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Bush Tucker Man:

--- Quote from: "Bigbluemaverick" ---Why can't being thin and healthy be as easy and tasty as being fat?
--- End quote ---


My weight's been a bit 'up & down' over the past few years.
Height?; I'm about 5' 9"



Between about 1990 & 1997
I was riding to work (& back :roll: ) every day, that was (the northern edge of) Wakefield to Leeds city-centre.
Plus, racing, training, 'touring' on weekends. Some weekends would see me do 80 - 100miles on Sunday (or a 2 hour race)
I hovered somewhere just over the 10stone mark.

2000/2001?
Then I left the job in Leeds & came to where I am now.
I started driving in all the time :roll:
So, between laying the bikes up & starting again, I'd got up to almost 121/2stone :shock:  :shock:

So, I thought if Lance Armstrong can ride the Tour de France & win it after all he's been through (as could Greg LeMond after being shot), I could lose a bit of weight

I totally cut out all sweet-stuff, fried-food, cut down on bread, etc... and hammered myself on the bike most evenings & weekends (again)

SWMBO didn't really like it though, as people kept coming up to her & asking if I was ill
"Has he got Cancer?", this was as I lost 3 stone in under 3 months!!!

At 9stones, I thought I was 'on the limit', hill-climbing was no problem whatsoever though :lol:  

Sadly, due to 'Small-Child' it got put away again & the weight came back (still eating fairly sensibly)


Easter 2007
I started again, renewed my club & BCF* membership.

The bikes came out, and I've built up to at the most (so far...) a 70mile round-trip, including a climb of HolmeMoss



I did start running with SWMBO, but as she's stopped at the moment I haven't been going :oops:

The usual ride out is a rolling (flats, up & downs) 30miles,which including tea-stop gets me out & back in 1 3/4 hours

At the moment, I'm hovering on the 10stone mark!, which is okay, but I still need to work on it.
Although, at the moment I'm not as strict with myself on the food front as I ought to be :oops:


My aim at the moment is to get 'Race-Fit' for September, as I'm doing a cyclo-cross (plus one in a Leeds park on my birthday a few weeks later)



* BCF membership gets me Third Party Insurance in case I run into anyone whilst on the bike.
The pros & cons of this deserve another thread, not here :wink:

Lord Shagg-Pyle:
I too need to get the bike out. I am now the heaviest I have been in my life, all thanks to some wonderful pills the quack gave me to slow my heart rate down! They also slowed down my metabolism, which is real fine and dandy! Then the doc goes on at me about putting on weight! The cheeky sod! :evil:

lambert:
Thing is i'm begining to think that if i weighed under 20 stone it may improve my mpg a bit what with petrol being so un cheap.

hairyasswelder:

--- Quote from: "Bigbluemaverick" ---Thing is i'm begining to think that if i weighed under 20 stone it may improve my mpg a bit what with petrol being so un cheap.
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LPG it  :lol:  :lol:

bit off subject but... Is a fronty engine the same/ similar to the Omega 2.0L??

TDi90:
im thin, weigh 11 stone. run every morning for 25 mins (usually before 8am) play (cirtainly at school i did) 10-12 hours of sport a week, and am going to university in southampton to study sport, and already know my sport time will go up when i start my course.

on the other hand most mornings i eat a cooked breakfast, and eat large amounts of food at meal times but NEVER, EVER under any circumstances will i eat between a meal however hungry i am.

im very against dieting, i think that people who want to loose weight should NOT diet, just excercise more often!

R

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