The race for a little less… Update
by Chris ~ June 19th, 2008. Filed under: race for less.
I’m still steadily chugging along with my eating and exercise plan. As of two minutes ago, I weighed in at 252 pounds. That’s an over all weight loss of 48 pounds, or 16% of my original body weight. I’m almost a size and half smaller in my pants and a size smaller in my shirt, it is nice to only see one “X” attached to your clothing. I have 22 pounds until my I reach my original goal and at least 52 pounds to get to my personal goal. It would be nuts if I tipped the scales at 200 pounds, that would mean I was only 15 pounds off of my calculated “ideal” weight.
A side benefit from all of this, I’m now running a faster mile time than I ever have, even considering high school and middle school. Last week, I ran a 8:37 mile and today I cut it down to 8:26. The biggest consideration for the near future is continuing with my quantity control while on our trip. I know the intense workouts will fade for a couple of weeks, but there will be a lot of walking and hiking (especially in the Alps!) taking place. I’ll definitely have to compensate the lack of hard work outs with a lack of hard eating.
Maybe I could get to the point where I put up a shirtless picture of myself… ah, yes, that would effectively assassinate the loyal readership of Box of Whine. I don’t think that will happen.
June 20th, 2008 at 9:23 am
I didn’t know “not running faster” was a benefit?
June 20th, 2008 at 10:27 am
Apparently, “not spell checking” is another benefit. Thanks, editor.