Fat guys always save all the shirts they used to wear, hoping that 1 day they'll be able to fit into them again.
As of this morning, I've lost exactly 30 pounds. My calorie tracking app (Lose It) tells me this is the equivalent of 3 watermelons. No matter which way you slice it, that's a lot less watermelon to drag up the hills. Or the steps. I'm not aggressively pushing to lose more weight. But it's slowly creeping down which I'm pretty ok with. I have no idea where I'll stop. As you can see in the other thread, holding serve is the harder part of that equation. I would love to get to 180. Sitting at 192.x the past few days. But whatever, not worried about that. A roadmap for another day.
But that's not why I'm here today. I'm here to say that I now have a whole new wardrobe because I saved all those old shirts. I even have a bunch of shirts I got in the last 2 years that were kind of a bit snug, or more than a bit snug. They all fit me now, which is pretty awesome. This is 4 months to the day I started this, so it's been a pretty big change in my wardrobe. The stuff I was wearing up to June 1 is too big now. It's a good thing.
When I went to Halter's the other day, Jay gave me 2 shirts. I wore 1 of them this week and we were on a call with a newer client (yeah, so no, I don't dress up for client calls) and we had the camera on. I was moving my standing desk up (or down, I forget) and the guy on the Zoom call remarked that I must be a runner. Maybe it's the camera making me look thinner than I am, but I was pretty surprised to hear that. Anyway, I corrected him on the running versus biking thing. But yeah, you know, kind of a nice step.
This has all had a pretty strong positive effect on my riding, and my desire to ride. While it's raining right now, we have some solid plans in the next week+ and I hope to round out the year with some good rides. I hit Sourlands with Kirt on Friday and this was 1 of the better rides I have done in a while. Place is a lot of fun and infinitely better to do with a friend who knows it. Trailforks tells me I had not been there since 2016, when I can tell you I had a miserable time.
Next weekend is our last Vermont trip of the year, and we have 4-5 spots picked out that we haven't ridden in 2022 yet. So it's shaping up to be an awesome long anniversary weekend. I don't post as much about what I have going on. But there's always something happening. Things moving on the JORBA front, work happening at CR, the MTBNJ team is probably as strong as ever, and the NICA season just kicked off today.
Hope to see some of y'all at the CR group ride in a few weeks. Also, this goofy mf'er turned 2 yesterday: