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. I am thinking a lot about you these days Rick. I hope that doesn't sound too weird. I didn't get to take care of my mom. She lived six hours away from me. My dad did a good job though. He was like Super Provider. I like to think that I did a better job of taking care of him. But the reality is that he took so good of…

Bike riding, thinking. Got to thinking about my parents. That page turned a while ago for me. I hope I don't sound like I got icewater for blood, but I got to thinking about their estate. My father had professional estate planning. That was a good deal for us kids. No resentments over that whole scene. They had positive…

Rockstar - yeah, they got that cooler that holds them right by the checkout at walmart. So every time I was going to walmart I would find myself getting one. Then I find myself going to walmart more than once in a day. I think maybe Rockstar was calling me in there. I can feel that rockstar in my heart though. I better lay…

Spinning, spinning spinning... Keep them doggies spinning... Exercise: I got like 700 cals of spin and 150 cals of walking with my wife. Calories: I got like 700 cals surplus and I am not hungry. I even had a brownie. Tracking: Yes The kitchen is closed.

Heh, I been off the Rockstar for a couple of weeks except for on brief interlude day or so ago.

Yeah, I did ok two days in a row. I gained 3 lbs over feasting. See how long I can stick to the plan this month. I got me one of them fitness tracker watches. I am kind of Pavlovian about that thing. If I put it on I know I am going to go outside or do something. Debating between noon spin or hill repeats outside. Hill…

Rick, Hoping for the best for you and your mom. exercise: light duty. 30 minutes walking. budget: 50 or 60 cals left over tracking: yes

Tracking, tracking, tracking, Keep them doggies tracking ... (Jake and Elwood Blues I think) Exercise: 950 (110 minutes) calories of spin. Calories: I left like 500 calories in the ledger. I only ate half my exercise. Tracking: so far so good (yes) Went to bed early last night. Neighborhood firecrackers didn't even wake me…

I am not going to stay up for it either. Get this, ! am scheduled for a spin class tomorrow at 8.30am. I swear am going to be on track tomorrow. Happy New Year!

Congratulations @2020pinktogo My hat is off to you. I am admiring your diligence and determination.

Well, I ain't in the winners circle but I don't mind telling you it has been a good year. Since my memory ain't what it once was maybe I can say the best of my life. Bike ride after bike ride after bike ride. Wild animals, bears, deer, moose, antelopes, turkeys, cranes, osprey, roadrunners, coyotes, bobcats and then some.…

I am on track today but pretty much goners for Dec. Maybe I am just getting in practice for Jan. My weight isn't too far gone. I might be back to equilibrium by Sat.

I am kind of back on track. Got 650 cals of spin class for ten bucks. That counts as exercise anyway. I was probably under budget but my tracking was pretty slipshod. Scale ain't as bad as I thought. I am going to hold off a weigh in until Saturday though. I wonder if I could find a horse that could jump that?

Walking at a brisk pace is roughly 5 calories per minute. (according to mfp) Very Highly unlikely that you got 3,261 calories in 2.32 miles. If that walk was like an hour, you are only looking at 300 calories. But that is an estimate for brisk walk. Brisk walking 3.2 miles is way less than an hour. I would say that fitbit…

I was sedentary for more than a week. The scale nudged up. Months ago I swore I wasn't going to let this happen. No more of gaining ten over the holidays. Good news, I didn't do that much damage. 'Course it ain't over yet. I think them fitness watches would make a good Christmas present. What is cool about them is that you…

My wife told me this morning to save some calories that she was bringing home Christmas goodies from school. So I went to spin class for 570 ate sparingly afterwards and budgeted 1000 cals for Christmas goodies. I don't know, i kind of think that I am under budget but some of that stuff I didn't know how to gage.

Here is me striking out for December. I ate 3,000 calories. If I'd got 1,000 exercise cals I would have been ok. Oops. Had lunch with Buddy. That little guy, I been trying to think of how to quantify his improvement in strength. The ramps. We got these buildings called portables. All of them have ramps up to them. Buddy…

NSV. It has been a long time coming but I finally got my BMI under 25. That is actually a scale victory I guess. I can wear 36 inch pants now. My wife says that when we got married I was a 34. I kind of don't believe her. I might have been a 34 in the military. I am kind of ok with my body now. I wish I had more upper body…

Exercise yes Budget probably track no 300 cals of beer. For all that I ate and drank moderately so I was probably in tolerance budget wise. But I can't say anything about it because I stopped tracking. So pass number 2.

Oh man! I see those snow pictures. And here is me quibbling about a bike ride because of a patch of ice. Layers, I can talk about layers. I go outside bike riding today because it is predicted to be like yesterday. If that is true then that patch of ice is probably melted. So I go to my climbing road and discover that the…

Watched the thermometer and debated about going outside. Picked the wrong side for that toss. Ended up going to spin class for 55 minutes. That instructor was gruelling. Yikes. I got an average in the 90s and I was having to take breaks to get it down to that. Spin class, I must have atrophied some. I got to learn to do a…

Happy? I gotta bite the bullet and get my wife a Christmas present. It is going to happen today. I said it three times. It is going to happen today. Sometimes I revel in a happy memory. Folk that have been reading the comments on this challenge know that I have little buddies that have physical and mental impairments.…

I am still in. I got enough exercise calorees (680) to eat some pizza. Jeesh, I hate to eat pizza in front of my wife though. She didn't get no exercise. Bad news about my exercise is that I am only getting half of what I get when I am climbing. I gotta find a hill with no snow on it. Bite the bullet and go round the…

Dec 10 3 x yes Still carrying 1 pass.

@2020pinktogo, Goners, yeah, hey, I know that word. How close did I come to it last week. Here is a scenario. My battery died so I had to jump it. No big deal. Archetypal experience really. But I thought I had better let it run and charge up a little bit after I jumped it. So I let it run no big deal the garage door is…

yes x 3 Still holding at 1 strike. - I think I am going to try a treadmill at 4mph tomorrow. Just to see what that feels like and see what knee says about it. - That picture reminds me about my other thing as a kid. I used to have a darkroom and mutz around with black and white. Photos were black and white then. Color was…

@RangerRickL Heh! I grew up in a suburb, but on the edge of my suburb was farms. Some of the guys I grew up with were motivated by "what do I gotta do to get a horse?" Those guys ended up building some pretty good lives. My vision was "what do I gotta do to get an airplane?" Want for Christmas though? Had to have been…

Dec 8 Still carrying 1 strike But otherwise yes x 3

Put this in a file called old guys exercising. That is ten dollars worth at my little gym. I was trying to spin in 15 minute segments. Mr wizard gave me 570 calories for that. On break I would do that ABS coaster and some other abs machine that I would put on 3. It had like shoulder straps and cables and stuff. I think I…