RickinNH Member

Chaps and spurs.

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Grab. Twice.

Worst: Tea instead of coffee Best: Portable Twister Board.

Checking in here in NH. Hi everyone!

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Totally, make-out, except worried about getting a hat-bill bruise across the bridge of my nose. Edit - hey I was jumped in line! I'm talking' to Groovy!

"Go Faster" The Black Crowes

This is my favorite way to think about this process. 25 lbs = 100 sticks of butter, and my actual total loss is more than that. Put all your butter sticks in a grocery cart next time you go to the store, if you really want to see what's what.

6 pounds in the last 2 weeks. Nonstop bacchanalia, plus no snow here in New England, USA, so no XC skiing. Time to get back on the exercise bike. But no guilt. Guilt is not a constructive emotion.

I have actually been using the "Stick of Butter" diet for a while now, but it is not as you described. My stick of butter diet involves me thinking about the that every 1/4 pound I lose is effectively a stick of butter coming off my body somewhere. After a while, all those sticks of butter create quite a mental image. So…

That's what I'm calling it. I have no idea if that is the "official" title.

I've been doing something similar except mixing steel cut oats with quinoa and 1 tbs of rolled oats at the end. Plus fruit, usually a banana and some craisins. Tasty, filling, and wards off hunger until mid afternoon.

Read the ancient Greek play Lysistrata. You will figure something out! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lysistrata

Yep. My wife and I have gotten into it in the past year or two. Plus I now have sons who are racing. I could never have dropped my weight without the bike. I rode about 2700 miles this year. Now we are starting to plan vacations around places where the riding is good. It is basically taking over our recreational life. All…

I'm just trying to get past the fact that you went skiing today. We are still at least 6 weeks out here in the NE.

I hope I didn;t kill your thread with my language-geek snarkery.:ohwell:

No, you are wrong. "It" will not just "happen." Nothing just "happens." But YOU can do it, no question about it. This site is a great tool, and some of the amazing transformations and personal stories that some members have been kind and brave enough to share provide motivation and the belief that ordinary people can do…

I think that would really work well. If you used it to lock the door to the fridge.

When I was in HS I was on the wrestling team and used to do this all the time. The way it was done was to stop eating, and during the 6-8 hours before the pre-match weigh-in, we would put on heavy sweat, rubber suits, and jump rope in a sauna. I could lose 5-6 pounds in a matter of hours that way. Of course, I was 17 years…

The best exercise for that is "lots."

I had never done (or thought much about) yoga until someone told me that cycling reduces flexibility and someone suggested yoga. I have never been to a class, but comcast's on demand service has some free videos. I have only done it a couple of times. While it is not aerobic, I was surprised how much I could feel my body…

+1

This isn't so much of a "quote" as it is a video. Well...actually, it is exactly a video. But it still motivates, so I hope nobody minds if I go off the map a little bit. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jw7E7G7G8IU&noredirect=1

Is there a piece of diet advice anywhere that has not been refuted by an expert, somewhere?

I love that feeling. The first time you see a "new" (actually, its a very, very old) number, you may come back the next weigh in and be over, or not confident that you are "there" yet. Then when your "low" from a couple days or weeks ago becomes your new "high," there is a tremendous feeling of accomplishment. Well done.

Strict portion control and near (not total, but pretty close) elimination of processed foods. Just about the only thing I regularly consume now that comes in a container is milk on my oatmeal in the morning, and yogurt.

Encouragement you say? You need encouragement? Flip through some of the before-and-after threads and encouragement ye shall have.

Should we assume that continuing to be alive is a NSV?

It was my college soccer playing weight, like 9000 years ago.