The time has come… Justin and I are now on the QT2 nutritional plan. We’ve heard great things about QT2 so we were excited to start working with them.
Before our meeting with Rachel R., the registered nutritionist we’re working with, we made sure to eat the foods we knew would not be making an appearance in our plans throughout this past weekend: bacon, egg and cheese, stromboli, mexican food, brownies…yummm!
Last night, we sat down with Rachel and reviewed our nutrition plan, learned about all things nutrition, and discussed our goals for this coming season. After some playful teasing of my love for Teddy Grahams and Justin’s hyper reaction to Guayakí Yerba Mate tea, it was time to get our body fat tested. The results are in:
Justin: current body fat percent is 7.8%, goal to hit 7% and 160 lbs on race day.
Liz: current body fat percent is 16%, goal to hit 15% and 116 lbs on race day.
We’re still trying to understand the numbers, especially our goals, as they don’t differ too much from where we are right now. We both feel like our goal body fat percent should be lower, way lower. There is A LOT to learn with the nutrition plan but with time, we'll start understanding it all. At least we now know what we’ve been doing wrong and have a plan to correct it. In a nut shell, the plan is designed to help better prepare and fuel us for workouts, recover from those workouts faster, and become leaner which, in turn, should result in more efficient training and racing.
More to come on the nutrition plan… too much to include in one post!
4 comments:
Hmm, interesting. I seem to remember at a health expo thing at Greenwich that a body fat percentage 6% or less was considered very unhealthy and anorexic... so I'm surprised with the 7% goal. Maybe (hopefully) the people who told me that were wrong... I'm curious now what the numbers really mean... and what's good and bad!
Holy smokes Lizzy... your goal weight is my weight! How tall are you?!? Maybe I need to shed some pounds!!!!!! :)
Good luck with the nutritional plan!
Hey Courtney-
You're right...they usully say anything less than 6% is unhealthy for most people. Your immune system is weakened and your body starts breaking down muscle- it seems like most pro triathletes stay right around 6%. I guess I'm not too surprised by a goal of 7%, I just thought I'd have to lose a little weight (which they say not too until right before race day).
Liz & Justin - I would think from the way you two look that your goal weight means you have to ADD SOME POUNDS!Good grief.
HA - Justin was waiting for you to respond to this post! He was actually surprised last night that you hadn't yet!! :)
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