One Man's Mission To Be Thin

Hello, Hello

Chris Bishop — Mon, 20 Apr 2009 14:20:12 +0000

It has been a very long time since I have posted because of winter. Now that winter is over, I hope to start biking again. But things are going to be a little different. I am no longer biking to work since because of a lot of lying and cheating (not by me), I lost my job. I have found a temp job, but its no where close enough to bike to. So, I am going to have to find time elsewhere when I can bike. Another change is that this blog as you know it is going away. This is because by the time I have figured out when I will be able to bike again, I will have created a new blog (created from scratch). I am in development of a custom blog script which will have a more fitting design. The new blog will be hosted on my freelance graphic design server. The new address will be http://fatbiker.cibgraphics.com and is currently under development at this time. Hope to see you real soon. And hope to see me skinny real soon.

One More Day

Chris Bishop — Thu, 16 Oct 2008 14:57:25 +0000

Well, I had one more day to do. And it was worse than yesterday. When I got to work, the temperature was a chilling 39 degrees. I had no winter equipment so im sure every car that passes me thought I was either crazy or a moron. Probably both. I didn’t get 100 yards before I was feeling the effects of the cold. My ears were starting to turn red and my thumbs and fingers were starting to lose feeling. When I got to work, my thumbs had almost no feeling left in them, and I wasn’t even sure I had ears anymore. All jokes aside I started to feel really dizzy. Sometimes my legs were using memory to keep me up and walking instead of me doing it myself. I have to admit, it wasn’t a smart thing to do. Something I will never do again without the proper gear.

The ride home wont be bad since it will have warmed up to at lest 65, but I am done with biking. All I know is thankgoodness for hot chocolate.

Officially Done with Biking for the Year

Chris Bishop — Wed, 15 Oct 2008 15:13:01 +0000

This morning I rode to work in 48 degree weather. That was way to cold especially when you are traveling 30mph downhill near a river. By the time I got to work I was slightly dizzy, numb all over, and exhuasted. Granted it did snow three days ago, but it was suppose to warm up to almost 70. Guess not, at least not for today.

Ive been cough a little bit this morning, so I hope the foolish ride isnt getting me sick. We’ll see I guess

As so how much I’ve lost in my months of riding. Absolutly nothing. I couldn’t curb my eating habits so it was basically all for nothing. I don’t know if I would call it a total failure. The fact that I actually got out and rode the bike was something I didn’t think I could do. I guess my mission for the winter is to try and stop eating so much of the bad junk that taste so good. Just in time for Halloween, Thanksgiving, and Christmas. Oh boy.

I do want to thank everyone for their support. It just amazes me that every single one of my posts has had at least one comments. Thats just amazing. Thank you so much.

15 Cops, and a Morning Rider

Chris Bishop — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 19:24:09 +0000

OK, I admit, the title is a little misleading. It makes it sound as though there was something that happened. Sorry, but nothing really happened that really mattered, but I did have a run in with 15 cops. Well, almost a run in – to. Allow me to explain.

On my rides I have many hills that I go up and down. Some of these are really big that take a lot of energy to ride up. So as a mental thing, when I ride up these hills I keep my eyes down looking at the road. I find that if I look up, my legs will also ‘see’ how far it still has left to petal and then just give up. Saying it short, for some reason looking at the hill makes me more tired.

So to the story in question. I was riding to work riding up the big hill as usual. I hear a weird whistle sound. Thinking that its part of my music that I listen to, I think nothing else of it. After a couple seconds and a weird clapping sound, I looked up to find 15 cops running toward me. No, these cops were not after me. They were in training running against the traffic… right at me. I saw them just in time to dodge them. Im sure they wern’t too happy with me, but in my defense they were going against the traffic and I wasn’t really expecting 15 cops running towards me.

That was my fun for the day. Hurray!

Wind, Cold, Rain … Oh my!

