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Fat burning year 5-Mar-2018 At 10:43:43 AM IdratherbeclimbingM9

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On 5-Mar-2018 hamish_b wrote:
>Climbing when you are heavier than you used to be is very frustrating.
> Its like carrying around 10kg's of trad rack up a climb but you don't get to offload as you go up for the second to carry.
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I consider my heavy (ancient) rack as weight training!
Heh, heh, heh.

I like your 'brick & wall building' analogy.

On 2-Mar-2018 mikllaw wrote:
>(snip) I'd hovered at 97kg for a few years and nothing seemed to affect my weight.
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>(snip) I already do a fair amount of exercise which doesn't seem to affect my
>mass at all (though I'd probably balloon if I stopped), (snip)
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>I've dropped 5 kg this month (snip)

I had a stable weight of 82 kg for many many years; which eventually crept up to 85, then got to 87 kg just before/after retirement; and so I took up the mountain biking supplement, as I obviously wasn't doing enough climbing to keep it stable!
Within 18 months my weight dropped to 77 kg and seems to have stabilised again.
I certainly feel much better for it, and MTB'ing is fun too.

Since having the heart issue I've cut back on alcohol consumption as it really isn't good for us, though I didn't consider myself excessive in that department with an average of about 3 std drinks per day (the odd alcohol free day equalised out with the odd excessive drink day!), ... with a view to stopping altogether when current supplies run out(!); ... to test for myself if I can perceive any health benefits from that action; though my mindset is a bit along the lines of it not being much use feeling grumpy from abstinence, although fit as, if I meet my demise going under a bus or something similarly unanticipated.

I'm impressed by johny's form as incentive, ... (no more mallets in The Pines for his visits? ;-) ), ~ not that I will ever climb the high grades he is achieving!