Older, Wiser, but still fat...

Grr.

Okay so when I ran ot of the house yesterday afternoon, I left my motorcycle parked at the top of the driveway, not in it's usual spot next to the driveway. Why? Because I couldn't breathe enough to roll it out of the way, and I didn't feel like I was breathing well enough to ride it to work. I took my car and left the bike in my wife's spot. No biggie. Called her and told her to just park behind it.

My daughter took the liberty of deciding to move it for me.... Yeah. That's what I said WTF?

She insisted to my wife that it was not a problem it went just fine. Of course, When I got home at 6;00 am today, I woke her ass out of bed and asked her how she managed to pick it back up. It's a 600lb bike. She knew she was caught in a lie.

Yup, chrome side cover with a dent, scratches on the tank, and a mirror that I had to move back into place. Gee... How could I tell it had been dropped?

You know? I gave up on my cars years ago when the older one got her license. That was when I knew they would have trash in them, dings, scratches, dents. All the stuff that comes with teenage drivers. The bike is mine though. I wash and polish the damn thing weekly. Hey I can't afford nice sports cars and rich people toys. I have kids in college. Leave my damn Honda alone!!!:banghead:

Sigh...

Okay end rant. Just irked. Especially about the lying part when she spoke to my wife.

Speaking of wives. The poor girl is working a hell week as rough as mine this week. She has already pulled a couple of 12-13 hour days this week. We have not seen each other since sunday night. She is totally stressed out at work. Soooo....

I sent her a dozen roses this morning at her office. Yup, I'm a good hubby.
 
Karl, oh dear sounds like a bit of a moment, lets hope some lessons learned here. Try relax.

Your week sounds a bit like mine, chaos in the air, don't you just love it.

Onwards and upwards we can rise above and get over most things in life.
 
So sorry to hear of the asthma attack - and the bike getting damaged...

It sounds like you have been having a tough time there.

I hope that the trip away lives up to expectations - I am sure that you will enjoy the break.

Have fun.
 
Was it necessary for her to move the bike or just extra convenient for her in some way? Either way I doubt she'll try it again now, or at least I hope she won't.
 
GRRRRR

(stop that growling!!!)

sorry bout the bike..i would be upset too...one time my dtr took my brand new pair of jeans (expensive ones) and decided she would "modify" them because they were bootleg and she wanted them to be bellbottom...she cut 2 inch slits up each seam so they would fit right over shoes....i know its not the same as your bike and doesnt compare but i get how you feel....

sweet that u sent the woman roses.....so thoughtful

okay i am outtie...

hugz and shiz
 
The weekend was fantastic, fattening, but fantastic. I will post later tonight if I have a few minutes, and hopefully make some rounds...
 
Hey sweetie. Thanks for stopping by. I'm finally back on my bicycle and loving it. Kristi's back. It will be nice to have you guys to give me motivation. Well, I hope all is well. Keep in touch.
 
DOMS, uggh.

Basically a 2 part thing. Ive been ignoring lower body ST because of the cycling. Probably not a good thing. Strength training doesn't have to mean power lifting... So, I'm going to try and go back to incorporating lower body ST back into my weekly routine. Probably quad dominant one day and glute/hamstring dominant on another day. Should be able to feed them into my schedule easily enough. Started with quad dominant on Tuesday. My thighs are currently letting me know that they are not amused...

The other factor was pretty much me taking a few days off of lifting because of my crazy schedule and long weekend. So my upper body is a little sore too. Basically I cycled up until the weekend, but didn't lift for a whole week from Tuesday to Tuesday.

I needed the break too, and my long weekend was terrific, but I'm back on the wagon now.

Gremlins are kicking my ass though. One of my nicer back wheels (road bike), keeps getting flats. Final discovered a spot on the inside of the rim that was sharp from machining and the rim strip had worn away from it. That one should now be all set. Meantime the spare set of wheels was on the bike. Broke a spoke on the back wheel while riding Tuesday. This set is 7 years old though and has a lot of mileage. When I looked at it I realized the spoke nipples were getting corroded and I'm likely to have more failures. I may have to rebuild the wheel, or ante up the coin for a new set (ouch).


Mountain bike back rim was taco'ed from earlier in the season. Cheap set of wheels anyway. Bought a new wheel last week. Went out today, learned something new. Apparently when you buy a spankin' new wheel, it should be tensioned before you go riding on it. 16 miles later it was wobbling back and forth and a hald dozen spokes were so loose I'm actually surprised they stayed attached. I will be trying to true up and tension that wheel tonight if I have time.
 
Sad to say that I barely understood a word you said with regards to the bike.

But it sounds like you know what you are doing! LOL
 
You must ride your bike hard. I lucked out this summer and didn't have any wheel problems, but, I also didn't do much riding. Last summer it felt like one thing after went wrong with it.
 
changes said:
Sad to say that I barely understood a word you said with regards to the bike.

But it sounds like you know what you are doing! LOL
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Yeah, There are occasionally cycle types who stop in and might know what I'm talking about, but most probably have no idea! :D I do most of my own mechanical work. I actually built a couple of my bikes up from the bare frame.
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You must ride your bike hard. I lucked out this summer and didn't have any wheel problems, but, I also didn't do much riding. Last summer it felt like one thing after went wrong with it.
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I'm 6' 8" and over 300 lbs, that by itself is hard riding on a bike...

I'm doing between 100 and 130 miles a week on the bike. I need to keep up the maintenance because I use them all the time.
 
ok i have to ask a stupid question. I honeslty thought being substantially overweight I couldn't ride a bike for fear of popping the tires.

Seriously.

Can I?
 