Chris Bishop — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 02:13:58 +0000

Well in the last few weeks, I have had to ride my bike in everything from (you guessed it) wind, cold, and rain. Some days have been bearable while others you just grit your teeth and know that it won’t last forever. One of those days was earlier this week. Starting off the day was only showing a little sprinkle. No big deal I thought. As soon as the larger drops of rain and the cold wind started blowing, I knew that it wasn’t going to be an enjoyable ride any longer. It took me longer than normal to get to work (though I still wasn’t late), my legs, arms, and face were wet and numb, not to mention totally soaked. Im sure those who drove by felt sorry for me. Either that or fully laughing at me. Either way I don’t blame them.

Im not really loosing weight, but some how people are mentioning that they notice a difference. Personally I don’t see it, but I look at myself every morning. So who knows what’s actually happening. All I can do is try my best to eat well, and ride as much as my body and mind will allow me.

Sorry Guys

Chris Bishop — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 15:46:34 +0000

Sorry for the long delay in posts. Things have been crazy busy with the new baby as well as freelance work for graphics design. I hope to release a new version of my webpage this month or early next month. Its going to have lots of cool new features and a kicking design.

Well I degress. On to biking. I have been keeping up my biking only taking off maybe one day a week to rest (no counting weekends). The huge hill really kills me. If it was flat, I doubt I would be sweating at all. I did get a bike computer so I can record some stats as I ride. On the huge downhill (and uphill) that I ride on everyday, I managed to get to 30 m/h by just coasting down it. I’ll have to do an exact distance measurement and other stuff later.

As to the weight loss. I really haven’t lost anything because I’m a turd when it comes to eating good. BAD ME! I need to stop eating sweets and eating out (when you have a 2 year old.. kinda hard not to).

Well, the only thing I can do is keep up the biking, and try to eat better.

Onward!

New Addition

Chris Bishop — Sat, 09 Aug 2008 02:55:27 +0000

Its been a full week since I have been able to write. Things are very busy. The reason why I haven’t been able to write is because me and my wife have had a new baby. Little Ryan was born on Thursday night. Both He and Mommy are doing wonderful! He is such a quiet baby, which is nice. I was only able to ride two days this week, and due to eating out a lot (can’t eat healthy when you have a new baby and no time), I wouldn’t be surprised if I gained some weight this week. Oh well, just more fun riding it off. I hope to go back to work possibly Monday, so I will start riding again then.

Onward Again!

First Full Week Done!

Chris Bishop — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 15:26:57 +0000

End of Week Weight: 148.2

Total Weight Loss: 2.0 Lbs.

Well at the end of the week, I was able to loose 2 whole pounds. And that was being a bad boy with food (I hope to be better). Riding to work today was very hard because my legs are so sore. They are ready for the weekend. This week was the first full week that Ive done. The last two weeks before I have either been off due to a holiday, or other reasons I wasn’t able to ride all week. I guess my legs will get used to it, but boy is it hard.

Im thinking its well worth it though. Im already starting to see the difference in the numbers small as it may be. Oh well. Onward!

Feels Good

Chris Bishop — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 17:42:22 +0000

Usually when I ride my bike, I get passed up by those professional bikers. This makes you feel bad because they are doing at least twice as fast as you. Although I do take into account that they have road bike, and are inmuch better shape that I am in, it still doesn’t make you feel any better when they pass you.

For the first time today, I was able to pass someone! Now it wasn’t a professional biker (not even going to dream about that one), but it was just a normal biker who looked to be in much better shape than I.

Just feels good knowing that im not the slow one out there and makes me feel as if I’m making progress.

Going Down in One Form or Another

Chris Bishop — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 16:56:24 +0000

Well Ive had my downs this past weekend. The first is that here in Utah we had a holiday called “Pioneer Day”. For you non-Utahn’s, its basically like a second 4th of July in terms of we have fireworks and BBQ’s and all that jazz. Well, hamburgers are my downfall and I ate more than I should have.

I know, bad me.

Another down is actually a good down. I decided to weigh myself again and have gone down 0.8 lbs to 249.4 lbs.

Go me! It appears as if the biking is working despite my weakness in eating still.