RunningPirate

Hi Folks - Apologies, but I thought I'd post this a little early as I'll be traveling early early early tomorrow am and won't have time to post before I go.

Please join us as we all work toward our goals to be healthier and fitter!

How Does this Work?

On Mondays:
Post your starting weight for the week, post goals for the week, and report on the prior week.

Throughout week come on back and let us know how you are doing. (The good, not so good and the awesome.)


2011 Participants - Welcome newbies!!!

Adenthang
B.Alive
bbeasley
biggieou
BigPolishJimmie
BigUgly
CraigB
cyclokitty
davin1023
DoubleTap
dehoff
gigemags1155
gus69
gwpowers
InsanityBeckons
jeneralist
Jethro56
John423
kansastdi
morph3715
mrdelprete
mthayer
OiS
Passage4
petflunky
ReallyBigGuy
robtown
RichardGlover
Rthomse
RunningPirate
Sayre Kulp
Seenowevil
Seve
showme230
SingleSpeedDemon
Suprafly
thestoutdog
Tony N.
Wogsterca
wxduff
Wylde0
zjrog

RunningPirate

Again - a little early due to business travel early tomorrow am...

11/29 = 236.0 lbs
12/06 = 229.5 lbs
12/13 = 229.0 lbs
12/20 = 228.5 lbs
12/27 = 232.0 lbs
01/03 = 228.5 lbs Mileage = 119.7
01/10 = 232.0 lbs Mileage = 58.63
01/17 = 226.5 lbs Mileage = 89.37
01/23 = 224.0 lbs Mileage = 57.96
01/31 = 224.0 lbs Mileage = 75.82
02/07 = 226.0 lbs Mileage = 69.31
02/14 = 224.5 lbs Mileage = 71.23, YTD Mileage = 542.02
02/21 = 223.5 lbs Mileage = 108.36, YTD Mileage = 650.38
02/28 = 220.0 lbs Mileage = 17.09, YTD Mileage = 667.47
03/07 = 217.5 lbs Mileage = 176.24, YTD Mileage = 843.71
03/14 = 218.5 lbs Mileage = 91.25, YTD Mileage = 934.96
03/21 = 215.0 lbs Mileage = 114.24, YTD Mileage = 1049.2
03/27 = 214.0 lbs Mileage = 0, YTC Mileage = 1049.2

Probably should have had at least one more pound gone, but those of you might remember the Red Flag Foods post and that I'd completely lost my mind with peanut butter this week (it's finally gone from the house); also had sushi last night - in and of itself not so bad, but the soy sauce leads to a bit of water retention.

Will be in The South all week, so this will be the first week all year that I will not be able to get on a bike. Sort of a bummer, but that's life, no? The good news is that it won't throw my annual mileage goal off at all.

CraigB

It's not too early for me, since my weigh-in is always first thing Saturday morning...

All-time high: 304.5 in May, 2004

01/01 - 210.5
01/08 - 209.5
01/15 - 210.5
01/22 - 208.5
01/29 - 211.0
02/05 - 212.5
02/12 - 208.5
02/19 - 199.0
02/26 - 201.5
03/05 - did not weigh
03/12 - 203.0
03/19 - 200.5
03/26 - 198.5

Woohoo!! Now I just need to keep focused.

jeneralist 

Max was 255 back in the summer of 2009.

