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freakishlystrong · 01-05-2009, 01:53 PM

I'm going to try the personal training log and see where it goes. I'm concerned that I don't have enough time/energy/follow-through to update it regularly and to respond to all of the fabulous people on this board.
That being said, I do enjoy reading all of the other logs, so maybe this will provide someone with some work avoidance.

The stats:
Age 34,
coupla kids, youngest is 2 years old
I've been lifting weights on and off since college, fairly consistently over the past 5 years.
My major struggle is weight control. I like to eat, sweets, lots of them, and drink, red wine, lots of it.

I've been enrolled in a physician supervised weight loss program (from now on referred to as W2W) since mid-September and it's helped alot. Don't worry, there's nothing crazy going on. I go in to be weighed once a week, and then meet with the dietician, physician or behaviorialist. They have a big fancy scale that does the four-point impedance calculations to figure body composition and resting metabolic rate. From that the dietician recommended a calorie load of 1700 cal/day. The physician tweaked some of my regular meds to ones that would accomplish the same effect but not cause weight gain or pose a barrier to weight loss. The behaviorialist is an MSW who works on the 'head' part of losing weight and maintaining it. Alot of the principles that she uses are based on the book "The Beck Diet Solution" by Judith Beck. The program is 26 weeks long, so will end around the end of March. I'll probably then enroll in one of their maintenance programs and continue for a while.

In terms of physical activity, I started doing triathlons this past year. In all, I did 6 (!). I've continued to swim and run since the 'season' ended and I plan to do some more races this summer (although, probably not 6

) I discovered all of you through Wendy; I 'met' her on the WW Triers board and she talked about NROL4W and all of the other great stuff that goes on here.
My typical workout week looks like this:
Sunday: swim 2000-2500 yds
Monday: NROL4W
Tuesday: swim or run
Wednesday: run
Thursday: swim
Friday: NROL4W
Saturday: run
Don't freak! I do take one day off a week, but it's not always the same day, so it's usually Sun, Wed, or Sat.

Since my youngest was born I've lost 62#, 30# of it since beginning W2W. I stated my goals in the 2009 Challenge Beginning Pics thread and I'll repost them with some pics next.

01-05-2009, 01:53 PM	#1 (permalink)
freakishlystrong Member Join Date: Sep 2008 Location: Michigan Posts: 35	Becoming freakishlystrong I'm going to try the personal training log and see where it goes. I'm concerned that I don't have enough time/energy/follow-through to update it regularly and to respond to all of the fabulous people on this board. That being said, I do enjoy reading all of the other logs, so maybe this will provide someone with some work avoidance. The stats: Age 34, coupla kids, youngest is 2 years old I've been lifting weights on and off since college, fairly consistently over the past 5 years. My major struggle is weight control. I like to eat, sweets, lots of them, and drink, red wine, lots of it. I've been enrolled in a physician supervised weight loss program (from now on referred to as W2W) since mid-September and it's helped alot. Don't worry, there's nothing crazy going on. I go in to be weighed once a week, and then meet with the dietician, physician or behaviorialist. They have a big fancy scale that does the four-point impedance calculations to figure body composition and resting metabolic rate. From that the dietician recommended a calorie load of 1700 cal/day. The physician tweaked some of my regular meds to ones that would accomplish the same effect but not cause weight gain or pose a barrier to weight loss. The behaviorialist is an MSW who works on the 'head' part of losing weight and maintaining it. Alot of the principles that she uses are based on the book "The Beck Diet Solution" by Judith Beck. The program is 26 weeks long, so will end around the end of March. I'll probably then enroll in one of their maintenance programs and continue for a while. In terms of physical activity, I started doing triathlons this past year. In all, I did 6 (!). I've continued to swim and run since the 'season' ended and I plan to do some more races this summer (although, probably not 6) I discovered all of you through Wendy; I 'met' her on the WW Triers board and she talked about NROL4W and all of the other great stuff that goes on here. My typical workout week looks like this: Sunday: swim 2000-2500 yds Monday: NROL4W Tuesday: swim or run Wednesday: run Thursday: swim Friday: NROL4W Saturday: run Don't freak! I do take one day off a week, but it's not always the same day, so it's usually Sun, Wed, or Sat. Since my youngest was born I've lost 62#, 30# of it since beginning W2W. I stated my goals in the 2009 Challenge Beginning Pics thread and I'll repost them with some pics next.