C-Brats biggest loser

Good Work, Roger!! I'm not surprised. given your will power and perseverance. However, as you well know, studies have shown that over 90% of those that lose weight through a diet program weigh more one year after they began -- I'm sure this will not be the case for you, given your determination and lifestyle change. So keep it up!! Congratulations!
 
Congratulations, Roger, on your success and on doing it the right way, which is the key to keeping the weight off over time. As I'm sure you know, the exercise component is critical. It not only stimulates an increase in muscle mass -- and a pound of muscle burns more calories than a pound of fat -- but exercise of appropriate duration and intensity stabilizes blood sugar levels thereby producing a positive effect on appetite.

The human body, of course, does not recognize things like time or distance. It responds only to work load and duration. Your 58:00 is great. If I may, I would recommend a heart monitor. They have become very inexpensive and give you greater control over the effectiveness of your time investment. 140 bpm is great for exercise for general fitness and weight loss. 160/165 for 30+ minutes produces great adaptive responses. Faster heart rates are not necessary for those not getting ready to compete.

The additional benefits are the really cool thing about an exercise program like yours -- things like the sense of well-being -- the increased energy levels -- some reduction in the aches that accompany the loss of youth -- and on and on.

Again, congratulations. You are truly in the zone with a routine.

Greg
 
Thanks Greg for the good advice and the encouragement. I agree with you about the heart rate monitoring and the treadmills on which I exercise (LifeFitness) have monitors built in. The more I exercise, the faster I can go for a given heart rate. At present, my heart rate is about 160 when I'm doing 10 min miles, about 170 for 9 min miles and creeps up to almost 180 for an 8 min mile. I try to keep things around 150-160 for most of the exercise time (about 1 hour) and my cool down (walking at 4.0, 3.5, 3.0 MPH etc) lasts as long as it takes to get the heart rate below 120.

I haven't recently measured my resting heart rate or blood pressure but I do have a physical scheduled soon and I'll probably start to monitor my blood pressure a bit more closely too. BP has been about 120/80 for my entire adult life so I haven't checked it more than once every 6 months or so.
 
Hi Roger --

Resting heart rate and the time to recover to 120 are good indicators of training effect, so as you track them, they can contribute to motivation. Unfortunately, you didn't establish a baseline, so given your current state of advanced fitness, you may be cheated out of the excitement that accompanies dramatic gains. :)

Greg
 
Well, I have lost 11 pounds without really trying, just following Patty's lead. But I am not telling where I started or where I am now. I will say only about 40 lbs more to go...Roger, I weighed 165 once, I think in the 6th grade! More than pounds though I have lost serious inches, too bad, I will have to go out and buy all new Dockers!
 
Pat that's excellent! Patty told me (privately - but no longer) that she has lost 10 lbs (again with the constraints about not stating the starting or ending point). So, I've lost about 28 lbs overall but only 6 lbs since I started this contest so both you AND Patty are ahead of me in the contest. Here's to better health for all of us! :cocktail :beer
 
Well, I hit the scales at 175.5 today. I'm close to my original goal of 175 and I think I will be there reliably by the end of this week. So, now I'm down about 32 lbs from my heaviest weight and about 10.5 lbs from when I started this "contest".

Also, I've entered a race. On June 29th, I will be running the Seafair Marathon Relay. There's the full marathon 26.2 miles, a half marathon 13.1 miles and the relay in which a team of 4 runs 6.55 miles each. I talked a couple of female graduate students and the husband of a co-worker into running this so we will have a co-ed team in the 31-50 age bracket (average age over all participants - I'm the oldest at 47). I've now started timing myself at 6.55 miles on the treadmill and yesterday got my time under 60 mins (59 mins 3 sec). I'm shooting for <57mins by race day. I think I'll probably be the slowest one on the team as the others are in their late 20's and mid 30's. As long as my knees keep holding out, I think I'm going to try for a race about every 3 months. It should be fun.

I hear regularly via PM from Steve (on Dora Jean) and he's down a bit. I haven't heard from anyone else in awhile. I assume Pat and Patty are still moving down. So how about a role call? How are the various participants in this game doing? Jay? Ed? Tom? Harvey? There's still a lot of time between now and the boat show awards ceremony - others can still join in.
 
:D We have been silent watchers here, admiring you folks. I had been waiting for this thread to surface again - gotta brag a bit now. Last August we made some health related decisions (for clue - see photo album). Like some others - no numbers will be given here. :oops: With some careful dietary changes ( I call it the NO THANK YOU plan) we have lost a total of :D :D #70. :lol: We too have had to buy some new clothes. We have a long way to go yet, but we are trying to make this a real life-style change. We have made it work for 9 months far so just maybe we can make it permanent. And do we ever feel better!!

Congratulations to all of you here. Happy marathons! Keep up the good work. Marcia and Arnold
 
Today's the day before the big race. For anyone who's interested (and apparently for those who aren't too :wink: ), I'll be running in the SeaFair Marathon relay (4 people, 6.55 miles each) tomorrow at 7AM. The race course is posted online. I'm running the first leg. I'll depart Husky Stadium at 7AM and will arrive in downtown Bellevue (near the downtown park) about 54mins later. I'm psyched as I get to run across the 520 bridge! With the beautiful weather we're having, I should be able to see both Rainier and Mt. Baker as I go across.

