kingojamin wrote:
How tall are you? 45 kg doesn't seem heavy to me.
161 cm
kingojamin wrote:
How tall are you? 45 kg doesn't seem heavy to me.
161 cm
Coevett wrote:
Cathy, it was the cookie that made you run well in the time trial. You need to eat more cookies, not less.
unfortunately, I didn't eat the cookie BEFORE the TT I ate it AFTER. But I'll see how the next one goes and if I get a bad time..
But maybe I will eat more cookies?
This isn’t trolling, it’s Cathfishing.
Cathy loves to run 15 wrote:
3rd post in a week!!! That is too many posts.
But seriously. I had to. I'm concerned. I think I might be fat soon but I don't know why. 2 weeks ago I was 42kg now I'm 45. I really need to lose weight. That's probably not true. At your age, it is far more important to eat enough to have enough energy than to maintain a lower body weight. You don't need to worry about maintaining a lower body weight for racing until someone is going to pay you to run via scholarship or pro contract. That's probably never.
I eat healthily and exercise a lot Maybe this is true, but maybe it isn't. I know a lot of people that would tell me that they eat healthy and exercise a lot, but it absolutely is not true. They believe it is true, but it really is not. Don't lie to yourself. Try to objectively evaluate how you eat and how much you exercise. You can get a rough estimate of calories in and calories out by keeping a food journal for a week and recording what exercise you do.
so I don't know what's happening to me. Is this a normal thing? At your age, you're supposed to gain weight and grow. That's normal. You will be stronger in the end.
I think I probably gained 3kg because I ate a cookie. Whoa! I have never seen a 3 kg cookie!
Where can I get one? You do realize that it is physically impossible to gain more body weight than the mass of the food you eat, right? You don't actually even gain nearly that much weight because only a small fraction of that goes toward metabolism and synthesizing muscle, fat, etc.
Most of the weight of food gets pooped out.
I'm the same weight as what my mum was at 30 years old. I appreciate the LRC community and am so happy with the number of responses I got on my other 2 threads.A 15 year old girl and a 30 year old lady could absolutely weigh the same amount. Are you faster than her?
As for my running, I'm not peaking. But my recent TT a few days ago was good. I'm going to do another one to make sure won't get fat.Time trials are a good way to measure the effect of your recent training, but the time trial of a race distance shouldn't contribute that much to your overall training or calorie consumption. You should probably only do a time trial once a month or less. If you don't give yourself time to do additional training since your last time trial, then you aren't really measuring how effective your new training between the two time trials was, are you?
Also, plugging your height and weight into a BMI calculator says that you're underweight. I wouldn't worry about that at your age, but you should gain a few more kg's without worrying about it at all.
You probably never need to even measure your weight.
Only measure your speed.
If you got faster after gaining 10 kg's, would that be bad? No.
If you got slower after losing 1 kg, would that be bad? Yes.
Mort McMurray wrote:
Also, plugging your height and weight into a BMI calculator says that you're underweight. I wouldn't worry about that at your age, but you should gain a few more kg's without worrying about it at all.
Unfortunately, that's not anymore. I used to be underweight which was good AND I was in the 2nd percentile and now I'm in the 11th percentile.
You probably never need to even measure your weight.
Only measure your speed.
Thanks, I will measure my speed again this weekend after the TT
If you got faster after gaining 10 kg's, would that be bad? No.
If you got slower after losing 1kg would that be bad? Yes.
true. If I run faster in the next TT then that would be good but If I run slower in the next TT then that would be bad.
Mort McMurray wrote:
A 15 year old girl and a 30 year old lady could absolutely weigh the same amount. Are you faster than her?
Yes I'm faster than her. She wasn't a runner though.