Finally decided to break the cycle (no, not the one up above, although my luck ran very similar today while cycling), of not tracking calories. I fell off the wagon a while ago on tracking. M<y choices have been good overall, but the tracking has left something to be desired.

Anyway, have my numbers in for today and it is okay for me. 3300 calories, 143g protein, 115g fat, 382g carbs. The carbs are primarily from whole grain products and natural sugars, so if I were paying attention to G/I, I was okay today.

Exercise today consisted of 2 hours of mountain biking, between 25 and 26 miles. Took a break from lifting today.

Riding along on a bike path for one segment, and suddenly my left foot comes off the crank. Actually, that is wrong I find out as I look. My left cycling shoe is still attached to the pedal, which is still attached to the crank arm, which is NOT attached to the bike anymore...

Coast to a stop while clicking my right shoe out of the pedal all the while trying to do this as gracefully as possible with bicycle parts hanging off of my left foot.:smilielol5:

Woman is walking bicycles the other way with her 2 small sons, one of which exclaims, "look, that man lost his pedal too!". Apparently he had the same problem.

I had no tools with me, and the bolt is missing from the crank anyway. I'm about to call my daughter after making a comment to the woman and kids about missing parts and such. Her four year old boy comes running up to me and says, "mister, is this what your looking for?", while holding out my crank bolt!

Needless to say I thanked him profusedly. I then hand tightened my crank, and rode carefully the 2 miles to the near end of the trail, where a brand new bike shop had just opened. Borrowed a wrench, and back out on the trails I went!
 
Karl

That post made me smile so much, kids are great just there when you need them most. You also give me some kind of energy surge. Good luck with the non tracking, see how it all goes. You are certainly doing the calorie burning that is for sure.
 
Hi folks, thanks for coming in! :grouphug: I need it right now. Forgive me folks, but I must vent...

I feel like an addict. Actually that is probably right on the money really.

I am trying to make a solid change in my habits, and they are fighting back right now. I need this forum for a bit and could really use the help.

Starting over the weekend, I decided to get serious on a couple of fronts. Main thing is I'm truly trying to steer away from junk food. By my frame of reference I'm talking about a few things. I used to do donuts and pastries and such. I dropped them a while ago, but was still eating things like granola bars. Better sure, but, the fact of the matter is, I don't track as well as I should, so 1 bar becomes 5 and the next thing you know I've eaten 900 calories worth of granola bars in a day...

So I'm trying to drop the junk. I'm keeping veggies and stuff around. Some apples, etc.

But it isn't the same. I want to sit down and polish off a damn cake right now. I seriously feel like I did when I quit smoking. And just like when I quit smoking, I feel like if I slip and start eating "just one" bad snack, I'm going to be standing at the vending machine emptying my wallet on pop tarts or something equally useless.

I'm sick of it. I'm sick of cycling over 100 miles a week then watching my calories, and then maybe, just maybe if I'm really good on the weekend and don't go to a barbecue, or a restaurant, I might lose a measely fucking pound. I'm sick of dedicating 8 -10 hours a week to some form of exercise, and that doesn't even include the commute time to and from gyms or anything else, and feeling like I'm barely moving forward.

Gaining weight is easy. I can put on 5-10 lbs in a weekend. I kid you not. I have gained 11 lbs in a single week once, and it was no water gain either. It took me months to lose it. :cuss: Probably didn't help that I went into a downward spiral attitude wise when it happened though.

I just wish I could get a fucking break. I wish I wasn't a before, or even a between. I wanna be an after. But dammit, even when I'm an after, I know I'm going to have to keep fighting, keep pushing, keep watching. I'm never, ever going to be able to sit down, eat something like a piece of cheesecake and NOT think about what it will do to me, and where I have to make up for it. :rant:

Anyway, The reality is that goal wise, I actually feel like I'm making some progress right now. But I've just had these cravings tonight and rather than being stupid about them I figured I'd come in here and rant.
 
Rant away, sweetie. Believe me, I know you know that you're not the only one who has these feelings. I'm the same way. It's so easy to put on the weight and a pain in the ass to take it off. Your almost half way there and you've made it this far. You'll get there eventually. You and I are in the same boat. We will be fine. I you shouldn't beat yourself up for having a piece of cheesecake every now and then. You should be able to indulge every so often. The fact that you acknowledge these things is great. It makes you aware. You keep cycling and keep doing what you're doing. You will make it. We will make it. I'm here for you buddy. Take care. Muah!
 
Well, hey, that's what we're here for, to be ranted at. :)

You sound like I do every time I eat poorly, and I eat poorly fairly often.

Junk food is the eternal enemy. There's a degree to which, like for recovering alcoholics, that many of us will always have to watch ourselves around the junk food.

It is insidious and can creep in to our diet so easily. And there is that possibility that one doughnut will lead to another, and another, etc. I am fairly lucky, I think, in that I have been able to incorporate a limited amount of treat foods into my diet and still do okay. I understand, though, that not everyone can do that as easily.

I know how dedicated you are to the process. You can see just how hard you work out - you work out like a demon. I'm sure that you can apply the same kind of determination and energy to your diet, which is the area that seems to be causing you some trouble right now.

You say you aren't tracking as well as you should/could. Maybe this is a good time to work harder on that aspect. Take a little while to carefully track your food intake, and see where things can be changed for best effect.
I have a feeling that you'll be surprised at just how many calories you are taking in right now.

You'll get to your after stage - but ya gotta go through the between/during first. If the magic weight-loss fairy just waved her wand and "poof" you were thin, that wouldn't help because you wouldn't be any different inside, and you wouldn't have earned the supercharged body you are building now. You'll get there, the hard way, and it will all be worthwhile.
 
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