1/04/2011: 194.8
1/10/2011: 195.6
1/18/2011: 195.0
1/24/2011: 191.8
2/01/2011: 191.4
2/07/2011: 189.4
2/15/2011: 194.2
2/24/2011: 191.2
3/02/2011: 191.4
3/07/2011: 188.2
3/15/2011: 189.8
3/23/2011: 190.2
3/28/2011: 184.0

No, it's no new training secret that let me shed 6 pounds in less than a week. Yesterday morning I got the dread Tummy Bug. I don't expect to have my weight this low next week....

mrdelprete

Only 17 lbs in three months, but hey, it is still going the right direction and if it continues I will hit my goal by Christmas, haha

12/27 245
1/3 244
1/10 243
1/17 241
1/24 240
1/31 239
2/7 238
2/14 237
2/21 238
2/28 236
3/7 234
3/14 233
3/21 230
3/28 228

BigUgly

1/1/2011 - 250
1/6/2011 - 246
1/17/2011 - 250
1/24/2011 - 247
1/31/2011 - 244
2/07/2011 - 243
2/14/2011 - 240
2/21/2011 - 239
2/28/2011 - 236
3/07/2011 - 238
3/14/2011 - 233
3/21/2011 - 233
3/28/2011 - 231

gwpowers

07/01/2009 = 345 lbs!
03/06 = 273.4 lbs
03/13 = 272.4 lbs
03/20 = 267.0 lbs
03/27 = 264.6 lbs

Another solid week, 264 landed me at 81 pounds total loss!

Awesome job Craig, Congrats!!

CraigB

Thanks. It definitely feels better to have done it under my own power, rather than at the whim of the flu bug, which is what happened a few weeks ago.

Looks like you had a pretty awesome week yourself!

Tony N.

01/217.4
02/214.6
03/214.6
04/211.2
05/210.4
06/207.4
07/207.4
08/200.6
09/203.4
10/199.4
11/xxx.x Out of town on vacation
12/201.6 3-28-11
Wow am I pleased with this. I been on vacation and what I do best on vacation is eat and eat and eat. We cooked out and dined out very often and what I love best while camping out is eating a bigggg breakfast and then take a long nap. My worst thing I do is when I get the urge to work out or go for a hard training ride, I lay down and wait till it passes. :-0 I did ride a bunch as we were in Charleston, SC but I only took our street bikes as riding around Charleston is done at a site seeing pace and always with my beautiful bride. See why I'm so excited about my weigh in this morning? Will double my efforts this week to try to break out of the 200's. Another thing is my waist is down to a feels good 36 from a veryyyy tight 38. that is what I'm most proud of. Loosing my very aero gut. And in case I have not already mentioned, and how could I forget to tell you, when I went for my annual physical, the doc took me off the last of my prescription meds. WooHoo!!!!!!!!!!!! That included metoprolol, norvasc, lipitor, lexapro, and niacin. Also am no longer seeing a therapist who I have been seeing for 5 years for anxiety and mild depression. Most of this I credit to my biking but a great deal has to do with my retirement from a high pressure political job that I had for 32 years. If I had known I would be this good at it, I would have retired a long time ago.:-)
Sorry for so long, but thanks for listening.
Tony

Sayre Kulp 

With my heaviest weight being somewhere north of 435 lbs. back in the late summer of 2009, I've been working my way down since October of 2009.

1/3 = 280.0
1/10 = 273.4
1/17 = 272.2
1/24 = 271.8
1/31 = 269.6
2/7 = 265.4
2/14 = 271.8
2/21 = 272.0
2/28 = 271.8
3/7 = 262.6
3/14 = 267.0
3/21 = 265.4
3/28 = 263.8

I’m heading the right way. It seems like right now my body likes being this weight. It’s not a big deal, because every day I’m a leaner, meaner bulky bullet and being fit is more important than being skinny to me.

jethro56 

Lots of really good progress this week Congrats to all. Now if winter would finally give way we could explode into real biking. 3 days of real biking last week has killed my desire for the trainer

zjrog

10 years ago when I retired from the Navy I weighed in at 230 pounds or so. Within 2 years of that, I maxxed at better than 315. I got down to 265 on the Atkin's Diet. But that doesn't help maintain.

11/11/2010, 303 lbs.
02/14/2011, 285 lbs.
02/21/2011, 283.5 lbs.
Skipped the 28th
03/07/2011, 283.5 lbs.
03/14/2011, 283 lbs.
03/21/2011, 282 lbs.

