April 25th, 2010

The Incredible Shrinking Woman

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The Biggest Loser

Well as all of you know aside from my gender change I am going through significant weight loss.  I am also a very big fan of the tv show "The Biggest Loser" and I love Jillian Michaels, of coarse Bob Harper is a cutie as well and I love his personality.  Anyways so I have been following The Biggest Loser and keeping decent pace in weight loss.  Well at the beginning of this season contestants had to ride 26.2 miles on an exercise bike in teams of two (so 13.1 miles each roughly).  Then a few weeks ago the remaining contestants had to do the 26.2 miles on an exercise bike alone.  I ride my exercise bike almost every day but the one thing I have not done in comparison to the show is ride the 26.2 mile challenge, see 26.2 miles is a marathon distance and quite the victory for anyone let alone anyone over weight.

Well today I decided to go for it and try, 94.45 minutes later at 17 mph I finished my 26.2 mile ride burning 2,344 calories (calculated from 6 different calorie calculator websites then averaged), thats only 24 minutes slower then the fastest time on this season of The Biggest Loser!  OMG what a victory!  My tailbone hurts but shockingly my legs dont ache like I thought they would.  I hope this challenge I overcame puts a nice dent in the scale tomorrow, after all I burnt more calories this morning then I consume per day on average.

"But wait theres more!" (as said by Billy Maze and Anthony Sullivan two infomercialists) My day of exercise isnt over yet, now after I post this blog my wife, kids, and I are going on a walk/jog to my mom's house which is another 6.15 miles away.  Getting healthy never felt soooooooooo good!