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  • Name: trigal
  • City: Manila
  • Region: Albay
  • Country: Philippines

My Weight Loss

Height: 165.1cm
Start weight: 142.00lb
Current weight: 133.00lb
Goal weight: 128.00lb
Lost to date: 9.00lb
Remaining: 5.00lb

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02/08/2010 23:40

Going for a ride

7:30 AM  
I am dressed and ready to go. I am going for a 45 to 50 Kilometer easy ride this morning.
 
11:30 AM
Back from a 2 hours ride (48k). Had some breakfast/lunch and should be heading to the pool in couple of hours. Goal is to swim 1.5k. We'll see!
 
 
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02/08/2010 10:22

Training hard again

I am getting ready for two major events. First is the Singapore Aviva Half Ironman on March 21st and the second is the Subic International Tri, Olypmic distance.
I did great last week with 50k of run and about 100k of ride plus hours of Spin and strength training in between. I have little more than 5 weeks left to Aviva Half Ironman and still a long way to build up my endurance for such a long event.
Last night I ran about 18k which took me 2 hrs. I am working just on endurance and no speed work which requires adding at least half hour to my long runs and rides every week. This means this coming Sunday I will be running 2.5 hrs on Sunday and ridning 3 hrs Saturday.
 
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11/13/2009 11:03

Certified Triathlon Coach

Good news:
Just got back from my trip to Singapore where I attended an ITU coaching course and became a certified trainer! Yeay for me :o)
Bad news:
I am leaving tomorrow for Subic Bay to join a duathlon race on Sunday (10k run, 40k bike, 5k run). What is so bad about it, you might ask? Well, i have not trained for the last three weeks since I was sick for a while and then I was travelimng for the rest of the time. I decided I am going to go and just enjoy the race.
Why not, don't you think?
 

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11/06/2009 03:28

Friday Nov 6

My first day at the gym after a week. I have to admit that it wasn't easy especially when I was pushing my heart rate up, but good thing is that I was able to go and do it. I am resting for the rest of the day and see how i feel tomorrow.
 

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11/03/2009 07:36

Week One

Tuesday Nov 3, 2009 to Tuesday Nov 10, 2009
 
My goals for this week:
1- Getting over my cold/sinus infection. I have been in bed for the last 3 days. Going to see the doctor tonight. It's time for antibiotics.
2- Keeping my daily cal. intake at 1300
3- Diet cosists of: 50% carbs, 30 to 40% protein, 20 to 30% fat
4- One cheat day a week, probably on Saturday
5- Last meal of the day no later than 7 PM
 
I will be traveling some part of this week and next week. Leaving for Singapore on Sunday the 8th and coming back to Manila on Thursday the 12th.
 
6- Keeping up with my goals during the trip :o)
 

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10/08/2009 02:31

Busy with helping the flood victims

My weight as of this morning: 134.5 Lbs
In between trips to the flood sites and visiting evacuation centers I try to do my workouts and stay focused on my training. I have also finally started writing what I eat few days ago. Mean while I am trying to stay below 1500 calories a day which I think is helping a lot.
 

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09/30/2009 10:37

...... and life would go on


We were hit with a typhoon last Saturday. Well, we are kind of used to tropical storms, even typhoons as this is the season for us when we get one after another, in the Philippines. This one was different though since it was not a very strong typhoon, but brought lots of rain with itself. The local name for it is Ondoy and the Western world calls it Ketsana. Well, whatever its name dumped a month worth of rain on us in a matter of 6 hours. As a result 80 percent of Manila was flooded. This is a third world country that about 70% of its population live in poverty. Homes were washed into the river, people were swept away by the water and roads were turned into the river. About 300,000 peopel are homeless, about 250 are dead and tons more missing.
We were amongst the lucky ones that just got soaked, but there are so many people that weren't as lucky.
Well, this would defenitly changes your prespective of life, don't you say? At this moment keeping up with the diet and counting calories just not a priority for me, so till further notice I will be out. Of course I still will be eating healthy, exercising and trying not to eat junk after 7 PM.
 

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09/24/2009 09:24

Week1-Day 2

 
 
 
 
This morning I woke up feeling really good about not eating late last night. I was proud of myself for fighting the urge. The worse thing about late night eating is that you are not even hungry when you are snacking, you are eating just out of bordom so you don't even feel full and when you go to bed you feel so heavy and bloated. So yay for me on my day one
OK, now my second day:
 
I ran early this morning for 50 minutes and that would be my only work out of the day.
 
Breakfast:
1 Kashi bar with coffee
2 bite size blueberry muffins
2 dried plums
 
Snack:
1/2 glass mango juice
1 small apple
 
Lunch:
1 sering of whole wheat crackers
1 Kraft American cheese/low fat
2 cups of cauliflower
10 almonds
 
Snack:
30 grams of home made low fat banana bread
1 cup of jello woth fat free whipping cream
 
Dinner:
1 piece of lasagna
2 glasses of champagn
 
 
 
Total Calories/intake:  about 1700
Total Calories burned: 480
 
 
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09/23/2009 07:05

Week 1 - Day 1

Starting weight 136 lbs
 
OK, we are starting a new challenge. Another month of daily calorie counting and keeping the calories in the BMR range. I am actually excited about this. Nice thing about doing it for a month was that I learned how to keep track of everything that I put in my mouth. Realizing that Tamarind is delicious, but the darn thing has so much calories (well, at least it has lots of fiber also ;o)
This time around I am going to make a goal for myself. I am going to put a stop into my late night eating habit. so here is my goal for the upcoming month: No more food after 7 PM. 
 
Breakfast:
1/2 Kashi with coffee
 
Snack:
1 banana
1 cup of non fat yogurt
 
Lunch:
2 boiled eggs
1 serving of small crackers
1 slice of Kraft American cheese
1 cup of raw cauliflower
1 whole wheat roll
 
Snack:
130 grams of Tamarind
100 grams Sweet Potatoe, baked
 
Dinner:
1 cup of cup noodels soup
1 mini loaf bran bread
.75 tablespoon butter
 
Dessert:
1 small piece of dark chocolate
 
 
Its about 10 pm and I am going to bed before i give in to the late night snacking again :o)
Today's result:
 
 
 
 
Total Calories/intake:  about 1900
Total Calories burned: 1300
 
 
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09/21/2009 08:13

Four weeks already!

Our 4 week challenge is over and although I didn't lose much weight (2-3 lbs), but it was a good way of learning how much calories my body really needs. I kept an average of 1600- 1700 cal. a day through last month's challenge. During these days I was not completely full, but nor hungry. I ate pretty much everything that I desired, but kept it within the cal. limit. In between I had few days that I totally messed up and ate a lot, but within 2 or 3 days after I was always back to my original weight. On the other hand during the only few days that I ate around 1200 cal a day, I was always hungry and grumpy. Of course the next morning I weighed about 1/2 to 1 lbs less, which was great, but I just needed more food to be able to do my daily training. Well, it is obvious that if I want to lose lbs, i need to stick to lower calorie diet, but how am i gonna survive it!!! Cutting 400 cal. a day doesn't seem much, but it is. It is really hard. That extra banana with the 1/2 cup of rice gives me so much energy. I know that either I have to accept this weight or do something about it. I am tired of losing this 10lbs during my hard training seasons and then gain it back few months after. But then I want to enjoy my life also. I want to be able to have a glass of wine with a nice creamy plate of pasta (there goes 800 calories out of 1200), without feeling guilty....
Now the question is to diet or not to diet :o)

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