The Biggest Loser - Letsrun Edition

238.6 on the scale this morning. Very pleased with the loss.

Today was an interval session on the treadmill. 90 seconds at 7.5 min/mile followed by 90 seconds at a fast walk. Repeat 8 times with a half mile jog warm up and cool down. My running workouts really have no specific purpose at this point, I am just trying to break up the monotony of the treadmill. Blowing snow and 20 degrees today, so it was not a day for running outside.

I bench pressed 245 lb on New Years Eve. I wanted to try more, but I was alone in the gym and so I had no spotter. I am pleased that I can now bench press more than I weigh. As I do more running and less weight lifting, I know that I will lose strength as I lose mass, but for now, the added strength provides needed motivation.

At 5'10 and 145 lbs I get made fun of for being too skinny off the track. On the track I''m actually one of the buffer dudes next to the 125 pound sticks.

thats an impressive loss over a holiday week. what is your diet like?

I eat virtually the same thing everyday:

Breakfast - Subway 6" flatbread sandwich with egg whites, ham, and provolone cheese + black coffee

Lunch - Can of soup

Dinner - Vegetables + fish or chicken breast

Snacks - Yogurt, almonds or cashews, string cheese, banana, apple, granola bar

I very rarely stray from this. I don't count calories but I would estimate this is <2000 calories.

My diet used to consist of mainly fast food for every meal.

237.8 on the scale this morning. Not quite a pound, but still moving in the right direction.

The nice weather has returned, near 45F and sunny yesterday, and so another 5 miles on the road for me. Slow and steady, no walking, with a mad dash at the end. Weights this morning, but I was tired so I did not work up much of a sweat.

Hope for at least a 2 lb loss next Monday to get back on track.

You're doing great work so far. Keep it up and be careful of injuries.

9/2010 223, 40 yo, 36 waist, BMI 31, pulse 72, 6 miles walking in 1:40:00, 30 mpw

9/2011 193, 41 yo, 34 waist, BMI 29, pulse 50, 6 miles running in 45:00, 35 mpw

goal this year

9/2012 163, 42 yo, 32 waist, BMI 25, pulse 48, 6 miles running in 29:00, 60 mpw

fattyfatty2by4 wrote:

I eat virtually the same thing everyday:

Breakfast - Subway 6" flatbread sandwich with egg whites, ham, and provolone cheese + black coffee

Lunch - Can of soup

Dinner - Vegetables + fish or chicken breast

Snacks - Yogurt, almonds or cashews, string cheese, banana, apple, granola bar

I very rarely stray from this. I don't count calories but I would estimate this is <2000 calories.

My diet used to consist of mainly fast food for every meal.

Breakfast- No need for this, drink your coffee, add 2 tablespoons fish oil

Lunch- if you ran already, have a sweet potato or some form of a starch thats not bread. rice or grits works too, have a serving of protein with it. not a lot

Dinner- Should be raw veggies (SALAD!!!) lots of it, but a protein and up to 1/4 cup of olive oil or flaxseed oil on there. fats will give you satiety and get you through the next 16 hours

Snacks- Skip the fruits thats are calorie dense, apple and berries are ok, nuts are too calorie dense... get your fats from fish oil and olive oil or flaxseed oil on your salad

I'll join in for 2012.

Currently at 245, been going up and down. Since I got hit by a drunk driver in '08 while working for an event, it's been off/on. Get a few weeks of running in and then don't do what's necessary to keep it up. ie. ran on the 2 coldest days in Dec (single digits) but not today when it was 55 degrees.

Just registered for a half-marathon in April. Figure I'll be somewhere between 1:55-2:05 by then, timewise and ~ 215 weightwise.

Any real goals are about a year out. Would like to be hitting about 60mpw by the end of the year with some decent workouts in there.

Currently just running 5-6/x per week for about 30min, keeping the Garmin and everything else in the closet until I have a reason.

This is horrible diet advice. This kind of eating, or lack thereof, will leave you hungry and highly likely to binge eat. Plus you probably won't have enough energy to workout.

5-10 and 150 as of last week. I WILL get down to my racing weight of 142 for this spring. Screw office lunches, I'm finna break 15 on the track.

don't do this wrote:

This is horrible diet advice. This kind of eating, or lack thereof, will leave you hungry and highly likely to binge eat. Plus you probably won't have enough energy to workout.

That's what I was thinking. My goal is to form new sustainable eating habits rather than go on a short term diet for weight loss. So far I've been pretty successful. Really the only "food group" I've excluded from my diet is fast food.

I will join in on here as well.

I started my weight loss journey third week of December 2011.

Starting Weight- 272

Height- 6'7"

Weighing in yesterday (1/10/12) I was 256.

Yesterday's workout consisted of half-mile warm up, one-hour of cardiotone with kickboxing, boxing, weights and calisthenics, 1.5 mile jog, 10 miles spinning (30 minutes) and a half mile cool-down.

I have no clue if I'm putting in enough calories. BELIEVE IT OR NOT, I DONT EAT FRUITS AND VEGETABLES.. I know this is hampering any kind of running potential I may have. I have yet to break 30 minutes in a 5k. I'm obviously a big guy. I want to be average for the first time in my life. Always been overweight, always.

It's my off day and for dinner I had a turkey, ham and swiss panini on wheat bread and baked chips. Oh and a vitamin water. I hope I can figure out a healthier eating lifestyle.

Weighed in at 240 this morning

Removed some of my poor eating habits over the past week. A couple easy 30 min runs but today I did about 2 hours of just hiking up in Boulder since my half will take at least that long and I can only run for about 30-45 min

trying to make small changes each week. Looking to cook more meals and eat out less, even if it's not "fast" food.

236.0 this morning. My per week average seems to be dwindling. I was averaging about 3 lb a week, but since Thanksgiving it has slowed to between 1-2 lbs on average. I knew this would happen at some point. No worries though, I'm in it for the long haul.

I'm a little worried about a slight pain in my lower abdomen, on my left side. It feels kind of like a pulled muscle, but I am concerned that it may be a hernia. Anyone ever had a hernia? From what I've read one should be able to feel a lump or bulge from where the pain radiates, but I don't seem to have this. I sometimes have pain on this side in the hip/groin area after I run, and I'm wondering if the two are related. Maybe a ligament or muscle or something. I decided to give it a week, and if it doesn't go away I will give the doctor a visit.

Otherwise I am relatively pain free. The shoulder pain has subsided since I stopped doing shoulder presses. My right knee still twinges a little, but goes away quickly with a reduction in running and leg workouts. I only ran twice this past week, and did not do my normal leg workout.

Hope others have fared well this week.

FWIW we had an office "Biggest Loser Challenge" this fall. Here were my official weigh-in/weigh-outs:

17 October: 204.8

18 November: 166.2

Netted me $1000. Not sure it was worth it though.

Just over 6'

188.0 pounds this morning.

Would like to see sub-180 again (I'm a big dude - 70+ MPW marathon training 10 years ago dropped me to about 174)

kartelite wrote:

FWIW we had an office "Biggest Loser Challenge" this fall. Here were my official weigh-in/weigh-outs:

17 October: 204.8

18 November: 166.2

Netted me $1000. Not sure it was worth it though.

Holy crap. How'd you drop that much weight so quickly? Have you maintained it?

Add squats and deadlifts to your workout routine. This will help you burn more fat.