113 Pounds Lost with Pictures

Excellent job! You look great! Any tips? I would love to be a runner. I try jogging and really want to do some kind of race. My mile is no where near your time!! How did you start?? And what kinds of food do you eat? Please add me if you'd like!!

My biggest thing was to take things one day at a time. I feel like I was never successful when I was thinking about how much longer it would take to lose the weight. Every day is a battle and as long as we win more than we lose we will be successful.

I started out running and was a 41 minute 5k time and stayed around 32-34 minutes until I started to get serious about my exercise and weight loss. I finally got down to 25 minutes and attribute a lot to being lighter but also being committed to running at least 3 days a week including speed work and a long run.

Right now in terms of eating I am sticking to a a lower carbohydrate diet and trying to eat clean foods. I eat a lot of lean meats, leafy greens, and beans. I only drink a beer or two a week which is difficult as a home brewer.

Great job! Your race times are amazing! I hope as I get more toward the 230-220 range that I can get my paces anywhere near that for the 5k!

It took me quite a bit of time to get faster but found that it was 50% weight loss and 50% training and doing speed work. I suggest one day a week of speed work on a track doing interval sprints and repeats.