DOWN for 2013 - New Year New You!

Let's do this! My very first goal is to kick this cold to the curb and get back on the workout/training wagon. The horse threw me off!

Hi, I'M  Scott, 2012 was not a good year weight wise.  Started off terrible then just hit a level that I was stuck at, couldn't get myself disciplined enough to make the loss happen either food wise or workout wise - this morning was 218.6 - my highest end of year weight since 2009.

Mini- Goal: With the striking of midnight tonight, I am going off carbonated beverage and peanut butter. ( I will try keeping a bit of almond butter in the diet since I don't eat that like ice cream).  Speaking of ice cream, that will only be allowed for B-day celebrations and race PR's.

Long Term Goals:  I will be down to 204 by the first day of Spring. - Ready to be fast and PR a 10K 3-23-2013.  Would love to be be down to 193 for a half mary Aug 2013

Cardio 4x a week for 45 minutes (minimum): This can be anything that raises your heart-rate, no need to stick to S/B/R.  This part is not too hard.  Looking for a run/bike balance and then just stuff that is fun.

Strength 3x a week for 20 minutes (minimum): This part is more challenging for me.  I started off well in the Down for the holidays and then it just went away.  Want to work on Core 2 of those 3 days and chest and back the other day.  

Nutrition:  See mini-goal

Cheating.....Hopefully cheating will be within bounds described above.

Weekly Weigh-in/Measurements: Every Friday.  while the scale lies, I do much better with daily or every couple of days.

Pictures: We shall see

Have a fast and fit 2013 everyone

YES, I was a complete slacker in round 1 hiding behind excuses to eat crap.

Goals....I have a few pair of jeans that look spray painted on me.....they need to fit.  Not sure what this translates into because I can barely get them on so a photo is not likely.

I am in. I gained 15 pounds last year when I got mono, then another 5 creeped on.  Back to training (pretty consistent) but need more accountability with eating as lo and behold the scale is not budging.

I did just find weightlosswars.com and joined a contest there - so had to take the front side and back pictures - the most humiliating pictures of myself EVER - I think this must be the heaviest I have been.

Long Term Goal - 22 pounds down from today's weight - so yes I have a number on the scale to aim for

short term goal - do ALL my training plan this week

I have a HIM March 17th so not sure  I will get all the strength work in before the race - after yes but right now just trying to get all the base training in!

Welcome and HAPPY NEW YEAR everyone!

Mini- Goal: No sugar or sweets for the month of January!!!  Anyone want in on this???  This includes sugar, stevia, honey, agave....etc....I know if I trigger that sweet sensation it can push me over the edge of craving more.  EXCEPTION is during training!

Long Term Goals:  under 130

Nutrition:  Need to juice at least once a day, I find it really helps cut out sugar cravings.  Typically I eat a combination of Paleo/clean-eating.  I also need to be consistent on taking my vitamins and starting my day with warm water with lemon for digestion.

I started with 40 minutes on the bike trainer, got a great sweat up. Here are my deatils

Mini-Goal: for January drink 1.5 litres of water per day, no more than 3 cups of tea a day and chocolate only once a week.

Long Term Goal: get down to and maintain weight of 60kg (130lb).

Cardio: 6x a week for at least 30 minutes (depending n the training plan requirement).

Strength: Twice per week and stretching twice per week.

Nutrition: see above for water and tea intake as well as chocolate. Count calories to ensure what goes in is less that what I use. Also dramatically reduce sugar intake

Cheating: Chocolate is allowed once per week.

Weekly Weigh in: no problems.

Pictures: I will take them but I will not put them anywhere on the net

I actually weighed myself today for the first time in about 6 weeks and I am down from 68kg to 66kg which is a great way to start.

I hear you on that ! Good job on starting on the down side.

I finally got a bodymedia band (I think they used to be body bugg) to get more accurate calorie output - I KNEW that TP, Garmin, etc were giving me more calories out than my body seemed to burn.  So now I used that for the calories out and myfitnesspal for the calories in and the two are linked.

biked and ran yesterday

swam this morning

4 pounds down since Saturday

IN!!

Jim "SpeedKnight" Warren. 
Weight as of today: 244.2lbs in uniform. 
Height: 6'  Waist: 38" 

I'll get more measurements later.

Short term goals... finish the half-marathon I plan to do in March in under 3 hours.  Crush the Clyde division of the Sprint I plan to do in June.  Improve my OBX Olympic Triathlon time from 2:51:00 to about 2.5 hours.?

Long term goal... Get down to about 220-225# and maintain it.

Photos... when I can. 

I started my year off the right way, yesterday, by laying down 5.44 miles on the Shoe Leather Express.  I finished out 2012 with a 20mi/4mi brick.  Today is a 24 hour work shift... the only workout will be ascending and descending copious amounts of stairs.  Planned for tomorrow is a 22mi/5.5mi brick.

535 does sound high, not sure why such a difference.  I usually assume a 20% error rate for anything that counts calories.

Happy New year! I'm in, thanks for setting this up. I'd tried doing a cycling challenge last month, but fell off the wagon pretty hard during the second half of the month. I'm hoping I'll be a bit more disciplined now that it's the new year.

Mini- Goal: For this week, I'm going to make it a goal to drink at least 24 oz of water a day. I know this sounds like a really mini goal, but I'm one of those people who hates drinking water so this really will be a challenge for me!

Long Term Goals:  Getting back below 130, ideally to around 125. I did my official weigh in this morning and I was 133.5. I realize this isn't a lot of weight compared to some people, but it's difficult for me to consciously drop weight. I really need to do this though, since a lot of my pants are currently either really tight or don't fit at all! I suppose fitting back into my wardrobe is another long term goal...

Cardio: I really do want to meet this 4x per week for at least 45 minute goal! 

Strength: This goal may be more difficult. I signed up with a personal trainer at the end of 2012 to try to get into strength training, but so far I only seem to do anything the one day a week I meet with him. We'll see if that changes, but even if it does, three times per week may be pushing it for me.

Nutrition:  I've started up with MyFitnessPal to see if I can stick to my calorie budget on most days. With a couple of events already planned for January, I know I won't be perfect everyday, but my goal is to stay within my calorie budget on the days when I don't have anything going on.

Cheating: I'm allowing myself to cheat for special events. This month, that includes my anniversary this Friday, brunch with a friend on Sunday (it's our belated Xmas present to each other) and my weekend trip to TX in the middle of the month.

Weekly Weigh-in/Measurements: I'll check in with my weight on Fridays. Here's hoping it goes down!

Jumped on the scale today, 136....so I did't gain and didn't lose over the holidays.

Day 2 unsweetened and have taken all of my vitamins  Still need to juice and work on water intake today.

Try adding lemon, lime or even cucumber to give it some flavor.

For those of you eating clean, there are some yummy recipes here!

http://cravingsgoneclean.com/about-2/

I am in again.

Mini- Goal: No mindless snacking.

Long Term Goals: 
Currently at 156 lbs.  Would like to get down to 148.

Cardio currently in the base phase of HIM training, so am getting plenty of cardio.

Strength 3-4x a week

Nutrition:  Pretty much paleo although I will have oatmeal or quinoa occasionally.

Cheating.....I know there will be cheating this month, we are going on vacation to Mexico the last week of January.