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TOPIC: DadLabs Weight Loss Challenge 2010-11
 

dougj
Re:DadLabs Weight Loss Challenge 2010-11
1 Year, 3 Months ago
273, no change. Time to suit up and do battle with my diet.
On the upside I'm doing well with my running.
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Daddy Clay
Re:DadLabs Weight Loss Challenge 2010-11
1 Year, 3 Months ago
Interesting that the guys still hanging in there are all posting about running. Hm.

@FunkyDung -- I relate to your strategy of long-term goals. I like to think way out into the future. Already formulating plans for my first marathon in 2012. (Trying to decide if I make it a family affair at Disney in January, or to stick to my home field and run in Austin in February.)

@pfanndad Sorry to hear about the asthma. If this weight loss stuff was easy everybody would be doing it.

My latest motivation in my weight loss: Movember.

I've had a beard for over 20 years, and I'm shaving it off tomorrow. To grow a mustache. For charity.

I originally grew the beard to look older than the High School seniors I was to teach, then kept it to hide my double chin. No hiding that bad boy any more. Out it comes tomorrow for the live show.

It's for a good cause. So, support @FinkyDung and me and the rest of the team. Join up or donate here.
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krellpw
Re:DadLabs Weight Loss Challenge 2010-11
1 Year, 3 Months ago
Hey Gang,

Congratulations to everyone on their fitness improvements and running milestones. Even if it hasn't translated into weight loss, I've got to believe that it will.

@Daddy Clay -- I'm going to respectfully challenge your idea that everyone's running to get fit. While I've tinkered with it a bit, cycling has been my exercise of choice.

In fact, last weekend I did a 31 mile road ride for the Habitat for Humanity in our area. Completed the full ride in 2 hours 30 min. But for me it wasn't about the time. That was the longest single ride I've done by a good 5 miles, so it was a cool accomplishment.

Last week's weigh: 244 lbs
This week: 240.

I'm trying very hard to lose 10 lbs this month. It's seriously aggressive, but I told myself back on April one that I wanted to lose 40 lbs before I turned 40 at the end of November. It's going to be a challenge, but I think I can do it.

Keep it up everyone.
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Daddy Clay
Re:DadLabs Weight Loss Challenge 2010-11
1 Year, 3 Months ago
@krellpw I stand corrected, sir. Exercise, I should have said. I'm jealous of your cycling. It's really popular here in Austin and I look on jealously. THe gear is a barrier to entry to me for the moment.

Congrats of 4 pounds of loss. Wow.

10 pounds of loss is pretty aggressive. I'm standing by to cheer you on.
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Daddy Clay
Re:DadLabs Weight Loss Challenge 2010-11
1 Year, 3 Months ago
Gotta get all this farging CANDY out of my house some way other than eating it all.
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Funky Dung
Re:DadLabs Weight Loss Challenge 2010-11
1 Year, 3 Months ago
The nice thing about having kids too young to trick-or-treat is not having that temptation.

P.S. The fatbet's going well. bit.ly/aETXRY I have another one running until mid-March. If you'd like to join, go here: bit.ly/d1v8LC
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dougj
Re:DadLabs Weight Loss Challenge 2010-11
1 Year, 3 Months ago
272! Nice to see a little movement this morning.
Also ran my farthest distance yet at 7k! Its a good day gentlemen!
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Daddy Clay
Re:DadLabs Weight Loss Challenge 2010-11
1 Year, 2 Months ago
Unch again this week.

The major stumbling block to loss: my in-laws. They came into town and we pretty much ate and drank our way through the weekend.

Saturday we lunched at Rudy's BBQ, then my wife splurged on prime, dry-aged steaks for dinner. Sunday, we ate lunch at Ski Shores, a lakeside dive known for their burgers. I went for a veggie burger, but by the time it arrived, I had already wolfed down a pound of fried pickles plus chips and guacamole. For dinner we had lamb chops.

And if the meals weren't bad enough, my wife puts out an elaborate spread of apps for cocktail hour. Diet doom.

Even one of the most beautiful ten-milers in my running career on Sunday could not redeem me.

