The End of an Era :-)

On Nov 21, 12:13 am, The Historian
wrote:
On Nov 20, 6:11 pm, Chris wrote:





On Nov 20, 11:51 am, The Historian
wrote:

On Nov 20, 9:21 am, Chris wrote:

On Nov 20, 9:17 am, The Historian wrote:

On Nov 18, 8:03 am, Chris wrote:

So, I decided yesterday (while I was out hiking on the mountain :-) )
that it's time to stop posting my food & exercise to the list. I
don't think it's a tool I need any longer. My long-term goal has
always been to be able to live life as a normal-weight person with a
normal relationship with food and exercise, and I think the tabulating
involves a bit more obsessiveness about those things than I want for
the long term. So I plan to continue living as I do but not making
daily lists.

I do plan to keep reading ASD and participating in discussions.

Chris

Thanks for the years of inspiration, Chris. And I hope to see your
posts from time to time here.

Neil
385/255/220

Thanks, Neil. You've been an inspiration to everyone here as well.
I'm in awe of your bicycling transformation!

You ain't seen nothing yet!

http://pedalwestdestiny.blogspot.com/

"In 2007 I learned how to ride a bike. In 2008 I'm going to ride from
the Atlantic to the Pacific."

I'll stick around. But I hope the list gets back to having a bit more
interesting content, rather than so much spam and political gibberish.

Chris
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Fascinating! I may have missed it, but when are you planning to set
out? And are you going alone?

Chris

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I can't help being reminded of "The Memory of Running". I think I'd
be afraid to go alone -- though in many ways would enjoy it more too.
Good for you!

Chris

On Nov 21, 6:11 am, Chris wrote:
On Nov 21, 12:13 am, The Historian
wrote:



On Nov 20, 6:11 pm, Chris wrote:

On Nov 20, 11:51 am, The Historian
wrote:

On Nov 20, 9:21 am, Chris wrote:

On Nov 20, 9:17 am, The Historian wrote:

On Nov 18, 8:03 am, Chris wrote:

So, I decided yesterday (while I was out hiking on the mountain :-) )
that it's time to stop posting my food & exercise to the list. I
don't think it's a tool I need any longer. My long-term goal has
always been to be able to live life as a normal-weight person with a
normal relationship with food and exercise, and I think the tabulating
involves a bit more obsessiveness about those things than I want for
the long term. So I plan to continue living as I do but not making
daily lists.

I do plan to keep reading ASD and participating in discussions.

Chris

Thanks for the years of inspiration, Chris. And I hope to see your
posts from time to time here.

Neil
385/255/220

Thanks, Neil. You've been an inspiration to everyone here as well.
I'm in awe of your bicycling transformation!

You ain't seen nothing yet!

http://pedalwestdestiny.blogspot.com/

"In 2007 I learned how to ride a bike. In 2008 I'm going to ride from
the Atlantic to the Pacific."

I'll stick around. But I hope the list gets back to having a bit more
interesting content, rather than so much spam and political gibberish.

Chris
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Fascinating! I may have missed it, but when are you planning to set
out? And are you going alone?

Chris

June 2008. And yes, alone.- Hide quoted text -

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I can't help being reminded of "The Memory of Running". I think I'd
be afraid to go alone -- though in many ways would enjoy it more too.
Good for you!

Chris

I hope I'm a little smarter than Smithy Ide. :-)

On Nov 21, 10:28 am, The Historian
wrote:
On Nov 21, 6:11 am, Chris wrote:





On Nov 21, 12:13 am, The Historian
wrote:

On Nov 20, 6:11 pm, Chris wrote:

On Nov 20, 11:51 am, The Historian
wrote:

On Nov 20, 9:21 am, Chris wrote:

On Nov 20, 9:17 am, The Historian wrote:

On Nov 18, 8:03 am, Chris wrote:

So, I decided yesterday (while I was out hiking on the mountain :-) )
that it's time to stop posting my food & exercise to the list. I
don't think it's a tool I need any longer. My long-term goal has
always been to be able to live life as a normal-weight person with a
normal relationship with food and exercise, and I think the tabulating
involves a bit more obsessiveness about those things than I want for
the long term. So I plan to continue living as I do but not making
daily lists.

I do plan to keep reading ASD and participating in discussions.

Chris

Thanks for the years of inspiration, Chris. And I hope to see your
posts from time to time here.

Neil
385/255/220

Thanks, Neil. You've been an inspiration to everyone here as well.
I'm in awe of your bicycling transformation!

