Help. Im Shrinking!!!

"flyingdutch" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
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Did the half yearly clothes shop on the weekend.

I had to go down 2 pants-sizes!!!

Thought this cycling caper was going to give me BIGGER legs, not
smaller.

So that's now 11kg and 12cm of the waist over the last 12 months

Apologies for gloating (altho god knows I could lose alot more!) Just
had to share...

a mere amature🙂
ive gone from 117kg on 10th jan 2003 to 85kg as at today🙂
122cm to 96cm waist

diet hasnt changed much..still drink beer (mmm hoegaarden)
but i found the weight loss slowed after i got to about 105

flyingdutch said:

Did the half yearly clothes shop on the weekend.
I had to go down 2 pants-sizes!!!
Thought this cycling caper was going to give me BIGGER legs, not
smaller.
So that's now 11kg and 12cm of the waist over the last 12 months
Apologies for gloating (altho god knows I could lose alot more!) Just
had to share...

hehe, good news! Keep it up

I remember when I first started riding every day that initially ther
was a period of weight loss... followed by a period of weight gain (5 o
more kgs). It was something like a month or 2 in between and prett
obvious in the legs. Anyway, it seems I can maintain the weight prett
well now... that is, as long as I continue to cycle

Cheers, Tro

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Quoted message said:

Originally posted by flyingdutch I had to go down 2 pants-sizes!!! S
that's now 11kg and 12cm of the waist over the last 12 month

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That is all

hippy :-

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Well done.

Same happened to me 100kg down to 83kg. The weird thing that's happening to
me now that I've picked up the pace a little, doing Criteriums on Thursdays,
80-115km on Saturday Club training ride and the occasionaly 20km handicap on
Sunday with my commute to work is I dont think I'm eating enough!! I hit
the wall on Saturday and got dropped on the last of the hills, Sunday was a
waste of time, felt sick but wasnt. I have spent Sunday and yesterday
eating like the is no tomorrow and I woke this morning felling absolutly
empty and my belt was a little looser?????? Anyway have taken a couple of
days off the bike and see how I go with a gentle ride in to work tomorrow.

Love the weight loss and have always loved the fact that I can almost eat
what I like now but I'm actually finding I have got to be careful I have
enough fuel. I never thought I'd see the day 🙂

Cheers to you all.

Gary

"flyingdutch" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
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Quoted message said:

Did the half yearly clothes shop on the weekend.

I had to go down 2 pants-sizes!!!

Thought this cycling caper was going to give me BIGGER legs, not
smaller.

So that's now 11kg and 12cm of the waist over the last 12 months

Apologies for gloating (altho god knows I could lose alot more!) Just
had to share...

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Im finding that I can get away with eating/drinking reasonably liberally
but the better/stronger i feel the less I get the urge to eat [censored] or
grab that unnecessary second helping.

Drinking lots of water thru the week seems to (pardon the pun) 'flush'
the gluggy feeling i used to have and i eat more fruits/greens too.
Still have the weekly junk-fix tho (especially if have been on the turps
the night before. carbo-loading for the thinking cyclist 😄 )

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hippy said:

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Originally posted by flyingdutch I had to go down 2 pants-sizes!!! So
that's now 11kg and 12cm of the waist over the last 12 months

[censored]!
That is all.
hippy :-P

Im hopin that I can keep it at a similar level (Im not gonna make an
great claims of losing more in the dark months - a lad needs insulatio
and i lerv guinness!) so maybe after you have returned a fatty touris
from your euro soujourn I can aspire to keep up with you! :-

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Originally posted by flyingdutch Im hopin that I can keep it at
similar level (Im not gonna make any great claims of losing more in th
dark >months - a lad needs insulation and i lerv guinness!

Ergh.. horrid black stuff.

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so maybe after you have returned a fatty tourist from your eur
soujourn I can aspire to keep up with you! :-

It's not fat, it's Downhill Speed Assistance Gel" (tm) <pats tummy> an
I'm working on building it up during the cold season

Hopefully, the food is expensive enough and I do enough walking that
actually lose weight... "yeah right", I'm thinkin'

hipp

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Yes, I am learning what fuels my body and I guess over then coming
weeks/months it'll become clearer.

Might try the water trick though, sounds like it could be good and as I live
in Darwin we do tend to sweat a bit during a ride 🙂

"flyingdutch" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
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Im finding that I can get away with eating/drinking reasonably liberally
but the better/stronger i feel the less I get the urge to eat [censored] or
grab that unnecessary second helping.

Drinking lots of water thru the week seems to (pardon the pun) 'flush'
the gluggy feeling i used to have and i eat more fruits/greens too.
Still have the weekly junk-fix tho (especially if have been on the turps
the night before. carbo-loading for the thinking cyclist 😄 )

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Gary Perkins said:

Yes, I am learning what fuels my body and I guess over then coming
weeks/months it'll become clearer.
Might try the water trick though, sounds like it could be good and as I
live in Darwin we do tend to sweat a bit during a ride 🙂

it s the airconditioning in the oroffice that drains me! always turned
up way too high. Wouldnt beer work better? 😄

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flyingdutch said:

Did the half yearly clothes shop on the weekend.

