T-Minus 1 Day

Tomorrow is the day, and man am I excited.  Excited to spend most of the day on a bicycle?  You betcherhindside I am!  The funny part is that I looked back in time in this blog to three years ago, where I was (profanely!) ecstatic that I had almost broken past the 120 lost mark.  Three years later I'm well past the 220lbs lost mark, and gettin' really dang close to the 250 lost mark.  Shortly after that I'll see a "2" in front of my weight, something I haven't seen in nearly 16 years.  Wow.  

In that time you'd think I'd have learned, but I haven't.  I mean really, I'm still human and definitely still succeptible to mistakes.  If you noticed yesterday my wife commented and pointed out some follies I had last week, which after some quick research early this morning definitely explained my plateau.  If you are taking this weight loss thing seriously, you gotta live it.  Just two meals, not even days, two meals off cost me the equivalent of 1.5 pounds.  Yeah, no kidding, 5,000 calories estimated.  Talk about dumb, man, I can't believe it, but I'm human.  

Gotta figure something new out for dinners, and I think I have an idea.  Just like my during the day eating, gotta be simple and boring, enough to "fuel" and little else.  It's how I have to roll if I want to get my Christmas present, and believe me, seeing that "2" is going to be one.  

In other news, big hats off to Universal Cycles.  I decided to cheap out and order the Marathon Crosses from them because it saved me $15 from doing it locally, and yaknow, $15 buys a ton of diapers, even if I may be kickin' myself a little.  Anyway I got kinda miffed when Wednesday came and they had still not shipped, so someone named Mike from there emailed me back and said he had it under control.  Lo and behold last night the tracking number came, and he had indeed taken care of it, they will be here today!  Pretty stoked about that, I could have "made due" on the Contis, but the rear is getting dangerously bald and the front still has that hole (albeit Gorilla Taped and patched) from the nasty incident earlier.  They made it 2500 miles though, so I can't complain.

Rode the Hardrock in today, it's amazing that I picked it up this morning and went "dang, that's LIGHT!" Hah, how funny, used to my leaded up steel touring bike, then I grab the Hardrock which is sans everything, and it feels like a lightweight.  Nice 7 miler in, leavin in an hour for the day and going to take a shorter route home.  Things to do, bike to prep.  Check back tomorrow, I'll have my smartphone with me, so I'll be at least attempting to update during the ride.