The Home Stretch.... Your almost there!

Would love to link up with people who are within 10lbs or less of their goal and stay in touch as we maintain :) Would also love to hear success stories of people who have lost weight and kept it off :) Who's in?

So the forth of July messed a lot of us up :) Next week we'll do better!

Didnt mess me up.


Another 4 pound loss this week.



I still have 20 to lose though.



Starting weight 262

Weight now 182

Original goal 175

new goal 162

Hey guys,

Quick question. I'm about 5'8 1/2 and I weigh (as of yesterday) 136.2. I am averaging about 1550 calories a day for almost two weeks. I exercise 6 days a week alternating cardio for a hour or full body weight lifting for an hour.

My question is: am I eating too much? I know I have very little to lose, but I'm not really losing weight, maybe a pound. Do I give it more time, or lower my calories to more like 1300-1400?

Thanks!

Original Post by pbear999:

Well, today was my "official" weigh in day.  Started on a Tuesday long ago, kept that up for whatever reason.  Down to 175.5, so a loss from last Tuesday of 1.8 pounds.  Back down to tie my lowest official weight.  Been trying to keep the calories under my burn rate, and succeeded for most of the week.  And my BF analyzer said I was at 14.8% today, instead of just over 15%, so that's good too. :)  Means I'm losing what I want to lose.

Did my 2k swim yesterday, broken up into 750m (the distance for my triathlon), 500m, and then 3 x 250m.  When I entered the tri about a month ago, they wanted to know how fast you'd be doing the swim in, so they could group you accordingly.  I said 15 minutes.  Swam my 750m distance yesterday in 14:47, so that's cool.  And even at the end, I was still swimming at that pace.  Now if I could only get my running in shape too... Coming up on 1 month away.

Today was weight training, and a running clinic tonight.  Unfortunately, it's raining, and a predicted high of 17 degrees C (62 F)... Not my idea of nice running weather.

Clint

Think I missed a week or so, but what the heck...  I'm down to 172.0, a drop of 3.3 pounds in the last week.  Not sure how I feel about that.  Probably more than I should have lost, but closer to my goal of 170.  The last time I tried to move closer to my maintenance calories, I went into a wavy zig-zag weight pattern for 3 weeks, so this time, I think I'll wait till I hit my goal, then adjust. :)

Clint