As I said yesterday over in my introduction, I lost 85 pounds. I'm at about 140, with body fat of 14.5%. I'm a size 2 or 4. I'm 43 years old, 5'5". I don't usually give this info so freely, but hey, we're all future old friends, right
I ran a half marathon just over a week ago. I had set aside weight training in the month before my race (was lifting three times a week), and now I'm back in the gym. I'm using New Rules of Lifting, which uses big compound lifts. (Love this, by the way.) Right now I lift twice a week, but could soon up that to three or four.
I cut my running down to 15-20 miles per week (I plan to cycle through the first six weeks of a novice marathon training plan a couple of times over the winter. I'm planning to run a 25K in May, and will begin training for that in February or March.) I'm also swimming two or three times a week. I'm working with a coach once a week, which is a blast. Oh, and I ice skate once a week with my son and some other moms and kids.
I'm starting to get comments that I'm getting too thin. Clearly, the time for loosing weight is over. I'm now an amateur athlete, and I need to eat like one.
But I want to stay in control of my eating. I've regained large quantities of weight before, and I'm perfectly capable of doing it again! So it would not be a good idea for me to just start wolfing down too much.
I should gain some muscle with the lifting, but if I add only muscle, my body fat percentage will go even lower, and I it's plenty low already. So I guess I need to gain weight, including some fat.
My plan right now is to add some protein shakes and maybe some larger helpings of meat at lunch and dinner. I don't eat low carb now, and I don't think I should be adding more starchy carbs or fat, so if I'm adding, I guess it needs to be protein.
Thanks for sticking with me on this long post
Thoughts?
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