I need a long week of self-denial to get me back on track. But I have to travel a lot between now and next Monday, so it will be a challenge.
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Funky Dung
Re:DadLabs Weight Loss Challenge 2010-11
1 Year, 2 Months ago
last week: 185.6lbs (25.8% fat)
this week: 184.8lbs (24.8% fat)

While a loss of .8lbs is cool, on Friday I was actually 182.2! Friday and/or Saturday is usually a "casual" day wrt eating well. Also, a cold kept me from running Saturday. So, I'm confident that my downward trend is better than today's weigh-in might indicate.
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Daddy Clay
Re:DadLabs Weight Loss Challenge 2010-11
1 Year, 2 Months ago
@funkydung reminded me of something. I weigh myself every day, though I don't report here except on Monday mornings. There are always fluctuation. I find that I'm lightest on Thursday. The weekend almost always takes a toll.

I've heard conflicting things about weighing in daily. Some say that it helps you maintain discipline. I've also heard that it can be discouraging.

I'm also thinking about getting one of those body composition scales liek @funkydung has. I saw one at Costco the other day. As I close in on my goal weight, I need to think about finding the stopping/maintenance point, and body comp is a better way of determining that.
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Funky Dung
Re:DadLabs Weight Loss Challenge 2010-11
1 Year, 2 Months ago
I weigh daily for a couple reasons. One is motivational. The other is scientific.

I've seen research that shows that daily weighing acts as a daily prick to the conscience and can help with encouraging good daily habits (as long as perspective is maintained and one doesn't develop an eating disorder).

Weight and body fat measurements are highly variable. As estimates of your true weight and body fat %, they have low bias (assuming you have an accurate and well-calibrated scale) and high variance. With measurements like that, the more you record the better. High variance demands large sample sizes. If you're diligent about using consistent conditions for measurement (roughly same time of day and circumstances), you should be able to fit a local regression curve (moving average, weighted average, LOESS, etc) to see through the noise to the signal.
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Daddy Clay
Re:DadLabs Weight Loss Challenge 2010-11
1 Year, 2 Months ago
No weigh-in this morning because I'm on the road (Raleigh, NC). I'll have the numbers in the morning, but I'm optimistic -- one of the best places to be on a diet is on a modern airline -- no food anywhere!

My legs are still so sore that I can barely walk from a training session LAST FRIDAY. I now know why older athletes turn to HGH. Takes me forever to recover once I get sore. It's been three days since that workout.

Still managed to limp around for a few miles on the Raleigh Greenway which was really beautiful. They have a season called "Fall" here that is really cool. Trees turn colors!
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krellpw
Re:DadLabs Weight Loss Challenge 2010-11
1 Year, 2 Months ago
last week 240
This week 244

Should have known it would happen. Things got rough at work, I completely sacrificed all of my exercise time and ate lousy besides. Oh well.

Focus! That's my mantra.

@DaddyClay - on a side note wish I'd known you were in Raleigh. I'm in Durham. Would have been great to meet in person! Maybe next time you're in the area. Safe Travels.
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Daddy Clay
Re:DadLabs Weight Loss Challenge 2010-11
1 Year, 2 Months ago
Big day. Big, big day.

I reached my goal for the contest this week. Today's slightly delayed due to travel weekly weigh-in: 189.8. That's just a hair less than 20 lbs. of weight lost since we started back in August.

On to the longer term goal of not being overweight according to the CDC guidelines. That's another 10 pounds. I'd love to be there for my race on Feb 20th, and also on the anniversary of this contest next August.

Woot! Feels really good. I know I still have some more to go, but this feels like a significant point.

I may even buy some new jeans! That is planting the flag and saying, "I'm not going back."
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krellpw
Re:DadLabs Weight Loss Challenge 2010-11
1 Year, 2 Months ago
Congratulations, Daddy Clay!

That's fantastic! Your dedication to this effort has been an inspiration for me over the course of the past few months.

My commitment was ebbed and flowed periodically. But your determination has been rock solid and you're being rewarded accordingly. That's fantastic.

I've got to take a page from your book. I've recommitted to the diet over the past few days, and now I need to carve out that exercise time.

Enjoy those new jeans and here's open you continue to "decline."
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