...stone, that is. And if I had managed my diet more effectively, I would be a heck of a lot lighter than that. I've been able to run 20+ miles a week (hell, 20+ miles in a single run) for the first time in ages recently, and the weight's come off nicely. I weighed myself at my folks' the other night and the scales said 15st 3lb, so I allowed four pounds for clothes to put me just under 15stone. Which is... 209lbs, US Fat Fans. Lightest I've been for a while, but there is more to come. I've signed up for another race after London for a different hospice, though it's only a half marathon. But it means I have to keep going, and there's not going to be any time for any 'what do I do now, where's my motivation' kind of thoughts post-London Marathon, which is good.
In short, if I drank less beer, I would be loads and loads lighter. So that's the next plan...
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Well done and a really good idea to keep up the incentive.
Son in law cycles an awful lot so that he can burn the calories to eat and drink as much as he wants! If he does his whole commute by bike, which he does at least twice a week, it's 49 miles a day.
I was just thinking back to when I used to cycle a lot - I had a commute out to Exeter airport which was very, very hilly. 20 hilly miles a day, in total (well, something like 19.1), so just shy of 100 tough miles a week. Didn't lose a single pound... But your alcohol intake really does have to come up by quite a bit to counter that much calorie burning. I know that from experience.
He's got some gizmo that straps on and measures his heart rate and so on, and calculates the calories he burns. Something like 1700 a day, I think he said. More than I normally eat in a day anyway.
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