223 - running is going well though

My weight just doesn't want to budge.  I've gone on and off the calorie counting wagon, but even when I'm off, still eating pretty well.  So I'm not sure what's up with my weight.  My clothes are fitting better.  I've decided to just keep focusing on the running and give it a couple months.  I feel like the weight will have to start to come down, since I'm now doing pretty long runs at least once a week, and a couple shorter runs mid-week.

It's been raining all week (and probably will continue to rain for the next few months) up here in Oregon.  I've done some runs in the rain, but I tried my first long-ish run on a treadmill ever.  I don't think I've ever done more than a mile or two on a treadmill, but I did an hour.  I didn't even note the exact "mileage" at the end, because it seems like treadmill mileage isn't real.  I was just going for an hour and keeping my heart rate above 150.  

I've always thought of treadmills as easier, but after this long run, I realize they are just different.  Maybe a high-end treadmill would be another story, but I'd say I got a better workout in this 60 minute run than I would running outside, because it forced me to keep up the pace.  It's also much harder to keep going when you can just stop at any time.  When I run outside, I always run away from my house, so that about the time I'm wishing the run was over, I have no choice but to keep running to get home.  

Only thing I really don't like about the treadmill is the little bit of slipping and shifting when my foot lands.  As a bigger guy, I've always felt that, a little tug on the motor and the belt sliding.  It's just for a fraction of a second, but I felt myself using extra effort to stabilize as I ran.  Good news is that my knees and ankles felt a bit better than usual after.  

226 - signed up for 50k

My weight was down to 224, but I slacked off a bit the last week.  I'm getting back in gear and trying to cut my intake down to 2,000 calorie, because I wasn't seeing much movement on the scale at 2500. 

I signed up for the Wy'East Wonder 50k in June, 2019.  So that gives me 8 months to prepare, which is more than enough time, assuming I'm not 2 weeks away from having a 4th child and life being very unpredictable.  But none of that should stop me. 

If I can get my weight down under 200, I don't think I'll have any problems completing the 31 miles.  I ran 5.2 miles this morning and it was slow but not difficult.  Something has been pinching in my lower back, but I don't feel it until after I stop running.  I'm trying to sort that out with foam rolling and stretching.

229 - Going back to calorie counting

I tried Intermittent Fasting with no specific dietary requirements other than not eating outside of a 3pm to 7pm window.  It worked reasonably well, however, my adherence slowly deteriorated.  It didn't seem that the fast alone was enough to get me where I wanted to be.  And with my weight holding steady or moving up, the will to keep to that strict 4 hours window weakened.  It could certainly have been made to work, I just did do it. 

I felt very energetic, almost wired, when I kept to the 4 hour eating window.  Only problem I found is that I would have to eat so much in that window, I basically trained myself to binge.  I was eating as much as I could, sometimes until I felt uncomfortable, and I didn't seem to have a normal hunger/fullness sensation.  And at the end of the 4 hour window, the fear of how long I'd have to go before I ate again would have me looking for anything I could eat before I hit the cutoff window. 

I think I was also eating too much fruit in that time, since I could "eat whatever I wanted" within that window.  And I've always found that when I start going heavy on fruit, I fall off the wagon soon after. 

So as I started to completely fall off the IF program, by weight jumped up several pounds.  Then about a week ago I suddenly felt much fatter and I weighed myself and was surprised to see 232 on the scale.  I mean, I guess I wasn't surprised, because I just felt like I was retaining a lot of water. 

So that's the heaviest I've been in a long time, and I've felt like crap, and there's just nothing good about it.  It's depressing and I feel so far from where I was a few years ago.  I need to get things going in the right direction. 

Baby #4 coming in the next 6 weeks just adds another piece to our hectic lives, but I have to find a way to keep myself on track regardless.  It only gets harder if I don't. 

So, the goal is a 1,000 calorie daily deficit with 2 lbs lost per week, so that I'm 185 by January 9, 2019.  The last 15 lbs will be the hardest, but I'll be very happy to be back in that fight. 

218.4

Still doing intermittent fasting, enjoying it.  I have some days where I pack a little too much into my eating window, and a few days where I've stretched the window by an hour or two, but overall it's a very simple basic guideline to keep. 

I feel better, haven't had any issues working out at the very end of my 20 hour fast.  I think the next step will be to limit fruit.  I've been eating whatever once 3pm hits, and I think I'd see faster results if I could keep to meat & veg.

Also got bit by a dog, doesn't look like I have rabies, so that's good.

220.8 - intermittent fasting

Haven’t felt good for a while, weight crept up to 226.  Needed to do something and fasting seemed like a good idea. I’m 2 days in of only eating between 4pm and 8pm. Doing ok, feeling pretty tired when I fanally do eat, but I’ll stick it out a bit longer and see if I can function like this. Dropping 6 lbs in 2 days is a nice encouragment. .

222.5 and 23.5%

I've been feeling sluggish and weak for a while now, basically about a year.  I started to feel like there was something off nutritionally or hormonally.  So I loaded up on all the things I thought might help.
Thorne Elite Multi-vitamin (2 bottles, a morning and evening)
Vegetarian Glucosamine (no shell fish) - 1 to 2g
CoQ10 - 100mg
Krill Oil - 1000mg
DHEA - 25 to 50mg

I started taking all that about a week ago and felt an immediate improvement.  Pretty crazy actually, I felt stronger almost immediately, did better at BJJ, etc. 

So I'm going to stick with this and see if I can get my BF back down into the mid teens

226 - Been a while

Well, weight is back to being an issue again, along with stress and nagging injuries.  Kind of a bummer, but I've been doing better the last couple months.

I'm back to training BJJ 2-3x a week and I'm doing a metabolic circuit class 3x a week.  The missing piece is a diet plan.  I was doing an intermittent fast with a general attempt to limit carbs, which felt great for a couple weeks, then I started to tank.  I got looser and looser with it, to where I was snacking randomly all day, eating a bit later, etc.  So I think I just need to get back on a calorie count.

I still feel like I "just" got my purple belt and was "just" running Spartan races, but that's been a couples years.  Time to get back to going hard and doing shit that's worth doing.