For those of you kind enough to be following along with my story arc, I set out a couple of weeks ago to lose some weight. My short term goal was to be able to fit into my Adventure Pants, so that I could…you know, have an adventure.
I’ve been following a glycemic-index diet for about a year. I lost weight consistently for a while, then stopped. So now I’m adding exercise, notably barefoot running.
For three weeks I did the following:
Monday-Wednesday-Friday alternating-day intervals (run for 60 seconds, walk for three minutes) or fartlek (jog 15 seconds, sprint 15 seconds, continue to add 15 seconds to jog and walk times until reaching 1 min 30 seconds and then go back down.)
On Saturday I jog a Long Slow Distance, actually 30 minutes at about 10 minute mile pace.
Complication: knee pain. So I started taping my arches, nothing fancy just two strips of tape around the foot at the arch. Seems to help.
Results: 230 to 227 in three weeks. Plus I can zip up my Adventure Pants.