31st ride

Tonight because of a scheduling conflict, Michelle was unable to drop me off for our 6:00 Weight Watchers meeting. So, deciding to kill two birds with one stone, I grinned and told her, "I'm glad I have wheels!" We only live about a mile away from the meeting site, so it was an easy ride over and then, afterwards, wanting to ride a longer ride, I lengthened it considerably, going almost down to Saline, and overlooking a turn I meant to make, and so ended up going a total of 12.1 miles in 69 minutes.

I was riding with a happy heart, though. From my initial weight in late February, tonight I made my first goal, passing 5% of my body weight. Now the next goal will be 10%, and then to keep on going. Overall, I'd like to lose about 60 more pounds from where I am now, for a total loss of about 30% of my starting weight. That 5% goal tonight was strongly helped by a loss of 4.9 pounds this past week. My weekly pattern has been Good/Bad/Good/Bad -- now I want to see if I can get two consecutive good weeks.