Motivational rewards for weight loss
12-29-11, 04:07 PM
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I have several motivations for losing weight, the top one being better health. I also want to ride faster and there isn't much more that I can do to reduce the weight of my bike 
The next best thing that I can do is lose 50lbs and then I should be around the weight that I want to be. After losing that weight, then I can look into buying some "cool" wheels that are strong, maybe some carbon ones!
The next best thing that I can do is lose 50lbs and then I should be around the weight that I want to be. After losing that weight, then I can look into buying some "cool" wheels that are strong, maybe some carbon ones!
12-30-11, 02:10 PM
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Not a huge fan of rewarding yourself with a bike or other fitness stuff when you reach a goal. That just seems horribly backwards to me.
Bikes are the tools I use to get where I want to be. The resulting fitness is the reward.
And really, it has to be. If being in shape isn't reward enough, you're going to be in an endless cycle of bribing yourself to try and maintain some arbitrary number on a scale.
Bikes are the tools I use to get where I want to be. The resulting fitness is the reward.
And really, it has to be. If being in shape isn't reward enough, you're going to be in an endless cycle of bribing yourself to try and maintain some arbitrary number on a scale.
As for being/getting in shape being its own reward, I couldn't agree more. It's just that sometimes I have difficulty seeing a project/goal to its end (ADHD perhaps? LOL), so I'm using the prospect of a new bike and fitting into my jersey as carrots to keep me going when the time comes and I'll feel like giving up.
12-30-11, 02:44 PM
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i like pulling clothes out of the back of the closet or out of the bottom of the drawer and finding out they fit again. last year i was pretty depressed and getting bigger. attempting and failing to fit into my more expensive dress clothes for a formal function finally opened my eyes to shut my mouth more. i had been heading from a skin tight 2x to triple x. now i am 2x loose and starting get back into some xl. biking has helped a lot, though i have a long way to go. since riding a trainer is such a bore, you simply have to get out of the house to bike. getting outside is uplifting, and being outside and active is more uplifting. with biking, you cannot hide inside your house and pretend to hide your size under baggy fat-o-flage--there is simply not a lot of concealment when you are peddling. another fringe benefit which has turned into a motivator has been that biking has helped my weight lifting. being big guy is "ok" when you can also lift big weights, but my physical weight gain stalled out my weight lifting. biking has strengthened my back, core and posterior chain, and my deadlift has increased substantially since i started riding--i could not get past doing 535 singles last year but have finished this year doing 585 for multiple reps with much less back soreness.
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