<p>Yowie – I’m down to a new low in the weight department. I haven’t been doing anything special, and I’m sure I’ll be up a little the next time I weigh myself (I only weigh once a week), but – yowie. </p>
<p>I suspect that a huge contributor is the treadmill action I’ve been focusing on. </p>
<p>That, and the fact that our house just went on the market, and I’m totally stressed out about that.</p>
<p>Idad- what is your waist size now?</p>
<p>Day off last night -hit the gym in an hour.</p>
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<p>32 for Dockers (and some Louis Raphael dress pants I bought this week.)
33 for Levi’s 501s, that sit a little lower on the hips.</p>
<p>I’m sort of stuck in the middle of sport coat sizes. An full American cut 38 R fits me in the waist, but is snug across the chest and shoulders (my fat loss there has been offset by getting more muscular). A American cut 40S fits perfectly in the shoulders, but is big in the waist. I have a slim fit Calvin Klein 40S khaki blazer that fits me like a glove.</p>
<p>So, I’ve gone from a 48 sport coat to a 40. And from 44 pants to 32 or 33. They didn’t even make dress shirts to fit me when I was an ol’ fat guy. I think I got up to a 17 1/2. I needed such a big neck size that the shirts were huge. I’m down to a 16 and the collars are a bit loose. A 15 1/2 (that I wore in my 20s) is just a little tight in the collar.</p>
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<p>Mine’s been bouncing around. I almost wonder if we don’t get a little heavier in winter and lose it as the weather warms up a bit?</p>
<p>Good luck with the house. It is such a pain, but you get into kind of a pattern of keeping/getting it picked up for showing. I have a place in a closet or cupboard for everything off my kitchen counters except the Kitchen Aid mixer and the coffee maker.</p>
<p>^^^ Every time the dogs go out and then in again, I have to walk behind them and pick up schmutz. I feel like Sisyphus.</p>
Idad- that is great.
Little story about buying suits - when my brother was graduating college he went to get a suit and they laughed him out of the store. He needed a 42-44 jacket and his waist was 30 inches. He had worked out for years for sports not body building and did pullups on a daily basis so he had an unbelievable v shape. He could do 8 sets of 30 and 53-55 pullups at one time. His grip was so strong that he grabbed you you were not getting away easily. He is 55 and still has the 30 inch waist but works out differently now. He is very lean. Since I am big and heavy I get to toss him around- but only for a short period of time.
<p>Yeah. Nobody is ever going to mistake me for a bodybuilder, but the two years of strength training is definitely starting to be visible. I have, like, actual muscle definition in the shoulders and arms and especially in the thighs (from all the &$^% split squats). Kind of shocking, really…</p>
<p>At my age and with the loose skin artifacts of 90 pounds of weight loss, I’m never going to be a fitness model, but it’s nice to see the visible results.</p>
<p>Idad- I have read this thread since the beginning and what you have done is amazing.</p>
I pinch myself every day when I put on my 32 inch pants or a MEDIUM shirt or sweater. I watch The Biggest Loser and I wasn’t in their territory to start (250 lbs), but losing 90 pounds isn’t shabby.
The thing is, I would have been happy (and was happy) at just about any point along that path. Heck, I would have been thrilled to lose 25 pounds. I was just going to ride it as far as it would take me.
I’m not sure that you can really plan on a final destination. I certainly didn’t plan on this one. Hell, I threw away a closet full of clothes in the size I’m now wearing. Even after I had lost 50 pounds, I tried it all on and knew there was no prayer.
<p>I ate a lot of ice cream today, but I also walked maybe 5-6 miles (?), so I broke even. ;)</p>
<p>Nice workout in the pool today!
Feels like summer- yay</p>
<p>And delish lunch- the burrito bowl sans rice at Chipotle!</p>
<p>OK, after my self-imposed hiatus, I just had to do a hilly walk/jog this afternoon. 80 degrees brilliant blue sky. Nice breeze. Irresistable.</p>
<p>Legs felt like bags of sand after several weeks without a jog. I did my jog to 90% of max heart rate, then walk routine. Not terribly fast, trying to go easy on my Achilles. Got in 9 jogging intervals for about a mile out of the 5K.</p>
<p>So far, so good. We’ll see how the ankle holds up later.</p>
<p>6 miles, somewhere around a 9:40 pace, two hours of doubles, abbreviated weight machines and free weights. It felt like a day of working out.</p>
<p>Many many many hours in the woods with the dogs. About five miles. </p>
<p>Woof.</p>
<p>4.2 miles 48 minutes (28 minutes eliptical/ 20 minutes treadmill)
crunches/planks
pushups/db bench/db incline
military press/upright rows
front squats/ leg extensions
dips/tricep extensions</p>
<p>Sunday the plan is to walk/jog on a 5 mile trail</p>
[Affordable</a> ways to get fit at home - Boston.com](<a href=“http://www.boston.com/lifestyle/health/gallery/fit_at_home/?]Affordable”>http://www.boston.com/lifestyle/health/gallery/fit_at_home/?)
According to the authors of Freakonomics, people who purchase gym memberships overestimate how often they will go by 70 percent. As a result, more than $500 of the average annual cost of memberships is simply lining the pockets of gym owners – and doing absolutely nothing for your waistline. If you struggle with getting to the gym every day, try getting fit at home for a fraction of the cost. Though you may not have the fancy equipment offered by fitness clubs, you can still meet your goals affordably by considering the following tips.
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Many of those ideas are in this thread.
<p>Day 3 of the 5K running program with my newbie runner. Easy run/walk intervals for about 1.8 miles. Ran with my Vibrams, which felt fine.</p>
<p>Today’s numbers</p>
<p>Cals 1751
Fat 108
Net Carbs 20 g
Protein 177 g
Sugars 10 g</p>
<p>Mizuno first won me over years ago with a fabulous, smooth softball mitt that still lives in the trunk of my car.</p>
<p>Might you be a Mizuno lover too? Or maybe Asics or Brooks? You may already be familiar with this site, but it’s a new find for me. Running Warehouse. I was looking for something very specific and was happy to find it in the liquidation section. I did a Google search and found a coupon too, yay. :-)</p>
<p>Running Warehouse is good. I like Roadrunnersports. You can find coupon codes for it, too.</p>
<p>I bought my last 7 pairs of running shorts from RoadRunner Sports. I’m pleased with their products and service - at least for the shorts. I don’t recall hearing about Running Warehouse. In general, I buy shoes at the New Balance Factory Outlet in Boston. They will be opening up a store in my town in a few weeks so I will most likely shop there unless they don’t carry as much as the Boston store.</p>
<p>The activity level has really picked up over here. I don’t know whether it’s the nicer weather, or people are getting ready for hitting the beach or college stuff being out of the way but there’s an uptick in the energy on this thread.</p>