What a difference a day makes, or so goes the song.
Yesterday, I arrived home brimming with confidence after an enjoyable ride. Tonight, I am typing this completely deflated and very close to storing the bike in the loft.
This morning, I woke up feeling really good – the sun was shining and I wasn’t [...]
The following admission may cause a stir in the office on Monday, but so be it! After all, one more item on the list of reasons for my work colleagues to rib me about isn’t going to make that much difference…
I’ve been thinking about shaving my legs for a few weeks. When the weather’s [...]
Confused? Don’t be.
You’ve probably said yourself “I need to go on a diet”. The problem is, a going on a diet is a short term solution. The practice of going on a diet is to reduce and monitor your caloric intake over a set period of time, until presumably you hit your target weight [...]
After a bloody hard week and work and my sulking fit on Thursday night, I was really looking forward to today’s ride. I decided to ride in to Ponteland rather than drive, trying again to increase my miles and avoid damaging the interior of my car further. So far I’ve marked the white vinyl seats, [...]
It’s all too easy to think “I’ve just cycled 30 mies – I can have a take away!” – it doesn’t work like that!
First off, post-exercise is the most important period of time to get the right food into your body. Sports scientists call it the “window of opportunity”. It lasts up to 2 [...]
I’m sat here eating chocolate covered peanuts drinking a cup of tea, mulling over the evening’s events.
Most of the week I’d been suffering stomach pain, and have been to the doctor’s about it – but that’s another story for another time. Suffice to say I need blood tests. I was woken this morning [...]
Your body isn’t always right! A lot of the time when you think you’re hungry, it’s actually your body telling you you’re thirsty. Worse still, if you feel thirsty, then you’re already dehydrated*.
It’s also pretty common when you’re doing something like watching TV to feel hungry. This is usually boredom, and NOT hunger. Besides, [...]
Instead of constantly drinking tea and coffee, try green tea. It helps raise the metabolism – and if you’re a milk and 2 sugars type person, you’re also drinking less milk fat and less sugar. If you don’t like the taste, squeeze some lemon juice in there or even a bit of natural honey.
It’s particularly hard to write a blog about weight loss and cycling when you’ve neither lost weight nor really ridden your bike, but in the interests of wasting 10 minutes of your Monday lunch times, here we go.
This weekend, as most of you may already know, was the Mountain Time Trial. As far as [...]
So I got weighed this morning. Last night’s ride must have pushed me over the edge as I now weigh (drum roll please)…
17 stone 3 lbs
That’s a weight loss of 5 stone. I know, there’s still a long weigh (get it?) to go, but 5 seems like a nice round number to celebrate.
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