I'm not fat, I just have fat parts.....

Over the past month or so my weight, or rather the lack of weight loss, has been at the forefront of my thoughts. The two weeks previous to my vacation I gained weight, unbelievable as it may seem considering my current exercise regimen. During vacation and the week afterward (b.c I wasn't quite back to my regular exercise schedule) I lost 1.6 pounds. Baffled, I went to see a sports nutritionist.

Tracy, the nutritionist, explained that my body is storing more glycogen then the normal non-active person. The untrained store roughly 13g of glycogen in their muscles while the trained can store as much as 36g. With each gram of glycogen comes 3 grams of water. Well that's the answer to all my prayers.....I'm blotted! hahaha Nah, not really. My body needs the water to utilize the glycogen during endurance activities. Here is a handy dandy little article and chart regarding glycogen and carb loading (which we will discuss at my next visit).

She put me on a 2000 calorie a day diet...I was eating about 1500 before.
Here's the break down:

• Calories = 2000
• Carbs = 250 grams
• Protein = 125 grams
• Fat = 56 grams

She also figured I'm burning about 118.4 calories per mile. On an average week that's about 3,552 calories burned. She said that on the average day I need between 2100-2600 calories to maintain my current level of fitness. WOW!! So I've not been eating enough and I guess my body is holding on to what ever it can. I started the new diet Monday the 10th. I feel good and find it hard to eat that much food during the day....we will see how it goes.