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Well, I lost a pound or so. Not bad, not great. The calorie wackiness has been fixed, so I imagine things will be back to normal by next weigh-in, but I'm also being hurt by a confluence of events:
One, I waited until I hit 215 to start my running again (it was a sort of arbitrary date: just something that would be after it had warmed up); because I waited so long, my legs aren't conditioned enough to run more than about 10-15 miles a week, which means that I can't run more than about three days a week for 3-5 miles at a time.
Two, it has been raining so much (by next week, if the predictions hold, we will have had 15 of 18 days of rain) that my biking has been reduced to almost nil; I don't have any cone wrenches to overhaul my own hubs yet, and so I need to keep the bearings fresh and water-free as much as possible. Because of this, I'm not getting in my usual 100-200 miles on the bike per week. This is a SERIOUS loss of calorie burn, and, again, because of my leg conditioning, I can't even approximate the calorie burn with my running levels yet.
So, with all that said, I have revised my weekly goals to 1-2 pounds/week until I can get above 25 miles/week for running or I can get on the bike for at least 100 miles/week. Until I'm better conditioned or the weather relents, I have to half my weight goals per week. 200 by June is no longer a healthy, realistic possibility; I am now shooting instead for 205 by June.
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