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Hey Cathy what is your short term goal for the 5k? Long term goal? (within a year)
btw; cookies are a great post race food :) As long as you don't have them all the time! A little dessert here and there is nothing to fret about
Mort McMurray wrote:
I eat healthily and exercise a lot Maybe this is true, but maybe it isn't. I know a lot of people that would tell me that they eat healthy and exercise a lot, but it absolutely is not true. They believe it is true, but it really is not. Don't lie to yourself. Try to objectively evaluate how you eat and how much you exercise. You can get a rough estimate of calories in and calories out by keeping a food journal for a week and recording what exercise you do.
so I don't know what's happening to me. Is this a normal thing? At your age, you're supposed to gain weight and grow. That's normal. You will be stronger in the end.
I never thought of it that way. I run around 35 km per week. And I do some pushups and planks and stuff around once a week. I am eating healthy but again except for the cookie. My typical breakfast is weetbix with milk, lunch is usually a sandwich and dinner is whatever my mum makes ( last night it was porridge and meat. a bit weird imo) I pretty much try eat from all the food groups (milk n carbs for breakfast, carbs and salad for lunch, protien/carbs dinner and I eat fruit throughout the day too.)
Rhodium Nights wrote:
Hey Cathy what is your short term goal for the 5k? Long term goal? (within a year)
btw; cookies are a great post race food :) As long as you don't have them all the time! A little dessert here and there is nothing to fret about
Interesting, my short term goal is to improve my 5k TT again in 2-3 days when I do it. My long term goal within a year well if the corona stuff goes away I want to make nationals for xc and I want to get a medal at State again and I want to keep getting faster and improving.
Cathy loves to run 15 wrote:
3rd post in a week!!! But seriously. I had to. I'm concerned. I think I might be fat soon but I don't know why. 2 weeks ago I was 42kg now I'm 45. I really need to lose weight. I eat healthily and exercise a lot so I don't know what's happening to me. Is this a normal thing? I think I probably gained 3kg because I ate a cookie. I'm the same weight as what my mum was at 30 years old. I appreciate the LRC community and am so happy with the number of responses I got on my other 2 threads.
As for my running, I'm not peaking. But my recent TT a few days ago was good. I'm going to do another one to make sure won't get fat.
Usually when your weight changes by a few kg either way, it's water weight. Women are often more prone to this for reasons that delicacy prevents me from discussing.
At 15, if you are physically active and not gorging yourself on crap every day, your weight will take care of itself. You don't need to diet, "eat clean", or any of that foolishness.
98% of the running year, it's better to be a kg heavy than a kg light.
For coronavirus we are on 511 active cases so slowly the cases are going away and next week school will return back to normal 5 days a week.
old person wrote:
Cathy loves to run 15 wrote:
3rd post in a week!!! But seriously. I had to. I'm concerned. I think I might be fat soon but I don't know why. 2 weeks ago I was 42kg now I'm 45. I really need to lose weight. I eat healthily and exercise a lot so I don't know what's happening to me. Is this a normal thing? I think I probably gained 3kg because I ate a cookie. I'm the same weight as what my mum was at 30 years old. I appreciate the LRC community and am so happy with the number of responses I got on my other 2 threads.
As for my running, I'm not peaking. But my recent TT a few days ago was good. I'm going to do another one to make sure won't get fat.
Usually when your weight changes by a few kg either way, it's water weight. Women are often more prone to this for reasons that delicacy prevents me from discussing.
At 15, if you are physically active and not gorging yourself on crap every day, your weight will take care of itself. You don't need to diet, "eat clean", or any of that foolishness.
98% of the running year, it's better to be a kg heavy than a kg light.
Oh so its just me drinking water oh good! I didn't know water was so heavy! Oh and yeah like you said I am active and don't gorge on crap. Oh so that's good I don't need to diet! It's what I thought I would need to do.
I just googled the thing about water weight and I think I understand.
Cathy loves to run 15 wrote:
Rhodium Nights wrote:
Hey Cathy what is your short term goal for the 5k? Long term goal? (within a year)
btw; cookies are a great post race food :) As long as you don't have them all the time! A little dessert here and there is nothing to fret about
Interesting, my short term goal is to improve my 5k TT again in 2-3 days when I do it. My long term goal within a year well if the corona stuff goes away I want to make nationals for xc and I want to get a medal at State again and I want to keep getting faster and improving.
