Still a work in progress, but I am almost at my weight goal, and I do feel like I'm picking up steam again, after a bit of a rough patch. Strength and resistance training is still a bit of a struggle, I seem to have reached this plateau where I can't move on. BUT, I had a change of trainers, the one I had worked with since last year moved on. The new guy they assigned me to is absolutely fantastic, really knows what he is doing, and has a fantastic personality and attitude, which helps a lot IMHO.
So, I do a lot of things - three hours a week of dedicated group cardio with trainer - treadmill running mainly, some weights and bands; two hours of strength and resistance training one on one with the new trainer. Swimming. Cycling on my own -- trying to get in at least 4-5 good, 20 mile plus runs a week. See my Lounge thread yesterday -- yesterday I did close to 60 miles in a great early AM ride. Then, I also try to put in about 3-4 extra hours a week at the gym on strength/resistance or swimming.
Then, there is the diet component. High protein, high "good" fats, low carb, almost no starchy carbs or simple sugars. Limited to 2 servings of fruit a day because of sugar. Mostly, I eat milk, yogurt, cottage cheese, tons of eggs, chicken, beef, pork, turkey, seafood, peanut butter and humus and all kinds of non-starchy vegetables.
I take quite a few supplements. This was originally per the dietician, then I switched that responsibility to an integrative medicine doctor I see fairly regularly.
It has all helped dramatically. I'm a much happier, much healthier boy than I was a year ago.
And, I have some real goals for the future. First one, by next year, I intend to be in a beginning triathlon training program. I also want to be able to do all of this on my own in a sustainable way, without the "crutch" a trainer provides -- it's great, but it also is "easy" because you have set times to be there, you've paid for it, so you show up. And, I would like to join a cycling club as well, more for the social aspect of it than anything. Finally, another crazy thing for the longer term future -- I always wanted to play softball, so I want to find a team I can get myself on in a recreational league, probably through the local parks department.
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