| DTSMA68
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| I run about 36 miles a week. Is it possible to make it through Phase 1? I am 5'11" and about 174 lbs. I would like to get down to 160 lbs and lose belly fat. |
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Wed Oct 24, 2007 3:46 pm |
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| Jadzia
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Since you're very active (36 miles/week is quite a lot!), and don't need to lose a lot of weight, you might consider going to phase 2 directly.
- Phase 1 main purpose is to help people cut from their bad habits (eg eating sweets and junk food), but also (mostly, in my opinion) to stop the cravings. By eating a low-carbs diet for 2 weeks, it's like your body "learns" you don't need as much it was used to ingest.
In that sense it is a good thing. However a lot of people feel weak during P1, especially after 3-5 days. That may slow you down.
My suggestion :
Start P2, but very strict one (like a P1, but with 1 grain or 1 fruit a day). It could be a good compromise.
Of course, I'm not an expert, so my opinion is as good as anyone else ! |
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Thu Oct 25, 2007 12:14 am |
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| DTSMA68
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Thanks for your suggestion and I'll try the P1 first by the book and see what happens. If I become weak, I'll introduce foods from P2.
I need to stop eating candy and junk food and stop the cravings. After I run 6 miles in the morning, I usually stop by SweetBay on my way to work and buy two cans of Pringles, the large box of Dots, and a large box of Bottle Caps. I will have all that eaten between 10am-Noon. Then I will start on my lunch and then follow it with 1.5 liters of coffee with CoffeeMate flavored Cream throughout the afternoon. Then I will usually have a couple of MicroBrews after work with more chips and candy and dinner.
I run just to maintain my weight and eat candy and drink good beer (Good beer is not Budweiser).
It has to be all or nothing or it will not work. :wink: |
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Thu Oct 25, 2007 3:07 pm |
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| wileybosco
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| I think you need phase 1 and clean eating to get rid of the sugar/flour haze. Running for two weeks may or may not need to be scaled down or suspended dependent on how you feel. Typically I run on low fuel or food in me so not sure when you run or if you will even feel a difference if you run early or before a meal. |
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Thu Oct 25, 2007 3:36 pm |
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| DTSMA68
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I usually get up at 5:30 am and eat breakfast and then go on my run around 7am.
I am going to start P1 on Monday. I am running a half-marathon on Sunday and I am going to fill myself with pancakes Saturday night to fuel my 13.1 run on Sunday.
Coffee with with CoffeeMate flavored cream is my biggest weakness. I am already scaling it down to two shots of espresso when I wake up. I am anticipating a huge headache around Tuesday or Wednesday. I have been drinking 1.5 pots of coffee for the past 1-2 years. I roast my own coffee. |
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Thu Oct 25, 2007 4:57 pm |
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| luvs_torun
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K... I'll change my original response... :wink:
Quote: I usually stop by SweetBay on my way to work and buy two cans of Pringles, the large box of Dots, and a large box of Bottle Caps. I will have all that eaten between 10am-Noon. Then I will start on my lunch and then follow it with 1.5 liters of coffee with CoffeeMate flavored Cream throughout the afternoon. Then I will usually have a couple of MicroBrews after work with more chips and candy and dinner.
I run just to maintain my weight and eat candy and drink good beer (Good beer is not Budweiser).
Sounds about right!
Good luck...... |
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Thu Oct 25, 2007 5:16 pm |
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| RedRox
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At 5' 11" and 174, you are already within your normal BMI. You are just trying to drive it closer to your view of your ideal weight which I'll assume you understand far better than I do. Point is that you are coming at this from a different place than someone 50 to 100 lbs over the top end of their normal BMI. Those folks aren't typically in training for marathons, at least not yet! ;) I'm not sure you really need P1, although given some of your food choices, it might help break some of your sweets preferences.
there is no need to give up caffeine/coffee altogether. the coffeemate is a bigger issue than the coffee itself. I'm actually surprised that someone who would love coffee enought to roast their own beans would choose to gunk it up with that stuff to begin with! Keep the espressos or brewed coffees, but just find healthier things to whiten it or learn to drink it black.
I'm not one of them, but there are some serious runners here. Hang out for awhile and I'm sure they can help you structure your meals to allow you to run efficiently and still eat healthily.
I disagree with your statement that "it has to be all or nothing or it will not work". I think that is a failure statement and attitude. This is not a perfection based program. It's a lifestyle program. Stuff happens. You move on. Once you clean up the high sugar and crap foods stuff, you can probably start to figure out what you need to do to make it work for you on a long term basis.
good luck! kick butt in the marathon! |
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Thu Oct 25, 2007 5:25 pm |
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| DTSMA68
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Quote: I'm actually surprised that someone who would love coffee enought to roast their own beans would choose to gunk it up with that stuff to begin with!
I know, but when you add a little CoffeeMate flavored cream, it turns it into a liquid chocolate candy bar with caffeine.
If I was hanging out with my Coffee Geek friends and they found out I was adding cream to a fresh cup of coffee, I would be dis-owned from their circle. They make fun of people like me.
I am at the high end of the BMI index. Back in April, I weighed 174 and I went on a organic diet. In July, I weighed 163 lbs. My Dad passed away in August, so I put all the weight back on. I need to get off the sugar and flour.
the most of I have weighed was 225 lbs and I lost most of my weight on the Abs Diet by the Men's Health editor.
I am looking for something different, because I need to get off the sugar and flour. |
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Thu Oct 25, 2007 6:19 pm |
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| lorichka6
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DTSMA68 wrote:
I need to stop eating candy and junk food and stop the cravings. After I run 6 miles in the morning, I usually stop by SweetBay on my way to work and buy two cans of Pringles, the large box of Dots, and a large box of Bottle Caps. I will have all that eaten between 10am-Noon. Then I will start on my lunch and then follow it with 1.5 liters of coffee with CoffeeMate flavored Cream throughout the afternoon. Then I will usually have a couple of MicroBrews after work with more chips and candy and dinner.
I run just to maintain my weight and eat candy and drink good beer (Good beer is not Budweiser).
You might be the one person who actually eats worse than me :) I ride an awful lot in the summer (200+ miles a week) and unfortunately every summer turns into "great, now I can eat 3 snickers a day". Every fall the time it takes me to stop eating like that after the riding stops adds a few pounds... I'm in the midst of my post-riding funk right now.
Anyway, good luck, as a guy, if you stick to the eating, you'll be at your goal weight pretty quickly :) |
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Thu Oct 25, 2007 9:08 pm |
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