loss and fitnessSpeaking from experience (75 lbs lost ), I'm a big advocate for focusing on getting your nutritional habits cleaned up and losing weight that way (in conjunction with regular exercise...not necessarily race training ) and then moving to focusing on racing. It sounds like you may be a good example of a very common scenario where you depend too much on racing (and associated training ) to keep your weight in check and maybe aren't as focused on maintaining a balanced, healthy diet for weight maintenance without that. Work on getting your weight squared away in a manner that you can sustain even if you stop racing, then build on that...you have time to lose the 35 lbs (and develop a fitness base for training ) and still have plenty of time to do specific training for your races. Definitely worked for me and I've avoided the yo-yo effect (for seven years now ) and keeping my weight down makes the training that much easier. |