My Diet(?) and Exercise Program (LOL)

[DALederle]

At 271 lbs. this morning. Slowly but surely. I guess! I'm impatient! I want the pounds to shed as fast as I put them on.
Did 2 mile ride 4 days straight and then took Sunday off.
Didn't feel like a ride on Mon. but did it anyway. Yesterday's ride was easier. I seem to be firming up somewhat. Abs are firmer.
Snow on the ground in Chicago today. Merry Christmas, Y'all!
OMG
LOL
Dennis A. Lederle
The Crazy Bike Rider!

[Mugs-n-such]

I think this is a good plan to post your advances, that way, you're holding yourself accountable, and you have the support of the group, both, imo, very essential elements for any successful weight loss program. Wishing you success! And here's a bottle of Bud light, enjoy!
Gary

[Jayce]

This worked for me, my wife and one of my daughters: The Paleo Diet aka Caveman Diet. I went from 239 pounds down to 168; slowly over two years BUT I lost more than 20 pounds the first month. I also lost 90% of my arthritis and improved my energy levels. I now consider this a WOE - way of eating - and not a diet. Any search engine will give you more info about this than I could in a short post. Jayce

[straightfairy]

At 271 lbs. this morning. Slowly but surely. I guess! I'm impatient! I want the pounds to shed as fast as I put them on.
Did 2 mile ride 4 days straight and then took Sunday off.
Didn't feel like a ride on Mon. but did it anyway. Yesterday's ride was easier. I seem to be firming up somewhat. Abs are firmer.
Snow on the ground in Chicago today. Merry Christmas, Y'all!
OMG
LOL
Dennis A. Lederle
The Crazy Bike Rider!

Any Advances on this since Christmas?

If it helps, a mate of mine has gone from 48" waist to 38" waist in 18 months on diet alone. If you're doing suitable exercise as well you should achieve your goals even quicker.

[DALederle]

Just made another 2.25 mile ride in 20 minutes. That seems to be my average now. About 6.5 miles an hour.
Two years ago, when I began riding after I retired, I was only able to do .25 miles in 10 minutes, or about 3 miles an hour, which is avaerage walking speed. But I'm hovering around the 271-272 lbs. mark and haven't gotten back into the 260s yet.
I'm now taking my blood pressure every day too! My cardiologist insisted on it. I went in for an appointment and my reading was 140/99 with a pulse of 85. This morning it was 117/79/69. Which is pretty good, I think.
I'm NOT a doctor, I only play one on a radio show!
That's an old joke, which I feel entitled to use because I'm an old guy, as in senior citizen.
My wife thinks I should add another ride either in the morning or shift my 20 min. to morning and do a 10 min. later in the afternoon. Couldn't try it today because I had a doctors appt. this morning for a blood test. Might start that tomorrow and see if I can't bump up my excercise enough to start dropping some weight.
As a confession to all, I kinda pigged out over the holidays (as many do). That's really why I'm still in the 270s. Too much eggnog and cookies, cake, pie, candy, etc. Love those candy canes! That's over now!
So anyway, getting back on track!
Trying to look like Steve Reeves!
Yeah, right!

Dennis A. Lederle
Grok?

[Kirbstone]

Dennis,
Can you concieve of life without cookies, candy, cake and pies ? I can, and almost do. My intake of all those last mentioned goodies is and has for a lifetime been minimal. Healthy savoury stuff is where it's at, and you could easily drop serious weight quickly on such a diet and find more exercise easy as a result. Buy the Superman suit made for a 200 pounder, hang it up and look at it every day until you can get into it!

Tom K

[DALederle]

Tom:
If only Brocoli tasted like a hot fudge sunday I'd be healthy as a horse!
Same for the other healthy foods!
Actually I do like a lot of healthy things. Apples, pears, bananas, almost any fruit. And I love raw veggies as in salads. It's when the stuff is cooked that I don't like it, unless it's in a pie, of course.
It was part of my late depression era childhood, were the next meal was in peril and we ate what we could when we could. The old "clean your plate" and "people are starving in China" and yes I actually heard my mother utter that phrase more then once.
I know now how bad a lot of the stuff we were taught as children really was, not to mention that they argued over the health benefits(?????????) of cigarette smoking.
I do get your point though. I just need to re-train myself not to panic over not getting that next snack or treat.
Some day I will be able to beat my chest and yell like Tarzan!!!!!!!!

Dennis A. Lederle, the first and only!

Grok?

[crfriend]

I do like a lot of healthy things. Apples, pears, bananas, almost any fruit. And I love raw veggies as in salads. It's when the stuff is cooked that I don't like it, unless it's in a pie, of course.

