Colin McCourt Just gave me a huge wake up call

Do it, good on ya! I've been following Colin's progress for a few weeks and it's equally impressive and inspiring. Looking forward to hearing about your progress.

BiggieSmallsGoRun wrote:

I'm a former college runner, who has no illusion that I've packed on the pounds since graduating 7 years ago.

Common mistake. Allusion, not illusion. Carry on.

Hey Colin, try and be less obvious.

That's not Colin.

It's very unlikely that post was written by a Brit.

He's not only eating 1200 calories anymore, that was just for a couple of weeks. He's back up to the 2000 range as stated on strava.

allusion wrote:

BiggieSmallsGoRun wrote:

I'm a former college runner, who has no illusion that I've packed on the pounds since graduating 7 years ago.

Common mistake. Allusion, not illusion. Carry on.

...I'm 99.999% sure you're completely wrong.

allusion wrote:

BiggieSmallsGoRun wrote:

I'm a former college runner, who has no illusion that I've packed on the pounds since graduating 7 years ago.

Common mistake. Allusion, not illusion. Carry on.

wrong.

He was right there.

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Lots of hobby joggers do this, why is it supposed to be interesting?

allusion wrote:

BiggieSmallsGoRun wrote:

I'm a former college runner, who has no illusion that I've packed on the pounds since graduating 7 years ago.

Common mistake. Allusion, not illusion. Carry on.

It's actually illusion. Common mistake. Carry on.

Was in same place several years ago except about 15 years older than you. Portion control and cutting out empty calories made the biggest difference for me. I went from a high of maybe 218 down to 168. I did it fairly slowly--in the early days up to two pounds a week and then steadily a pound a week until I reached my goal of sub-170.

I didn't monitor and bounced almost immediately to 176, then ballooned to 194 with the stress of a new job. Worked steadily back to sub-170 for many, many months then stress of my dad's death has helped me float back up to about 180. I'm still trying to fight my way back to sub-170 and to stay there permanently. It's a struggle, especially now that I'm in my mid-50s. Work on it now so you don't have to later.

Thank you for the input and glad he is up to 2,000 now...saw he was doing 8-mile runs and thought that's nuts off of 1,200 calories a day.

I'm on my day one. I weighed myself this morning and came in at 217lbs.

Will be counting calories today (1,800 goal) and doing a one-hour boxing class tonight.

Adding morning runs and lifting tomorrow.

Just giving a quick update:

I stepped on the scale today at 209.5lbs. I have been eating very well and working out regularly. A lot of the 10 pounds was probably water weight, but motivating to see the scale move and will keep up the work.

Nice stuff. You'll probably be dipping under 200 in the not too distant future.

What are your workouts looking like? Increased runs? More boxing? Lifting? Other?

I've been going to boxing 3-4 times a week. Each class is an hour of hard cardio. They cycle you through 15 minutes of jumping rope, 30 minutes of bag work, calisthenics and ring work. Broken down into usually 3-minute rounds with 30-second breaks. Then the last 15 is more cardio and abs.

Also, I've been trying to run daily and have only been doing 2-3 miles. Will start to increase the mileage this week and get it cranking. We recently adopted a 6-month-old rescue pup, "Hunter", whose a German Shepherd/lab mix. Haven't really thought about it, but I take him for 2-3 decent walks a day which probably helping drop the lbs or at least keeps me busy.

Been slacking on lifting. Want to add that on my non-boxing days.

The biggest change has been counting calories and making "smart choices". Had to go out to eat twice last weekend with my girlfriend's family. Ate chicken and salad with light balsamic for each meal. I didn't tell them I was on a diet, no one razzed me on my food selection and I was glad to just fly under the radar.

Cool stuff. I love the multiple walks a day with my pup (she's an Aussie). I think they go a long way to feeling good and keeping me lean.

Eating out can be tough, but most restaurants have good options in the meat and veggie category. I eat healthier now than I did a few years ago, and I think I never even looked at the healthy options when eating out, lol.