I eat a lot. I exercise
rather less than the lot I eat. Biochemistry
and e=mc2 mean that I have become large
and can no longer wear flowery sundresses.
I like Flowery sundresses so this is problem for me. This blog is going to be about my efforts to
become sundress-able, and especially one way in which I am going to about this
: cycling.
My plan is to cycle more .
I’ve been cycling on and off in London for 6 years now but, apart from
one 6 glorious months, not regularly. It’s always something I intend, and talk
about a lot, but excuses/broken bikes/hills get in the way. Now however I’ve gone headlong from plump to
overweight to fat to obese to MORBID OBESITY.
Duh duh duuuuuhhhh.
I recently cycled to my work. It’s a beautiful ride through Greenwich,
under the foot tunnel and then up through the Isle of dogs. There’s a view of the Millennium dome that is
simply beautiful. I cycled home too and
when I got there I discovered that this trip of 10 miles and 2 hours had burned
1300 calories. I looked at that number
and just thought… “Why am I not doing this.
I like it – it’s fun, it’s cheap and at that rate you’ll be thin by Christmas!” I thought a few other things too but that was
the sum of it. However, I know from past
experience that a vague ambition “to cycle more” may or may not turn into bum on bike and that even if it does that
might not turn into weight loss. I so
figure I need more that just that. I
need a plan: healthy eating as well as exercise, a support network
and public accountability. You are that
last one. Say hi public accountability.
There’s loads more I want to say but I don’t know what to
pick so I made a list of topics:
My plan and goals
On crazy lycra men
On my history with cycling
On always being fat
On why I love cycling
On Florence the 8th
On accurate calorie counting
Om my mixed reasons
On cycling in London
Sorry you’re number four so I can’t talk to you.
So that’s what this is about – morbid obesity and cycling in
London. A happy combo.
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