Team Skinny March 2014....Let the Madness begin on getting leaner (Page 2)

Much as I don't want to play, the first two entries are indicative not of weight gain necessarily, but how I've been bouncing around between 190 and 195 for weeks upon weeks.  I am down a bit today, but still over 3/1...   I've been doing the same things that got me down to 185 for racing last season, counting MFP calories, coming in at a healthy deficit most days, but not gaining any traction ths year, and can't seem to get ino the 180s.....

3/1 - 190.8

3/5 - 192.6....

to be continued.....

I feel your pain.  I have seem to have been stuck at 185-190 for a year now.  I know I have more to weight to drop, it just doesn't seem to want to go away.  Now that my birthday and another occasion has passed I am trying something new, no alcohol, not even my wonderful beer.  I know some people can have it and do fine - I just cant.  I only had a drink or two during the whole of last month and I never felt better.  I am hoping to pretty much have zero alcohol until after my ultramarathon in September.  Let's hope that works!

I know its terrible.  But I think its what I really need.  I've been stuck at this weight forever.  While I used to weight 260lbs and am at a pretty healthy weight for my frame.  I know I can get down to 165/170.  That will be my weight when I was a Freshman in High School.

I love beer and I drink to much of it.  For me it's an all or nothing thing.  So I have to decide what I want to do, and I want to cross that finish line of that Ultra I signed up for at my lowest weight in a long, long time.

It will be difficult though, and I'm sure I will have a few slips along the way but that's fine.  As long as I do it most of the time I hope its successful

Originally posted by jennifer_runs March 1: 149
March 3: 147
March 6: 146
March 10: 149

After a week of going in the right direction, I seem to have ballooned back up again. I know a lot of it is water fluctuation, but I am just having a lot of trouble getting my weight down again. I think I need to start seriously tracking calories again.

Hey Jen,

I find its best to track my weight at the same day and same time once a week.  I usually weigh at least 3-4 pounds more on Monday mornings than I do on Wednesday mornings.   I was 193.4 last Wednesday and 197.0 this morning.  

Mike

I weighed 154.7 at the end of a long ride yesterday.  I'm afraid to check the scale again, so I'm waiting until Wednesday.  I'm pretty sure a lot of that was water weight loss.

Originally posted by Carolyn24 I've chosen to do my weigh-ins on Mondays because that's what works best for my schedule. March 3- 108 lbs March 10- 106.7 lbs I'm really surprised I'm actually seeing a lower weight because I started weight training last week. My expectation is for this # to fluctuate higher, but we'll see. Ultimately, I'd like to lose ~2 more pounds, then only gain muscle and lose fat with no change in my weight. I'm between pants sizes currently (sometimes a 0, sometimes a 2) and I'd really like to be able to fit comfortably and consistently into size 0. It's really annoying to have kind of uncomfortable size 0 pants and kind of too loose size 2 pants. I don't know of any of you have experienced the annoyance that is being between sizes, but it bugs me/makes me hate shopping for clothes. It looks like all of you are doing quite well! I'm impressed with the losses you guys have so far, especially from last month.

I am the definition of a "smedium".  It makes ordering shirts online impossible.  It varies from brand to brand, and usually I have to chose between slightly tight fitting or slightly long sleeves.  Jeans are interesting to shop for as well, but I've round that Old Navy's regular cut fits me best.  

2/28:  193.8
3/05: 193.4
3/12: 190.8

That's 70 pounds lost since January 2013.  And I even won my age group at my duathlon on Sunday.  

Only 3.5 months to go until IM Coeur d'Alene.  I just keep telling myself "1 minute off your marathon time for every pound"