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365 Day Photo Challenge 177/365 ” Setting Weight Loss Goals”

25 Thursday Jun 2015

Posted by Tim Hughes Living with CML in Photography

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365 Day Photo Challenge, 50 miler, Alabama, goals, Photography, Rewards

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I took a nutrition class a couple of years ago that my office offered and we were asked to fill out a survey and one of the questions asked what was my weight loss goal.  At that time I weighed a lot more than I do now so I put down I wanted to lose 100 pounds.  A couple of days later I got an email requesting that I meet the instructor and go over the survey with her.  The first question was regarding my goal.  It’s too much she said.  You need to start off with smaller goals and work toward bigger goals once you meet the smaller ones.  So with that I started off with 5 pounds the first month then 5 more the second month and so on.  I lost 60 plus pounds doing that.

Goal setting is not only for weight loss.  I do it for my cycling as well.  When I started riding my bike I could only do about 5 miles at a time.  The only thing I did different was that with each goal that I met I would always increase the goal for the next month so 5 miles became 10, 10 miles became 15 and so forth.  Within about six months I finally reached my last goal of 50 miles.  Pictured here is a group of scouts that I rode with during my 50 mile bike ride.  We all had a blast that day.

Remember when setting goals, make them attainable.  Make your goals challenging but not too high where you may lose interest or get discouraged.  Give yourself an award for reaching your goals.  I remember reading where one lady put up a $1 bill for every pound she lost.  She set her main goal of $50 and when she reached her 50 pounds she had $50 to spend any way she wanted too.  I thought that was a pretty good idea.

If you’re trying to lose weight I hope you’re meeting your goals.  Good luck!!

“Life Goes On!”

365 Day Photo Challenge 83/365 “My Plan”

26 Thursday Mar 2015

Posted by Tim Hughes Living with CML in Photography

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365 Day Photo Challenge, 50 miler, Alabama, Bike Riding, Cycling, Dieting, Georgia, Rockmart Georgia, Silver Comet Trail, treadmill, Weightloss, workout

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As of today I have lost ten pounds since I’ve started dieting.  I started on the first day of March.  I’ve lost weight and gain it back, lost the weight again and then gain it back.  I have found out that I can’t just watch what I eat and expect to lose any weight.  I have to do some sort of exercise and do some major sweating.

When this picture was taken nearly two years ago I had gotten down to around 270 pounds.  Keep in mind I started off at 345 pounds.  The really sad part about this is that I was not at my heaviest when I found out I was diabetic.  I gained even more weight after I was diagnosed.  Once I had reached the 345 mark it was then I decided I really needed to do something.  I started cutting back on my sweets, cutting out bread and cut down on eating between meals.  It worked for a while.  Over about a two year period I lost down to about 310 pounds.

A little over two years ago my doctor told me that if I didn’t do something I would not see my son who was in his second year of college graduate.  Nor would I see my twin daughters graduate high school.  In other words, he put the fear of God in me.  I went home that evening and got on my treadmill.

I started off at thirty minutes, then 45, then an hour and before I knew it I was on my treadmill for 90 minutes.  This was every night but Monday nights and any other night that I might have something else to do but that didn’t happen very often.  The funny thing about this is that after 90 minutes the treadmill automatically shuts off. I wasn’t aware of this until it happened the first time.  I was on my cool down and was only doing about 2 mph when it shut off.  If I had been going faster it would have sent me through the wall.

Then I started riding my bicycle.  I was doing good but quit loosing weight.  I think it was because I was building muscle.  At least that’s what I keep telling myself.  Anyway, my weight started creeping back up.  Then last year about July, my new boss didn’t want me riding my bike while I was on call.  That’s a different story and I really don’t want to get into it right now.  Anyway, I’m no longer on call and I’m free to ride my bike but during that month when I couldn’t ride, I got out of the habit and quit riding.  And the treadmill was something that I didn’t care to see so I didn’t get on it either.  Needless to say before I got back on my diet this month my weight had gotten back up to over 300 pounds.  This morning my weight was 294.

My plan is to ride when it’s pretty and to do the treadmill when it’s nasty out.  For instance, this evening it was supposed to rain so I got on my treadmill.  It never rained so now I’m wishing that I had gotten on my bike.  When the days get longer I can get up to 20 miles a day and more on the weekends.

