Hi,
Oddly I never got any replies that anyone else had responded to this thread and just came back to say I am having my bike delivered next week.
As for the weight, well I never set out to be 20 stone, I used to be ultra thin just 7/8 years ago and then I became a single parent with a young child and an teenage son and things changed, getting out was next to impossible and things I used to do like Badminton etc all went by the wayside, money became extremely tight so first to go was healthy meals, and in came regulation bolgnese and other such low price easy to make foods. Anyway such is life I guess, I dont drink or smoke but I am big built, as in muscular etc, however most of the weight is on my stomach, the rest of me is pretty normal to be fair.
I gave up smoking in January last year after 20 years of smoking, I wanted to lose weight then but doing both at the same time isn't practical and I would probably fail on both counts, now smoking is out the way and things are a little easier, meals are more balanced, I can now concentrate on my weight. I didn't choose to be overweight, life is just crap like that sometimes.
However as for a previous posters question yes commuting etc is how I plan to start, ride to the main superstore for instance is a 10 mile round trip and mainly flat so a good place to start, also I am lucky enough to not be too far from a couple of country parks and my friend is going to put our bikes in the back of his van and we will go out there a few hours.
Also thanks to the person who put up the video, I enjoyed watching it.
And lol once more thanks to everyone that posted, everyone has their own opinion on weight and I can respect that, I have been thin before and remember thinking myself how do people get so big but sometimes things just happen and not in the way you plan and now I am larger myself I lack a lot of self confidence, ie I wont go to the swimming pool, because I remember what I used to think of the larger people in the pool and didn't want people thinking that about me. But I am trying to make a difference and I started my diet last Monday and have lost 5lb so far, so I am hoping to get back to cycling, some off-road trails and enjoy what I have missed over the last few years.
Oddly I never got any replies that anyone else had responded to this thread and just came back to say I am having my bike delivered next week.
As for the weight, well I never set out to be 20 stone, I used to be ultra thin just 7/8 years ago and then I became a single parent with a young child and an teenage son and things changed, getting out was next to impossible and things I used to do like Badminton etc all went by the wayside, money became extremely tight so first to go was healthy meals, and in came regulation bolgnese and other such low price easy to make foods. Anyway such is life I guess, I dont drink or smoke but I am big built, as in muscular etc, however most of the weight is on my stomach, the rest of me is pretty normal to be fair.
I gave up smoking in January last year after 20 years of smoking, I wanted to lose weight then but doing both at the same time isn't practical and I would probably fail on both counts, now smoking is out the way and things are a little easier, meals are more balanced, I can now concentrate on my weight. I didn't choose to be overweight, life is just crap like that sometimes.
However as for a previous posters question yes commuting etc is how I plan to start, ride to the main superstore for instance is a 10 mile round trip and mainly flat so a good place to start, also I am lucky enough to not be too far from a couple of country parks and my friend is going to put our bikes in the back of his van and we will go out there a few hours.
Also thanks to the person who put up the video, I enjoyed watching it.
And lol once more thanks to everyone that posted, everyone has their own opinion on weight and I can respect that, I have been thin before and remember thinking myself how do people get so big but sometimes things just happen and not in the way you plan and now I am larger myself I lack a lot of self confidence, ie I wont go to the swimming pool, because I remember what I used to think of the larger people in the pool and didn't want people thinking that about me. But I am trying to make a difference and I started my diet last Monday and have lost 5lb so far, so I am hoping to get back to cycling, some off-road trails and enjoy what I have missed over the last few years.
