To Athena, or Not to Athena...

[channlluv]

Race Athena Colby.

As for losing weight... I did it by doing the following:

1) Logging all my food on www.livestrong.com/The Daily Plate.

2) I had a base of 1400 calories and would add 1/2 of what I burned exercising to that. So if I burned 400 calories running I would get to eat 1600 calories that day.

By doing that I lost a good 5 pounds in a month... went from 5'4" 125 pounds to 118 pounds. Some days I'm at 117. I'm not trying to lose anymore weight though. Mind you, last year right before my IM I was up to 130 pounds.

It was REALLY HARD to lose those few pounds... but I sucked it up and did it. Now all my clothes fit... and in fact, most of them are falling off me now. Since your IM is over, focus on losing weight, and it will happen. You just have to be very strict with your diet.

You make that sound so easy. Base of 1400 calories + half of what you burn exercising everyday. That seems like a logical and easy to manage formula. It's the sucking it up and doing it part I have trouble with.

I will have to try that LiveStrong tool. I've tried things like that before, too, but I found the notetaking tedious and all the measuring of portions. You'd think riding 60+ miles per week would mean I didn't have to measure anything I put on my plate.

What I found disheartening in the one tri that I almost did (if you look back at the thread, you'll see my doctor told me no, that I'm just not ready for it yet due to blood pressure issues), for their categories, they stopped dividing by gender at the normal weight ranges. There was no Athena category, just Clydesdale for anyone over 150 lbs. For someone shaped like me, that says a lot, and it's not at all nice. I mean, I know I'm in San Diego and all, but come on.

Is there no room for a category for women over 200 lbs?

Roxy


Sorry I'm so whiny. I'm premenstrual and moody, bloated - seriously, like seven pounds heavier than last week after two weeks in Hawaii, my breasts hurt, my face is breaking out like a fifteen-year-old's, and there's just stuff going on. Time to go meditate on my blessings.