You ain't seen nothing yet!

http://pedalwestdestiny.blogspot.com/

"In 2007 I learned how to ride a bike. In 2008 I'm going to ride from
the Atlantic to the Pacific."

I'll stick around. But I hope the list gets back to having a bit more
interesting content, rather than so much spam and political gibberish.

Chris
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Fascinating! I may have missed it, but when are you planning to set
out? And are you going alone?

Chris

June 2008. And yes, alone.- Hide quoted text -

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I can't help being reminded of "The Memory of Running". I think I'd
be afraid to go alone -- though in many ways would enjoy it more too.
Good for you!

Chris

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On Nov 21, 10:28 am, The Historian
wrote:
On Nov 21, 6:11 am, Chris wrote:





On Nov 21, 12:13 am, The Historian
wrote:

On Nov 20, 6:11 pm, Chris wrote:

On Nov 20, 11:51 am, The Historian
wrote:

On Nov 20, 9:21 am, Chris wrote:

On Nov 20, 9:17 am, The Historian wrote:

On Nov 18, 8:03 am, Chris wrote:

So, I decided yesterday (while I was out hiking on the mountain :-) )
that it's time to stop posting my food & exercise to the list. I
don't think it's a tool I need any longer. My long-term goal has
always been to be able to live life as a normal-weight person with a
normal relationship with food and exercise, and I think the tabulating
involves a bit more obsessiveness about those things than I want for
the long term. So I plan to continue living as I do but not making
daily lists.

I do plan to keep reading ASD and participating in discussions.

Chris

Thanks for the years of inspiration, Chris. And I hope to see your
posts from time to time here.

Neil
385/255/220

Thanks, Neil. You've been an inspiration to everyone here as well.
I'm in awe of your bicycling transformation!

You ain't seen nothing yet!

http://pedalwestdestiny.blogspot.com/

"In 2007 I learned how to ride a bike. In 2008 I'm going to ride from
the Atlantic to the Pacific."

I'll stick around. But I hope the list gets back to having a bit more
interesting content, rather than so much spam and political gibberish.

Chris
262/130s/130s- Hide quoted text -

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Fascinating! I may have missed it, but when are you planning to set
out? And are you going alone?

Chris

June 2008. And yes, alone.- Hide quoted text -

- Show quoted text -

I can't help being reminded of "The Memory of Running". I think I'd
be afraid to go alone -- though in many ways would enjoy it more too.
Good for you!

Chris

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No doubt. He did okay, though.

Chris

On Sun, 18 Nov 2007 05:03:46 -0800 (PST), Chris
wrote:

So, I decided yesterday (while I was out hiking on the mountain :-) )
that it's time to stop posting my food & exercise to the list. I
don't think it's a tool I need any longer. My long-term goal has
always been to be able to live life as a normal-weight person with a
normal relationship with food and exercise, and I think the tabulating
involves a bit more obsessiveness about those things than I want for
the long term. So I plan to continue living as I do but not making
daily lists.

I do plan to keep reading ASD and participating in discussions.

Chris


Chris, I do hope you will continue to contribute here as I would
really miss your wise comments. I understand your reasons for
stopping your daily food and exercise recording - I've often marvelled
at how you've managed to continue to do it for so long, although in
your case I never thought of it as obsessiveness - you're not in the
same league as me when it comes to that)

I think for the vast majority of us here what you have said about
being able to live life as a normal weight person with a normal
relationship with food and/or exercise (in my case it's just the
relationship with food that's the problem) would represent the proof
of truly genuine success. I would guess that only very few who have
had weight problems can ever reach that point, but of all the people I
can think of you are the one who demonstrates how it can be done.

janice

On Nov 24, 6:41 am, (janice) wrote:
On Sun, 18 Nov 2007 05:03:46 -0800 (PST), Chris

wrote:
So, I decided yesterday (while I was out hiking on the mountain :-) )
that it's time to stop posting my food & exercise to the list. I
don't think it's a tool I need any longer. My long-term goal has
always been to be able to live life as a normal-weight person with a
normal relationship with food and exercise, and I think the tabulating
involves a bit more obsessiveness about those things than I want for
the long term. So I plan to continue living as I do but not making
daily lists.

I do plan to keep reading ASD and participating in discussions.

