Today I’ll update my progress and speak about how important going back to basics is whenever your plan is not seemingly working. This week I have not worked out as much but did longer workouts. It seems that the temperature out in east San Diego County has made it too hot to workout on my regular schedule.
I did a couple of 2 hour runs and incline hike-runs this week in 95 degree heat as I was feeling guilty for not getting out there as much. I even fit in a great kicking workout on the bag. But my wife was worried about me running my two hills in the heat so I only went twice. Before I went on my run yesterday I drank two glasses of water and reasoned with my wife that I would stay hydrated. Take a look at this video I found about hydration with sports and I’ll go over what I’ve probably been doing wrong.
Wow, I did not realize that I would not want to drink as much water as my body needed! I like how the coach pointed out that weighing before and after would give a good idea of how much water you body needs. I’ve been doing that but trying not to drink too much during the workout so I could “lose” more weight!
My lowest weight I posted each week this year has always been after a workout. While the weight has been steadily going down – I’m now questioning the logic of tracking my weight loss that way.
Ok – this is going to be hard but I am going to accept the weight gain bump I will get from just picking a time each week to monitor my weight and divorce it from any “loss” I get from a workout. This way I’ll drink more water while I am running (probably better for me). Next week I am going to start weighing in on Friday mornings. I figure I can still be a little bad during the weekend and not overly affect my weigh ins.
Now I have a treat for you. I took pictures on top of the first hill where I do my katas! I have not dragged anyone up there yet so you cannot see my katas but here are the views I see!
The first picture is where I start the kata. I will pan to the right for an almost compete view.
Now you have an idea why I like to get away from the city and hit the hills around my house. Yesterday I saw a tarantula walking on the trail. I remember from my youth in California these are not really dangerous but I had thoughts of all of those jumping spiders from the movies… just like I think of gremlins whenever I fly. 
This week I will buckle down and try to get some real progress but I assume that I will not be happy with my numbers for a few weeks because I am not taking my lowest weight of the week but rather my weight on Friday morning before work.Â
This is a really great post, and I have to confess that I’m a lot like you are. I’m not a big water drinker during my exercise time. Of course I’m not running for two hours – but even so. I think even with a weight “bump” from weighing at a different time of the day you will be getting a more consistent picture of your weight loss day to day or week to week!
The pictures are amazing. The terrain is so different than what I see where I am – which is pretty much the middle of nowhere!
Keep up your amazing work!
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Hey John!
As in many things, I’m a bit of a contrarian
Since I run in the mornings, I tend to hydrate the night before. I drink very little before running, just some coffee. Very rarely on very hot days I have had some during a run, but not too often. I also want to respectfully add that for weight loss, please try to do most of it with how you eat. I am all about exercise, but I am maintaining my weight. It’s very hard to lose with primarily exercise, and way to easy to get injured.
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Hi Diane! Yep I think weighing in on a set time will be easier. The runs are a little too long because I don’t seem to fit much else in during an evening. Thanks!
Hi Dr. J! Running in the morning is the way to go. I start work at 6:30 so that would be too early for me though. You are absolutely right about the biggest weight loss should be from diet. I guess I was looking for any “edge” I could find. I’m back to 30 minutes of bag work for a while. I ended up wrapping my right hand so I would not re-injure it.