Clydesdale No More!
12-26-14, 10:42 AM
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I was under 196 this morning, and feeling very good that I've left the 200s in the rear view mirror for good, as my occasional spikes have typically only been 2-3 pounds at most.
12-04-15, 01:30 AM
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About a year later, I wanted to update this thread. I've continued to ride and keep the weight off. My weight has basically stabilized at around 165 pounds over the course of the past 4-6 months. I occasionally get up to just above 170, but it doesn't stay there, and I occasionally get down close to 160, but it invariably bounces back to around 165. I think that's my body just telling me that's what I should weigh now, in my mid-late fifties. Which is pretty good, at around 120 pounds below my weight in the mi-280s when I started my weight loss journey deep into Type 2 Diabetes some two and a half years ago. I'm still on some meds, but a small fraction of what they were at the start. At my doctor's behest, my Metformin dose has been halved, and I am no longer taking Januvia or a Sulfonyurea at all, nor any meds for high BP. My statin dosage has been cut to 1/4th of what it was at the start. My BP has dropped from a typical 135/80 under medication to 110/65 now, without any BP meds.
At the current far-reduced Diabetes med regimen, my A1C is consistently in the 5.4-5.9 range now, down from ~8 at the start of this journey under maxed meds where I was warned that Insulin was the next step.
I'm consistently riding 150-200 miles a week, and when the weather was warmer, I was also swimming 5-8 miles a week, although that's gone away over the past 6-8 weeks now that it's no longer outdoor pool weather, but I've been more toward the upper end of the biking mileage since that point.
About the only downside that I can think of is that I've been rewarding myself for achieving milestones, by buying more bicycles. In the last year, I have added 4 road bikes to the stable - but they are all older bikes bought 2nd hand, and together, they cost me under $2K - 3 nice ones that average $500-600 each, and one cheapo project that I leave at my mother's house so I have something to ride when I'm there. I've also bought a couple of inexpensive MTBs off of CL, but again, these together set me back less than $100. My most recent addition to my bike stable is clearly going to become my most often ridden, a gorgeous mid-1980s De Rosa that I got for about half of what it's worth.
In any case, I'm pretty comfortable that my Clydesdale days are long and irrevocably behind me.
At the current far-reduced Diabetes med regimen, my A1C is consistently in the 5.4-5.9 range now, down from ~8 at the start of this journey under maxed meds where I was warned that Insulin was the next step.
I'm consistently riding 150-200 miles a week, and when the weather was warmer, I was also swimming 5-8 miles a week, although that's gone away over the past 6-8 weeks now that it's no longer outdoor pool weather, but I've been more toward the upper end of the biking mileage since that point.
About the only downside that I can think of is that I've been rewarding myself for achieving milestones, by buying more bicycles. In the last year, I have added 4 road bikes to the stable - but they are all older bikes bought 2nd hand, and together, they cost me under $2K - 3 nice ones that average $500-600 each, and one cheapo project that I leave at my mother's house so I have something to ride when I'm there. I've also bought a couple of inexpensive MTBs off of CL, but again, these together set me back less than $100. My most recent addition to my bike stable is clearly going to become my most often ridden, a gorgeous mid-1980s De Rosa that I got for about half of what it's worth.
In any case, I'm pretty comfortable that my Clydesdale days are long and irrevocably behind me.
12-04-15, 08:54 AM
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Awesome, I started at 335 and weighed in at 304 last week, I am not even close to where you are at but I am on my way.
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