Sorry to freak everyone out with my lack of posting but I’ve been kinda busy. In addition to another promotion by default (always seems to happen to me and it’s never, ever good), I’ve been seriously busting my ass to lose weight now that I’m not traveling and can eat properly. Back on June 5th, I reported my weight as 269.5 and when I hit the scale this morning, I was pleasantly surprised to see 249.5 on the LCD before me. 20 pounds in a month. Not bad but I was shooting for 25 even though I expected to gain some serious leg muscle. My program is pretty simple:

1) 121 minutes of cycling @ 75% of capacity 6 days a week

6) Weigh myself every morning and record it in my cycling log spreadsheet

The only hard part above was the no fast food but it hasn’t been a problem since I’m only a half mile away from home. I can’t make the convenience argument anymore. But other than that, I don’t watch what I eat and eat when I’m hungry. This is really the first ever real attempt at losing weight in my life and it really wasn’t that hard after the first three days. I don’t think I would have lost even an ounce had I not been cycling this hard so I’m convinced weight loss by diet only is a farce.

One thing I’ve learned is to weigh yourself every day. Yes, every day. All the diet books I’ve ever seen say to avoid doing that because you might get discouraged. BS I say. Weighing myself made me think every day why I’m making this choice or that choice and why I have to go sit on the trainer for 2 hours and one minute. Some days I was annoyed but I knew the battle wasn’t for a day and if I gained half a pound or so, I would just lose it over time.

Unfortunately, 20 pounds isn’t much and the only place I’ve noticed it is in my thighs. I used to be able to easily “pinch and inch” but not anymore. My waist is the same size but my legs are thinner despite the extra muscle. But then again, I’m not doing this for appearance, I’m doing this to climb Evans faster. I’ve got exactly one year to drop another hundred before I’m ready.