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So I have a week where I eat all the wrong foods (crisp, cookies, etc.) so going for the weight in tonight I was confident that I had put weight on, so I was more than bemused by the fact that I lost 1.5lbs I should not really be surprised as my body quite happily throws a spanner in the works with great regularity, but why. I have asked myself this question over and over in my head for a long time and I am still no nearer understanding how my body ticks…………

Some parents don’t deserve to have kids, (this is something I forgot to write about yesterday). The route to the local heath means riding down a dual carriageway, I normally ride on the pavement on the on coming traffic side of the road. About 50yds in front of me is a family (mum dad, two kids about 5-ish and one in a push chair) walking in the same direction as I am travelling. One of the kids strayed behind the others for what ever reason and then realising he is behind he starts running after the rest of the family, as he approached them they were spread across the pavement so the kids runs out into the road into the oncoming traffic and I don’t mean he hopped off the pavement into the road and ran along the edge of the kerb, he is a good 3ft from the kerb running into on coming traffic before jumping back onto the pavement. When I saw it happen my heart was in my mouth, god knows what the car driver thought and the parent did not even say anything to the kid, I don’t even know if they realised what he had done. No doubt if he had been run over it would have been the car driver fault for driving to fast!!

No that is not a comment that was aimed at me, it was a comment that I aimed at two cyclist (in two days) that very nearly became bonnet ornaments on my car.

Dumb arse cyclist No1, I was sat in the normal Monday morning slow moving queue of traffic approaching a road joining (the road I am on) on my left. Sporting a lovely shiny Carrea MTB\Hybrid bike and wearing bright fluro jacket (which obviously makes him invincible) and a helmet, the cyclist rode straight out of the side road across the front of my bonnet, straight over the white line down the centre of the road and into the path of the oncoming traffic. Fortunately for him the on coming traffic braked, while our dumb arsed cyclist continued riding up the centre of the road on the wrong side into on coming traffic. This guy was no youngster, he must have been in his 40′s

Dumb arse cyclist No2, only about half a mile from where the other incident happened (maybe it something in the air), going down a hill I am confronted with a guy riding down the middle on my side of the road who is getting slower and slower until he stops in the middle of the road. No hand signals, no indication of what he is intending to do, he just sat there……… Then suddenly he seemed to wake up, realised he was in the middle of the road and quickly scurried to the side of the road. This guy was a mature student type, summer jacket, no helmet or cycling attire what so ever

Is it any wonder as cyclist, car\van\bus\lorry drivers have such a low opinion of us when we ride like this??

Last night was weigh in night and I carried on the traditional Monday night weight yo-yo, fortunately this time it was a 3.5lb loss, I was pleased. Just hope I can be good all week and make it another loss next Monday.

Back to the docs to day for my blood test results, everything is OK, no sign of the liver problems, no sign of diabetes and my cholesterol is OK, so a pretty clean bill of health. The doctor was impressed with my weight loss to date, so I took the opportunity to ask her about my yo-yo weight loss, her reply confirmed what you lot have been telling me, as long as the trend is downwards stop worrying about it. She went on to further explain that in her experience larger, heavier peoples weight loss does yo-yo a lot during a diet compared to somebody who is only a few pounds overweight. So I can sleep easy tonight……………………..I doubt it!

I also asked her about energy drinks\foods and the like for when I am on longer rides, her reply surprised me although thinking about it it does make sense. For me she does not recommend me having any of those energy drinks\foods while I am riding as that will defeat the point of riding (the exercise) as I need the exercise to convert fat into energy rather than taking the energy drinks\foods on-board while I am riding, as that way I don’t actually get to convert any of my fat (thus not losing weight). It was suggested that I take a banana, but I told her I hate them so she recommend a jam sandwich or a cereal bar and plenty of water for hydration. So over the coming months I will monitor it and see how it goes.

Hopefully out tomorrow morning although it my be on the F2 as I have yet to looked at the gears on the Whyte

Last weeks weigh in was a disaster if you looked purely at the figure on the scales, a gain of 5.5lbs. It had not been a good week eating wise for me, but all the extra food I ate that previous week would not of added up to my weigh gain, I was not a happy bunny. Something was wrong, something was very wrong. I left the slimming class on a mission, I decided to do a food diary for the week, this is where you list everything you eat everyday for 7 days (basically until your next weigh in), it is a great deterrent to not eating the extras as you would then have to add it to the diary. Well tonight was my next weigh in and it has to be said, I had had a good week with three exceptions, an Indian meal out to celebrate our wedding anniversary, fish and chips for lunch on Saturday in Swanage and apple crumble and white chocolate brownies for tea last night. I was hoping for a loss, couple of pounds max, I certainly was not expecting the 8lb loss that the scales showed!

I could not believe it, I really think it is what I have now called a bodily anormally. If you take out the 5.5lb gain last week that means I lost 2.5lbs this week, around what I expected, if I had put on 1.5lb last week which is what I would of expected then I was up for a 4lb loss this week, which is a realistic figure for a weeks loss for me. I am not sure what or how but my body was playing tricks with me last week. To confuse the issue there was no bike riding last week due to my back injury so was part of the loss due to me resting??

I now plan to do a diary for this coming week and hopefully be as good as I was this week, I certainly won’t be looking for the same loss next week. But I will hopefully be looking forward to standing on the scales and seeing what they say.

It has been a tough week, being dragged around the country side for work while I have a load of work to do in the office (if I had an office…………but that is another story).

After lasts week no show by the insurance engineer the insurance company decided that they don’t need to inspect the car now. So this afternoon I go to book the car in to the body-shop and was informed that the insurance company have not notified the body-shop so I had to phone the insurance company up again, “Oh we thought you were going to pay”!!!!!! The car was damaged by a third party and is a company car, why would I be paying? The insurance company were going to contact the body shop so hopefully I will get a call from the body-shop tomorrow\Monday to book the car in.

Clive from Massive MTBer left a link to the blog he write for Bike Radar. His latest blog inspired an interesting comment from a reader regarding the genetics of being fat. Click here to read the articles. While interesting to read and understanding why you get the urge to eat, it still boils down to will power to block out the voice on the hunger monster within.

I have missed the opportunity to do an evening ride this week for one reason or another, just hope the weather holds for the weekend so I can ride, not sure where but might try the Purbeck’s again. The evening and morning are now starting to get get darker, better start making to most of these opportunities.