More Swimming Lessons Stuff

Because if I posted about ticky marks or what I was eating, I’d just get sad.

So, more from swimming lessons.

Today I managed to swim some 29/32 down and back laps with kicking, which are *excellent* numbers for me. 29 isn’t my best ever single lap (that’s 27ish), but 1:01 might be my best ever double lap.

Of course, I was swimming straight pairs with a lot of heavy breathing in between, which is sort of a problem. On the one hand, it’s good that I can now swim just as fast while kicking as while not kicking, but it’s still taking me a lot more effort to do it than it would if I was swimming arms only.

Also, in case you’re curious, here’s the weight circuit Katya gave me for days when I don’t see her. Yes, I have no upper body strength.

I am intrigued by this…

From Metafilter, a quote:

I lost the first 90 pounds about three years ago, and it took me about two years to do it – and it was plain, old fashioned, “eat less, move more.” In my case “eat less” meant adhering to the “serving size” that’s listed on everything here in the USofA. If I want a cookie, I can have a cookie – two if that’s what the serving size is.

That’s an intriguing idea. I mean, it’s part of what I tend to do anyway, if I’m weighing and measuring thing. But it’s so simple and uncomplicated.

Tickies

I “decided” on three tickies.

And by “decided” I mean, “after several months of not tracking tickies and thinking about which tickies to track and changing my mind and still not tracking tickies, I logged into Joe’s Goals, saw the three tickies that are actually still set up on my Joe’s Goals account, and figured they’d do.”

So, the three tickies are:

• Drinking 3 glasses of water
• Going to the gym
• Tracking food in Daily Plate.

And hey, today, I’m 3 for 3.

Of course, the women’s shower room is being renovated at the gym tomorrow, so prospects for continuing that streak are limited, but we’ll see. Perhaps I’ll go and walk on the treadmill for a bit and come home and shower.

What’s worse than being back where you started?

How about being back where you ended up after you slid backwards from where you started?

When I first started trying to lose weight seriously, I was 337.5, and I lost a bunch of weight (down to about 260) and then gained it all back and then some. The single fattest I’ve ever been was September 3rd, 2008, when I weighed in at 369lbs. Then I lost a bit of it again and got back down to 315 or so, before letting it all go to hell.

Well, this morning, after months of avoiding it, I stepped on the scale.

369lbs.

Right back at the worst it’s ever been.

I could tell you how much that made me cry, but then I’d start crying again.

Well, that’s a disappointment

My goal for swimming is to be able to swim 50y/min. That’s what Livestrong considers a ‘moderate’ pace, and I’ve generally been not close to it.

In order to swim 50y/min, I need to be able to swim the 20y pool in 24seconds, and my best times to date have been 27seconds, but my average time is more like 35-40.

I swam one set of 2 laps tonight, then checked my lap timer and it was showing an average lap time of 24 seconds. I felt totally triumphant! Woo! 24 seconds!

Or, you know, I’d accidentally recorded a third lap that was 2 seconds long and it dragged down my average from 35 seconds.

Triumph averted.