Tuesday, March 24, 2015

LOTS OF BIKE RIDING, EYE SURGEON AND WEIGHT LOSS!

Last week was great as far as getting our bike rides in even though we had several days of rain, we just had to dodge the storms.

As you can see the skies looked pretty scary. Here we are riding down the driveway heading to the ranch gate. We rode 4 days this week and we anywhere from 12 to 19 miles. 


On Thursday, March 19, we headed over to the eye surgeons office. Dr. Parkhurst did Ralph's eye surgery on his left eye back in February and now we came to have a consultation about doing the right eye. Also at the consultation was Ralph's Optometrist, Dr. Medina.

Several test were done by Dr. Median and Dr. Parkhurst. After some discussion, a
decision was made and Dr. Parkhurst is going to do laser surgery with a Toric Lense. It has been scheduled for May. They had earlier appts. but Ralph has signed up for two, 4 days shoots including the Texas State Championship, so May it is.


Over the last few weeks, Ralph has been steadily working on knife sheaths for Dr. Medina's flint knives with antler handles. Dr. Medina admired a leather holder that Ralph was wearing that had his little pocket knife in it. Ralph told him that he made it and Dr. Medina had asked him if he would be interested in making him some sheaths.

Dr. Medina keeps these beautiful flints knives in a display case in his office. Dr. Medina is also the optometrist for the San Antonio Spurs NBA Basketball team.


Well Dr. Medina just loved his knife sheaths! In the picture is Dr. Median and his assistant Alex and boy does she know her stuff. Ralph has one more sheath left to do for him.


Finally on Friday, March 20 we had a beautiful day. Heading out on our bikes, I finally got to see the longhorn calf that was born 6 days ago. Here the little one is taking a nap along with mom. The black and white bull seems to be keeping a good eye on his baby.


Finally the baby got up. Every time I have been trying to take a picture, the baby has been sleeping.

The wild flowers blooming along the roads made our bike ride just that much more beautiful.


The Texas State Flower is the Blue Bonnet below.

On Saturday, March 21, Loy and I headed out to Weight Watcher's. I felt good about weighing in and knew it would be a good one.

Well I stepped on the scale and lost 2.2 lbs. I have now lost 22.2 lbs in 9 weeks and I now weigh 181.6! Just 17.6 lbs. more to go before I reach the maximum goal that WW has set for me.

As I said in many of my previous posts, I love my WW App on my phone. I track my points and weight. It does many other things and to me it is quite mind boggling how helpful the WW App is to me.

Well today I had quite the chuckle. Each week I put in my "new" weight in the WW App. Each time a message with feedback comes back saying how good you are doing and etc. Now I don't know what it would say if you should put on weight because so far I have not had an increase.

Now that is not to say that I won't. There are reasons for this such as, you just had a rough week and just had to binge here and there or sometimes your weight just fluctuates. But my message said "You are losing weight too rapidly". There was also additional info. but that is all I remember. WW wants weight loss anywhere from 0.5 to 2.0 lbs. a week. There were some weeks I lost 5 lbs. and one week where I lost just 0.6 of a pound. However my average is 2.46 lbs for the 9 weeks.

I log in all my bike riding and step aerobics work outs in the WW app, but I guess it does not take into account that I am burning exercise calories too. Oh well, I am certainly not going to slow down. I want to get rid of this unhealthy weight as soon as possible!

On Sunday, March 22, Ralph stayed home to weed whack around the RV. With all this rain the grass has really grown. Hoppy came by the other day to mow our lot and with all the rain it has grown a couple of inches already.


I headed out to do a ride. I felt good enough to tackle a 24 mile loop. This would be my longest ride since starting my weight loss in January. I use to do this loop a few years ago when were were here, but I was a lot lighter and in better shape. However I felt good enough to tackle it and I did!

I took plenty of stops to hydrate myself and took one short 10 min. rest stop at the 20th mile mark. I could have kept going but I wanted to enjoy a little break and take in all the progress that I have achieved during these past 9 weeks. What has also helped is me documenting my progress on our website.

During each mile I rode, I thought about the wonderful dinner we had planned with Hoppy and Loy.

After my ride, I got cleaned up and made a coconut, banana, pineapple loaf cake for dessert. I enjoy baking and yes I will have a little slice. It will cost me several points, but I allowed for it, especially for the ride I did today.

I had bought a Brisket a few weeks ago and yesterday decided that today would be good day to cook it. Hoppy put it in his smoker early this morning and it has been cooking all day long. Loy is made potato salad and I made a good hearty tossed salad.

I would have like to have gotten a picture of the Brisket on the grill, but it was already on the table when we arrived at the ranch house.

Until Next Time............Happy Trails To All!













2 comments:

  1. I am so proud of you Angie!!! You are doing great! We are just going to be hanging around home today if you want to call about your March folder since it is almost time to create the April folder!! :)))

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