Starting weight (7/15/08):  279.8
Yesterday:  263.6  Today:  265.0
Change today:  +1.4   Loss-so-far: 14.8 lbs.

Up. Down. Up. Down. Losing the same pound over and over again. Last time I was doing this, I was losing pound #267.  Now I’m doing it with pound #264.  I would have appreciated something longer than a 3-pound gap between the two.  But that’s okay.  As long as there are downs between the ups, I’m good with it.

I haven’t been doing the Total Gym thing, not since Wednesday, and I haven’t ridden the exercise bike since Thursday.  Funny how that span of time corresponds with a gain. 

SO!!!!  This is why I’m so EXCITED today!  FINALLY FINALLY we went on a bike ride!!!

It was storming again this morning.  Hubby spent the early afternoon working on the bikes (inserting those tire liners we bought, what, 2 weeks ago?).  I checked the weather and it looked like the storms were going away and clear skies were moving in, so Hubby, Son, and Mom took off headed south.

We followed the bike trail - the one that includes the overpass - and even though it’s been a while, I made it up without stopping, woohoo!

Here’s the overpass:

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Going up is a challenge but coming down the other side is FUN!!!

Anyway, we stopped for an early dinner at the three-and-a-half-mile mark.  Hubby ate pizza, Son ate low-carb pizza (meaning that he scraped the toppings off and discarded the crust) and I had the most delicious antipasto!  It was a perfect mid-ride feast!

We decided on a route (east) while we were eating, knowing that the direction we’d be going would present a good amount of uphill.  We weren’t disappointed!  LOL, we went uphill for most of the next two miles or so.  The payoff was worth it though, because as soon as we turned north on the next thoroughfare, we cruised down the most marvelous hill!  I yelled “Weeeeee!!!” the whole way down, which amused my Hubby since we were connected by Bluetooth and so I was basically yelling in his ear.

Yeah, speaking of the Bluetooth, this was great!  My husband is hearing-impaired and when we’re out riding our bikes, we’re often forced to ride single-file, which is certainly not conducive to conversation, even if one of us wasn’t hearing-impaired.  We bought two different models of walkie-talkies which both had hands-free VOX and tried to hook ‘em up so we could talk to each other when bike-riding and neither worked out.  Then I got the idea for us to get Bluetooth thingies for our phones.  We kept the line open the whole time and it was awesome!  We enjoy our time together and we enjoy sharing our experiences, and that’s hard to do when one of us can’t hear.  This way we were connected during the entire ride!  I could hear him when he said, “Look at the size of that duck!” and he could hear me when I said, “Holy shit, when does this hill ever end?”  LOL!

We got back home a full fifteen minutes before it started raining - almost a half-hour before it started pouring and thundering and lightning!  We clocked 8.8 miles and it was awesome!

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