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12-24-20, 06:37 PM
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There's a reason mortality in childhood, especially infant mortality, used to be a lot higher. My Mom had 3 siblings, but ended up with only one who lived past 3 years old.
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12-24-20, 06:39 PM
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12-24-20, 06:39 PM
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Height and weight (BMI, essentially) doesn't mean much for individuals - composition can vary quite a bit. Someone at your weight and height could be skinny fat with little definition or look they could have a physique that shows every rippling strand of muscle.
12-24-20, 06:40 PM
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Ok so I've discovered it is set for level 3. Not erg mode.
12-24-20, 06:42 PM
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Just make a point of not back-sliding too much each winter and you can push the weight loss further each riding season. I'm just under 6' with a broad-ish frame, and used to yo-yo between ~225 in the offseason and ~200 during the riding season. At that point, I would have thought that I would have been too thin at 185, too. A few years ago, though, I stayed under 205 over the winter and it was a stepping stone to hitting 190 later in the year. At that point I knew that I could still easily lose another 10lbs. Having spent a good portion of this year at ~180, I know that I could get to 170, but it'd be tough sledding beyond that.
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12-24-20, 06:43 PM
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For Festive 500 I think I'm gonna just ride 40-ish miles every day instead of doing big/medium/little days.
I did approx Dannihilator mileage today - 42.72 miles. That was not bad at all, and I don't think I'm going to be in the mood for a metric tomorrow. Four whole flybys (I cruised a lot of MUP). I reached down for phantom downtube shifters only once (first time on brifters in a few months)
Anyways... spreadsheet update:
I did approx Dannihilator mileage today - 42.72 miles. That was not bad at all, and I don't think I'm going to be in the mood for a metric tomorrow. Four whole flybys (I cruised a lot of MUP). I reached down for phantom downtube shifters only once (first time on brifters in a few months)
Anyways... spreadsheet update:
12-24-20, 06:43 PM
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What do you guys use setting wise?
12-24-20, 06:44 PM
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Correct. BMI is not intended to apply to individuals. At least it’s not supposed to.
12-24-20, 06:47 PM
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True. Whenever my wife insists I’m too thin, I tell her my BMI is normal. I have more rippling veins and tendons than muscle.
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12-24-20, 06:50 PM
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From reading the last several pages about height and weight it appears it's all about weight ratios.
12-24-20, 06:50 PM
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12-24-20, 06:52 PM
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I haven't even looked into that, since I was already Zwifting before I bought it. But it looks like Level 3 means 200 watts to go 15 mph, which seems like a lot. This page suggests it should be more like 100.
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12-24-20, 06:55 PM
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I had the mumps and chicken pox as a yute. I took a prescribed medication (Izonizid?) from the state Dept of health as a teen when I failed/passed a mantoux(Sp.?) test for TB screening.
FEAR NOT! I'm still awesome.
I looked it up. I was close it is isoniazid.
FEAR NOT! I'm still awesome.
I looked it up. I was close it is isoniazid.
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12-24-20, 06:55 PM
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It has the advantage of being really easy to calculate, whereas metrics that are actually useful require more sophisticated equipment than a bathroom scale and a yardstick. It's about as useful as women's clothing sizes, where a single unitless number is supposed to apply to all the different shapes women come in.
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12-24-20, 06:56 PM
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12-24-20, 06:57 PM
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5 or 6 years ago I went on a Broccoli diet. Gave up beer and soda. I drank ice tea and water. 4 days a week I would eat Broccoli . Coliflower sometimes. But that was it, nothing else. Worked like a charm. I throw in chicken breast now and then.
So right now I eat lunch @ work. But veggies for dinner. Coffee for breakfast. Ill give this a couple weeks and see what the loss rate is. Hopefully I won't have to get any more serious than that. I'm not looking for miracles, just steady loss. If spring finds me @210 or so that would be just fine.
So right now I eat lunch @ work. But veggies for dinner. Coffee for breakfast. Ill give this a couple weeks and see what the loss rate is. Hopefully I won't have to get any more serious than that. I'm not looking for miracles, just steady loss. If spring finds me @210 or so that would be just fine.
12-24-20, 06:57 PM
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That's just the way it came together. Instead of first figuring out the Imperial equivalent of 500km, I just did a conversion equation for the km column, then started typing in daily mileages in the miles column 'til I got to 500km. That's why the miles are even numbers, but the kms aren't.
12-24-20, 06:57 PM
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12-24-20, 06:58 PM
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12-24-20, 07:00 PM
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Guess I should check against Strava's records...
68 km / 500 km
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Oh dear, looks like I need to add an Actual kilometres column...
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3h 32m - Elevation Gain
541 ft - Elapsed Time
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68 km / 500 km
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Oh dear, looks like I need to add an Actual kilometres column...
12-24-20, 07:01 PM
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12-24-20, 07:03 PM
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12-24-20, 07:03 PM
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That's just the way it came together. Instead of first figuring out the Imperial equivalent of 500km, I just did a conversion equation for the km column, then started typing in daily mileages in the miles column 'til I got to 500km. That's why the miles are even numbers, but the kms aren't.
12-24-20, 07:05 PM
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Sure. I'm just saying that it's hard to gauge how light you could be (without sacrificing muscle mass) until you start making serious headway towards getting lean. I was a big-but-not-obese guy and I overestimated my muscle mass by a good 10-15lbs; don't mentally cap yourself to a lower weight limit until you start seeing muscle/skeletal structure peeking out.