Chris

Chris, I do hope you will continue to contribute here as I would
really miss your wise comments. I understand your reasons for
stopping your daily food and exercise recording - I've often marvelled
at how you've managed to continue to do it for so long, although in
your case I never thought of it as obsessiveness - you're not in the
same league as me when it comes to that)

I think for the vast majority of us here what you have said about
being able to live life as a normal weight person with a normal
relationship with food and/or exercise (in my case it's just the
relationship with food that's the problem) would represent the proof
of truly genuine success. I would guess that only very few who have
had weight problems can ever reach that point, but of all the people I
can think of you are the one who demonstrates how it can be done.

janice

Thanks for your kind words, Janice. I'm not sure I'm quite there yet
on the "normal relationship" thing; I'm still trying to find the right
balance between just having good habits and worrying about it all a
bit too much, but it's working pretty well. (I certainly ate more
than I needed to on Thanksgiving -- but not insane amounts. And,
while I didn't exercise for the three days we were away at my in-laws
(just logistically hard, and I decided to take a break), I've been
back to my routine since -- did hip-hop yesterday and ran 5 1/2 miles
this afternoon. Maybe this is pretty normal, all in all :-).

I plan to stick around here.

Chris

On Nov 18, 8:03 am, Chris wrote:
So, I decided yesterday (while I was out hiking on the mountain :-) )
that it's time to stop posting my food & exercise to the list. I
don't think it's a tool I need any longer. My long-term goal has
always been to be able to live life as a normal-weight person with a
normal relationship with food and exercise, and I think the tabulating
involves a bit more obsessiveness about those things than I want for
the long term. So I plan to continue living as I do but not making
daily lists.

I do plan to keep reading ASD and participating in discussions.

Chris


Thanks for inspiring me to keep a daily log and thanks for all the
comments. Congratulations on your accomplishments. You have done well
and you should be proud!

Also, I was recently made aware of thedailyplate.com for tracking
food. So if you ever find yourself wanting to log your diet and/or
exercise in the future, check it out. I like it so far because you can
look up calories right from the same site, click on it, and it adds
the calories right to your log for you and totals them all up for you,
then takes off the calories for the exercise you've done for the day.

Anyway, keep up the good work. Bye bye.

Love, Shauhn

On Nov 18, 8:03 am, Chris wrote:
So, I decided yesterday (while I was out hiking on the mountain :-) )
that it's time to stop posting my food & exercise to the list. I
don't think it's a tool I need any longer. My long-term goal has
always been to be able to live life as a normal-weight person with a
normal relationship with food and exercise, and I think the tabulating
involves a bit more obsessiveness about those things than I want for
the long term. So I plan to continue living as I do but not making
daily lists.

I do plan to keep reading ASD and participating in discussions.

Chris

I somehow missed the original post, but I think you've done this so
long and have been maintaining long enough not to need to anymore.
Though I'll kind of miss the posts, I think you've achieved your long
term goal!

Congratulations!

--
Cynthia
262/226/152

On Nov 26, 2:49 pm, Cynthia P wrote:
On Nov 18, 8:03 am, Chris wrote:
So, I decided yesterday (while I was out hiking on the mountain :-) )
that it's time to stop posting my food & exercise to the list. I
don't think it's a tool I need any longer. My long-term goal has
always been to be able to live life as a normal-weight person with a
normal relationship with food and exercise, and I think the tabulating
involves a bit more obsessiveness about those things than I want for
the long term. So I plan to continue living as I do but not making
daily lists.

I do plan to keep reading ASD and participating in discussions.

Chris

I somehow missed the original post, but I think you've done this so
long and have been maintaining long enough not to need to anymore.
Though I'll kind of miss the posts, I think you've achieved your long
term goal!

Congratulations!

--
Cynthia
262/226/152

Thanks, Cynthia. I think it's working so far; I haven't changed my
eating habits since I stopped posting what I eat. I just decided it's
time to be "normal" :-).

Chris
262/130s/130s

On Nov 18, 5:03 am, Chris wrote:
So, I decided yesterday (while I was out hiking on the mountain :-) )
that it's time to stop posting my food & exercise to the list. I
don't think it's a tool I need any longer. My long-term goal has
always been to be able to live life as a normal-weight person with a
normal relationship with food and exercise, and I think the tabulating
involves a bit more obsessiveness about those things than I want for
the long term. So I plan to continue living as I do but not making
daily lists.

I do plan to keep reading ASD and participating in discussions.

Chris

WOW!!! It only seemed like yesterday that you were in weight loss
mode from 262. And look at you at 130 and holding for at least a year
or so... :-)

Sad that I won't be able to see your posts on your food and fitness
journal. But I'm glad you're at a point where you no longer need to
do this now.

Cheers,
Joanna (yes, I know. I haven't been around in quite a while... I'll
post what's been happening with me in a bit...)