Comments on: Morning After

By: Fan of Susan

Fan of Susan — Tue, 27 Nov 2007 02:33:46 +0000

eclectic deb, canadian roadie, kt and the rest of the ladies – i hear you. i managed to lose three lbs. but since i’m married to one of the guys who won, there wasn’t much self-satisfaction in it! kudos to you studly winners tho’.

think fatty will ever tell us about his secret caller?

By: KT

KT — Mon, 26 Nov 2007 17:30:25 +0000

Ah, yes, the Day After The Day When We All Ate Until We Exploded.

AKA: Sit on the couch, read the funnies, watch the parades, watch all the movies on DirecTV, and for the love of Pete, STAY AWAY FROM THE MALL!!

We did our Thanksgiving ride on Thanksgiving morning: 22 miles only, but I swear there was a 15-mph headwind for 20 of those miles. And it was a cold wind, from the East (straight outta the gorge) (which makes no sense, as we went in all sorts of directions). The wind made what should have been a 15mph average into a 11mph average for the ride.

But we worked hard, darnit all to heck. We really earned that turkey (brined turkey, absolutley spectacular), tatos, sweet tatos, green bean casserole, corn suffle`, stuffing, wine, homemade bread, wine, wine, pie, wine, small food fight, wine. Lots of laughs, too.

As for those guys (yes, I too noticed they were ALL MEN) who lost lots of weight in one week: I hate you. Not a lot, but still. You guys can eat anything, and still lose weight. Us femmes can’t do that. I took small, even reasonable-sized portions of Thanksgiving dinner dishes, and only ate until I was satisfied (read: not totally gut-busting full). My SOP (that’s sig other person) Scott ate two or three helpings of everything, filling his plate each time, and I swear he lost weight. Gr.

It’s okay though, I pushed him out of bed to make coffee early on Friday morning while I slept in. :) Someone’s gotta make the coffee, you know. And feed the dog. And go outside and get the newspaper in the freezing cold brrrr. Just… not me.

Yay T6!

By: cheapie

cheapie — Mon, 26 Nov 2007 13:15:36 +0000

what??? T6 had a black friday sale? crap. it’s probably a good thing i didn’t notice until saturday then. i think my wife would have shot me if the mail guy showed up with any more T6 shirts. i might be able to get away with a couple more jerseys though. hmmm…..

By: SpikeBlue

SpikeBlue — Mon, 26 Nov 2007 12:54:12 +0000

I think the phone call was Wonder Woman accepting her WADA presidency. I’m a little grumpy because I think Batman would have been tougher.

By: buckythedonkey

buckythedonkey — Mon, 26 Nov 2007 10:08:33 +0000

It was Oprah, right? She’s after your dieting secrets or your mashed potato recipe. Or both.

By: Born4Lycra

Born4Lycra — Mon, 26 Nov 2007 02:48:09 +0000

Eclecticdeb I bet the 3lb loss on you looks far better than the loss by the 7lbers and better who won prizes.

By: TIMK

TIMK — Sun, 25 Nov 2007 22:11:43 +0000

I’d have to agree as a man that we do tend to lose (and gain) weight more sporadically. Depending on how each sex was represented in the contest I think it would have been fair to split by category.

By: Canadian Roadie

Canadian Roadie — Sun, 25 Nov 2007 21:36:25 +0000

Don’t worry eclecticdeb, I only lost a 1lb. I know what you mean by those darn men! I think they lose weight by reverse osmosis?

Have a great Thanksgiving weekend everyone!

By: eclecticdeb

eclecticdeb — Sun, 25 Nov 2007 19:13:15 +0000

The contest is rigged to benefit men. Everyone knows that men lose weight faster than women. Basically all they have to do is not look at that second beer and they lose a pound. Darnit.

Sheesh….10 lbs? That’s insane! Makes my womanly 3.2 (I think) lbs look like nothing. Congrats.

By: DNAtsol

DNAtsol — Sun, 25 Nov 2007 14:54:03 +0000

Coming late to the show but better late than never :) Congrats to all the winners and fellow/fellowess (?) competitors. Personally, I’ve never won anything in a competition before. This is my first time.

I’m 40 and never “win, placed or showed” in any competition.. how very sad. It might have to do that I’m not an externally competitive person and have not competed very much but I want to think FC inspired me and damn I wanted those grips! It came at the perfect time and I had a lot of fun doing it. Thanks FC.

Had a great thanks-giving and put back on some of those lost but I’m still sub 200 which is a nice ceiling to avoid is possible.

re the phonecall: there is the obvious gary fisher option but if it is not someone we would expect I going to say it’s a tour de france organizer who is going to negotiate naming either a stage after fatty and susan or set up a new MTB TdF. If you’re gonna dream, dream big :). Happy turkey day everyone. Best to you and yours