How old is too old for Lycra 🥴

[raleighnut]

I hear you. When I last had bloodwork done it seems I was pre-diabetic. I sort of noticed that but never discussed my results with my doctor so the "message" never got through to me. I am scheduled for new bloodwork in two weeks. The last few weeks I've begun watching my sugar, carbs and calories hoping maybe I can avoid the diagnosis. But I've also been feeling some neuropathy in my feet and have a feeling I've got it. I too love my carbs in all forms. We'll see if I'm joining you.

I would have been classed as 'pre-diabetic' a few years back but they lowered the 'normal' range in the UK so I now get classed as Type 2. It really started nearly 7 years ago when I snapped my Femur into 3 pieces and the 1st 'intramedullary nail' didn't work so they drilled the inside of the bone out a bit more and fitted a bigger pin. that's when I started putting weight on and ended up at just over 100kg (230lbs or so not exactly fat for a 6 footer but still too heavy) being pretty immobile for a year didn't help and I'm still in pain permanently but it's slowly getting better.

 

[MntnMan62]

I would have been classed as 'pre-diabetic' a few years back but they lowered the 'normal' range in the UK so I now get classed as Type 2. It really started nearly 7 years ago when I snapped my Femur into 3 pieces and the 1st 'intramedullary nail' didn't work so they drilled the inside of the bone out a bit more and fitted a bigger pin. that's when I started putting weight on and ended up at just over 100kg (230lbs or so not exactly fat for a 6 footer but still too heavy) being pretty immobile for a year didn't help and I'm still in pain permanently but it's slowly getting better.

Yep. I didn't have an accident. My excuse for not getting off my ass and putting on weight was my own laziness and depression. My peak weight was 225 lbs. I'm now at 210 lbs. I've been riding 2 to 3 days a week and working out doing pushups, crunches and planks two days a week. I don't eat much during the day but I have a problem with late night noshing. I gotta cut that out. And I'll confess I'm nervous about getting the results of my bloodwork. I already have kidney disease so diabetes on top of that is not a good thing.

 

[MntnMan62]

Lycra is made for cycling, I wear it on every ride including the MTB, I did try some so called MTB shorts but while they may be more abrasion resistant, they are not as comfortable.
Oh and I am 68.

Aren't the mountain bike shorts just like road bike lycra with an added layer over the lycra?

 

[Venod]

I have had 2 pair and non had lycra underneath one pair had an insert, the other pair was designed to be worn over under shorts.

 

[Brandane]

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im sure you don’t look like this so you’ll be fine. Whatever you think he’s got the balls to wear it.

I admire his brass neck; I could never go out in public wearing open toe sandals and white socks!

 

[raleighnut]

I admire his brass neck; I could never go out in public wearing open toe sandals and white socks!

Aye they'd have to be Argyll ones for me too.

 

[deptfordmarmoset]

I admire his brass neck; I could never go out in public wearing open toe sandals and white socks!

I've seen this picture on and off for years but, oddly enough, his footwear has never been the thing that jumps out at me....

65, lycra's fine but I will wear shorts on top sometimes - I don't want people thinking that I think I'm fit.

 

[Zipp2001]

I'm 16.07 stone 60 years old and have never stopped wearing spandex. I'm not about to start worrying what others think, and yes I wear lots of pink.

 

[gavroche]

Yes, bread is bad news. I got into the habit of having a couple of slices of toast at work after riding in. Not good. Now I’m mostly working from home I’ve been able to knock that on the head because we don’t buy bread.

Why? I love my bread and nothing beats the smell of warm bread from the oven.

 

[MntnMan62]

Why? I love my bread and nothing beats the smell of warm bread from the oven.

For people like us, bread is loaded with carbohydrates. Carbohydrates are very very bad for us. They convert to glucose in the blood. No one said we don't love love love bread. But it doesn't like us.

 

[raleighnut]

Why? I love my bread and nothing beats the smell of warm bread from the oven.

I love Bread too it's only recently that the effects of Processed Carbohydrates on the body have been brought to my attention.

 

[snorri]

13 stone,

Still using Imperial measures, yes, too old by far.

 

[newfhouse]

Why? I love my bread and nothing beats the smell of warm bread from the oven.

I like it, but the highly processed stuff we have in the mess room at work piles on the kilos and does my digestive system no favours at all. Pre-pandemic, at home, we used to sometimes buy ‘proper’ bread from a real bakery, which is not so bad.

 

[MntnMan62]

I like it, but the highly processed stuff we have in the mess room at work piles on the kilos and does my digestive system no favours at all. Pre-pandemic, at home, we used to sometimes buy ‘proper’ bread from a real bakery, which is not so bad.

Since I need to cut the stuff out, if I do allow myself the occassonal treat, it's going to be some artisan bread like a loaf of Rustic or Peasant bread. The kind you break a piece off and dip it in olive oil. Yum. But my freewheeling bread eating days are over.

 

[raleighnut]

I like it, but the highly processed stuff we have in the mess room at work piles on the kilos and does my digestive system no favours at all. Pre-pandemic, at home, we used to sometimes buy ‘proper’ bread from a real bakery, which is not so bad.

Sorry but it is all as bad, the milling into flour is the processing*, nowadays I eat very little but what I do eat is the real tasty varieties.

* I went on a 'Diabetes Diet Course' (not my choice I was sent on it by the Doc) and in answer to the question "Which Bread contains the least Carbohydrate" there were various answers from the other participants but I said nothing til the person holding the class asked me what I thought, my answer "They're all the same" was the only correct one. The 'Health care professional' who was hosting this seminar reckoned afterwards to me that no one had ever got the answer to this 'trick question' right before in years of her hosting these education sessions. BTW this also holds true for Pasta, Pastry, and Cous-Cous, in fact anything made with Flour.