Whoa wtf, rc in here? <checks the temp in hell>


Hey, we need a goal for hanoi session next or markers for those going, already set mine yesterday. (195, I can only remember being 198 at my lightest)

>Whoa wtf, rc in here? <checks the temp in hell>

Been here once before. That was the collective response then, too.

As I shuffle away in my old age and hit the road every few weeks, keeping lean & mean (the mean part is easy) is getting tough.

>old age

It's tough losing weight when you stop at Cracker Barrel or Waffle House 2 or 3 times a day.

Quote from: rcjordan on February 18, 2016, 02:55:21 PM
It's tough losing weight when you stop at Cracker Barrel or Waffle House 2 or 3 times a day.

Came across an old Tweet of mine yesterday: "My new religion believes that ice cream and cheese are good for you, regardless of what scientists say."
It takes an awful lot of running to recover from a good cheese board.

Running burns roughly 100 calories per mile (depends on body weight and pace, of course - that's actually on the higher end).  4 miles for every 100gms. And I find it *much* easier to eat over 100gms of cheese every day than I do to run over 4 miles every day (or eight every day or 12 every three days).

>awful lot of running to recover from a good cheese board.

Come to the Dark (Atkins) Side, EG.   See that 10# drop the last few days? Meat & cheese. Nothing else.

It is hard for me to reconcile weight in my head.  As most of you know from my insistent posting here over the years I lost 100 lbs. over the course of years.  Last couple of years I've been working on gaining muscle mass and I think I've done pretty well there.  As we know, muscle has a footprint.

I like the strength gains and the way I look now, but it messes with my head.  My low was 172, my high was 272.  Right now I'm at about 190.  Logically it makes sense, but I'll have dreams about gaining it all back.

My diet is mostly meat and veggies, and a little fruit.  I sit right above ketosis most of the time.  I couldn't gain any muscle while sustaining ketosis.

>I sit right above ketosis most of the time

When at home, same for me. I run the wheels off the fleet of Replicators churning out chicken & pork by the pound(s). Can't eat fruit, and only a whiff of most vegetables, or it blows the diet.  Low-carb is fine with me around home, I was born an extreme carnivore and my mom raised me on meat.  I like ol' time country store hoop cheese (very sharp cheddar, but with a distinctive aftertaste)  the best and we buy a reasonable facsimile of it at the grocery store deli. (Louise buys the whole loaf, they act like she's crazy.)

3 runs 1 swim.
so 4/4.  Happy with that.

This week something almost every day, but too many ice creams.  ED, that statistic is depressing.. I love cheese too.

4/4 last week
4/4 this week

177.5, down from 199 2 weeks ago

Well done Guys.  i am losing count of the weeks.

Half term I ran 5 times in the week,  a morning jog round the headland. 
5/4

last week I did nothing.
0/4     not good.

Quote from: rcjordan on February 29, 2016, 04:31:26 PM
177.5, down from 199 2 weeks ago

That was fast! 

Very low carbs, plus restaurants load everything with salt. I figured 10# of it was water weight. Since the low-carb at home is low salt, I must react strongly when I travel.  I happened to have my annual checkup last week. Doctor also thinks it was travel salt.  At 2pm that day: BP 140/80, Sugar 112. Doctor says my target weight should be 170, not 165, so I'm getting in range. It'd be way better to be 165 before the Hanoi conf, though.  Doubt I can make that, 170 will be hard enough to hit.

>Doctor

His basic reaction is "f### it, I'm happy as hell with whatever you're doing. Keep it up."

<added>
I'm not taking any meds for BP or sugar.

>I'm not taking any meds for BP or sugar.

Good for you!  A lot of people don't think about Type II is as treatable with diet alone.  You aren't going to have a blood sugar spike if you are eating very low carb.  I have been trying to get my dad to think this way but he's just too addicted to sugar.

Looks like everyone missed last week

Last week
- 2/1 on my pre-work ski goal. Went 15 miles before work on Friday.
- 4/4 on my overall goal - skate skied 22 miles in some of the slowest conditions ever (what takes me 2:30 on a good day took me 3:30).

This week... less
- 1/1 - 11 mile skate ski, plus a short run the day before
- 3/4 - lazy weekend. Sat around all day on Saturday. Felt great.

Quote from: rcjordan on February 18, 2016, 04:40:38 PM
>awful lot of running to recover from a good cheese board.

Come to the Dark (Atkins) Side, EG.   See that 10# drop the last few days? Meat & cheese. Nothing else.

I'm not looking to drop 10#. More looking to gain five or so, but not five of pure fat. The root problem is my activities these days are very endurance oriented not strength oriented, so more muscle wasting than muscle building.