Monday:  275.2 lbs., burned 2576 calories, consumed 1504.
Today:  275.0 lbs., Activities:  3 miles on the real bike.

I have a new favorite lunch.  A few days back, one of my co-workers made herself a cold turkey-and-cranberry sandwich and I had never heard of such a thing.  She said it was a tradition in her family when they ate leftovers at Thanksgiving.  So I tried it, only instead of bread I rolled it into a fat-free tortilla, I used deli smoked turkey, and added a generous layer of lettuce.  Yummm!  The whole wrap totaled only 185 calories - the cranberry sauce was only 43 calories of it but wow the combination of flavors was very cool.

I’m so easily amused. 

Kevin and I went for a bike-ride today on our real bikes.  His arm is healing (has a really impressive scab going on) but he wasn’t in his usual good mood, so we only went three miles and came home.  Hopefully he’ll be in a better mood tomorrow.

Hey, today I’m at a grand total of 93.14 miles for the month!  I think I’ll make my goal of 100 miles for April!!!  How cool is that?!?

I’m feeling more and more strength in my legs now.  When I first started riding regularly, I spent all my time sitting on my ass.  Then when I started tackling hills, I started standing up when necessary so that I could use my own weight to push each pedal down, but I couldn’t maintain that standing position for long, my legs were just not strong enough.  Now I find I can stand up and pedal quite frequently - just to pick up speed, not just for the hard uphills.  It’s still a bit hard on my knees - but not nearly as hard as it once was.

I also noticed something just in the last few rides that I never noticed before:  I can feel the muscles straining in my abdominal muscles.  I didn’t think I even had abdominal muscles!!!  Ha!  When I’m pedaling hard, either for speed or for uphill, I can feel it across my midsection, the tightening of muscles that I don’t remember feeling before!  I know they’re buried down there under mounds of fat, but holy crap!!  They are there!!  Wooohoooo!!

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