Weigh In - 9 November 2008 (Sub 85!)

Better progress this week - my average weight sneaking under 85. Diet has been pretty good.

Sunday Morning - Weigh In and Run

Weigh In - 2 November 2008



Too much red this week. No doubt eating too much for the level of exercise I'm doing. Pretty simple really

Tiki Tour

A good day to go running. Nice and cool in the morning - congratulations to all those running in the Auckland Marathon today. That'll be me next year...

Around 8:30am I went for a relatively flat course of approx 14.5km - I call this the 14km Tiki-Tour. It takes in Mt. Eden, Sandringham, Three Kings, Royal Oak, and Epsom South.

Did this in 1:03:30 (4:22 min/km pace). If runs were curry that would be mild/hot but still edible :) I ran the same course back in June in 1:05:41 (4:32 min/km) so definitely some improvement there.


Nerdy elevation graph:


It was a good blow-out of a run. Felt great afterwards!

4 weeks to go until the ADRA half. Really looking forward to the race!

Weigh In - 26 October 2008

Weight a bit up and down this week. Had a (man) cold and consequently didn't exercise all that much. Next week will be better!

Weigh In - 19 October 2008

Still going in the right direction. A bit slower this week though but slow and gradual progress is a good idea for weight loss. Feeling pretty good with how its going!


Made a big effort this week to watch portion sizes and by and large this went well. Just over 5kg to go to get to my goal weight (80kg). Would like to make it by the end of the year. Should be a realistic goal.

Weigh In - 12 October 2008

I weighed in before the world wide half yesterday:


We visited my parents for Sunday lunch later in the day. It was great. A lovely beef dish and berry crumble for desert which went down a treat.

Still going in the right direction with the weight loss. On the topic of lunch I've been good taking food with me to work rather than going and buying something. That's working out quite well (and saving money while I'm at it).

On a side note am finding tracking weight, and posting weekly, using physicsdiet a good way to keep focused.

Weigh In - 5 October 2008

Been going the right direction this week - largely watching what I eat.

Weigh In - 28 September 2008 (In the Green)

Going in the right direction this week - maybe adding Tempo Tuesday into the mix helped?

Weigh In - 21 September 2008

Running more and likely eating more. Net effect is a plateau.

Lets see if some short sharp tempo runs this week can make a difference along with some better diet choices.

Weigh In - 14 September 2008

A slight increase this week. I'm blaming the two work functions (and the shiraz!). Still I've entered the ADRA half which is in 10 weeks time - and expect some improvement over the course of training.

Weigh In - 7 September 2008

I've decided to use physicsdiet to keep me on track for getting down to around 80kg. Physics Diet is an interesting concept - the premise is you weigh yourself at the same time every day. You can then obtain trend information to see how you are going.

The blue line shows the moving average of all your weight entries. The black line is a best fit.

The points on the tips of the green and red shaded areas are your daily weight entries. The red area means that for that day, or period of days, your daily weight entries were above the blue trend line. The green area means that for that day, or period of days, your daily weight entries were below the blue trend line. If you are trying to lose weight then you will want to keep most of your daily weight entries in the green shaded area.

So today even though I weighed in @ 86.8kg my physicsdiet weight is 87.25kg.



So moving forward and to keep me on the straight and narrow I'll be posting on this weekly. I think training in earnest - and increasing the number of kms run a week (gradually) will help.

In saying that have just done another run this morning since the weather is warm and sunny. Did this one, which I call the Balmoral Loop. 11.18km in 51:43 (4:37min/km). Legs getting tired toward the end but I feel the fitness levels coming back which is great.