30 days in, good results but more work ahead

30 days ago, I went from virtually not paying attention to eating or exercise habits, to exercising 4 to 5 days per week for 40 to 60 minutes a day, and counting every calorie that I put in my mouth.

Lots of work ahead still, but happy with results so far! Next 30 days I am focused on trimming times off my running 5k type distances and continuing to be careful about eating the right things at the right times in order to keep burning fat from my midsection, which is really the only place my body stashes it.
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I frankly, in the past, never paid attention to what I ate, I just... ate.

If I was hungry for a steak I went and got a big one, if I was hungry for Double Daves peproni rolls, I at a half dozen.(340 cal each... eek!) I love cottage cheese, it didnt seem that strange to eat a pint out of the carton.

Biggest change I made was portion control by buying food in snack size containers such as a 4 pack of cottage cheese cups instead of 2 pint tub of cottage cheese. Also bought a lot of things like granola bars and made pasta that I would repackage into smaller portions for the week's lunches.

But counting the calories and portion control has somewhat changed what I eat because some things are easier to portion control. Next goal is to really focus and discipline on eating meals that have good ratios of fat to protein to carbs 20/30/50.

Also I allow myself 2 or 3 cheat meals per week if I'm really hungry and the meal is good, or social situation, and it hasnt caused a problem because I've been strict at all other times.

 

I've been on average eating 2200 cal per day during the last month. So I'm not starving myself. I'm 6ft.

 

I have done 3 timed running miles in the last month...
Baseline - Tuesday, Aug 5 - 9:59
Progress - Thursday, Aug 21 - 8:50
Progress - Tuesday Sept 5 - 8:33

Also did a 5k on Labor Day, Sept 1... 35:07, my best yet

 

Guess who got heavily involved in a race car build and prepping for a November 24hr of Lemons race, and thought he was too busy to work out and stopped paying attention to what he ate over the holidays, and popped right back up to 205?

This guy!

I did a timed mile baseline this morning before getting back into the workout routine - 9:20. Better than my original baseline but I lost some ground.

Doing my first 5k of 2015 this weekend.