05-16-2024, 07:31 AM
Late last year, while chatting with a driver at a racing trade show, he said "A lighter car goes faster. And it takes thousands to take weight out of the car, but it doesn't cost a dime to take weight off of the driver."
While he said this, I was gazing down at my prodigious stomach, and musing about how tight my dress trade show shirts, which are only worn twice a year, were fitting.
I thought back at when I had to get my new Real I.D., I listed a lofty weight that was about 30 pounds less than what I actually was, thinking that someday I'd actually try to hit it.
I figured if a lighter car goes faster, a lighter bike goes a heckuva lot faster. So, after I got home from the show, I went on an eat-less, move-more program, and as of this morning, according to the freight scale in my shop, I just hit the number on my I.D.
To celebrate, I walked to Costco to buy a few bundles of sale-priced microfiber towels. While I was there, I figured I needed some slimmer pants as well, to replace the ones that I've been wearing, zip-tying the belt loops together to tighten them up.
An ancient Chinese proverb states that "When a man starts buying his pants at Costco, he has truly given up." Well, I just bought five of em. Walking back to the office with my box, I got incredulous comments from people in the parking lot... "Did you just... walk... to Costco?"
While he said this, I was gazing down at my prodigious stomach, and musing about how tight my dress trade show shirts, which are only worn twice a year, were fitting.
I thought back at when I had to get my new Real I.D., I listed a lofty weight that was about 30 pounds less than what I actually was, thinking that someday I'd actually try to hit it.
I figured if a lighter car goes faster, a lighter bike goes a heckuva lot faster. So, after I got home from the show, I went on an eat-less, move-more program, and as of this morning, according to the freight scale in my shop, I just hit the number on my I.D.
To celebrate, I walked to Costco to buy a few bundles of sale-priced microfiber towels. While I was there, I figured I needed some slimmer pants as well, to replace the ones that I've been wearing, zip-tying the belt loops together to tighten them up.
An ancient Chinese proverb states that "When a man starts buying his pants at Costco, he has truly given up." Well, I just bought five of em. Walking back to the office with my box, I got incredulous comments from people in the parking lot... "Did you just... walk... to Costco?"