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Improvement :-D
As today is a holiday, Nathan came out for a cycle ride with his Dear Old
Mum, on the entirely correct theory that as I cycle a lot slower than he does, he wouldn't actually be pushing himself too hard - just keeping his legs ticking over ready for his time trial on Sunday morning. So we did a leisurely 18 - 20 miler, stopping for lunch at our favourite Ye Olde Worlde Tea Shoppe in Ye Olde Worlde Quainte Village of Castle Acre. It's the place Vernon & I sometimes have lunch at & I like as I can have some quite delicious home-made soup (carrot & orange today) with a chunk of warm wholemeal bread, whilst Vernon stuffs himself on the delicious home-made cakes they do. The waitress taking our order asked how far we were cycling & if it was tiring. In course of conversation I said I was cycling with my son. Waitress said I didn't look old enough for Nathan to be my son. I do appreciate a good OTT compliment ;-) The best bit was when cycling home, Nathan, who I don't usually cycle with as he's much faster than me said that he's noticed today how much fitter I am. He said he can really tell on the hills where I used to really huff & puff to get up them and how he & I were carrying on a normal conversation as we pootled along and that he noticed that I wasn't having to use the really low gears to get up the same hills, whereas before I would struggle along in the lowest gear of the granny ring. So losing this weight (48lbs and counting) really is starting to give me noticeable health benefits and that is a great incentive for me to stick with it :-) Cheers, helen s |
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"wafflycat" wafflesATv21netDOTcoDOTuk wrote in message ... So losing this weight (48lbs and counting) really is starting to give me noticeable health benefits and that is a great incentive for me to stick with it :-) If you really want to shock yourself, and you have a friendly local butcher who makes his own sausages, get him to show you what 48lbs of pork fat looks like. (pork fat and human fat are very close to each other in mass) Tom |
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"Tom" wrote in message ... If you really want to shock yourself, and you have a friendly local butcher who makes his own sausages, get him to show you what 48lbs of pork fat looks like. At Weigh****chers weigh-in each week, the leader has a kilo of fat by the scales. Cheers, helen s |
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Tom wrote:
(pork fat and human fat are very close to each other in mass) That would depend on the size of the pig! ;-) (ITYM density...) Pete. -- Peter Clinch Medical Physics IT Officer Tel 44 1382 660111 ext. 33637 Univ. of Dundee, Ninewells Hospital Fax 44 1382 640177 Dundee DD1 9SY Scotland UK net http://www.dundee.ac.uk/~pjclinch/ |
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wafflycat wrote:
The best bit was when cycling home, Nathan, who I don't usually cycle with as he's much faster than me said that he's noticed today how much fitter I am. Good for you! I'd take that as even more of a compliment that what the waitress said. d. |
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wafflycat composed the following;:
So losing this weight (48lbs and counting) really is starting to give me noticeable health benefits and that is a great incentive for me to stick with it :-) Nice one, Helen. Mine's stil coming off at about 1/2 lb a week, so slowly and steadily, but as you say, beginning to be really noticeable how much fitter I'm getting. I've now lost about 23 lbs. Keep it up. -- Paul ... (8(|) Homer Rules ..... Doh !!! ebay stuff 5762010351 |
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So losing this weight (48lbs and counting) really is starting to give me
noticeable health benefits and that is a great incentive for me to stick with it :-) Might I ask how you started and how long it's taken? A good friend of mine is 29 stone and 5'6", he's tried most things - so why not cycling! He goes to the gym twice a week at the moment. -- Who needs a life when you've got Unix? :-) Email: , John G.Burns B.Eng, Bonny Scotland Web : http://www.unixnerd.demon.co.uk - The Ultimate BMW Homepage! Need Sun or HP Unix kit? http://www.unixnerd.demon.co.uk/unix.html |
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"John Burns" wrote in message ... So losing this weight (48lbs and counting) really is starting to give me noticeable health benefits and that is a great incentive for me to stick with it :-) Might I ask how you started and how long it's taken? 14 weeks. Over that period I've averaged 3.5lbs loss per week. A good friend of mine is 29 stone and 5'6", he's tried most things - so why not cycling! He goes to the gym twice a week at the moment. I'm doing Weigh****chers. What is doing it for me is the discipline of going to a WW meeting each week, doing the formal weigh-in and staying to the meeting for the pep-talk. Quite frankly, most of it's in the head - I'm *very* motivated. Everything I eat is "tracked", that is weighed and entered into my food diary before it goes into the mouth. Plus I'm choosing *very* healthy options 99% of the time and having treats occasionally. The easy bit is the losing it - the hard bit is the keeping it off :-/ Cycling is helping me in that I'm losing more and consistently than the other WW'ers who don't exercise, but exercise on its own isn't enough, just as dropping the calories alone isn't enough - it's the frame of mind that's the key. Cheers, helen s -- Who needs a life when you've got Unix? :-) Email: , John G.Burns B.Eng, Bonny Scotland Web : http://www.unixnerd.demon.co.uk - The Ultimate BMW Homepage! Need Sun or HP Unix kit? http://www.unixnerd.demon.co.uk/unix.html |
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"Peter Clinch" wrote in message
... That would depend on the size of the pig! ;-) (ITYM density...) That'll be it then, thanks. Tom |
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"Paul - xxx" wrote in message ... Nice one, Helen. Ta! Mine's stil coming off at about 1/2 lb a week, so slowly and steadily, but as you say, beginning to be really noticeable how much fitter I'm getting. I've now lost about 23 lbs. Nothing wrong with your rate of loss. It's in the right direction, plus slow & steady it's more likely to stay off relatively easily. Keep it up. Rather keep it down :-) Cheers, helen s -- Paul ... (8(|) Homer Rules ..... Doh !!! ebay stuff 5762010351 |
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