So yea, you may have noticed a distinct lack of postings by me around here lately. I could go on about how sorry I am, to you, my faithful readers… but ya know… well, let’s put it this way. I do miss writing, but at the same time I’ve just plain been enjoying life lately.
But like I said, I miss writing. I’ve been doing some videos for BTV, but nothing for YouTube and I sort of miss that as well. So, I’m going to make an effort to start writing and maybe even doing some videos again.
It’s not that I don’t have ideas for what I’d like to write, and it’s not like there isn’t more to talk about… it’s just a matter of doing it, right? And maybe the reason I haven’t is part of the whole story in and of itself.
I’m approaching 16 months post-op, and I’m within 10 pounds of my lowest maintained weight. I guess I consider a weight I stayed at within a couple pounds for at least three months as a “maintained” weight. I was in the low 190′s from about January through May or so, a 4+ month period. Then I bumped up, and have been at about 200, plus or minus a few pounds since then. I think most of that has been muscle, as my clothes still feel like they fit the same.
I’ve been biking. Quite a bit. I hit the 500 mile mark for the year last week, and will break 550 next time I’m on the bike… hopefully on Thursday. I discovered that at about 12-14mph pace, I burn about 750-800 calories an hour. My typical ride is anywhere from 90-120 minutes. That’s 1000-1500 calories burned. Wow.
I still make it to the gym here and there, but I would rather be out on my bike than in a gym.
I’ve been eating a lot of crap. Especially back in June and part of July. I’ve gotten better the last few weeks, but .. yea.. I’m still eating stuff I really don’t need… I shouldn’t want. Some examples.. donuts, candy, more donuts, chips with dip, cookies, cookie dough. And for awhile there I was also just eating a lot. Maybe it’s cause of the bike riding. I mean, there’s days where I go biking 30+ miles and I guess I’m burning nearly twice as many calories as I typically eat in a day (I think I average 12-1500 a day right now). So yea, that makes sense I guess.
Problem is, despite the crap I’ve been eating… I’ve had barely any problems. Yea, I’m up a few pounds… but that’s to be expected based on where I am anyways, and like I said, I think it’s mostly muscle.
But on the other hand, I’ve still done pretty good on avoiding some things. Ice cream… Well, I had one spoonful at my niece/nephew’s birthday Sunday… tho I did have cake – (win some, lose some?) but cake is something that you can’t just grab at the store and end up binging on, where as it’s very easy to grab a pint of Ben and Jerry’s and go nuts. So yea… I mean, I was given a plate with a piece of cake and a scoop of ice cream on it… at the cake … but was able to not eat the ice cream (plopped it on my sister’s plate instead). All I had of it was the melted stuff on the plate that I sopped up with the cake.
And Ok, yea, I bought a Snickers on Saturday. But… I cut that Snicker’s in to quarters. Ate one piece that day and put the rest in the freezer. Ate another piece last night. Here it is 3-4 days later and I still have half that Snickers sitting in the freezer. And we’re talking regular size bar, not even a king size.
I know I can make good decisions.
I just need to make more of them.
Correction. I need to continue to make more good decisions than I do bad ones.
I think I’ll leave it at that for now. I do have more to say… lots probably. I had my 25 year HS reunion this last weekend, for example. Let’s see if I can get my writing mojo back and share some thoughts on that with you some time before the holidays hit.
haha good post. would love to hear how the 25 year reunion went.
Good for you!
If you prefer gym, you should do it. Try to be positive, this will help you to enjoy your life journey.