Need to find some optimism

[Cheesepuff]

Good luck Mike! You might want to up your vitamin D3 levels to more like "winter levels" when you cut back on your cycling. I've found this has an impact on mood.

[SteveL]

Thanks guys for all the advice. I've just had a week's holiday, bit of R&R and some trail cycling, and plan to restart the program today, focusing only on the program. I also worked out that over the last 2 years I've spent 800 hours riding my bike. At an estimated 500 kCal per hour that's 400,000 kCals burned up on the road. Since adding in CrossFit for the last few months it's easy to see where my weight has gone.
Time to get off my bike and under the bar.

Mike

I started the program at 56 and am 5'10 and 176lbs. When I started I weighed 155lbs. You might be able to gain weight faster than I have as I'm also working to keep my pre-diabetes in check through diet rather than drugs but I am still managing to very slowly gain the muscle mass.