Building and another new baby (soon)

Been a busy few weeks here in the fitdad household.  We listed our house at the end of May, were under contract in 3 days and closed on the sale June 28th.

We officially became homeless that day and were graciously taken in by my in-laws until our new house is built in October.  We are building with Ryan Homes here in Pittsburgh so expect to be bombarded with posts along the way as we build.

I have been seriously negligent in posting regularly but life has been terribly hectic and given the opportunity to blog or be outside with Noah and the family I will always take the latter.  

We have been doing some of this:

Constantly this:

and, I have squeezed in a few of these:

Grampa has strong affection for ice cream so I think I am going to be doing much more running in the coming weeks...Who can say no to grampa and ice cream...I can't.

Then again if Christine gets around to having a baby in the next few weeks I am going to be doing more feeding, changing, and sleeping than running.

In that case if I continue with my ice cream habit I am going to be a fair bit more Fat Dad in the coming weeks.

Stay Hydrated and get outside!

Thanks for reading.

Bicycling Magazine

A few months back I saw a tweet from Bicycling Magazine asking for readers/riders who have lost substantial weight from cycling.  I responded to the tweet and then received an email from them asking my story.  Another few weeks passed and I received another email asking me to sign a release and send in a head shot because some of my quotes may be used in a future issue.

That issue finally arrived this week and I flipped to the article and found that they used three of my quotes for the issue.  I finally have my 15 minutes of fame.  HAHA!  The article is really impressive, the 5 or 6 featured cyclists lost a profound amount of weight.  It really is motivating to see so many others having so much success.  I applaud everyone who was in the issue, great work!!!

Here are the few features where I sprung up in the magazine.

In case you were wondering, that's not me that is Patrick Dempsey, he made a much better cover model than I would have.

This is the first page of the article

"Create a system that helps you face facts about your progress.  Keep a journal to document sucess and failure. Be honest with yourself if you want the best results."

 "Try different types of riding.  Mountain biking is a better full body workout.  Road cycling is more about endurance, pace, and mental toughness, and nothing can replace the thrill of speed."

I am really excited about this magazine this really made my week!  Hopefully if you are reading and thinking about losing weight you can go pick up this issue and get some motivation of your own.

Get out there and get healthy and fit, it's the best gift you could ever give yourself.