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Bike Fixes and other updates

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 Fixing my bike. For a while now the main bike I have been riding the Ozark Trail G1 had some issues. I have put close to 4,000 miles on it since I have owned it and none of those issues were bad enough to not ride it. That changed a few weeks ago. Shifting started to be very sloppy in the rear and I already knew the issue was the jockey wheel on the derailleur. I was ignoring the issues it had for a long time because the shifting was fine and there were not other issues with it. When I first got this bike I wanted to see how long I could run it on stock parts with out replacing things other so I was also seeing how long I could let this issue go. Yesterday I took off the jockey wheel and put on a replacement. The damage was worse than I thought and I really should have replaced it sooner.  You can see in the poor quality picture that it looks okay enough from a glance but once I took the screw out to replace you can see how bad it really is.  This is what happened when I...
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Exercise is only half of it...

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 Exercise is only half of the journey.      I have been having a hard time with getting to a goal weight and size. I am still in better shape than I have been in the past few year but I have been gaining the weight back. Dispite all the exercise I was doing I was still eating more than I should have been. In past updates I was talking about dieting again and I was eating less than was before the journey started but it was all still just what ever I felt like. I mean I was diong at least an hour of cycling every morning and walking I can eat what ever right? Well I was WRONG. I want to be clear about something though the exercise was not in vain it has plenty of benefits that are not about weight loss. At my last weigh in yesterday I was up to 177.5 but my pants all still fit. Prior in the journey when I was this weight my pants did not fit.      Since my last post I have been starting to log my food in Samsung health again and started to make...
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