The Yo-Yo

I've paid about as much attention to weight loss as I have to this blog, and what a mistake that has been. I've yo-yo dieted for years, and my excuse for it was "at least I'm not back up to my heaviest." What a crock. I've gained back half of what I lost - not so bad I suppose, if it was only a few pounds, but we're talking 60 lbs I've gained back here!

What I didn't blog about in the years I've been silent, was a new good habit - biking. I love it, and despite the accident I still make it out to bike. Don't read the "accident" as a terrible life changing event - it wasn't. I was unable to bike for only a couple weeks, and at this point things are mostly healed. I had some bone chips in my elbow, a leaky irritated bursa, and a row of stitches on my forearm.

The problem wasn't the accident, the problem was the downtime afterwards - I got lazy and de-railed a terrific exercise regimen. The day I got hurt I was performing better atheticaly than I had ever performed before. I hiked/rode for 2 hours to get some altitude, rode for another hour, and through all of it was 85 percent to max heart rate and was feeling like I still had more energy to burn! Then, I fell - right when I started to enjoy the payoff of all the hiking and hogging up the the hills with that bike. Perhaps I was tired, so wasn't as carefull - or I simply was going to fast out of inexperience.

Basically, I want that feeling back and it's been a bitch trying to get there. I had plans for my fitness, and like my dieting and this blog I let bumps in the road get in my way. I'm tired of my fragile good habits, they don't stand a chance against the sturdy and well entrenched poor habits. Here's to another try. I'm getting older, so just maybe its my last chance.