Round 2

Looking back at my weight loss journey, I realize that I really spent about 4 months both losing weight and gaining fitness, and then I spent the last several months gaining fitness (speed and power) but not losing weight anymore.

I think in order to lose the remaining weight, I'm going to have to treat it as a project, just like I did last time.

I've gained a couple pounds back in the last few weeks. My shoulder has been healing from the new tattoo, I've just finished my final projects for the semester for school, I've been preparing to start my new job, and now I've just had a minor surgery that will keep me off the bike for a week, just in time to go back for the last tattoo session on my shoulder next Sunday.

Once all that is over, I'm going to try the same routine I did last year:

Training

• Saturday and Sunday outdoors on the bike
• Tuesday and Thursday on the trainer in the morning
• Tuesday and Thursday at the gym in the evening

Diet

• Eat 4 to 5 meals a day
• Cut down on the fast food
• Cut down on soda

I've kind of let me diet go completely and I have barely been in the gym. I know that I will need to change them both. I'm hoping that the new job doesn't prevent that.

My weight is around 178 right now. I'd really like to be in the lower 160's by the end of the summer. Last year I lost 20 pounds in 4 months. If I can drop 16 pounds in 4 months this time around, I will be really happy.

I had planned on doing a lot of races this year. That hasn't changed. I still want to get into several crits and time trials. The competition will be great to keep my motivation up. In the long term, I have to remember that it's more important for me to be healthy and thinner than it is for me to be racing, though. I have to remember to make the weight loss a priority again.