The above picture is when a group of us went to Dallas Georgia and rode part of the Silver Comet.  We rode from Dallas to just past Rockmart Georgia and back making it a total 50 miles.  I did this trip last year around October before it got cold.  I was not in shape and didn’t feel as good when I got back to Dallas as when I did  the year before.

“Life Goes On!!”

365 Day Photo Challenge 60/365 “Workout”

02 Monday Mar 2015

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365 Day Photo Challenge, 50 miler, Alabama, Bike, Bike Riding, Cycling, treadmill, Weightloss, workout

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This is me about two years ago.  I’ve since gained some of my weight back being that my boss didn’t think I could make in to work in time if I got called in while on a bike ride.  Now that I’m no longer on call I don’t have to worry about it. I can’t put all the blame on my boss being that I could have done a lot of other things to keep my weight off.  Anyway, tonight I started what I hope is a long term workout program.  I started slow, only thirty minutes on my treadmill at a slow 2.9 mph and then I got on my bike trainer for 15 minutes doing about 20 mph.  I may not have done much but at least it feels like I worked out.  I’m looking forward to warmer weather so I can get out and hopefully get back to riding my 20 miles a day.

The photo above was taken after my first 50 miler.  I know for a fact that I wouldn’t look that excited if I had to ride that ride today.  I’m so out of shape.

“Life Goes On!!”

365 Day Photo Challenge Day Fourteen “It’s an Up Hill Battle”

14 Wednesday Jan 2015

Posted by Tim Hughes Living with CML in Uncategorized

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365 Photo Challenge, 50 miler, Bicycle, bicycling, eyes, Photography, treadmill, Vulcan, Weight, Weight loss

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Loosing weight has always been a battle for me all my adult life.  I decided on the first of January that I would start trying to loose weight again.  I was doing good until I found out that I was going to have eye surgery.  To me there was no since trying to get myself in a habit of exercising if was going to have to stop for a couple of weeks after the surgery.  I know I’m just getting back in the same routine and looking for excuses not to exercise.

I go downstairs and I see that treadmill and I get this sickening feeling down in my gut.  I really hate that thing but all it’s doing is collecting dust.  I’ve lost a lot of weight on that treadmill but I just can’t get myself to get back on it.  I love being outdoors and being on my bicycle so much more.

I will have a three day weekend with no doctor’s restrictions and the temps are supposed to break the 60 degree mark.  Come Hell or high water I’m getting on my bicycle and getting some miles in.  I might even post a short video of my ride.

This photo was taken last night at the same place of Vulcan.  It’s the path you walk up to to see the city’s skyline.  Some day soon I’ll hopefully capture an image that I’m proud to share of our great city.

365 Day Challenge Day Four

04 Sunday Jan 2015

Posted by Tim Hughes Living with CML in Uncategorized

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365 Day Photo Challenge, 50 miler, Boy Scouts, Memorial, News, Photography, tornado

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I mentioned it in yesterday’s post and since then I haven’t been able to think much of anything else.  We had some pretty bad storms last night but luckily the tornado’s didn’t happen.

If you follow the link in the photo above it will take you to a site where I have posted all the pictures that were taken during the unveiling of the memorial our Boy Scout Troop did in honor of all those that perished during the tornado event of April 2011.   As you can tell by some of the pictures it was a local news media event.  Three television new’s media plus two local news paper media personal were there to cover the event.  It was a very emotional event to say the least.  It really brought our community together.

My First 50 Miler

24 Thursday Oct 2013

Posted by Tim Hughes Living with CML in Cycling, Weight Loss

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50 miler, Boy Scouts, Cycling, Exercise, Silver Comet Trail

I met up with another boy scout troop in our district and we took a trip to Dallas Georgia to ride a section of the Silver Comet.  The Silver Comet and the Chief LaDiga Trail is an old railroad bed that has been converted to a very nice bike/  walking trail.  It goes from Anniston, Alabama to Smyrna, Georgia.  It’s part of the Rails to Trails project.  We had 18 scouts ride the trail but only 4 of us made the full 50 miles.  I hope everyone enjoys the pictures.ImageImageImageImageImageImageImageg

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