When I was twelve years old we lived on a farm about four miles from town, and I wanted a new bicycle more than anything (except maybe Maureen McCormick, and I'll admit to having only a vague idea about what I wanted with her). Not another hand-me-down bike, mind you, but a brand new bike of my very own like I hadn't had since I was five and got one for Christmas and my grandpa taught me to ride it that very day. So I started saving my nickels and dimes and dreaming of a new bike. On our weekend stops at the sporting goods store I picked out the one I wanted, a white Columbia 10-speed road bike with black handlebar tape, saddle and trim, center-pull caliper brakes and Shimano derailleurs. I even remember exactly how much it cost - $179.99. After months of saving and scrounging and coming up short I began to despair that it would ever be mine.

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Yesterday, I went to the gym and did 50 minutes on the bike. Instead of just doing the fat burn setting, I did somewhat of an interval program in which I moved from 65% to 80% of my max heart rate and sat at each for 3 minute intervals. It took a long time to move from one to the other, so there wasn't that much interval work going on, but it was a little harder workout than what I had been doing.

I ate my meals, except that I didn't take my last snack last night. I felt a little hungry when I went to bed last night, for sure. When I stepped on the scale this morning, wow, I guess I might have been a little hungry: down 1.9 pounds. In addition to the bike work, I also worked in the yard and I worked up a little sweat.

Tomorrow is a travel day. Twayn, if you want to post, go ahead.

Day 34
Weight: 265.4
Total Loss: 19.1