Posts Tagged ‘ injury ’

Weight Loss Maintenance Is Hard and Other Random Thoughts

06/08/2010

Random thoughts from FatGirl2FitGirl (that’s me of course): •    I think weight loss maintenance is a big old joke. I’ve been on a maintenance plan since, I don’t know, January, even though I have more weight to lose. My body seemed to want to take a break…reaaaally long plateau… so I decided to go with it. I’ve gained 12 pounds. Not exactly maintenance. I know I’m to blame. When you eat more, you gain weight. And when you eat bad stuff, like brownies, you gain weight. I’ve been having trouble finding the balance for maintaining. I’m either going up or I’m going down. This week, I’m back on the going down side because now I have to lose those 12 pounds, plus I’d like to lose the last 15 that I’m hanging on to. At some point, when I hit my goal, and I will hit my goal, what...

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Pain…That's something new

06/16/2009

While I’ve been training for my triathlon and trying to get my butt back into shape, I’ve been very careful to go slow and not push myself too hard or too fast. I was coming from a 200++ weight at 49 years old when I started this journey and from a very sedentary lifestyle. Going up the two flights of stairs in my house would get me winded. Fast forward almost a year and I’m a lot more confident in what my body is capable of accomplishing and each week, I’m pushing a little more. My next race is on August 1 and my goals are to better my bike time (if it ever stops raining here so I can actually go out on the bike…) and run the 2 miles (no walking) in under 25 minutes. Oh and finish the 400 meter swim in under 10 minutes. My...

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