Awesome, those are great goals! Looks like XC should be good to go for every other country that's not the United States. You're doing all the right things to get ready for a great season!
old person wrote:
Usually when your weight changes by a few kg either way, it's water weight.
I was also thinking this. You should probably only use the trend of your weight from month to month to judge whether you are gaining weight or losing weight.
Your weight from day to day or hour to hour can be more of a measurement of hydration. I can lose almost 2 kg/hour from sweating a lot on a hot day. So, if I compared my weight at the end of a hot run to my weight after drinking some water and being re-hydrated the next morning, I would measure that I weighed more, but that doesn't mean that I gained any body weight in the sense that you've been thinking about it. If you weigh yourself before and after a long sweaty run, that can give you an indication of sweat rate and how much water you need to drink to re-hydrate. Electrolytes (aka salt) also helps you to stay hydrated.
Mort McMurray wrote:
old person wrote:
Usually when your weight changes by a few kg either way, it's water weight.
I was also thinking this. You should probably only use the trend of your weight from month to month to judge whether you are gaining weight or losing weight.
Your weight from day to day or hour to hour can be more of a measurement of hydration. I can lose almost 2 kg/hour from sweating a lot on a hot day. So, if I compared my weight at the end of a hot run to my weight after drinking some water and being re-hydrated the next morning, I would measure that I weighed more, but that doesn't mean that I gained any body weight in the sense that you've been thinking about it. If you weigh yourself before and after a long sweaty run, that can give you an indication of sweat rate and how much water you need to drink to re-hydrate. Electrolytes (aka salt) also helps you to stay hydrated.
Oh ok, then I probably drank too much water! I get what you mean, I never knew that water would make such a difference!
Cathy loves to run 15 wrote:
old person wrote:
Usually when your weight changes by a few kg either way, it's water weight. Women are often more prone to this for reasons that delicacy prevents me from discussing.
At 15, if you are physically active and not gorging yourself on crap every day, your weight will take care of itself. You don't need to diet, "eat clean", or any of that foolishness.
98% of the running year, it's better to be a kg heavy than a kg light.
Oh so its just me drinking water oh good! I didn't know water was so heavy! Oh and yeah like you said I am active and don't gorge on crap. Oh so that's good I don't need to diet! It's what I thought I would need to do.
But don't cut your water consumption in an attempt to manage your weight. Drink up and sweat it out.
And read this carefully, more than once.
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/11/16/opinion/girls-sports.htmlCathy loves to run 15 wrote:
Mort McMurray wrote:
I was also thinking this. You should probably only use the trend of your weight from month to month to judge whether you are gaining weight or losing weight.
Your weight from day to day or hour to hour can be more of a measurement of hydration. I can lose almost 2 kg/hour from sweating a lot on a hot day. So, if I compared my weight at the end of a hot run to my weight after drinking some water and being re-hydrated the next morning, I would measure that I weighed more, but that doesn't mean that I gained any body weight in the sense that you've been thinking about it. If you weigh yourself before and after a long sweaty run, that can give you an indication of sweat rate and how much water you need to drink to re-hydrate. Electrolytes (aka salt) also helps you to stay hydrated.
Oh ok, then I probably drank too much water! I get what you mean, I never knew that water would make such a difference!
This is absolutely not what I meant. Trying to communicate with teenagers leave me wanting to smash my head against a wall every time. I have so much respect for teachers who choose a career of dealing with kids.
You practically cannot drink too much water. Drink enough to stay hydrated. You should not think about reducing the amount of water you drink in order to weigh slightly less. That logic is idiotic. When you start doing longer workouts (60+ minutes continuous/ long runs) you will sweat a lot and you will need to be hydrated to continue without cramping.
Ideally, you should be adequately hydrated before all of you runs. Then you will lose water during your run and you should make sure to drink something soon afterwards to re-hydrate. If you end up doing training such as long runs that last 90+ minutes you will need to drink something before the workout ends.
Cathy ... is this you?