I’ve long touted my formula for losing weight with friends of mine. In a nutshell it is that I, being a man of average height and wanting to lose 2+ lbs. a week, gets to eat 1,000 calories a day plus 500 calories for each additional hour of working out that I do.
People say I’m nuts, too extreme, not practical, etc. But a good friend of mine just referred me to the McMillan Running Nutritional Calculator which seems to mirror my thoughts on dieting. His estimates seem to be spot on to what I think is necessary for losing weight. Of course, eating calories in those amounts sucks, makes me extremely grumpy, and hungry much of the time. But if it were easy to be thin, everyone would be. Such is life… and why I’m 30 pounds over (race) weight. :)
I’ve been mighty lazy these days (surprise, surprise). I’m leaning towards making a run for IMWI 2009, but I’ll have to think about how feasible that is now with baby and having been out of anything active for two years now? I’ve been thinking about doing shorter events. I just don’t know if I’ll feel challenged enough to diet and train adequately for shorter races. The hills at Wisco put the fear of God in me to show up trained and as thin as possible. Not to mention that I’m still waiting for my perfect weather day. Grrr! I shouldn’t have cancelled in ‘07!
