Looking to lose an extra human I apparently picked up along the way

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wow - nothing like something in black-& white to jog the memory eh?....

interesting on the 30lb. jump - ....sometimes just a small change in daily "food" can be a big difference- ...a friend of family who drives bus developed a liking for pumpkin-spice latte's last year in the fall - by Xmas he was up 15lbs.- ! decided to go back to plain coffee - ...

~ all that exercise -burn calculating sure looks complicated.... looks like some very accurate/exacting math... - I figure , as long as U sweat & lose weight - U R workin' hard Enuf ??

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It's also good to know that I wasn't just imagining being that heavy for that long. That first one will be six years ago in two weeks. I'm about 99% positive that I haven't been as light as that 338.8 since, until now of course.
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That's quite cool finding that old spreadsheet, and smashing it's weight a lot! :D Keep it up and you'll be at your 100lb lost milestone a lot sooner than march! (375-297, so 22 to go!?)

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297.5 this fine Saturday morning. 299.5 on the model.

Thinking about doing some more mountain hiking today. Investigated a different trailhead (same mountain for now) yesterday. It's grade was not as steep and for a while the trail just gradually eased up the side of the mountain. Lotsa bikes on that one, whereas the one I have been going to isn't really for bicyclists (unless they have a death wish, haven't seen one yet). To get a good exercise on this new one, I'd have to hike for longer as my HR won't get nearly as elevated. For a while it's only slightly more exertion than walking down the street. Very pretty though.

Decisions, decisions...
 
A mountain hike sound so nice ...U R so lucky .... it's pretty flat here on the great-white-north praries in northern Canada ... and ton's of that "white-stuff" outside here these days....
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Enjoy- whichever trail U pick - & beware the wildlife....
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Well the choice was made for me as the one I had been going to has more parking, and the other one was full up. I also decided to make this a long one today and decided I'd try and reach the peak. And:

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That's the view from the peak. The last part was a hell of a lot more like climbing than hiking and I learned that a cactus does not make a good hand hold as you're climbing. It seemed a little crazy dangerous to me actually, not sure I'll be doing it again. But then I don't have to now.

There was a chopper flying over the peak when I got back to my car. Maybe someone got word to the sheriff that a 300 pound guy with a cold was trying to make it to the top and he'd need to be airlifted off. How dare they underestimate me!

Anyway, passed by here on the short drive back so I had to take a picture:

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Nice work Mr. Vee and good scouting for your next trek too! This backwater that I live in is 3 hours from the nearest Trader Joes. I miss it.
 
That's quite the climb. Great job!!

Trader Joe's.... bow chicka wow wow lol! Just think of all the potential lady loves that are in there. ;)
 
The calorie burn calculator says that at 2 Hours, 2 Minutes and 37 seconds with an average heart rate of 134 beats per minute, the number of calories I burned was:

1894 calories. That seems like an awful lot, though since it was two hours I would have burned almost 300 watching someone else climb a mountain on TV. The MET thing says 1737, but then the last part was probably not what it had in mind when it says 'hiking.'

Anyway, got someone in from out of town tonight taking me out to dinner, so I think I'll be a little less strict with myself than usual. As for Trader Joe's, I'm in there all the time (good place to buy meats) so I'm familiar with the clientele, I just usually don't do a lot of trolling near the cases of Two Buck Chuck.
 
Well Quercus is being joined by someone in his quest for a new road bike, and that someone is me.

I been robbed. Someone must have thought I had so much success losing weight that I didn't need the bicycle anymore and took it from the rack in the enclosure outside my apartment (I'm assuming. The damned thing ain't there anymore).

The bike was 15 years old now and the bike shop said it didn't really have too many more miles left, so I can't really complain too much. It was worth about 60 bucks (I don't know how much that is in kilograms). Anyway, it's the principle of the thing. Some delinquent stole something from me less than 50 feet from where I sleep.

I have renter's insurance but I don't even know if it covers it, and the deductible is probably as such that it's not really worth it.
 
I doubt it's people. It's a really cheap old mountain bike, worth maybe 50 bucks for the parts. Dollars to dounts it's a kid maybe 17 or probably younger.

Funny thing is if the kid knocked on my door and gave me enough of a sob story, I probably would have given it to him.
 
That sucks! Keep an eye out it may show back up in the rack. I had one in college that someone stole and then ended up parking it back at my dorm weeks later and I slapped a lock on it.
 
I had a lock on it, didn't seem to be much of a deterrent I guess. Wasn't the best lock, but then it wasn't the best bicycle.
 
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That stinks. Well the new one will need a really good lock.
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The new one _will_ have a really good lock and will be kept in the apartment. Haven't a clue where, but I'll figure it out.

I may hold off briefly on the purchase as I don't like riding when it's a touch chilly like now.
 
Funny story before bed and then I'll stop spamming my own thread. For several months now since I joined here I've seen pushup challenges and things like that. And every month or so as I lost more weight, I'd invariably try and do one: lowering myself down to the ground just fine and then as the pushing back up part began I would strain for a few seconds and then collapse into the rug laughing. This was the case last time I tried just before Christmas. Getting any sort of lift 'up' was not happening. I must have tried this at least a half dozen times.

Anyway I just gave it another shot, and so I lowered myself as usual and then the pushing back up part started and then literally out loud I started saying "you got it! you have it!" and back up I went (with much effort). And that's 'one.'

And so for the first time in what has to be 10 years at least, I can do a pushup. I don't know if I can do two in a row, but 'one' is a big step up from 'none.' Now when I was 180 pounds, I wasn't exactly a pushup machine to begin with so I'll take the baby steps here. Ironically, at the end of this road, I may wind up in better shape at 42 than I ever was at 25 and I wasn't particularly heavy then.
 
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Congrats on the push up, 1 is an infinite increase from 0 so be sure to take time to celebrate. I remember going through a similar process with pull ups a couple years ago at the gym. In my case, getting that first real one done resulted in white-guy happy dance, followed by sheepish embarrassment, followed by who-cares happy dance
 
Great job on the pushup, MrVee! That is definitely something to be proud of. I certainly can't do one. lol.
 
Great job on the push-up....but Beeee Suurrr to pace yourself & don't plan on the next one too soon....
( just kidding - all those "changes"/improvements are amazing eh?)

sorry to hear about your bike - hopefully the kid realllly needed it ( ie. sold it to buy supper for him & his brother)..... so sad that some kids/folks have lives where stealing is the only option they know..... good idea/plan for new-one in your apt. - yrs ago when I was in a high-rise- kept mine right in the entry-way , was fun riding up & down in the elevator with it ( makes for good elevator conversation)....
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I'm sorry to hear about your bike. Being Dutch, I know quite well how you feel. (It's not uncommon here to spend more on bike locks than the bike is worth.)

I can so relate to that pushup. I've been trying to do pushups too, and it's been hard as hell, I can't even go too deep yet. Still, I'm slowly getting there, and if you can do it, so can I, right?
 
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