Fat man in the Bathtub

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So how did your winter turn out? Title explains how my New Year has gone. A true recreational downhillers off season training schedule.

This is a confessional journal to the public to hopefully humiliate me into some form of cycling shape. So tomorrow begins Spring and I am using this day to begin my start of many things.

365 days ago I was an everyday bike commuter averaging 150 miles plus a week and close to 12hrs. Weighing in my fighting 205 lbs. which is pretty solid for me. I basically rode nothing but SS and even managed a century by this time last year on said SS. Even after tearing ligaments in my ankle in August at creek I still managed to get back out on the road within a week. I couldn't walk but I sure hell was able to spin them cranks.

Fast forward to the present I started a new job at the turn of the New Year which was different then what I have done for the past 30 years. Management vs Labor is whole lot different as you don't drop your hammer and get on with life. Management follows you every where and even goes to bed with you. No more body aches, just mental anguish. Its all good though I like new challenges and have started to find a groove on how to do this well.

My present stats are and they are Ugly, exactly 2 rides since 1/1/2014. I completely wore out a couch where we needed to purchase a new one. This one hurts, weighing in as of this am 234 lbs. Fuck this is as big as I ever was in my life. I had zero days on ski's x/c or alpine on one of the greatest snow winters of recent years. Depression distress or desire were all present but now it's time to shed the the 3 headed D's and move on.

Basically I will log my daily's as best as I can like eats, rides, kids, beers, and what life throws at me that day. I should do a calorie count for myself any good apps for that?
 
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Another wookie 🙁 It was a rough winter bro, once it warms up a bit I'm sure you'll get back out. Don't get a new couch or you may sit on it more. 😉
 
Suh-scribed.

It's a bummer about the lost city commute, you had quite a run going there.
Any goals mapped out for the year?
 
Hey, I ain't even mad.

I just learned today that I will have to balance cats on my head for a living. Hey man, shit could be worse. You could be ugly. And no amount of bike riding will help that. Indeed it was a rough winter but it's over. Time to get your shit together and make the magic happen. I gained some poundage over the winter but I'm knocking it back, 1 painful ounce at a time. You can do it too.

My piece of advice. Forget the calorie count for now. Make yourself a simple chart:

1. Number of drinks per week
2. Hours on the bike per week

#2 always has to be greater than #1. Make this a rule to start. Then work on the calorie counting later.
 
We had a bad winter?

You were missed in the Base contest this year as last year you were one of the few people to ride in all conditions. It would have been interesting to see if this winter broke you as it pretty much broke anyone who rode places where the scenery changes as you spin the cranks.

Hang in there, you will bounce back on the bike in a similar way you probably bounce when you hit the floor right now 😛
 
mattybfat said:
Basically I will log my daily's as best as I can like eats, rides, kids, beers, and what life throws at me that day. I should do a calorie count for myself any good apps for that?
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Manny, I've been reviewing the nutrition apps for my work as a personal trainer and health educator for Cigna Onsite Health. I've spent some time with four of the more popular apps, and although they ALL have flaws (can't figure out why someone doesn't just build ONE app with all of the best features...), I've settled on LoseIt! as the current best of the bunch. MyFitnessPal runs a close second, and if the developers ever update the app to allow analysis of individual meals as opposed to limiting it to the entire day, the gap will close further. There's a free version of both of these apps (perfectly adequate), with a "pay" versions that have more "bells and whistles."

I think you'll find that the longer you enter your dietary intake into the app, the easier it will get -- the programs remember past selections, so there's less need to search for items from the entire food database as you use it more. My biggest pet peeve with all of the apps I've looked at is the frequent inability to add foods by weight (especially gram weight), as this is the gold standard for indicating food intake amounts in the nutrition world. Adding foods by dry amount (e.g., "cups," "tablespoons," etc.) is much more inaccurate, but sometimes its your only choice with these apps.

"Dietary journaling" (of which the apps are just an automated version), can be a very powerful tool -- it's consistently used by those persons who report success at losing weight and keeping it off. I'm sure it would help you a lot in moving toward you weight loss goals.
 
When the time comes to use an app to count calories, I agree with FitmanNJ that LoseIt is the best of the bunch.
 
Whats an app? is this like an appetizer? I think it makes more sense to stay away from appetizers, they are usually high in fats.

I say losing weight is all about Feeling Good. Loose weight, feel good. Feel good, don't get fat.
See your future, be your future.
 
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We had a bad winter?
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No snow in south NJ = no snow anywhere in Nj.


For real thou we got SLAMMED with snow up north. There is still snow on the trails as of today. Never mind how F'd the roads are...that's a whole different

He is my bullshit shit last year/ this year

To date Last year.
40 rides 1,648 miles.

This year
17 rides 322 miles. I've added 3 rides and 30ish miles but still WTF
 
I wouldn't count any calories and etc...I never do. Just watch what you eat and bike more🙂
 
Hang in there man. I'm now clinically depressed due to finances, been on maybe 4 rides in 5 months and could still probably sh#tcan 90% of the cycling population:getsome: We're badass, cheer up and hope to see ya soon😀
 
you'll get there matty, i have faith.

agree with you on the winter...it was a killer and normally i would have been snowboarding and riding a lot but with all that was going on, it just didn't happen. oh well.
 
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