Thought I would take a few minutes and give everyone a little feedback on my riding and weight loss. I haven’t been updating you and feel that it’s something I should be doing more of. Plus it’ll get me into a habit of posting more since I am really sucking in that area. For this first feedback I’m going to start two weeks back and bring you up to speed through today.

Binge eating on the weekends can wreck your weight loss strategy faster than my daughters can tap out a text message. And they’re fast. I love the weekend but no schedules to keep, no meetings, and no commute spell disaster for my healthy eating plan.

On Monday I mentioned that I had a great group ride last weekend that, I believe, was sparked by a change in my pre-ride meal. The change came about because I was ignorant on a couple of things and Kelli at Apex Nutriton straightened me out.

I’m well into my mision of Cycling for Optimal Weight. The last few days I’ve been reading the information Kelli sent back to me including my health assessment, recommended supplementation and eating plans. As she said in an email to me, it’s a lot to ‘digest’ all at once. Once I have a handle on the supplements and meals I’ll do more detailed posts on those areas of the plan. I’m really excited about this if you can’t tell.

It never fails that when you start a new diet, training plan, or resolution that you’re bound to have something try and derail your progress and motivation right away. It happened to me yesterday. I’m supposed to get 5.5 hours in on the bike this week and was on track to do that after my ride on Tuesday morning. All I needed to do was ride for my hour each morning from Tuesday-Friday and then 1.5 hours on Saturday morning. Not so fast my friend.

A few weeks ago, Darryl over at Lovingthebike.com and Kelli of Apex Nutriton, unveiled a new training program called Cycling for Optimal Weight. Darryl and Kelli released a mini-ebook that covers both the cycling and nutrition sides of getting fit and healthy with the sport of cycling. The ebook (which is totally free by the way) is filled with some great tips and I love the section at the end where they include sample eating plans tailored to when you are riding – morning, mid-day or in the evneing.

I decided to take them up on their offer to track my progress and have already filled out my assessment, taken my starting measurements (rope and choke), and snapped a couple of profile photos. The measurements and photos were an eye opening experience but I kinda had an idea of how bad they would be.

As I work with Darryl and Kelli to get this weight off, I’ll keep you informed of my progress here on Biking To Live. I’ll do my best to relay to you what I’m going through, the riding I’m doing, and what I’m eating. I believe I’m going to learn a lot and it’ll be the perfect opportunity to pass that info along to you, my readers, as you work to improve your health with cycling.

Yesterday was Halloween. It’s that holiday we loved as a kid but have come to dread as an adult. As kids we loved to get dressed up as our favorite super hero, ghost or monster, and run around the neighborhood from door-to-door collecting candy. Lots of candy. What kid wouldn’t love that? As parents we’re tasked with finding the perfect costume while deftly blocking other parents with our shopping cart and hearding the kids around the neighborhood. We get sore from walking, our patience is tested by all the imps running around, and all we want to do is go home and go to bed. Ah….the joys of making our kids happy.