This is more of a matter of how the veggies are cooked than anything else. When I was a youngster, I positively hated cooked vegetables because my grandmother boiled them into mush and I had persistent "consistency problems" with them, not to mention that all the flavour went down the drain with the spent water. Sapphire, on the other hand, has convinced me that vegetables can be darned good eatin' and I rather enjoy them now (I just won't have anything to do with brussels sprouts).

Instead of boiling them for a long time, simply flash them in pre-boiled water until they're warm; that way they'll still be crisp. If the colour starts to fade, then they've been in too long. A fun trick for summertime corn-on-the-cob is to simply grill it in the husk (nothing else is required) until the husk is lightly charred: the result is a very succulent and tasty ear of corn ready for light amount of butter and garlic-salt.

[sapphire]

AARRRGH!! But I LIKE Brusells Sprouts! Just don't cook them into mush and they will just be tiny nutty flavored cabbages.

On the ohter hand, I don't like lima beans.

Oh well, to each, his own

[Gregg1100]

We use a pressure cooker. Potatoes, greens, carrots, brocolli etc, all at the same time. About 6-8 mins time, with all the goodness remaining in the cooker- not boiled and drained away. Plus, we cook two lots each time, so gas is only used every two days. Exercise wise, I do a lot of walking. A 45 foot double deck trailer takes more than a few steps; by the time it is emptied of goods and refilled with cages, pallets and other junk, I have walked a fair distance. Do this twice in a shift and your legs know all about it, lol. Plus all the other walking I do.
Greg

[Gregg1100]

Said truck;

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Greg
Ps. 45 ft long, 16ft 3 high, 8ft wide, rumbling along at up to 44 ton

[DALederle]

Gregg:
I used to work in a shipping dept. and we loaded that type of trailers all day long. Of course that was with a forklift, etc. But it was a LOT of exercise to pick the orders and get the pallets ready to loads. A LOT of lifting boxes and reels and crates up and down. Even when I worked the UPS desk for the shipping dept. it was a LOT of picking up package the same way. But we were a conduit mfg. and the items ran from 50 lbs. (at the lightest) to over a 1000 lbs on some of he reels. And yes, you can move a 1000 lbs by hand if you know how to do it. You had to to put it on the pallets or skids for shipment. Over the 1000lb. range we used the forks on the forklifts to move things around.
But that was before my current health problems slammed into me and I had to retire.
Not I'm trying to get back to what I was.

Dennis A. Lederle
Grok?
Go Bears!
Go Packers too!
That would let the Packers come to Chicago for the NFC Championship game. Almost better then the SuperBowl.

[Gregg1100]

Hi Dennis,
Yes, all heavy work. The clowns in the DC put pallets of peat on the trailers with a stand on electric fork lift ; we have to get them off trailer with a pump truck, made harder because Wilco didn't have the sense to buy trailers which could be made to RAISE and lower . The tail lift hydraulics have given way twice now with me; fortunately when the lift was near the ground. Pallet was more than a ton and a quarter ,way too heavy for the tail lift- pipe burst and tail lift went straight to the deck. Nasty.
Greg

[crfriend]

45 ft long, 16ft 3 high, 8ft wide, rumbling along at up to 44 ton

Nice rig, Gregg!

However, if you tried to put that on the roads here you'd hit the first underpass you came across and if you managed to squeak under that one you would hit the second. The maximum recommended height for large trucks here is about 14 feet in height and most bridges on the Interstate system are only 15 feet or so.

The tall design may also explain some of the very dramatic (and traumatic) traffic footage shot in the UK that shows such rigs getting blown over in high cross-winds; that cannot be fun for anybody involved or nearby. I'd imagine that close attention to detail on access ramps is very important, too. We get the occasional 14-footer capsizing here on ramps from taking the curve too fast; a 16-footer would be even more prone to such calamity. My hat's off to anybody who qualifies on one of those tall rigs!

[Gregg1100]

Hi Carl,
The EU is thinking about trying to ban them, as like your country, the European countries have a set height limit. For once, I am in agreement with it. The idiots in charge at our place are trying to justify the expenditure of these trailers by sending them to as many shops as they can. Even if the shop may only need a smaller trailer. As 99% of the shops are in town centres, it makes for interesting times.
The shop in St. Austell, Cornwall is a typical case. They rarely have a full 45 foot trailer which actually runs on two axles, with a two axle tractor unit.
The management want a 16ft 3" high outfit, complete with 2 more axles ( more wheels on ground means more drag, which means more fuel consumed ), to go 30 miles further, just to avoid one bridge. Oh, and another 30 miles to get back to the same point where one would leave the A30, to get to St. Austell with a normal artic. We are always afraid the muppets in the loading bays will get a silly hat on, and put all the heavy stuff at the top, and light on the floor. That would make it interesting on bends and roundabouts.
Greg