Diet
Last week I decided to start using the TheDailyPlate on LiveStrong.com since I was not getting anywhere losing weight and I have had good success with this tool in the past. It can be a nuisance tracking everything you eat, but this web site makes it pretty easy especially if you eat the same things most of the time. The food database has pretty much everything in it, but if you can’t find something you can add things to it provided you have the nutrition information. So after a week of tracking food and exercise, while keeping my calorie balance under ~1800 calories, I have lost 5 lbs.
5 lbs in a week seems much, but usually the first week or two of a diet can be have a significant loss. This is usually do to water loss. One thing that is probably helping is that I have not really decreased my training load. If I keep my calories down over the weekend, which is usually the toughest, and keep my long bike and run I should really see a drop by Monday. It is pretty motivating to see such a loss this first week and I hope it will be the kick to get me going.
Snow is forecast for tomorrow morning, so looks like another long day in the basement on the trainer. Probably looking at doing the Troy Jacobson Lake Placid IM ride DVD. I also signed up Troy’s Lake Placid Triathlon Training Camp in June 2012. The camp is pretty inexpensive and will provide a good taste of the IMLP course and what I can expect next year. My coach also highly recommended it.
I also registered for the Independence Triathlon at Lake Nockamixon on June 3rd. It is less than a sprint at .25mi swim/10mi bike/2mi run, but it will be a good little training race. I had a free coupon code from Piranha Sports due to the last-minute cancellation of the bike course at the Patriot’s Triathlon in Bath last year that I needed to use before Jan 25th. They aren’t having the Patriot race this year so this was the only really local race I could choose from whose date worked for me. I like racing at Nockamixon so it should be fine.
‘til next time…
