WAW = "weird ass whine"

The more I think about it, Flower, the more I think dehydration played into Sunday's difficulties. I hadn't fully rehydrated from being sick - lower weight pre-run. I was overdressed for the first seven miles and sweating a lot too. Had to take off the windbreaker to cool off. So let's add them up:

1. sub-optimal carb reserves
2. sub-optimal hydration
3. sub-optimal calories
4. overdressing at the start
5. going out too quickly at the start
6. recently sick

And I'm wondering why I didn't have fun? Am I training for marathon #10 or #1, here? I should know better by now. Don't get me wrong, it wasn't a horrible, brutal death march. Just not the optimal, joyful experiences my 16 and 18 milers were. You learn and move on.

168.6 lbs, 33.5 waist, 16.25 neck, 13.5 percent fat.

RHR is elevated a bit this morning. Taking a rest day.

I decided to resurrect this very inspiring thread. 

 

Back when this thread was started (about 7 months ago), it inspired me to try to lose that 8 pounds I have been trying to lose for a long time.  Well, I gave it a half hearted try back then, and nothing changed.  And then recently, I made more drastic changes to my eating habits, and I finally lost the 8 pounds. 

 

I was at 188 pounds and now I am at 180 pounds.  It was not easy.  You would think with all the running we do, it should just happen naturally.  But, with all of the running, it seems like it just gave me a bigger appetite and I ate more.

 

What really inspired me was the knowledge that it could help my running.  I can now say, it has helped my running.  I had a PR recently and I attribute it mostly to the weight loss.  It has just made running feel a little bit easier and less stressful.

 

To help put this into perspective, I realized that a gallon of milk weighs about 8 pounds.  I just tried to imagine how it would feel to run with the equivalent of removing a gallon of mik from around my waist.  And, by the way, it was mostly located around my waist, in the stomach area.  And, I knew this was excess weight.  Obviously, you are not going to benefit from losing weight that is not excess weight.

 

Part of the inspirations was when I saw a photo of myself in a race, last year.  Wow!  I thought.  I just do not look like a runner, with that pot belly!

 

So, what did I do?  I stopped eating bagels in the morning, and decreased my overall bread type of food intake.  I also stopped eating and snackng on cookies throughout the day.  And at night, I stopped at one serving of dinner, and I stopped snacking all evening.  I simply ate less.

 

It is not easy.  The hardest thing is the fact that there is such a delay between the action of changing eating habits and the resulting weight loss.

Hi Wbr,

I went back through the thread and read your earlier posts.  I gather that you must have continued to lose weight.  Congratulations, if that is the case.  And good luck with the rest.

When I started running, about two years ago, I had about 3 gallons to lose.  I lost two of them pretty easily, but that last gallon was stubborn.

86ing Nestle Toll House Cookie Dough?  

 

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