Vinny From Brooklyn — My Brooklyn Blog

It has been over a week since I last blogged about my getting healthy plan and let me tell you it sure has been a busy week or so. Besides the Affiliate Summit conference in NYC where I was trying to be careful with what I ate to the Earthquake (which I didn’t feel) to Hurricane Irene it was a trying time.

So to catch up on what I have been doing in a nutshell has been chaos. I had planned on posting twice a week but life got in the way. Through it all the scale this morning said 227.8 so I am down almost 10 pounds from where I started. Long way to go but I know the goal is reachable with some effort. I knew that the conference would be tough for me since it involves a crazy schedule and late night drinks but I played it rather cool. My main goal was to eat 3 times a day and that’s what I did. It wasn’t always the healthiest of choices but I did ok. I still had an Old Castle burger everyday.

I limited myself to 3 or 4 drinks each night and usually had a light beer when I thought of it. The walking that I did proved to be a good workout. I usually do a lot of walking at these shows but this time I did twice as much. Guess that was a good thing but I sure was tired after each day.When I got home my new bike was delivered and ready to be put together.

Hurricane Irene

When the mayor ordered an evacuation we didn’t take any chances and we loaded up the car and headed to my brother Bobby’s house in Syracuse. Between the long drive and truck stop food that trip was also not good for my lifestyle. I did eat lightly except for the one night we ordered pizza and I had no lunch. On the way home we were stuck in traffic for hours and that made truck stop food the norm again and at that point I was tired and just needed food.

I have been using the bike every other day and so far I have done 10 miles. We have a great bike path by me that is about 5 or 6 miles round trip. I plan on doing this at least every other day. It will take time to build up to where I use to be but this is a start.

Now I need to get back on track and get slimmed down a bit. My breakfast at home is cheerios with low fat milk and I have been good about eating that. My goal is to be at 225 by Sept 15th which will be the 5th week mark of my lose 5 pounds in 5 week plan. I have 14 days to lose 2 pounds or so. If you want to see where I started go back to the beginning of my weight loss journey.

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My New Fuji Allegro

So for the past couple of weeks I have been harping on getting a bike. I wanted so bad to have the bike that I use to ride steadily that I decided to find one and get one just like I use to have.

This bike is a Fuji Allegro and it took a few weeks but I finally got one. A bonus is that it is the same color as the one I use to have.

After a few weeks of searching Craigslist and almost pulling the trigger on a couple of EBay auctions that were either too big for me or they needed work I finally bought one. I noticed that these bikes were being listed on EBay every few days so I decided to wait for the exact one I had and that is what I won. It cost me $180 and that is about what they were going for on EBay anyway. I am happy about that.

I am pretty excited to have a bike that I loved so much and use to ride all the time. I am going to change the brakes on the bike as I like the ones that go across the base of the handlebars. Odds are I will change the rear sprocket sometime down the road like I use to have.

I am looking for a good bike shop in Brooklyn or Manhattan to get the bike tuned up. I use to hang out at a bike shop and do tune ups and stuff I just don’t feel like doing it this time. If you know of a good bike shop leave the url in the comments section.

The bike should be here in a few days as it is being shipped from Boston and I look forward to adding a few miles everyday to my workouts.

If you have not been keeping up you can read about my weight loss plan here.

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