Greetings from deep, deep, border wall, south Texas
12-25-19, 08:12 PM
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Greetings from deep, deep, border wall, south Texas
Hello to everyone, my name is J.J. and I am 63 years old. When I was in college I used to bike all the time and then life just happened, work, work, work, kids, kids, kids, etc. etc. etc. Well, my extremely bad eating habits and my lifestyle allowed me to balloon up to almost four hundred pounds when I retired at 59. While, technically, blood pressure, sugar, cholesterol and the rest of my blood work I was "healthy" Dr. told me because of my weight, I really was NOT! He told me to give up some things (mostly white food; potatoes, sugar, bread, pasta, rice, tortillas etc.) and I went ahead and proceeded to give up potatoes first, then bread etc. It took me a year and a half to lose a hundred pounds and as remarkable as that was I wanted more so I began riding a bicycle. It was tough at first, but I got into it, and began riding every day, first a couple of miles, then moved up to five miles in a couple of months, by half a year I was at ten miles and now I ride twenty miles a day. Have been cycling seriously now for three years. I currently weigh 210 pounds, my health is outstanding, my resting heartrate is 48, my blood pressure is still 120 over 70, but man, I feel so awesome! Of course, I feel I look amazing as well and just recently had a reunion with some friends from college, man they were in sad shape,, canes, walkers, strokes, amputations, etc. I feel so lucky!
Well, thats the short of it, but I just wanted to say hello to all and I look forward to reading and learning as much as I can from all of you. Happy Holidays!
Well, thats the short of it, but I just wanted to say hello to all and I look forward to reading and learning as much as I can from all of you. Happy Holidays!
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12-25-19, 09:10 PM
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Fantastic change for you. Great that biking and lifestyle helped you. This past February I rode the Jalapeno 100 in Harlingen and plan on doing it again this February. The RGV is my winter biking pick me up.
12-27-19, 03:38 PM
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Hello to everyone, my name is J.J. and I am 63 years old. When I was in college I used to bike all the time and then life just happened, work, work, work, kids, kids, kids, etc. etc. etc. Well, my extremely bad eating habits and my lifestyle allowed me to balloon up to almost four hundred pounds when I retired at 59. While, technically, blood pressure, sugar, cholesterol and the rest of my blood work I was "healthy" Dr. told me because of my weight, I really was NOT! He told me to give up some things (mostly white food; potatoes, sugar, bread, pasta, rice, tortillas etc.) and I went ahead and proceeded to give up potatoes first, then bread etc. It took me a year and a half to lose a hundred pounds and as remarkable as that was I wanted more so I began riding a bicycle. It was tough at first, but I got into it, and began riding every day, first a couple of miles, then moved up to five miles in a couple of months, by half a year I was at ten miles and now I ride twenty miles a day. Have been cycling seriously now for three years. I currently weigh 210 pounds, my health is outstanding, my resting heartrate is 48, my blood pressure is still 120 over 70, but man, I feel so awesome! Of course, I feel I look amazing as well and just recently had a reunion with some friends from college, man they were in sad shape,, canes, walkers, strokes, amputations, etc. I feel so lucky!
Well, thats the short of it, but I just wanted to say hello to all and I look forward to reading and learning as much as I can from all of you. Happy Holidays!
Well, thats the short of it, but I just wanted to say hello to all and I look forward to reading and learning as much as I can from all of you. Happy Holidays!
welcome to bicycling life.
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Welcome! I'm looking forward to retiring your way, some day, tearing down walls and building bridges 