This past Tues, I ran my fastest time yet -6.55 miles in 54:05 (a pace equal to 8:16/mile). I'm going to try to get below 54 mins tomorrow by hanging with the 3:30 pace group (8:00 miles). We'll see how I do. If anyone wants to come out and watch (or even if you don't), I'll be wearing my C-Brat hat and bib number 1652.

As for my weight, I'm still holding at about 175. That's about 32-34 lbs down from my max weight in December and about 11 lbs since I started this little competition. I hear from one other brat regularly - Steve on Dora Jean. He's made tremendous progress as is down to 168 as of early this week.

I know a lot of other brats said they were in, but most have gone silent. Anyone other than Steve and I still losing weight? Pat, Patty, Joe, Tom, etc? Remember, I'm giving awards out for the most lost between the first date that you declare you're "in" and the boat show in Seattle. There's still plenty of time to get on board and take off some pounds!
 
Well our team ("Team Awesome") finished the marathon relay in 3:31:41 - that's an 8:05 pace. I did my 6.55 miles in 52:28 or at an 8:01 pace. I think my team came in 2nd in our division (coed, open 4-person relay). There certainly were other 4-person teams that were faster (especially in the corporate category) but overall, we did pretty darn well. I was happy just to not be the slowest person on the team.

Now I'm starting to think about my next goal. I might run a half marathon in the Seattle Marathon in November. If I keep at it, maybe I can get that done at an 8min pace.
 
Roger- I shoulda listened to you. I took one look at the picture Tom or Shan on Dakota took of me yesterday. So this morning I rode the my bike up from Redmond to Woodinville and back. Hey, it 's a beginning and I owe it to you (and to Tom and Shan). Thanks.

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dotnmarty":3ux1lkwe said:
Roger- I shoulda listened to you. I took one look at the picture Tom or Shan on Dakota took of me yesterday. So this morning I rode the my bike up from Redmond to Woodinville and back. Hey, it 's a beginning and I owe it to you (and to Tom and Shan). Thanks.
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Sounds good Marty. Remember there's still almost 7 months left until the boat show - you could join the contest and see how much you can lose between now and then.
 
rogerbum":xs8bgzwe said:
I might run a half marathon...
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How many years did you go to school??

Just kidding. Good on you Roger! I still haven't lost the 20 pounds I put on in January, but I haven't smoked since then either.
 
TyBoo":1olb7mkw said:
rogerbum":1olb7mkw said:
I might run a half marathon...
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How many years did you go to school??
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Too darn many:wink: !
TyBoo":1olb7mkw said:
Just kidding. Good on you Roger! I still haven't lost the 20 pounds I put on in January, but I haven't smoked since then either.
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Well that's good too. Quitting smoking probably does more to extend your lifespan than any other single choice you could have made. Exercise would be the second best thing you could do but one thing at a time. Giving up the cig's is huge! Those girls of yours need to have you around for awhile so keep it up!
 
Wow Roger, way to go! You certainly met your goal of under 54 minutes--and then some, big time. You got me in the running dept, I don't run, flat feet plus hurts the knees too much. But I love volleyball, still play every week, some weeks are better than others the next day... Lately, no significant pains because my weight is down. Probably temporary though as my body gets used to the reduced weight.

Another surprise, rechecked and re-zeroed the scale just make sure, another 1 1/2 lbs down this week since last, 166.5 lbs. I've been averaging about 1 lb every 1-2 weeks, on a steady course down. At 170 I reset my goal to 165, looks like another reset pretty soon. I'm eating 1/2 to 3/4 of what I used to, slow but steady loss. Now I wouldn't think of eating what I used to, doesn't feel good anymore. Hoping this is a permanent change in my eating habits. Haven't had a hamburger in over 2 months, just don't crave them like I used to. If I do have one, it'll be a "protein burger" at In-N-Out, no bun, just wrapped in lettuce, very delicious (to me).

Thanks for the encouragement, it's been very helpful. I'm not in it to win anything, please save the prize(s) for those that attend the SBS. Then again, who knows, I might have to come up there one of these years!
 
Tyboo --

Good on ya! Quit smoking!!! Great. El quit back in mid-January and is still off -- both of you have probably given us more years of enjoying your friendship -- thanks!!

I'm hanging in at around 160 -- but not particularly concerned about weight -- more involved with what I eat! The doc said it's either change my eating lifestyle or face his knife! Easy choice! So, for most of a year now I've eaten 0 saturated fat, 0 trans fat, and 0 cholesterol (except in fish, which the doc says is 'legal.' Have taken a course in nutrition and another in cooking 0/0 meals -- and those recipes are great!!

Anyway, more power to those who are losing weight, exercising regularly, changing lifestyle, and for you, Tyboo -- quiting the weed!!
 
Today I received the digital photos that were take by the SeaFair marathon race photographers. Here's the proof I ran across the 520 bridge -

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Congratulations Roger! Not only did you accomplish your goal, but I can see by the picture that there is no one in front of you....they are all behind you!..... :thup
 
rogerbum":1uzs51oz said:
Today I received the digital photos that were take by the SeaFair marathon race photographers. Here's the proof I ran across the 520 bridge -
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Sorry Bub, but that photo has obviously been Photoshopped...

Blue sky? Yeah, right. :mrgreen:
 
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