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Don't take it personally.

I haven't run a sub-10 minute mile in at least 20 years so I couldn't keep up with CB there but I'd be happy to take him on a 50k trail run anytime.

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"I honestly don't see a good bet on the board here."

CB wouldn't want to go on a 50k trail run because he would be running over 10 minute miles which he doesn't consider to be exercise.

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first weigh in since going on vacation last week. Gained 1 lb. I can live with that.

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Take a shit. There is your pound.

you don't think I do that before every weigh in already?

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back on track after a strong week. Down 2 lbs from last week.


Starting weight: 241
current weight: 210.6

goal = 195

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I dropped a whopping 1.5 lbs in the month of May
I started in late February but intentionally did not do an initial weigh-in. I'm weighing now just to make sure I'm maintaining. I'd like to drop another 10, but I'd rather enjoy my life.

Still....30+ lbs with just diet is very impressive.

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It aint the six minutes. Its what happens in those six minutes.

More cushion for the pushin! 'Mericuh!

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I walked seventeen miles over two days in Manhattan this weekend. The most I have walked since my open heart surgery 11 months ago, as the weather was absolutely perfect. I climbed about 300 subway stairs, which was challenging for my quads and calf muscles. Didn't eat anything crazy beyond two Sicilian slices in Brooklyn on Saturday and a pastrami sandwich from Katz's for my brunch on Sunday.

I came home and weighed myself on Monday morning, and I had gained nine pounds. Not lost, but gained. I did a little Google searching and I guess it had to do with my body dealing with the inflammation and needing fluid for the muscles.

I already lost five of them in the first 24 hours just from pissing it out, and hope to lose the other four over the next two days. I have gone down 10 in the last six weeks so to gain it all back in one day, even temporarily, was a gut punch.

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Are you only weighing in the morning and is your scale a good one? I find my weight fluctuates by a few pounds throughout the day. When I do an intense workout after resting, I end up 2-3+ pounds up on the scale. 9 seems like a lot though.

Also, sorry to hear about the heart surgery, hopefully things have improved.

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During my senior year of high school, I weighed 163 pounds and had 8% body fat before I started cutting weight for wrestling.

Is the average Afghani man a (tall) midget?

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Its all water weight, in fact it's pretty much impossible to add 9 pounds of fat in that short of time.

are you retaining fluids? That is most likely a heart issue and you should get that looked at immediately. My father is having issues with that now. Came back from Florida trip 60 pounds overweight, all fluid in his legs. was put in the hospital to have it drained. Now a month later he's back in with more fluid issues.

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Im guessing they dont eat 2 to 3 times what they need to every day then sit on their asses the rest of it .

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It aint the six minutes. Its what happens in those six minutes.

I was just at the cardiologist on Wednesday for my check in. They've slowly backed me off of the lasix - valve surgery #2 was in July, they halved the dosage in December then in March they went from daily to stretching it out. Now I'm at every fourth day plus when needed. Monday was the fourth day, and I took one today as well.

I did have 53 "zone minutes" on my Fitbit on Saturday (the whole walking across the Brooklyn Bridge thing was a contributor) so yeah there was probably some insufficiency in there as well as my EF is up to 50% but not the normal 55-60+.

For the last year of his life, my dad had the fluid issues your dad has been seeing. I used to have to fly up to Chicago and take him to the PA every other week until he went into memory care.

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The sodium in a 12 oz pastrami sandwich probably didn't help. But it was good pastrami...

Yeah, eating 32000 calories to translate to nine extra pounds, not even Eddie Schwartz could have done that in a weekend.

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down another pound this week. Back in the 200's for the first time in a long time.

Starting weight: 241
Current weight: 209.6

Goal = 195


exercise participated in = 0

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half a pound this week. About what I expected after a big loss last week.


Starting weight: 241
Current weight: 209

Goal weight: 195ish

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So all of the fluid from that NYC trip disappeared in 24 hours as the inflammation in my legs dissipated. But I'm still 14 pounds over this time last year, when my heart wasn't doing shit before my surgery and I had fluid in my lungs.

My doctor said today at my annual physical that I have to go to PT starting in three weeks because my back and hips are a little messed up, probably from losing lean mass after the surgery (and I still gained 14 pounds, fuck...), and causing the pain in one of my ankles. Walking for distance has been increasingly painful on the ankle for the last two months, and she said it is because the hip is messing up my stride and that I have a bit of sciatica to boot.

At least I'm cleared to restart the seated cross-trainer again, so I can do that four days a week until PT starts.

I am on a 2200 calorie a day meal plan five days a week for the last month and want to slowly drop it to a steady state of 1800 calories a day six days a week. I've learned through experimentation that my target meal is 14 ounces (I have a little counter scale in my kitchen) and 700-750 calories. Less calories, I don't have enough energy. Less heft, and I don't have enough fullness and want to graze.

She was generally positive - the muscle mass loss and corresponding pain is really the only medium-term side effect from the valve replacement, my blood work is all normal, and I'm essentially retired so I have plenty of time to work on improvements and if I am doing that then I'm not spending money!

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With the right protozoal infection dropping weight was easy... Might need to try the Sitka National forest diet plan again one of these days but 125 might be a bit tough on the frame these days.

Been riding the road bike lately. 33 miles today. Been alternating between biking and running with biking taking precedence. Going to do a 100-mile ride later this summer.

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Lay off that whiskey and let that cocaine be.

Lowered my blood pressure from 122/80 in May to 118/76 yesterday without doing anything other than biking/running.

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Lay off that whiskey and let that cocaine be.

another half pound loss, down to 208.4. slow and steady wins the race.

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Nice....I'm only doing monthly weigh-ins. I can't handle the disappointment when it's weekly

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I don't do daily for that reason, but need to do it weekly to make sure I'm doing it right.

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I'm doing daily because I need to manage fluid retention as they wean me off of lasix, but I have learned to just take the average of the whole week as a single data point.

I seem to be off of whatever plateau I was on the last month. I need a few more days to be sure, but I think I will lose 5 pounds in June. Since I'm not severely restricting calories (2100-2200 most days, once a week to eat whatever I want), I will take that.

The one major change I have made is to totally crank up the fresh fruit. Right now it's daily 1 banana for breakfast, 20 cherries late afternoon, and 2 peaches after dinner, with the peaches from the massive state farmers market.

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Nice work Chet. Any swinging of the golf clubs?

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Flew too close to the sun on wings of pastrami

Only in my garage and the driving range. I was home all week this week and it has rained for the last five days. It is something crazy like 11 straight weekdays where I didn't have any appointments and it rained.

I am not insane enough to play on weekends around here for my first round in 18+ months. I'm hoping to play somewhere quiet along I-95 on Monday if this fucking rain would let up, there is a nice course on the north edge of Rocky Mount which is generally wide open after 10:30 Mon-Wed all summer.

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