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16 % on a woman is BLOODY LOW (equiv to 6% ish on a man) what weight can you possibly be trying to lose ?
my BF is around 10%
Gobi
I have a set of Tanita body fat scales at home and It cant be right I am looking to lose 1.5 stone I am 9.2lb and 5ft 2"
Honest I do have weight to lose and fat just shows how in accurate the things are I was told the best way to test is callipers so just using the reading as a benchmark
my BMI is 23 so that will show you I am not wafer thin.
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AU natural for me
WP, my bmi is 24.2, I see your point. Ps. on my diet from the other thread I do not lose weight, fluxuation is about 1.5 kgs (73-74.5)
Gobi
I have same problem but I think for me I was not eating enough for my training will be interesting to see what my sports nutritionist comes up with for me. I fluxuate from 9.1-9.5
You off course run a heck of a lot more miles than me(I only av 75) and obviously I dont know portion sizes but does not seem enough so maybe you need to look at that side of things???
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PS I am in process of trying to aquiring callipers
Not sure I really want to know
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Gobi
Okay Did not realise you were a sports Nutritionist(oh dear a bit like telling Grandma how to suck eggs)
you know best about cals etc and what food you like to eat
According to mine it is the timing that is crucial(will know more next week when we have our 2 hour home visit meeting when she has analyised my training and food...yikes think I will have to take it on the chin about my food.She is well respected and I am not paying money for it to be wasted so will be following it to the letter and hopefully will be a big improvement on my energy levels and weight loss.
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Gobi.
If I did the training that Zatopek did, I wouldn't have the energy left to eat !
I'll read again his chapter in 'Running with the Legends' book. Agreed he was a superb athlete.
I know what I shouldn't eat. It's discipling myself not to, is what I find hard !!
Cheers anyway.
I cut things as close to the line as I can but still like to eat normal foods.
Birkmyre
Man was a legend and his training awesome "I could be him" :¬)
Gobi: You're right Zatopek was a true sporting legend.
Might ask for his biography as a Chrissy present or failing that, ask my local library to get a copy.
Still avoiding the chocs that Mrs B's received for her birthday. This is an early 'battle' for me. The thing is they'll still be there, then the Christmas ones will arrive. If I can keep my discipline over this next month I will be one happy and slimmer Birkmyre.
I must admit that a sucessful December for me is to hit Boxing day lighter than I was last year on Boxing day.
Well done on the chocs
It must hard if you are a choccie lover well done
Good luck being lighter on boxing day this year than last year.
I have a race this boxing day so if I am lighter than last year and beat my time from 2005 I will have done well
(did not race last Boxing day due to injuries)
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Some People are such show offs
if I could find some races i would do as well
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Get your slippers on and have a few mince pies on Christmas Day.
I'll not run on Christmas Day or Boxing Day - my wife would have my guts for garters !
I have Rach and she is just as bad as me.
I am sure a few mince pies will be eaten though
G
I was going to do the round the walls race in Chester boxing day but once again I'm a clot and forgot to enter!
Pug
I'd love to race on boxing day and there is one but my family would probably kill me!
I'm really finding now that I am keeping my food intake down that having slow or fast release carbs is making a huge difference. Yesterday I had lentil soup and a bagel for lunch and had a total crash in the afternoon (it was a day off from training so not caused by that) - went all wobbly and had to find emergency food. When I have lots of slow release veggies for lunch that doesn't happen.
Mel That happen's to me usually when training usually once a week and not nice!!
What foods do you find stops the crash?
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I never crash, don't get wobbles. My legs get tired when I have done 90 miles or so and I get thirsty sometimes when I don't take a drink on 2hr runs and it is warmer than I thought. I guess again my conclusion is that I am eating more than enough and making no effort to diet at all really.
G
Poppy, when I do crash, I need fast sugar right away, sometimes even something really simple like a spoonful of honey, and then something more sensible. Yesterday I had 2 rice cakes with almond butter and jam - jam for the fast sugar and the rice cakes and almond butter for longer term. I was reeling about all over the kitchen when I was making them!
Gobi, I think you eat often enough that there is never any danger of crashing - I'm just the same when I'm not dieting: I eat about every two hours and that way I'm fine. But at the moment my snacks are much smaller and yesterday I skipped one I think, so got to wobbly levels.
Rach and I laugh about it because I CANNOT do hungry as soon as I even get a slight pang I am in the fridge
G
ps. I do eat less than I use to
Thanks Gobi/Mel
Gobi
Sounds like you eat enough and good you dont get crashes
What I have found when i get the wobbles/crash on a run I have to find shop for sugar rush and tricky for me as cant eat anything....jelly tots or tooty fruties Helps
I need to make sure the food prior to run is enough.
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This is my plan with a weigh in this morning when I wake up...
"Weight
Pounds" "Weight
KG's" BMI Date
189.20 86.00 25.01 08/12/2007
187.00 85.00 24.72 15/12/2007
184.80 84.00 24.43 22/12/2007
182.60 83.00 24.14 29/12/2007
180.40 82.00 23.85 05/01/2008
178.20 81.00 23.56 12/01/2008
176.00 80.00 23.27 19/01/2008
173.80 79.00 22.98 26/01/2008
171.60 78.00 22.69 02/02/2008
169.40 77.00 22.40 09/02/2008
167.20 76.00 22.11 16/02/2008
165.00 75.00 21.81 23/02/2008
162.80 74.00 21.52 01/03/2008
160.60 73.00 21.23 08/03/2008
158.40 72.00 20.94 15/03/2008
156.20 71.00 20.65 22/03/2008
154.00 70.00 20.36 29/03/2008
Sorry if I've said this before but could your "crashing" problem be lack of fluids?
WP: Iam a chocolate lover as my current weight shows ! But I'd forgotten about the mince pies !!!
Well if I've to avoid chocs, I'll allow myself the mince pies, seeing as its Christmas.
I have a 'new' mindset re my eating. I'm serious again. At last.
are people not seriously worried that all this could cause serious eating disorders? i know people are adults and seneible enough but there's a lot of negative feedback behind it all, for example- i am currently 60kg, when i had anorexia and was 48kg i ran a marathon in 3h50m, not sure how the hell i did it with about 800 cals a day max. now i am scared i will run so much slower this year, and the only way to get quicker is to stop eating?
this article must have messed wth a lot of peoples heads.