Alas...

So one of my riding buddies took this picture on the way back from Castroville when my back was hurting!

So have you ever found a picture of yourself from a time when you knew you were fat, but now that you’re fatter you wish, “Man, I wish I was that skinny!”

Well the last five years have been one battle after another to get well, uninjured, and then lose the weight gained while convalescing! The last bout of inactivity that pretty much ended two posts ago! January, yes January! From October to January nothing, heck I wasn’t even supposed to be walking on my dislocated metatarsal! That last battle to lose the weight continues till today! Before five years ago, I gained weight, but would drop it like a hot potato! No problem! But then, bam! No more, most recently, during two months of COVID-19 I did everything right like I used to, ate sensibly, exercised religiously to build up mileage and not get injured, but only lost two pounds of weight! Yeah, water weight came and went but the number that stayed off two! Ahrrgh!

This picture taken by Patty Clark, thanks Patty! On the Medina  River  Linear Park

On Sunday, I hit the 1,000 mile mark! So, base miles at 1K not 65 hours, but 133 slow hours! My weight has budged past the two pounds lost, but not because of the miles, but because of the Pre-Diabetic scare. Reminds me I still need to see Dr. Horn about that! But I made life changes before even going! Those life changes have now translated to eight, count them 12345678 pounds down in two weeks! Today,Tuesday, my best day to check my weight! Do you know your best day to check your weight?!? A post for another time! But today, 282.8 pounds still 20 freaking stone!An improvement! COVID-19 283 lbs. no less, but definitely more!

After two months of hardly no weight loss, after I started the RideYourArseOff page, I gave up! Thinking, “why am I stressing myself and getting almost nothing to show?!?” Ballooned to my scariest weight ever 290! I’ve hit that once before, don’t remind me! Then came the blood work! I was hoping the bloodwork would explain something! It did visceral fat, subcutaneous fat! Bad!

Future, was not bright, type 2 Diabetes! I had friends in HS with type 1, sux! Now as an adult, I have friends with type 2! Still sux! They changed their health lives and so can I!

If you’re reading this you are part of the solution! Thank you to Gayle for your patience with me! If only I would have swallowed my pride and done this ten years ago! Thank you to all of you for your friendship and encouragement and allowing me to write with you! God bless you and hold you in the hallow of His/Her hand!

Meanwhile...

Can you tell Steven Colbert’s show has become a don’t miss for us! Last I wrote it was January and I had just started getting back to training! BTW I did the right thing because my foot has not gone back to pain or a twinge or anything! That has been wonderful!

Then, all hell broke loose in the world and there is an incurable virus running rampant through the world! Experts say it was a cross-species virus from bats to us who-mans! (I’m Batman!) It is a novel coronavirus that the world has never seen, but we have seen others like it. Everything shut-down for quite a while, then reopened, and now we’re in the process of shutting back down again because people are stupid and so is our leadership. But here in the US solo exercise bouts were not against the rules. Other countries were able to manage the PANDEMIC much better than we have so far. They shut everything down including outside workouts.

School closed, actually it never reopened after Spring Break, everything has been postponed! It is crazy to write what I’m writing! Life will forever be changed! Due to the Corona Virus Disease of 2019 or COVID-19 for short 120,000 Americans have died, another 380K have died around the world! It’s-a freaking disaster!

Lots of stress eating all around till we realized, “oh, heck!” (more like WTF)! I’ve gained massive amounts! No problem silver lining to COVID-19 we can exercise a lot. On call, was a blessing! Not to minimize anything millions of lives have been shattered, families destroyed, health care workers and others on the front lines will have issues for the foreseeable future! I have not cried so much in my life! My new tell when I’m tired, I weep at seemingly insignificant things! Our lives are not the same.

 So middle of April we’re getting the hang of things and putting in the miles, changing our eating habits, and expecting great results! Alas, it wasn’t to be, nearly 400 miles last month and nearly 300 miles the month before that and I lost a whopping two, duas, deux, due, zwei count ‘em 1, 2! Heck that could be water weight or a huge BM! Something is wrong!