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It’s just gone really cold.  Very unpleasant, and I don’t like the cold.  Bit of a wimp you see. I never used to be.  I would get up in the mornings and cycle to college with leather jacket on, even in the depths of winter. But these days I seem to feel the cold more. [...]

It’s been a while since I dared jump on the scales, what with holidays and the like.  In fact the last time I had a weigh day to track my progress on my own journey to lose weight cycling was 27th August.  Anyway, not to worry. I seem to have carelessly lost just over another [...]

New weight: 12 stone 4 pound. The thing about holidays is eating the wrong thing and ending up without the opportunity to train properly. Most people would think you an idiot for getting put when there is the chance to rest. But not me. Reluctantly I got on the scales before I came away and [...]

Just a quick update. Great news! 12 stone 10 pound now. Oddly (see why I think it’s odd below) didn’t spend the week doing miles and miles. Found a nice flatish route that follows a 20 minute climb. It’s about 20 miles long, so is another distance I can add to the circuit-at some point [...]

Weigh day 9. Again a bad week for getting out and about, but still a loss of a couple of pound bring the grand total to 12 stone 12 pound. Hopefully going out tonight, but no real guarantee what this week will bring. This diet from british heart foundation is good though. I think my [...]

I am glad that I am doing this blog and tracking my weight loss and road bike cycling, otherwise this mornings weekly bounce on the truth tellers (bathroom scales) would have been a bit amiss. I had it in my head that a week or so ago I had a weigh in and I was [...]

I am not talking about yo yo dieting, which is really bad. You know, the kind of thing where you eat loads and then don’t eat at all and your weight shifts around. My diet is pretty steady, although I do make use occasionally of a cheat day. Cheat days are where you just go [...]

Careful observers will notice that rather than being one week since my last check in I have actually left it two weeks since weigh day 4. Was I slacking? No. But i was away again which meant that it wasn’t going to be the best week to weigh myself, though I did get to try [...]

Today I jumped on the scales and to my great delight I am now down to my first target of 13 stone 7lb, which I haven’t been since five years ago.  And I was putting it all down to muscle…how embarassing, I don’t think that I can claim that anymore! My trousers are now fitting, [...]

It was a fast run the other day but I wondered what would happen if I did the same distance, same route, but did so with a high cadence and much less ache in the legs. In short, I wanted to breath easy most of the way round, and only a little more on the [...]