Hi Esskay and welcome to the group.

I started posting here for the same reason. I had some success initially but then did a bit of backsliding but this place will still inspire me to keep trying. Good Luck!

Cheers,

Jim

Hi all, I am currently down to 207 - I think I was 218 or 219 when I started a couple of months ago. Ever since moving out to the new place, the weight is really coming off.

Since I am 6'2" I don't think I will go much below 190 - but when I get closer, I will know.

I swear I drop 1/2 a lb on my commute!

I don't know what your bone structure is like, but when my large-boned dad got to 170 lbs at one point, he was looking pretty gaunt. I always remember him looking nice at 185.

It is nice to check back into this forum now and again. I too received my initial inspiration from this forum and since January 06 I went from 235 pounds to 190 pounds. At 6'4" it is a good weight and my wife didn't care much when i dropped below that. I am not doing anything radical just eating right, no sodas, junk food, excessive booze and riding when I can. The biking becomes easier. At first you may not be able to do much and 15 - 30 minutes seems like a lot. If you look at the threads posted by zin, chealth and aham23 you can see people that had little biking experience and now ride centuries every time one is within driving distance. For me a fifty miler is no longer an event. I do 25 miles before work almost daily. This is still remakable to me.

Stay motivated, eat healthy, ride when you can and you will be amazed in the difference being your ideal body weight can make in your life.

240 lbs at 49.
160 lbs at 50.
150 lbs at 55.

Whey Protein Smoothies, vitamins
and Fish Oil.

260 - 7 weeks ago

235 - today.

Cut out alot and went back to military thinking.

No Riding.

S/F,
CEYA!

07/31 276lbs
207.31 miles this week

3/23 265lbs
7/31 216lbs

644 miles in july alone!

1/3/06 = 236 lbs
7/31/06 = 183 lbs

As the weight dropped I enjoyed cycling more and more. My story is this, I am not on a diet becuase that assumes that they way I ate before was proper. I eat healthy now. Control my portions and eat way more veggies. Of course, I am very active now with riding over 1400 miles this summer and running when I can not get out for a ride. I have done two centuries, a metric, and the 160 mile Ride Across Indiana. It is just amazing to me.

Everyone should keep posting back as this is such a great thread. Keep up the great efforts!!! Later.

Dude...Just how much weight are you going to lose...?

donamb,

I am pretty small bone - but have more than average muscle - so I am thinking around 190 seems right. I dropped about 3 lbs over the weekend - walked 100 acre farm and then had to dig canals during a big storm to redivert water - went from 207.5 to 204.5 in 2 days.

As I have less weight, I challenge the hills more - and so therefore seem to be increasing the weight loss. I really don't want to lose more than 3 a week though - my target is 2.

No diet and I have always eaten healthy, just more excercise.

Hello again,

Well, my weight really does jump around a lot. A week after being discouraged about weight gain after weight loss, I'm almost back to where I was before the weight gain. 187 the last couple of days. Anyway, now it is time to blow away the previous low weight so that any backsliding won't get me back up to my maximum!

Cheers,

Jim

I like 185 to 190 lbs., but I had a great cycling and running month in July so I just dropped weight without trying. I have been sick for the past three days and dropped five more, dipping to 178 lbs, because I couldn't eat. I eat when I am hunger and take in about 2500 calories on non active days. On active days I take in more. Guess a visit to Taco Bell every now and then wouldn't hurt? I like being skinny though!!! Later.

well i toped at 190 and drop slowly to 165 where i am now which is pretty good i gues i woudl like to drop 15 more. any suggetions on how

1.1.04 238

1.1.05 238

1.1.06 238

8.1.06 236

Must be the heat wave we are experiencing.

I commute 20 miles (RT) every day. I beginning to think that I need to adjust my diet.

Are you trying to lose a bunch of weight? I've hovered in the 185-195 range for a long time but that is way too heavy. I am reasonably active as well but my diet did not allow weight loss until now. I have some room to increase activity but my commute is much shorter than yours. A lot of people here recommend Fitday.com so that might be a good place to start.

Cheers,

Jim

so i said i would post my progress on here and it has been one week since i started my diet. i lost 4.6 lbs! and i havent even received my new bike yet! my total weight loss goal was 17 lbs so only 12.6 to go! I can't believe I stuck with my diet, I'm very proud of myself! maybe I'll reach my goal before October! i hope so.

Man, I wish I can ride my bike as far as you guys can
 

Were I live is pretty hilly for the area and so when riding back home I nearly die getting on top of the hill. Do you guys ride on flat surfaces or slowly increased your distance. My muscles scream when I read comment from you guys who have done twenty miles. Any advice would be great.

