I peak for , lose for & taper for our state meet in the month of April.
Since the start of S C season in Oct. I have managed to lose 20 lbs.
Now I'm down to only 1/2 a ton.
I wish I could keep it off during off season!
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Started January 3...down 11lbs. Not a huge amount but I haven't really cut back on my diet yet. I just started to do that late last month and finally saw the scale creep a bit faster downward. Goal is 30 lbs down by the end of the year, if not more! :applaud:
I swim 3-4 days a week averaging about 2700-3000yds per one hour session.
Now I eat a more or less paleo diet, and I can't wait for breakfast in the morning.
If you get a chance - watch the movie FatHead (on Netflix or Hulu: Hulu - Fat Head - Watch the full feature film now.@@AMEPARAM@@www.hulu.com/.../djyiCttz-dTjtvypNWoCLw@@AMEPARAM@@djyiCttz-dTjtvypNWoCLw) - it's long (2 hours give or take), but it's VERY informative and it takes the science of diet and puts it in fantastic lei terms). But it'll have you re-thinking your food choices... it's not diet specific - but his conclusions do seem to loosely follow those of the Paleo Diet. Eat more fat, less carbs (not zero carbs) and you'll notice a difference. If you actually put a little time into looking at your options, there are plenty out there. :) It's worth it.
I don't worry too much about my weight. What I keep track of is my body fat percentage. In January it was 17.76%, last week it was 16.37%. I'm hoping to be in low 15's by the time I go to nationals.
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Scroll down and don't miss the pictures. My favorites are "Diana" and "Sterling." Both of them look like completely different people.
Hahaha... Orca - I know it sounds backwards - but that's just because of the history of our food pyramid. Were you able to watch the movie? It really explains it all well... (better than I could). But there's a LOT of science behind it - not just one guy's observations...
I think it helps if you start out "chunky". I am down 20 lbs. I started the paleo diet and that has helped a lot. Being a sprinter a going down 20 lbs have really helpedmy times.
i've been up and down the past 4 yrs.
all of last year i think I only stepped on a scale 5 times. I was injured and couldn't swim the way I wanted and lost all motivation to keep the weight off.
march 21st after our nationals I felt great, but swam slightly slower than 2009 times when I was 185lbs. Maybe being 226lbs had something to do with the .5-.8 sec/50m. Now I'm looking fwd to long course nationals and OW season. I started stepping on the scale every morning before breakfast. I've already lost 4lbs in 3+ weeks. I've got 20 weeks before our OW nationals and I am hoping to lose roughly 2lbs a week until then.
I only record my wednesday weight, but by stepping on the scale every day I can see what worked and didn't work the day before. but from day to day I can go up or down 2lbs easily. that's why my official weigh in is always wednesday.
