OK, I had to wait until current DietBets were finalized before i could sign up for new ones and I did that as soon as I could so, for right now these are the dates and body weights I need to be at in order to win my diet bets on DietBet.com
- May 16-17, 238.6 lbs (a 10% 6 month diet bet)
- May 23-24, 232.9 lbs (4%, 4 week diet bet)
- May 23-24, 238.6 lbs (a 10% 6 month diet bet)
- May 25-26, 233.1 lbs (4%, 4 week diet bet)
- May 26-27, 233.1 lbs (4%, 4 week diet bet)
- June 1-2, 238.6 lbs (a 10% 6 month diet bet)
That's the reality of the body weights I need to achieve in the foreseeable future. I'm currently in the 240s ...Low 240s so I have my work cut out for me. There were several days when i expected to see a weight in the 230s but that hasn't happened yet so I've had to re-evaluate and think a bit.
For one thing, sparse eating worked very well in the past in terms of melting away bodyfat & weight and I've emulated that but I've mainly only been doing my minimum 1 mile per day to maintain my runstreak (which is somewhere around day 310 now) Previously, I was running much more and even hitting that 100 mile per month milestone in terms of miles run per month. So, increasing mileage is one solution and since the weather is getting nicer that should be a do-able goal.
Another thing - I haven't known exactly what I'm eating or how many calories per day I'm consuming so I broke out the MyFitnessPal app to help track things so I know exactly what's going on.
ANOTHER thing .... My mom helped me with this one. I told her about expecting some weight drops that didn't happen and she mentioned ....Beer. huh? yeah - ok. Well, I was only counting food, i never counted beer before. However. On one of the days I expected a weight drop, I only ate 3 helpings of wings ....I was at a bar that had free wings and $1.50 bottle beers .....Blues game ...then the Cardinals game ...then the Kentucky Derby ....it was a good day for sports :) and I had maybe 6 wings per plate and figured that was very little for the day but never considered the beer ....I guess there's calories there also.... so, now we track beer and I may have to do without that staple until I hit my 212 bodyweight ...we'll see.
Other solutions thus far.....
Karate - that's going pretty well, if i can make at least 30 minutes of class then I go and I may just go even if I can only make 10 minutes - doesn't matter, i need to be there and one of the guys is wanting help training for his black belt testing this coming October and, more than likely, I'll be able to test also as long as I keep showing up.
between him, myself and another black belt named Jesse, we stay late after class to brush up on our katas and other fun stuff like that.
Boot Camp - this is new. In fact today was my first boot camp workout and a very local gym. I've got 30 days with them I got via a Groupon coupon which is much nicer than the $147 or $197 price they charge which ....will never happen. However, I also belong to a regular gym where I take my karate and have a friend there that runs several classes so I'll probably hook up with her to continue to augment the boot camp type workout.
The workout was interesting this morning. It only last 30 minutes but that seemed REALLY long when you're pushing yourself for that much time. We had a series of 6 exercises and would do each exercise at our own pace for 12 repetitions then we would go through the cycle again for 11 repetitions then again for 10 reps and so on until we eventually did 1 rep per exercise. Today I made it down to 9 repetitions :) so.... idk, 6x12 plus 6x11 plus 6x10 plus ......2x9 plus 3 reps - that's how many i did.
there were several boards around the gym room with the exercises on them so I took a picture of one of them so maybe i can finish up the reps later tonight after work.
So, that's the dirty dozen..
I'll try to bump my mileage up. I seem to recall doing 2x per day at one time, maybe 3 miles in the morning and 3 in the evening or maybe 45 minutes in the am and 45 in the pm. doing that all in one shot is too much for me, at least it was in the past and probably is now as well but breaking it up reduces the intensity. I'd like to get back to Long Acre park, that's the place where I first started running for my first marathon back in 1994 and, I did meet a lady who goes there after boot camp so I'll probably meet up with her there later this week.
I've also got a Walk with a Doc program ...one of about 1,000 different ideas floating around but have someone interested in that so that will add to my activity. .
gotta run - will keep everyonen posted - primary goal - 212 lbs by July 5th to July 19th, somewhere in that time frame I gotta weigh 212 or less. ...piece of cake ;)