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Welcome welsh runner! Impressive weight loss, much respect from me.
From what you are saying I would suggest you are not eating enough:
Just a quick google search revealed this.
In summary, you need 2000 if dieting, add more to fuel your exertions. I am by no means an expert mind you.
Thanks Grant - the google search you posted resulted in advice from a GP, so that sounds good.
Off for a sandwich!
I've eaten 2400 calories today and ran 7 miles including 8x800m reps at 6:30 pace. Did some weights and core afterwards too.
Hi all, a bit of a hectic week here so only just catching up with some of your posts. Welshrunner, welcome aboard!
HAd a bit of a lapse yesterday as I was too busy to really eat so my dinner was a cup of coffee and a few hob nobs! Back in ot again today with the healthy stuff, and Mrs F's homemade veg stir fry with wholemeal rice. I'll abstain from the biccies I promise!
The whole calorie counting thing gets a bit technical for me I think, so I tend to just rely on ensuring that I eat plenty of fruit, veg, lean meats such as salmon, tuna and chicken etc and wholegrains. These tend to ensure that I stay fulled for longer. The water thing when your hungry also works a treat Mr Spoons!
Keep with it folks, Dan Id be interested to see that training plan as and when you find the link? Off to work now, lets see if todays new 8hr shift ends up like a 12hr one again!
I weigh myself every morning first thing and log my weight on Fetch so I can see a graph of what's going on.
Thanks Mr Spoons.
Started running March 2010 and weight dropped off very quickly. First race was Great North Run Sept 2010 - 1hr 50mins. Then did Great South Run (10m) Oct 2010 in 77mins. Next was Bath Half marathon in March this year (1hr 41mins). First 10k was done a few weeks ago in 44mins 30secs. I'm 45 years old.
Goals:
1. Lose that final half a stone to get to 12 and a half stones (is that about right weight for medium build 6 footer)?
2. Do a 10k in about 40mins / half marathon in about 1 hr 35mins / do a marathon in 2012 (sub 4 hrs?).
3. Races coming up - Great Manchester Run this Sunday; a couple of local 10ks June/July; Great North and South (Sept/Oct) and Cardiff Half (Oct).
The outline of the training plan can be found at http://runkeeper.com/fitness-class/running-fat-loss/6 : If you sign up for it, then the RunKeeper Pro App (available for iPhone or Android) will record your activities, and provide audio cues as you run. Of course, you could simply follow the training plan without the app.
WR - exactly right. AND, as this is a weight loss thread, reps and tempo runs are the way to torch calories. If you're running 4 x a week, just do 1 long run slow, 1 easy run slow, 1 general aerobic run at 'normal' pace. Once a week will be the session. Take it in turns between hill reps, intervals and tempo runs. On the 3 days off do some X training. Easy
I've eaten 2200 calories today and did an hours yoga / pilates.
I still do most of my runs on my own but running with the club provides me with a weekly tempo/intervals/ hill training session.
Mix this with one LSR and three other runs in the week and I think I have found a mix that will work for me. I have just started heart rate training and the runs I don on my own are at 70%or below of my max HR, this is apparently the ideal fat burning rate to run at and helps build muscles in a way that will help over distance running. The theory is because it is quite slow you should be able to avoid injury.....
100 lengths before breakfast. 10km race this evening. All good.
Mr Spoons - I always thought that checking weight daily was bad for morale and so I am checking weekly (with some peeking at the data midweek
). Do you check daily for a reason? Good effort on the lengths before breakfast! Good luck in the 10K!
Like this:
Digital ones though.