Are you in Massachusetts?

My weight back in 2002 - 257

Now I'm around 232, but I really need to step it up and eat better. problem I had was visitors came, I ate. Visitors left, and more visitors came.. and I ate more.

So now I have to get back to eating better, and riding more.

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Hills: I live in CT, but I'm from New Orleans originally. What used to bother me I can now do fairly easily. I have a couple of ugly hills in my town that I'm hoping to attack this weekend. They aren't going to be easy, but I'm going to have a go.

Last month I rode 500 miles, this month... I'm sitting at 55 as of today. Going to take some serious riding the next 24 days.

I know what its like:

5.15.06 229

8.6.06 225

But my body composition is changing. My legs are getting big and defined. Lower body looks like it doesn't belong attached to upper body. Now if I would just start losing my fat gut.:rolleyes: I started at 278 less than a year ago, and I'm still aiming for 200. I just have to move my "lose by" date. If you don't give up, you haven't lost, and you still might win.

Trying the weight loss club again
 

I tried to stick with my cycling last year while I was active in this forum, but I started jogging too and wound up injuring my knee. Now it is a whole year later and my knee has recovered to the point I can ride my bike pain free. I'm back up to 255 lbs. at 5'8''. I got back on my bike this past weekend and have rode twice now, around 8 miles each time on my MTB. I am going to give it a few weeks before I climb back onto my road bike.

Chat some more later

11/08/05 - 230
02/18/06 - 208
06/26/06 - 218
08/04/06 - 206
Coming soon! 199! I haven't seen that in 10+ years

A year ago in November I got the wake up call - High Blood Pressure (140/120), high cholesterol (230), over weight. I weighed 230 (which was actually down from my high of 250). I went on the DASH diet and started using the treadmill. By February I was down to 208, BP controlled with medication, cholesterol down to 200 through diet. I did a little backsliding and got up to 218 at the end of June. After feasting on the 4th I decided to get back in control and really work to get where I wanted to be. I set the goal of 185 by the end of the year. I hate using the treadmill, and walking/running in general. I went into the base ment and found my trusty old Trek 1200. This bike took me accross Iowa several times from 1988 to 1994. It took me a couple of weeks to get it road worthy again, but now I'm back riding and loving it. Since then the weight has really started coming off. It's amazing what burning and extra few thousand calories a week can do. The next goal is to get off the BP medication. I think I'm almost there, but hopefully by the end of the year.

Last November my doctor told me I needed to change my life. What good is working so hard and not being able to enjoy it. He painted a bleak picture of a future I didn't want. Medication, procedures, and a limited lifestyle that wasn't very pleasant. He said with my lifestyle and family history it was pretty easy to predict what would happen to me if I didn't make some real changes. Fortunately my wife is right there with me on everything except the cycling. She never did like to ride. But I haven't given up on that yet...

When I first started riding, there were a couple of hills in particular that totally kicked my butt. OK, let me rephrase that, ANY hill kicked my butt. :o I'd have to stop, catch my breath, let my heart slow down and my muscles stop burning, etc. I just kept at it. Over time, having to stop because I felt like I was dying, became fewer and farther between. So now, there is only one that I still stop on for a break, but it's a long hellacious climb, and my next goal to conquer. I just kept at it, and I varied my rides. Sometimes a hill I had a bad time with, I stayed away from for a couple weeks, then I'd give it another try and do better on it because of the OTHER riding I was doing elsewhere. I still have only the mtn bike, but I put in many many miles on the road, as well as good ole singletrack. I think it really helps to do a bit of both. Just don't get frustrated and burn yourself out.

Long time lurker here, first post, just wanting to say thanks to all for the motivation and success stories that have inspired me on my own weight loss goal. It's been a looong road ( 3700 km this summer ) to get from 238 lbs on Mar 19 with a BF of 35.9 to 200.6 lbs on Aug 8 with a BF of 30.9. At only 5'7" I was in some kind of shape at 238, mostly round . When people comment on the weight I've lost I tell them that it's not lost, just spread thinly over the last 3700 km. Weight goal is 170 lbs by Jan 6 2007 and with the help and info learned here, FitDay,Brooks seats, Conti 4000, etc. I will make it!!

How does everyone get their bodyfat %age? I have a scale that gives you a figure, but it seems kind of high to me... not sure, but that's just my sense of it.

Anybody have a lead on where in NYC to get a more official test done?