What's made you smile today?

[Cheest]

I finished up this bike this morning.

The first shakedown ride won't be til late next week due to the ton of snow expected tomorrow. Followed by single digit F temps.

One more project off the punch list. Appropriately, Queen's "Bicycle Racer" came over 1 Gold Radio while I was fitting the crankset.

While we are comparing 'portliness', I was 165 lbs (don't know from stone) when I was racing bikes in the 80s and 90s. I changed jobs and that one consisted of a lot of sitting, restaurant meals, and beer. I ballooned to 230 Lbs. That earned me a Type 2 diagnosis. I got serious about losing weight and bicycled to work year round. I came down to 185 and that's where I've been stuck. Working out at the gym 3 days a week along with long walks with Buster dog hasn't caused me to give up pounds but I have lost a couple of inches around my waist. The fittest 69 year old on the roller rink floor. Probably the only 69 year old on that rink.

 

[Cheest]

Or even "terminal flatulence".

I don't know what's going on with me but even the dog is being judgy. I consider it payback.

 

[Pugglt Auld Jock]

I finished up this bike this morning.

The first shakedown ride won't be til late next week due to the ton of snow expected tomorrow. Followed by single digit F temps.

One more project off the punch list. Appropriately, Queen's "Bicycle Racer" came over 1 Gold Radio while I was fitting the crankset.

While we are comparing 'portliness', I was 165 lbs (don't know from stone) when I was racing bikes in the 80s and 90s. I changed jobs and that one consisted of a lot of sitting, restaurant meals, and beer. I ballooned to 230 Lbs. That earned me a Type 2 diagnosis. I got serious about losing weight and bicycled to work year round. I came down to 185 and that's where I've been stuck. Working out at the gym 3 days a week along with long walks with Buster dog hasn't caused me to give up pounds but I have lost a couple of inches around my waist. The fittest 69 year old on the roller rink floor. Probably the only 69 year old on that rink.

165 lbs is about 11.8 stone, which is around where my weight now hovers. I'm about 5ft 8ins tall (but seem to be shrinking a little now I'm "old") At my worst I was a wee bit over 15 stone (210 lbs) and I felt really horrid. Flabby and lacking in energy. I didn't want to get up in the morning! That was when I read the book (Allen Carr's book on loosing weight and especially his "Make hunger your friend"!) Of course it's important to eat decent food and not live on take away burgers and pizza etc but I don't think you need to "punish" yourself by excluding all treats - I really like chocolate so allow myself a 100 gram bar a week. The interesting thing is that since doing this I don't always eat it - I think just knowing it's available cuts down on the longing? If I'm out up the town and feel hungry because I've skipped lunch, I'll allow myself a Greggs sausage roll or, very occasionally, a mince pie! (Shhh, don't tell Mrs J) Otherwise we eat pretty "healthily" at home with lots of vegetable based soups and nice bread to go with, We've cut our meat intake to pretty much nil except for chicken and eat a sort of hybrid Mediterranean diet. But most importantly I weigh myself every morning and, if I'm gaining weight for several days running, I just cut overall quantity of what I'm eating, but don't concentrate on consciously trying to cut out any particular item. Once you get Mr Carr's "Make Hunger Your Friend" into your brain it's really easy to do and I feel so much better in my everyday life.

 

[porta]

100g a week! I do that in a day!

 

[Pugglt Auld Jock]

100g a week! I do that in a day!

Oh yes, I could have easily done that in the past. Strangely it's been all about developing abstinence and control - tough at the time but now it's just part of my daily life and I don't feel any sense of restriction at all - In fact it's been quite liberating and I hardly ever even think about it.

 

[Cheest]

We've been slowly changing our diet, more for Mrs.Cheest's benefit than mine. She isn't as active as I am and could stand to lose five or fifty pounds.(I don't dare say that to her face). More chicken, less beef, salads, a lot less fast food. If we do get fast food, McDonald's is the last resort. I'd rather get something from one of the local pizza joints or Culver's, which is a Wisconsin based burger joint that is popular in the Midwest. I can go months without a soda.

As for the hunger, I limited myself to 1800 calories a day when I dropped the nearly 50 lbs. The little pang was always in the background. I got used to it.

