PaulHalicki Member

To give a better idea of what I'm talking about, Saturday, I rode 44 miles on a fixed gear bicycle including several steep hill climbs, with temps in the 90s. I am playing with apps to track my rides and this one got messed up during the ride, but basically I started at 7:30 am, finished at noon, and stopped an hour to eat…

According to whose rules? If eating bananas works, don't argue with it.

I totally hear ya. I have a theory that in areas where food availability is highly variable (feast-famine cycles), people with "fat genes" survived the rough times because they acquired fat in times of plenty. It helped our ancestors, but now we're in a time of perpetual plenty, so many of us are just fat and getting…

If you're gonna eat carbs, do it in the morning. Just make sure that when you crash, you don't get onto a carb roller coaster. I try to eat my carbiest foods in the morning, and more proteins in the afternoons. I did a low carb diet in the past (South Beach) and I have to admit that really, I like some carbs. I seem to do…

This is the motivation I need. I lost 70 lb. in 2005. I kept it off a while, but it crept back. I dropped 30 lb. last year. I let life conspire against me and I gained it back. I'd like to drop about 40-50 lb. this time. I need to know that once I get there, I can keep it off. Thanks for posting and showing that it's…

Working concessions at AMC? Not nearly enough to counter the popcorn you'll be sneaking!

That's not necessarily a bad thing, depending on the reasons for it. My wife has several dietary restrictions due to fibromyalgia; there's lots of stuff that she can't eat. Sometimes we eat the same meals, but she's so much more restricted than I am, and I have other dietary needs that she doesn't have, that we often cook…

I've been that guy; maybe I still am. The two things my wife has said/done that really help me are: 1. She loves me regardless of the weight; and, 2. she wants to be with me for as long as possible, so she hopes I'll make healthier choices. Both of those help bridge the self-esteem gap that came with the realization that…

My wife has fibromyalgia and there are several food triggers that, if she eats those foods, aggravate various aches and pains. She cut out red meat, then poultry, then she found that cutting eggplant and tomatoes helped, and most recently she's found that broccoli is a trigger. It may be that you are gluten intolerant, but…

I think cutting wheat out of your diet even if you're not gluten intolerant can have benefits. Since so many of our bad carbs come from refined flour, cutting those carbs out essentially puts you on a low carb diet, which is very effective for *some* people, particularly those who store their fat in their bellies. (Low…

It's gotta be the hair.

Logging everything helps. Also, remember you can always log onto the forums here and talk it through. There's always someone else online that can talk you down.

Granted, I'm a little older, but I find if I get 5 hours of GOOD sleep at night, I'm good to go. The best way for me to get good sleep is to exercise in the evening so my body is physically tired. I got back from my bike ride at about 10:30 last night. I diddled around on the computer for another hour or so when I got…

This is huge. I think a lot of people fall for this one. I get the sense that if I weighed as much as some of the people in my family, I would just get a heart attack and die. It works for them, but I don't think it would work for me. (Of course, over the long haul it won't work for them as they get older.)

Lazy. In fact, I'm still not sure I'm serious. If I was serious, I'd do the South Beach Diet again like I did in 2005; worked great. I tried it again last fall and it started to kick in before the holidays but then the wheels fell of because I'm lazy. Also, SBD is harder to work into my lifestyle these days. I've been…

8/4 - 9 miles 8/5 - 11 miles 8/6 - 14 miles 8/7 - 30 miles 8/9 - 17 miles 8/11 - 17 miles 8/14 - 13 miles 8/15 - 14 miles 8/16 - 24 miles 8/17 - 20 miles 8/18 - 8 miles 8/20 - 11 miles 8/21 - 33 miles 8/24 - 44 miles 8/25 - 32 miles Total so far 297 miles. Looks like I'll make it to 300; this will be the first time riding…

You're talking about Brooks saddles. I have six bikes, and five of them have Brooks saddles. They look uncomfortable and for some people they take a bit of breaking in (I haven't had that issue, personally), but once you're past that, it's like heaven. I don't even bother with cycling shorts. I rode 32 miles tonight on my…

I've been riding "naked"; rather than depend on an odometer, I've been plotting out my rides after the fact on gmap-pedometer.com. Of course, if I'm riding in unfamiliar territory or riding with a group and someone else set the route and is guiding me, that's a little tougher to remember. I've started trying out MapMyRide…

8/4 - 9 miles 8/5 - 11 miles 8/6 - 14 miles 8/7 - 30 miles 8/9 - 17 miles 8/11 - 17 miles 8/14 - 13 miles 8/15 - 14 miles 8/16 - 24 miles 8/17 - 20 miles 8/18 - 8 miles 8/20 - 11 miles 8/21 - 33 miles 8/24 - 44 miles Total so far 265 miles

Carries a Jovian passport.

I like Fuze Slenderize. Not totally calorie free, but close. Great fruit flavors, and I find it very satisfying.

Okay, bye. Seriously, if your first reaction to adversity is to quit, you're not ready for the commitment you need to lose weight. I've only been around for less than a week, but if you ask me, this site doesn't set low enough calorie targets, and gives too much calorie credit for physical activity. For instance, I rode 44…

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That's actually true. The hat does not belong to me and it's been lost for almost two years anyway. So.... let's see: Knows how to tell a good lie.

Yes maybe I think so.

Knows how to lie properly and never gets involved in side conversations. Never ever.

She won't leave me. At this point we're used to the smell of each other's farts. Neither one of us wants to go through that whole thing with someone new.

At all the staff meetings, does 'mime trapped in a box' until you just want to scream.

So when I was in Austin a couple weeks ago, some 70-year-old dude was jogging on the trail, wearing no shirt, his nipple piercings bouncing merrily around. I'm sorry, what was the question again?

My bicycles.