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Getting back to the blog.

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 Getting back to the blog. I have been exercising the past few weeks but have not had the care to update the blog. The last update is a good part of the reason. I needed time to just not think about what to write about and process things. I am feeling more up to it again and decided today to update about the journey.  I have been cycling as much as I can still and it has been going well. I am not seeing much improvement on my speed or losing any weight. For the weight portion of things I have been eating VERY poorly the past few weeks. I stopped really measuring out my food and not counting any calories. This has resulted in a minor setback with some weight gain and a clear increase of fat around my belly. Its nothing drastic I am still well under the start of the journey a year ago but its not good either. I did not expect weight to come on as quickly as it did as I have still been cycling almost every day. I am up to 162 LBS according to my scale today. I was hovering around...

Processing Grief and its effects.

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Processing Grief... The past two weeks I have not felt like myself and I was already trying to process how to get back into feeling like exercising. I was exercising but I did not feel like doing it one bit. Then I got a call that hurts me thinking about and changed my thoughts on life.  My father was old and he was healthy enough for his age but some health complications caught up with him and he did not notice signs of issues and passed away. I got the call he was heading to the hospital and had passed by the time I arrived. I was hopping as I drove that he would pull through and my thoughts were racing about all sorts of things. I had things prepared so that I could stay at the hospital all night and I ended up saying good bye and heading back home a little bit lost. I was preparing myself for this call for a while as I said he was older and had a few health complications but I was not fully prepared for the emotions of things to hit me like they had.  I did not g...