Getting on the scale a week ago I was shocked and appalled to see it tipping past the point of no return! I'd only been this heavy once before but a cycling trip to the Maritimes took care of that. I lost 20 lbs before I left while training and then another 25 on the actual 2300 km ride. It helped that I was carrying all my equipment, even maple syrup in a glass bottle, for morning pancakes in the campground. The bike and kit weighed in at 100 pounds - 35 for the bike and 65 for the panniers and kit - and that turned it into an exercise machine for 6 hours each day as I plodded eastward from Nepean.
That was in 2002 and it's taken about five and a half years to get back up to this totally unacceptable weight. So I decided to do something about it. The first major change was to limit my visits to the pub to only once a week and to only have a drink with one other meal each week. I've done this in the past, sometimes for months on end, and I've noticed how easily I shed the pounds even when I'm not really dieting. The second, and only other, major change is to stop eating after 7:00 pm. It's too easy to snack on something after dinner and this one is as much mental as physical. Food after dinner, for me, is a panacea for all that happens (or doesn't) between 9 and 5.
The problem is that, even with breakfast, I'm starving by 10:00 and am very tempted to have half my lunch. That makes me short of calories at lunch and then I'm dying to get home to have something. Anything!
It doesn't help I walk by Zaks every morning ...
That was in 2002 and it's taken about five and a half years to get back up to this totally unacceptable weight. So I decided to do something about it. The first major change was to limit my visits to the pub to only once a week and to only have a drink with one other meal each week. I've done this in the past, sometimes for months on end, and I've noticed how easily I shed the pounds even when I'm not really dieting. The second, and only other, major change is to stop eating after 7:00 pm. It's too easy to snack on something after dinner and this one is as much mental as physical. Food after dinner, for me, is a panacea for all that happens (or doesn't) between 9 and 5.
The problem is that, even with breakfast, I'm starving by 10:00 and am very tempted to have half my lunch. That makes me short of calories at lunch and then I'm dying to get home to have something. Anything!
It doesn't help I walk by Zaks every morning ...
