Well. I went and bought a new Trek bike today. Much lighter than my mountain bike. Rode it a bit but my sit bones are screaming bloody murder. We'll see if I can keep up with her next weekend.
Excellent choice going with a lighter mountain bike. Keep it going. Your muscles, tendons, and ligaments will need time to strengthen again. She must be pretty happy with herself. Usually a happy wife and a happy life go hand-in-hand if you know what I mean.
Got this in red. Pretty. My house is on a mountain. Rode it up and down a bit. Feels like going from an F350 dually to my Focus. https://www.trekbikes.com/us/en_US/bikes/hybrid-bikes/fitness-bikes/fx/fx-3-disc/p/21572/
Wow! That is a nice candy apple red bike. And it only weighs a light 26.5 lb. That's much better than the bikes I had in the past.
You could have had this for less than $9,000.00 if you had acted sooner. https://www.sevencycles.com/bikes/road-disc-climbers-edition.php
TL;DR history - Always fat/overweight, got a rude awakening in 2012 after I hit 300 pounds. Lost 90 pounds in the next 6 months. Been up and down between 200-230 ever since. Hit 230 NYE and decided that enough was enough. I started the year doing a 4-day fast, never before fasting over 18 hours. My goal was to quickly get into ketosis and then stay in ketosis for the forseeable future. My goal was to decrease my body weight by at least 5% with a stretch goal of 10% in 22 days (I was leaving on vacation Jan 23rd). I didn't know what I would achieve but the math was there to support that at an extreme calorie deficit, I might be able to get there. This was also the first time doing keto, but I had been previously doing some IF, except now i wanted to take it to the extreme. Keto+OMAD (one meal a day)+a couple of water fasts at the beginning and the end. I hit my target of 213 almost on the button before my vacation. Came back last day of January and had now weighed 217. The following goal was to get to 200 by my bday (yesterday March 11th). I quickly dropped some of the vacation weight and eventually did hit my target as now I am at 199. My next two goals are 190 by tax day, and finally, for the probably the first time in my life, be under 'overweight' on the BMI scale which would mean around 178 by Memorial Day. Takeaways Fasting was relatively easy if I supplemented with enough salt and later on with magnesium/potassium Going OMAD was actually a pretty cool experience. I looked forward to dinner every night and combined with doing keto, I was planning EVERY meal with my wife. It helped that she was on board with trying keto My results didn't always coincide with the CICO math. The fasting part, especially at the beginning, lost me way more weight than I thought. And if you tell me that was water weight, that's fine, but i didn't really gain much weight back. So if you take the 4 fasting days + lets say two days of recovery, it still was less than calculated
Its the sugar and the carbs ... You can look like you're in good shape but on the inside be complete shit.
Not always. My dad almost died a few years back, took care of himself exercise, diet all that, found out he had a deformed heart that went undiagnosed for the first 48 years of his life. Guess my point is, I wouldn't just blame it on sugar or carbs, lots and lots of things in the human body that can go wrong.
My heaviest was 315 and I worked my ass off to get all the way down to ~ 185. Then, slowly added weight back on. For a few months I had to live 750 miles away from my fiancée (now wife) and put on weight like a mother fucker at that point, all depressed. Shot all the way up to 240 which I held firm at for 6 months. Then, in August I went KETO. The first 15lbs came off quickly but it’s been rough and very slow since then. I’m down to 206 now and weather is finally better so yesterday I went on my first bike ride in months. Next goal 199. Then 190, then 180. I’ll be thrilled to hold steady at 180.
Ordered my last bit of junk food tonight. Used up that remaining free coupon for Pizza Hut, and got a cookie (ordered a cookie, got a brownie....which is fine, since I paid less for the cookie, but got the more expensive brownie instead). Also got a 2-liter for the next couple of games. After that, that's it. No more soda (I plan to go a year without drinking one), and no more pizza (I might cut this out for a year as well). Also no more cookies either.....Safeway jumbo chocolate chunk cookies are my weakness.....gotta be strong here. My weight is really taking a toll on me, so I don't really have a choice: I gotta do this.
There are so many really good flavored soda waters nowadays, not just lime. I switched some time ago and I have easily a dozen different types of flavored soda waters in my garage. I'm drinking a blood orange one right now. My favorite is Black Cherry flavor by Waterloo.
Gonna look up Waterloo, thanks. I was a big fan for a long time of Cascade Ice, but I stopped drinking it a few years back. It just didn't do it for me anymore. Peach Mango and Orange Mango were my favorite flavors, though I did like others.
I was doing some research just now, and I found this list of "Healthy Sodas", which is really just a bunch of different waters and teas. https://www.eatthis.com/healthy-soda-alternatives/ Looks like some good choices on there. Definitely gonna check them out.
There are no Democrats who are socialist. The expression Democratic Socialist doesn't even make sense. I wonder who made this expression up.
