Actually....
....Actually those are the places that the old "Big Dave" would hit. With my back (and eventually neck problems) and after finally taking the advice of my doctor (every year during the annual physical he would tell me that I am healthy, but I needed to lose weight or it was going to catch up with me), I decided on June 3rd 2003 that I was going to change my eating habits permanently. In addition to the advice, the pain that I was having was also a very good incentive. Anyway, on June 3rd I started the South Beach Diet and am pleased to say that I have lost 75 pounds. (What I weighed when I started is highly classified, so don't expect to find that info here.) The new eating style has gone great and generally I am staying away from breads, sugars, and starches (ie baked potato) most of the time and it is working great for me. I hope to lose another 50 pounds or so by the end of 2004. The weight loss has slowed a little since the surgery and while I am limited in physical activities, hopefully will get the okay to starting going back to the gym in March. And, I am really feeling much better. I still go to Mexican restaurants, but usually do the Fajitas without the tortilla. Don't even want the Dairy Queen anymore. My riding buds always thought that I had every ice cream shop in the US programmed into my GPS (they were right), but now I avoid them completely. Since 3 June I have been to the DQ once (that was in Sudbury, Ontario) when my fishing buds and I made our one evening trek to the "big city". I had a small Blizzard (normally would have been the big one) and afterwards it made me feel pretty sick, so don't even want to do that again. Guess going months without those sugars makes the body not want them any more. Now just have to control the mind so that it does not want them.
Side benefit: You would not believe the increased power of both the Wing and the Valk. One of the guys in my club was talking about putting a blower on his Valk, I told, "You don't need to spend that kind of money to get more power, just lose 75 pounds and you get the same result!!!"
