Comments on: Finding Any Kind of Shape: UPDATE http://bluecollarmtb.com/2006/07/07/finding-any-kind-of-shape-update/ Mountain Bike Reviews, News, Deals and How Tos Fri, 29 Aug 2008 18:22:04 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.2 By: vincentdamon http://bluecollarmtb.com/2006/07/07/finding-any-kind-of-shape-update/#comment-43252 vincentdamon Mon, 10 Jul 2006 06:10:34 +0000 http://bluecollarmtb.com/2006/07/07/finding-any-kind-of-shape-update/#comment-43252 Good progress. keep it up! Good progress. keep it up!

]]> By: gwadzilla http://bluecollarmtb.com/2006/07/07/finding-any-kind-of-shape-update/#comment-43210 gwadzilla Sat, 08 Jul 2006 14:51:52 +0000 http://bluecollarmtb.com/2006/07/07/finding-any-kind-of-shape-update/#comment-43210 looks like you are making some serious progress I have never been good at this but weight loss is won with the little battles not the big picture each time you try to eat at midnight... stop yourself each time you go for fried... select baked do not eat the skin on chicken... again... avoid fried go for fresh instead of processed fruit instead of candy and yes the extra ten minutes sounds like a good plan take the stairs instead of the elevator walk instead of the car and you will get there me I a a victim of my immediate desires I lose the small battles every time I have accepted that I will never be a calendar model although I would love to be below 220 for the Shenandoah Mountain 100 sure would make those climbs easier looks like you are making some serious progress

I have never been good at this
but
weight loss is won with the little battles
not the big picture

each time you try to eat at midnight…
stop yourself
each time you go for fried… select baked
do not eat the skin on chicken…
again… avoid fried

go for fresh instead of processed

fruit instead of candy

and yes
the extra ten minutes sounds like a good plan

take the stairs instead of the elevator
walk instead of the car

and you will get there

me
I a a victim of my immediate desires
I lose the small battles every time

I have accepted that I will never be a calendar model

although I would love to be below 220 for the Shenandoah Mountain 100
sure would make those climbs easier

]]> By: Jim http://bluecollarmtb.com/2006/07/07/finding-any-kind-of-shape-update/#comment-43198 Jim Sat, 08 Jul 2006 02:04:54 +0000 http://bluecollarmtb.com/2006/07/07/finding-any-kind-of-shape-update/#comment-43198 Missed the original, but here's my two items- 1) Cut out all canned beverages. Soda, lipton tea, whatever, and canned beer. If you're going for beer, drink draft or bottled. :) 2) GO FURTHER whenever you get out for something cardio. I found it hard to "squeeze in" another ride, another run, etc, but I found it pretty easy to simply make each one an extra 10 minutes. Between eliminating 2-4 canned drinks per day, and picking up an extra 30 minutes/week of cardio without having to add an extra workout, I've dropped 15 pounds & 3" off my waist since last summer - it all came off in about 3 months, and has stayed off since then. Good luck. Missed the original, but here’s my two items-
1) Cut out all canned beverages. Soda, lipton tea, whatever, and canned beer. If you’re going for beer, drink draft or bottled. :)
2) GO FURTHER whenever you get out for something cardio. I found it hard to “squeeze in” another ride, another run, etc, but I found it pretty easy to simply make each one an extra 10 minutes.

Between eliminating 2-4 canned drinks per day, and picking up an extra 30 minutes/week of cardio without having to add an extra workout, I’ve dropped 15 pounds & 3″ off my waist since last summer - it all came off in about 3 months, and has stayed off since then.

Good luck.

]]> By: Tuco http://bluecollarmtb.com/2006/07/07/finding-any-kind-of-shape-update/#comment-43196 Tuco Fri, 07 Jul 2006 23:10:15 +0000 http://bluecollarmtb.com/2006/07/07/finding-any-kind-of-shape-update/#comment-43196 I'm a cyclist, not a runner (not anymore anyway), and I've experienced the same thing - it takes an insane amount of cycling to notice serious weight loss, while running makes it fly off right away. I'm sure there's a scientific reason for this, but I've always put it down to the fact that the amount of extra pain caused by being overweight when you run makes your body DESPERATE to get rid of that weight for the next run! : ) I’m a cyclist, not a runner (not anymore anyway), and I’ve experienced the same thing - it takes an insane amount of cycling to notice serious weight loss, while running makes it fly off right away.
I’m sure there’s a scientific reason for this, but I’ve always put it down to the fact that the amount of extra pain caused by being overweight when you run makes your body DESPERATE to get rid of that weight for the next run! : )

]]> By: Ethan http://bluecollarmtb.com/2006/07/07/finding-any-kind-of-shape-update/#comment-43191 Ethan Fri, 07 Jul 2006 15:06:22 +0000 http://bluecollarmtb.com/2006/07/07/finding-any-kind-of-shape-update/#comment-43191 Sweet. Keep it up. Sweet. Keep it up.

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