Didn't eat salad for dinner this week. Had healthy based lentil dishes for dinner most often. Also, was hitting the roasted, unsalted peanuts hard this week again too. Probably too much snacking.
Since March 19th, I've been bouncing around 226-227.5, but on the other hand, I don't feel like I'm starving. How I'm eating feels sustainable, so if this is the bottom of my weight loss so be it. It'll be 65lbs lighter than where I started last June.
On the other hand, I do want to try less snacking and more salad with a protein for dinner this week and see what happens. The one night I just had a 3 egg omelette, I had a really low weigh-in of 225.8 the next morning. The lowest ever! And the omelette was plenty filling.
But in general, I'm coming to terms that weighing 220 something may be it, and I'm ok with that. The main goal was to get lighter so biking, hiking, and kayaking are more fun. Mission accomplished. I don't want to do fasting or anything that's not sustainable to drop more weight. Assuming my blood work improves, which it should, no more changes.
Friday I did the first long ride of the season. 30 miles, in 3 hours. Very happy with that. Didn't take any long breaks anywhere. Just kept trucking. Figured out this loop around Wachusett reservoir last year. Avoids heavy car traffic. I used to do the roads closer to the reservoir, but the traffic has gotten too heavy to make that fun. I only do it in the Summer, early in the morning on the weekend when everyone is sleeping.
The new seat and suspension post seems to work better than what I had on my touring bike during the Erie Canal trail. I've tweaked the angle down a little, so I'll try one more long ride before saying it's good for my next trip. I'm debating if I need their slightly narrower seat. I did make one silly mistake and wore the bike shorts inside out, so that probably impacted comfort a little, and I didn't use any chamois cream, or butt balm. So i'm thinking if I don't forget those basics, next time may get the official thumbs up. No idea how I put the chamois short inside out. Rushing to get going I guess.
I did switch to underwear style bike shorts, and I wear lightweight joggers over the chamois underwear. I pronounce chamois american biker style, "shammy" Just FYI. Thicker chamois pads aren't always better, things need to breathe down there. Hot and sweaty gets uncomfortable too. I'm hopeful this style clothing wont' be too hot as Summer comes. Blends in better than the biker spandex shorts and white leg tights I used during the Erie canal ride.
I also bought a plastic snap kit and I added a couple to the bottom of the jogger pants so I can tighten up the lower leg to keep the pants away from the chain
This afternoon, I'm going to go do some rougher trail biking on my fat bike. Suddenly realized that a suspension seatpost I bought for my fat bike years ago (over a decade at least) can now be used. When I got it, i was 260 something, just a few pounds from its max weight of 255.
Then I put on way more weight, so it's never been used. Going to try it out this afternoon. Should make trail riding more comfy. This style uses springs and it's not meant for touring, it's meant for harsher bumps on rougher trails.
