150.4 / 6.8….up at 3:30 to give the wife a ride to the airport
Ant glad you're hanging in there! The mental part of this will go up and down, just accept the bad days and resolve to continue. I'm up almost 2 lbs from yesterday, but I'm not worried. I'll bet I'm back to 148 or 147 tomorrow.
Hi Tom,
Have you examined the causes of the weight gain? In order to gain a true 2 pounds, you'd have to consume well over 10,000 calories. It is much more likely to be a combination of factors.
including; Muscular Edema- after a hard work out, especially weights. Our immune system response and glucose transport both draw fluid into the muscles for several days after a work out.
Carbohydrate metabolism binds 4x its weight in water, and salt can draw in a bunch of water, and causes extra thirst so you drink and retain even more.
Things are progressing well here.
172.6
Wade Barocsi
Hi Tom,
Have you examined the causes of the weight gain? In order to gain a true 2 pounds, you'd have to consume well over 10,000 calories. It is much more likely to be a combination of factors.
including; Muscular Edema- after a hard work out, especially weights. Our immune system response and glucose transport both draw fluid into the muscles for several days after a work out.
Carbohydrate metabolism binds 4x its weight in water, and salt can draw in a bunch of water, and causes extra thirst so you drink and retain even more.
Things are progressing well here.
172.6
Wade Barocsi
It goes up and down, not sure why. But my guess is it's several factors….most likely the type of workout and not sleeping much last night among them. I ate very lightly yesterday, good breakfast, light lunch and consomme and crackers for dinner, after a quick 1 1/2 hrs on the trainer after work. It looks like I'll get a decent road ride in today, so my guess is I'll be 148 tomorrow.
I was down to 185 less than two years ago. Then being in school this last year and no riding and the weight piled on.
My goal is 185 again. That is 53 lbs folks. Gonna be tough.
Let me know when you want ro ride and come on down to Charlotte or I'll come up to Raleigh with Justin and we'll burn that fat off you.
Seriousy though, just try to get that hour a day for riding in your schedule.
Just like guitar, a little every day and then suddenly you can play.
No change in weight (138 seems to be my number) but wanted to comment on a recent experiment:
I was in Utah and took advantage of the PEAK human performance laboratory at the U to have a BOD POD and a lactate threshold test done. The BOD POD is a great device. It gives you a BF % number with high correlation to hydrostatric testing. As opposed to the electrical resitance measures from our scales which are not accurate.
The BOD POD put me at 137 pounds and 11.9% BF (considered Lean). Back home, my scale tells me I'm at 7-8% BF. So now know the correction factor (+/- a little bit) for the scale.
Goal remains to lean up even more. I'd like to get under 10%.
The LT testing confirmed what I knew from years of training with the power meter but it was a good test and result.
FWIW, if you are in Salt Lake and have time and desire, the PEAK lab will test anyone who books an appointment. They have a good menu of tests, nice staff and good treadmills and ergometers for LT and VO2max type stuff (running or bike). If you are interested in this stuff it's a good place for "normal" people to test.
No friggin way! Perhaps an "after" photo. I didn't even want to post on this thread until the goal was in site.
I know everyone else could see the weight gain, but I guess I'm still denying that it ever happened.
I know I have a fattie pic somewhere, just have to find it and scan it…If I recall it was me running around shirtless with my then 4 year old son. It embarrassed the heck out of me at the time and might have been what motivated me to start this deal years ago.
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