What's for Dinner?
In my case, it hasn't been "what's for dinner?", it's been "how much is for dinner?"
I have an ideal race weight goal of 205 pounds in my head, as this would be a) the weight that would allow me to drop the most and still compete as a clydesdale, and b) the same wieght at which I graduated high school. Since the race was 40 weeks away when I started training , I figured I'd have to drop a little more than a pound a week, which is completely doable.
Eight weeks in, I've dropped a grand total of......10 pounds, despite eating like a horse most nights. Which would seem right on target, right? Weirdly enough, I dropped those ten pounds in the first week and a half and have been stagnant in the loss column ever since.
What has changed though, is body composition. I've consistently lost about 1% of my body fat every week, 7% so far. It seems that in a lot of respects I'm trading fat loss for muscle gain (mostly in the shoulders and upper back from increased pool time) and bone density gain (mostly in the leg bones from running stresses). If I go strictly by the scales, and hydration screws these numbers up a bit, I've lost 17.5 pounds of fat, and added 7.5 pounds of 'other' stuff.
So....to kick things up a notch, I'm starting to rather obsessively track calorie input and outputs, along with body composition and a few other measures of bodily fitness. To check out my daily diet and energy requirements, you can click on the 'Nutrition Log' link in the sidebar. What gets measured gets done, and if I think someone is watching, which by looking at the traffic data for this site I doubt, I'll be less likely to slack off on it.
