What happened to the virtual diet? I keep checking the website for an update… - am I looking in the wrong place?!!
Big Duke 6 & I (kestrel driver) were the only signees. We’re in this to the end!
I’ve lost 65# (Started at 276, built like a middle linebacker/rugby player - since 8/04), have begun my ‘crit racing’ regimen while working toward my all out goal of 190#.
No real secret to this… just pushed away from the table, made me get up from meetings and workout at the gym. Eat the right foods (chicken, fish, h2o, Earl Grey; 10 min of daily meditation). Spousal unit is highly p.o’d I’ve been so successful, she refers to my Kestrel as a “trike.” She and my daughters cheered/laughed at me during a recent crit noting just how serious I looked while caught up in the pack.
I’m not stopping…
I’ll let BD give you his story.
- mike
B&J Mint Chocolate cookie for dinner 8)…
Great work Kestrel - what sort of time frame is that loss over?
The bottom line to this Epic Diet is that once the other participants realized that Kestrel Driver and I were going to kick ass and take names, the whole thing just dried up. KD and I are the Jordan and Pippen of the Epic Diet, the Armstrong and LeMond, the Gretzky and Lemieux, the … well, you get the drift.
We might not be able to compete (yet) with the skinny-asses here and their talk about qualifying for Kona and Boston, going sub 10 hours, yada, yada, yada, but they know we have the skinny-asses in our sights and we are gunning for them. And they are scared.
Plus, they know that we will take all the chicks at future Slowtwitch parties.
That’s my story, and I’m sticking to it.
– John
To seriously answer your question, it just kind of fizzled out. I think most of the people who signed on didn’t have that much to lose, whereas KD and I did and still do.
We’ve been PMing each other, keeping tabs on each other, and just generally cheering each other on (in a trinewbiesonline – but still very heterosexual – kind of way). We basically formed our own Epic Diet subgroup.
I was at 232ish when this thing started, which I think was in mid-April.
I’m now at about 208, on the way to 180.
I take it you two have renounced your membership to the Food Sluts Club?
congratulations, in the grandest way!
now you can get your ass on a bike and come out and ride. and i refuse to accept the “i don’t have a bike, or i have to work” excuses either 
Thanks. Yeah, I hate when I whine too.
I feel the need to confess after all the bragging and yapping I was doing this morning.
I just had a doughnut. Well, actually I had two. I feel like shit – my blood sugar is going crazy here. I hope I don’t need an intervention – if so, I know Kestrel Driver has my back.
There … I feel cleansed. Let the healing begin.
that’s awesome. now you realize how bad it feels to eat bad, and will be less likely to do it again. don’t beat yourself up though, just learn the lesson. you’re human and slips will happen. it’s just getting back on track immediately that counts.
BTW, for some reason that paleo thread got me in gear. i’ve lost 2 pounds this week! i realized the thing that tripped me up most was not going to the grocery store enough (well, and the drinking 
). so, i’ve committed that even if i need to go 3 times i will, becuase it’s worth it. 8 to 10 more to go!! i think it’s going to go quickly
Thanks, KC. Yep, I think I’ll learn from this one. I’m really buzzing here, the crash will come soon.
If I had posted my confession on trinewbies I’d have had about two dozen sensitive responses by now, telling me how great I am and that I’ll be just fine. And a big group hug. I know the slowtwitch hardasses are there for me though.
But your reply will suffice nicely.
as my personal trainer would say, “get your ass back on track. NOW!!! TA-DAY!!!” yelled out in a 300 pound husky voice.
(he’s a champion power lifter. when he says move…ya move)
No escape. You can never escape.
Once a slut, always a slut
Darn tootin’ Pants. You’d better reel Big Six and Kestrel back in then. They’ve been wayward a little too long (and racking up metrosexual points while they’ve been adrift).
Kitty has been giving them bad advice too. That doesn’t help.
I finally got wise to the fact that all my eating and drinking was keeping me from losing the weight I needed to lose, so I decided to cut out all the eating.
No stopping; although once goal is met (190#), it’s maintenance time.
Thirty-five to go…
- mike
???
Define please… food and slut just don’t look right in a sentence.
/lost look enter here/
- mike
I want to do that. I already planned starting tomorrow. But I don’t want to weigh myself at first. too depressing… can I join you guys? I find it so hard to be good about my diet, I could use support.
Sure! PM both of us… Don’t put off tomorrow what you could be doing now Strap in as you will from us out of the blue, doting on you about your ‘progress’ and lending lots of encouragement (short for foot on derriere).
- mike