Lost confidence in my home scale. Scale at the gym weighs anywhere from 2-5 pounds over my home scale. So, will go with that scale.

03/26/2011, 285.6 lbs.

gwpowers

I know the feeling, I had the flu a month or so ago and dropped 12 pounds in 2 days! Put most of it back on but on the bright side it helped clear the body of all the crap! lol

You definitely won't see me complaining about this week, I'm pretty happy with it. I'm like you on the weigh ins, I weigh in on Sunday morning because that's my off day and I like to eat my junk food Sundays. Although, when I woke up this morning I still weighed in at 264.6! I didn't go crazy yesterday but I snacked on a few cookies and went out to Sonic for a hot dog, tots and some ched r bites. So to wake up this morning and see that I hadn't gained anything left me pretty excited for this week. I guess all this biking is starting to pay off and helping digest my food faster and more effective!

PVDRIDER

This is my first Monday with you guys...

March 28th 2011 - 304lbs

Im back in the saddle and riding every day I can... Im just hoping the weight will come off... Im eating soo healthy and drinking sooo much water... lets see what happens next Monday...

-Jessica
(Go Red Sox)

seenoweevil

1/1/2011: 263.5
1/10/2011: 261.5
1/17/2011: 261
1/24/2011: 261
1/31/2011: 260
2/7/2011: 259
Big hole here!
3/28/2011: 248

Finally heading in the right direction! I'm feeling better already too. Lots of inspiration on this thread!

cyclokitty 

Last week 270 lbs
This week 270 lbs

Boo. I thought I felt 2 lbs fall off this week but it looks like I was wrong.

Rock31

Last week: 354
This week: 352

Last week was my first time on a bike in 13+ years, managed to ride about 14 miles
Not a lot by a long shot but a good start!

biggieou

1/31= 327
2/2= 322
2/6= 314.5
2/13=308
2/20=302.5
2/27=304
3/6= 293.5
3/13=294
3/21=288
3/28=287

Ugggh, only 1lbs, but at least its in the right direction. The weekends keep killing me. I get bored just sitting around the house(weather has sucked) and then I go eat too much! Hopefully the weather will break sometime soon and I can get outside to do more activities on my free time.

Seve

01/05/2011 - 196 lbs.
01/12/2011 - 194 lbs.
01/19/2011 - 193 lbs.
01/24/2011 - 190 lbs.
01/31/2011 - 189 lbs.
02/07/2011 - 188 lbs.
02/16/2011 - 189 lbs.
02/21/2011 - 186 lbs.
02/28/2011 - 186 lbs.
03/08/2011 - 185 lbs.
03/14/2011 - 185 lbs.
03/21/2011 - 186 lbs.
03/28/2011 - 184 lbs.

I seemed to have hit a plateau of sorts and the good news is that I am pretty much maintaining things right around my goal weight.

Seve

Congrats on cracking 200

InsanityBeckons

CraigB

Great work, Tony! All my doctor has been willing to do with my meds is remove the mild diuretic last fall. That still leaves me with a small dosage of diovan for hypertension and simvastatin for cholesterol. When I'm done I think he might reconsider the diovan, but I know he's hesitant to drop the statin, as he believes they can have other cardiovascular benefits besides cholesterol reduction, and heart disease runs in the family (as do diabetes and cancer, to a lesser extent).

CraigB

Thanks, Seve.

jethro56 

We must have the same doctor.

robtown

1/10 - 230.7
1/17 - 225.8
1/24 - 223.6
1/31 - 221.2
2/07 - 220.4
2/14 - 219.0
2/21 - 216.6
2/28 - 212.4
3/07 - 216.4 wrong way
3/14 - 215.3
3/21 - 214.3
3/28 - 213.0

I had my annual physical last week and my doctor was pleased with my weight loss. Last year I was apparently 245 lbs.