People who did change their bodies say six months is a bare minimum to see real change.
Schuyler Antane, 43, a research scientist, is one. He began in January 2006 with a diet, which meant, he said, “letting go of the foods that taste good, but are wicked evil. And no more beer.”
In three months, he had lost 10 pounds and was down to 190 pounds on his 5-foot-8-inch frame. Then he read a magazine article on 5-kilometer races and decided to try to run. He could run for only five minutes when he started, and it took two months to train for his first race. But he kept at it and improved. Within six months, he weighed about 150 pounds. Then he added bicycling and swimming, becoming a triathlete. That, he said, got him to his fighting weight of 140 to 145 pounds.
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Competitive running is how I lost most of the bodyfat I was carrying around. In 2006 I started running for fun, and early in 2007 I started taking my roommate with me. We would run a 3 mile loop, and try to better our times each week. By the end of the Summer of 2007, we were up to a 7 mile loop around Prospect Park in Brooklyn, and were hitting our stride right towards the middle. I decided it was time to think about a 10k. So I signed up for a “fun run” with the Brooklyn Runners Club. I didn’t finish in the top 50, but I was in the top half. And that was after running for only a year or so. This year, I’m running the Cancer Society Half-Marathon. I’ll be posting more about it in the coming weeks. Running competitively give you a goal, and gives you something to train for. Plus it gets you ready for that day when the dollar collapses and it’s a footrace to the bank to withdraw your life savings, now worth approximately 2 cans of beans.
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