donuts anyone...

(14 weeks post op) i swear i have severely fallen off the wagon. basically anything that fits in the gullet is what goes down. just NOT as much i used to. i haven't ridden in a week and i made a point NOT to ride over the holiday so i could rest. i'm sort of waiting for that tiger to come back out but i think it's because i was so used to waking up first thing in the morning and riding then. after work is just NOT happening. i don't even pretend like i'm going to. i know i will eventually snap out of it but for now i'm just trying to maintain.

oh well, i'm really not worried (yet anyways)

weight: 310.4 lbs

-donut dominator

i hate the cold...

(13 weeks post op) well, i made myself ride this weekend despite the crick in the neck (10 days now) and colder temps. i really just need a massage. i rode 30 on saturday and walked up ascension hill and did 20 on sunday and rode up it. i am feeling stronger, a lot stronger. my legs are starting to feel like stone (in a good way) and lungs are ready for me to start doing intervals. which i won't do because it's about the weight loss and not the fitness. before i start doing intervals i need to make sure i can ride long distances with minimal pain on the pressure points. only a pound lost again this week but considering the number of milky way i knocked down and not riding what do you expect. anyways, that's it for now.

weight 311.2 lbs

-cold hating dominator

forty el beez...

(11 weeks post op) ok, this was a bit of a slacker week. i only rode once, wednesday, and got a crick in my neck (still have it) and didn't do anything else. but the good news is that i crossed the 40 lbs mark on wednesday. there are a couple of things i'm going to concentrate on this week and diet being the main one. i need more veggies in my life so i'm going to make an effort to get them in. the main reason i hadn't up to this point was because my stomach hadn't gotten the full eight oz. now i think it's about 10oz so i have some "extra room". and at this point unless i'm going on a 30 mile ride AND going to work i don't "need" the calories of "high protein" foods.

on a personal note, i'm finding it more fulfilling to play Halo and watch movies than to go on a date. so i canceled one of the dates i had planned just to do NOTHING :) she seemed nice enough but my heart isn't into dating right now and i don't feel like wasting peoples time. there is only only one lady from match that i'm even halfway talking to at this point. and that's because she doesn't seem like she's in all that much of a hurry either.

why do i comment? it's because it's all related. how you feel affects the image you project in ALL aspects of your life. and while i have dedicated this blog to weight loss and training personal things are all apart of that too. don't worry i'm not going to start giving date play-by-play, but i wanted to share mostly because my brain is starting to consider dating again. all things in due time.

did you know LL Bean sells cycling tops? there are only a few cycling jackets that can fit me at this size, so when i find one i try to buy a couple. the place i got the first one was out (i bought the only one they had on clearance). and the mighty AMZ didn't have one in my size. so i searched all of google only to find it hiding at LL Bean :) BINGO!!! now this guy doesn't have an excuse not to ride after work :)

weight: 312.2 lbs

-negative 40 dominator

busted spoke...

(10 weeks post op) this weekend was pretty awesome as far as my riding was concerned. on saturday, i went the furthest averaged the fastest, and rode the longest and climbed the most. how is that all possible? i dunno but it happened. i kept looking at the garmin thinking i was in a tailwind or something.

quick story: there was this outta shape skinny roadie that passed me on the trail. i say outta shape because when i got into his slipstream i could hear him panting. probably thinking "i should be able to shake this fat guy" NOPE. when we were almost at the turn around (about 2 miles of me tailing him) he says "i should have known you're faster than you look. you're on a Moots" hahaha, yes. we were only going 20mph so it's not that impressive but for a fat guy getting back in shape it's awesome.

sunday i decided to take it easier. but i still rode 20 miles at mile 9 i started hearing something rattling when i got to mile 19 i finally stopped to see what it was...a busted spoke. this will keep happening because i'm big, i've been through this dance before. good thing today is an off day cuz mad duck doesn't open till tuesday.

weight: 313.4 lbs

-busted spoke dominator