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After more than a year of really trying to tackle this 15 pounds with little to no real progress, I decided to shell out a hefty sum of cash for a nutritionist. (When I talk about “progress” in this instance, I am talking specifically as it relates to weight, bodyfat and size- of course my endurance is hugely improved, but you can’t stuff “endurance” into a corset at Folsom Street Fair.)

I had my first appointment on Friday- I got weighed and measured and we set some goals. He also talked to me about something that has been mentioned a few times on the Runner’s World message boards– You can’t train to see performance gains AND train to lose weight at the same time. Just like you can’t pump iron to get massive at the same time as you are restricting calories to reduce fat. It just doesn’t work that way. This seems to explain why I didn’t lose anything while increasing mileage to 23+ miles per week and haven’t gained any on the same eating plan after stopping.

So, I suppose it is a blessing in disguise that I am coming into this with an injury- I can spend the next month and a half or so getting some weight off, then decide if my foot is healed enough to train for the US Half in November, then get back to losing the last 5 lbs or so in the New Year.

Tomorrow, I am having a resting metabolism test to see what my baseline is, then will get the actual plan. It sounds quite reasonable- eat within an hour of getting up, eat a combination of food sources at every meal and snack, eat 70% of your calories before dinner, etc.

I’ll have Rob snap some before pictures, which I’ll only post here if the afters are awesome enough to compensate.

I’m starting from 142lbs and 28.8% bodyfat, though, so loads of room for improvement!