I had to go down 2 pants-sizes!!!

Thought this cycling caper was going to give me BIGGER legs,
not smaller.

This is the cool thing about bicycle touring too.
We rode around NL,F & DE living on cheese, wine, hot chips
(with mayonaise in NL... Mmmmm), chocolate custard
(Campina Chocolate Vla), and don't get me started
on the Bratwurst... just about ate constantly

We came home ~10kg lighter, with legs like greyhounds.

-kt

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a mere amature🙂 ive gone from 117kg on 10th jan 2003 to 85kg as at
today🙂 122cm to 96cm waist
diet hasnt changed much..still drink beer (mmm hoegaarden) but i found
the weight loss slowed after i got to about 105

I am humbled in your (ever diminishing) presence

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"Gary Perkins" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
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Well done.

Same happened to me 100kg down to 83kg. The weird thing that's happening

to

Quoted message said:

me now that I've picked up the pace a little, doing Criteriums on

Thursdays,

Quoted message said:

80-115km on Saturday Club training ride and the occasionaly 20km handicap

on

Quoted message said:

Sunday with my commute to work is I dont think I'm eating enough!! I hit
the wall on Saturday and got dropped on the last of the hills, Sunday was

a

Quoted message said:

waste of time, felt sick but wasnt. I have spent Sunday and yesterday
eating like the is no tomorrow and I woke this morning felling absolutly
empty and my belt was a little looser?????? Anyway have taken a couple of
days off the bike and see how I go with a gentle ride in to work tomorrow.

Love the weight loss and have always loved the fact that I can almost eat
what I like now but I'm actually finding I have got to be careful I have
enough fuel. I never thought I'd see the day 🙂

Cheers to you all.

Gary

"flyingdutch" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
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Quoted message said:

Did the half yearly clothes shop on the weekend.

I had to go down 2 pants-sizes!!!

Thought this cycling caper was going to give me BIGGER legs, not
smaller.

So that's now 11kg and 12cm of the waist over the last 12 months

Apologies for gloating (altho god knows I could lose alot more!) Just
had to share...

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Eeeekk!!!

My first reply after reading 'top-poster's suck' threads and what do I
do!!!!

Please please forgive me!!!!

Bloody funny really because I agree with that top posting is [censored] but using
Outlook Express at work it is easy to do. Anyway I just thought it was
amusing.

Cheers
Gary

"flyingdutch" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
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Quoted message said:

a mere amature🙂 ive gone from 117kg on 10th jan 2003 to 85kg as at
today🙂 122cm to 96cm waist
diet hasnt changed much..still drink beer (mmm hoegaarden) but i found
the weight loss slowed after i got to about 105

I am humbled in your (ever diminishing) presence!

the clothes thing is an issue🙁
ive got 4 perfectly good pair of jeans which are now far too big and a
decent belt to go with it..
but as a mate of mine said when i complained to him about it "no one is
going to feel sympathy for you"

i think ive put some weight back on this week. i've been without my bike and
had to sit in a room all day during a course (not to mention having large
lunches, cake for morning / afternoon breaks provided)

but i have the bike back now (with new wheels!) and back to commuting to
work tomorrow!

has anyone noticed that generally when your putting (stacking) weight on..no
one really makes a comment about it..but when you lose a bunch of weight,
everyone wants to make a comment?
surely if the trend was reversed, we'd take more notice of people saying
"hey, you could lose some weight off your [censored]" and do something about it
before the weight really became an issue?

Gary Perkins <[email hidden]> wrote in message
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Bloody funny really because I agree with that top posting is [censored] but
using Outlook Express at work it is easy to do.

http://home.in.tum.de/~jain/software/oe-quotefix/

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"I'm proud that I live in a country where witnessing two hours of bloody,
barbarous torture in gloating detail is considered indicia of religious
piety, whereas a mere second gazing upon a woman's breast is cause for
outraged apoplexy."
Betty Bowers, http://www.bettybowers.com/melgibsonpassion.html

[QUOTEhas anyone noticed that generally when your putting (stacking
weight on..no one really makes a comment abou
it..but when you lose a bunch of weight, everyone wants to make
comment? surely if the trend was reversed, we'd take more notice o
people saying "hey, you could lose some weight off your [censored]" and d
something about it before the weight really became an issue

My daughter mentioned a nickname they have at school

"FatCrab

refers to a kid who resembles a crab cos their right thumb is so over
developed from gaming that they resemble said creature and is noticeabl
'horizontally' challenge

Ah, the subtle symantics of the school yard. The man-of-steel wouldn
last a day... (then again i suspect he makes us all pay for bein
bullied at school

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dejonica said:

has anyone noticed that generally when your putting (stacking) weight on..no
one really makes a comment about it..but when you lose a bunch of weight,
everyone wants to make a comment?
surely if the trend was reversed, we'd take more notice of people saying
"hey, you could lose some weight off your [censored]" and do something about it
before the weight really became an issue?

Uh-huh...
Try it out on your SO, let us know how it goes!

-kt