First a happy new year to you all, I hope the coming year offers you everything you want and treats you well.
Over the past few week I have been thinking that something was needed on this web site\blog. It has been wandering across topics for nearly 7 months just jumping on and off any thoughts I had at the time. But certainly over the last 3 months my interest in cycling and my weight loss has been gaining a bigger share of my writing. So I have decided that I am going to move the focus of this blog (I am now calling it a blog rather than a web site) to my diet and things connected to my diet like my mountain bike riding.
The reason I have decide to head in this direction is because I came across two web site\blogs in the last couple of days, both are about guys who were\are larger than me that have returned to cycling as part of their battle to regain a healthy life style. One the guys has lost over 7st in weight and the other the guy has lost 3 stone. The blogs in question are:
Both these guys are doing or have done exactly what I need to do and from their blogs I have found other who are in exactly the same situation as me. So I am hoping that by focusing this blog on me and my diet it will help me along my route to a healthy life and in doing so, if it helps you then all the better.
I am not intending any major changes to the site, it will for the time being maintain the same layout. I will just tweak a few bit to reflect the change of emphasis the blog will now have.
So before I go to far lets just recap, July 2008 I was at the doctors as I had gout in the knuckle joint of my big toe. The doctor had sent me to have a blood test and I was back to get the results. I had been sat in the doctors chair several time before and told that I should lose weight and if I did not I could become a diabetic, it did not really seem to affect me, it might happen to others but not me. Well the prognosis of the blood test was yes it was gout, but it was the next bit that struck me. While I did not have diabetes the blood test showed signs that I had started to move toward having diabetes, this was my last warning. It was enough to wake me up, I signed up to Slimming World. On my first weigh in I tipped the scales at 21st 9lb, seriously overweight. At my last weigh in I was 19st, I have been down to 18st 9lbs but have slipped over the Christmas period.
Well that is enough from me at the moment, I shall hopefully follow up with more tomorrow and then see where we go from there.