 

[The Panda Nut]

A day! Clearly you dont like chocolate that much. Actually I cant eat it. I cant digest the stuff any more and dont even like it much either. I I eat much it seems to be a cause of migaine although the jury is still out. Occasionally I eat some and always find it disappointing. Now cheese is a different matter. Im not sure who loves the stuff more, me or Barney (the dog). He generlly keeps me cheese honest. My weight has been dropping back to pre christmas levels. Im told I look a lot thinner but Im still 16st 1lb. Im going to keep going down to 14st 6lb which was my weight at 35. Trouble is not eating causes dizzi spells. Barney and I did a 4 mile trot today. A bit scary feeling dizzy and unsteady when out in the middle of nowhere. Thats what mobile phones are for Bugsymike. Back to work tomorrow, I have a plan to eliminate some more junction boxes from the wiring and it looks like there will be something like 20m of wire coming out from the wiring of just one socket in the sitting room. In total for two sockets I think there is some 30m of wire in the loft attached to just that one double socket. I have removed the earth connection to hell, the junction box of death & the first junction box of doom. That had a wire joined to the main but it just ended in the bottom of a built in cupboard with the end taled up. Like 3 in the kitchen. That earth I removed connected the ring main to the lighting circuit but the earth appears to have been a push fit in the ring main end, as the terminal in the junction box could not be found. I reckon I will eventually pull out a Russian power station in among the mass of wire. I now have 3 sacks of wire to recycle. Its interesting how being responsible for teh wiring and people who may work on it in teh future sharpens the mind to stick to good practice.

 

[The Panda Nut]

Or even "terminal flatulence".

think this is something introduced by shower manufacturers. If you catch it, having a bath is impossible. You just float on top of the water and cant reach the soap or pull the plug out!

 

[bugsymike]

Trouble is not eating causes dizzi spells. Barney and I did a 4 mile trot today. A bit scary feeling dizzy and unsteady when out in the middle of nowhere. Thats what mobile phones are for Bugsymike.

If you eat the chocolate it will stop you feeling dizzy when out in the middle of nowhere, it will give you the energy fix, then you will not need to ring 999 so no need for the mobile, always assuming you can get a signal.
Anyway my argument is we survived all those 1000s of years without them, it is just the companies creating a dependency.
Why prolong the agony, you know what they say "Death is natures way of telling you to slow down".

 

[bugsymike]

think this is something introduced by shower manufacturers. If you catch it, having a bath is impossible. You just float on top of the water and cant reach the soap or pull the plug out!

Just don't light a match.

 

[The Panda Nut]

If you eat the chocolate it will stop you feeling dizzy when out in the middle of nowhere, it will give you the energy fix, then you will not need to ring 999 so no need for the mobile, always assuming you can get a signal.
Anyway my argument is we survived all those 1000s of years without them, it is just the companies creating a dependency.
Why prolong the agony, you know what they say "Death is natures way of telling you to slow down".

IM NOT DEPENEDENT ON MY MOBILE PHONE AND IM NOT SENSITIVE ABOUT BEING TOLD IM DEPENDENT! l should get myself a sack of Tic Tac orange and Limes and a wheelbarrow to push them on my outward journey lol

 

[bugsymike]

IM NOT DEPENEDENT ON MY MOBILE PHONE AND IM NOT SENSITIVE ABOUT BEING TOLD IM DEPENDENT! l should get myself a sack of Tic aAc orange and Limes and a wheelbarrow to push them on my outward journey lol

Oh! I thought you were dropping the Tic Tacs on the path to find you way back when you couldn't use your mobile Sat Nav.

 

[HughJarsse]

Oh! I thought you were dropping the Tic Tacs on the path to find you way back when you couldn't use your mobile Sat Nav.

No chance if Barney is with you, 'cause he's following you, and eating them up as you drop them!!!

 

[HughJarsse]

think this is something introduced by shower manufacturers. If you catch it, having a bath is impossible. You just float on top of the water and cant reach the soap or pull the plug out!

Cheapshot Jacuzzi then!!

 

[bugsymike]

No chance if Barney is with you, 'cause he's following you, and eating them up as you drop them!!!

That's why he got dizzy , he was walking in circles for days.

 

[bugsymike]

Cheapshot Jacuzzi then!!

Not sharing with you then.

 

[HughJarsse]

That's why he got dizzy , he was walking in circles for days.

Shouldn't that be 'daze' Mike!!

 

[Cheest]

Oh God, I'm laughing out loud with tears running down my face reading this stuff. If this was at my old shop, some manager would be calling HR. Then HR would be getting abused me and my guys.

 

[FiatMatt94]

New engine mount turned up yesterday so fitted it & the car is now all up running & driving with it's new clutch & other bits I did as well

 

[The Panda Nut]

Not sharing with you then.

I share my last rolo with him, last of my toastie ets. He shares love and nothing edible. In nearly 70 years of dogs he is the only one I cannot make open his jaws, so in the wild, Id starve. He will sit and look sweet but never releases his grip. None of my techniques will work to do this. Except cheese.
Not much use if you want to share his grub!