Quickest Drop To Race Weight Question

I dropped two pounds in 10 days.

First, count how many calories you eat in a normal day. Read all the labels on your food, actually measure out how big your portions are (I found that my normal bowl of cereal was in fact two servings of cereal and two servings of milk), visit calorieking.com for foods that don't have labels.

Figure out the most painless way to eliminate 1000 calories per day from your diet.

How I did it:

1) Eat tons of fruit and vegetables. An oatmeal cookie has the same number of calories as an apple. I could easily have 3 or 4 oatmeal cookies as a snack, but could I eat 3 or 4 apples? Would I even want to? No. They're way too filling.

2) Eliminate pointless calories. You drink orange juice in the morning? You could just drink water and take a vitamin C tablet. Cheese on your sandwich? Yeah, it tastes good, but one piece has like 80 calories. Don't drink soda.

You can easily do it without starving yourself.

Just Another Joe! wrote:

Your average joe has an upcoming race of semi-importance and would like to get a bit more lean without losing strength, etc.

Funny you should mention -- yes I do have such a race (Boston Marathon) and I wouldn't mind dropping a few pounds but I've given up on it. I do high mileage, don't eat junk food and I eat lightly. If my body was going to be lighter, it would have happened by now, sadly.

Decrease daily calorie intake by 500 kcal. Increase daily calorie expendature by 500 kcal. 1000 kcal a day, 7000 a week, two pounds lost in a week. Walk 5 miles a day on top of your running, or bike for an hour, either will burn 500 kcal. Or, you could always run an extra 5 miles a day.

Alan

Jared, on TV you said you just had a sub from subway every day.

My fastest drop to race weight was: 1 weekend, the last 5 pounds gone in one track meet. It used to happen to me every season - I'd hit one meet near the end of the season, and 5 pounds would disappear (going from 150 to 145), and I'd stay at that weight (and run faster) for the next month or so left of my season.

No diet, other than not eating much on my race day, since I usually did the 800m (early afternoon) and the 4x400m (evening) and didn't eat between. It probably doesn't help you, but you asked...

I've cut 8-10lbs in a day or so before a match. Just don't eat, drink only enough water, and workout is an enclosed area. It's Healthy! Of the hundreds that do it, I'd say it kills less than 5%. Let us know how it goes.

Excuse me while I puke real hard here. What's with distance runners talking about cutting calories and dieting? One of the joys of running use to be not having to worry about such things. You sound like a bunch of middle age house-wives off to their Weight Watchers metting with their low fat this and calorie reduced that. If you're a runner and carrying some extra weight you're just not runnung enough. Get off your ass try running twice a day and getting in 70 to 100 miles a week. If more you did this you wouldn't have to worry about your weight and we could get back to having more high-schoolers under 9:00 minutes for two miles and more men running sub 2:20 marathoners.

realist wrote:

Excuse me while I puke real hard here...

Oh yeah, I forgot to mention what realist did. Puking helps a lot, too.

Puking is cheating! Get a sauna suit.