A tale of accidental upsizing

[RandomLemming 0]

Well, I started out trying to downsize my canopy when I started looking to buy gear.

I didn't want to buy anything bigger than a 190, mainly for resale value, so I started looking while jumping rental gear and downsizing. I eventually got down to a Maverick 210 which put me at a wing loading of 0.95. Once I was consistently standing up these landings, I had a chat to my instructor and he assured me that I would be fine with a 190. The fact that I was looking at a ZP canopy and had been jumping older F111 canopies also meant that this wouldn't be such a big change.

I finally found a rig a little while ago that met my requirements so I bought it. Yay me
Here's where the funny part comes in... For a variety of reasons, I started a diet a little while ago. Over the past 2 months, I've gone from 181lb to 154lb. This means that the wing loading of my new pilot 188 is 0.92.

It's not a big upsize, but it's still an upsize. This should be an intersting 200 odd jumps as I still have 4lb to lose :)

[Carpediem 0]

No worries just wear about 25lbs of weights and take a few beers up for your canopy flight. But beware... they are very messy at 10,000'

Those who do, can't explain. Those who don't, can't understand.

[jtval 0]

I gota question:

How the hell did you lose almost 30 poundsin 60 days?

are you on the Black tar diet?

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[popsjumper 2]

Good question..I wonder if he realizes that he could get rich by marketing that diet plan?

My reality and yours are quite different.
I think we're all Bozos on this bus.
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[jtval 0]

With the Black tar Diet. the money isn't in the marketing. It's in the distribution.

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[RandomLemming 0]

Mostly, I just stopped eating stupidly. I read the hacker's diet at http://www.fourmilab.ch/hackdiet/www/hackdiet.html A lot of what was said made huge sense to me, so I thought I'd give it a try.

For the first 5 days before I started the diet, I just noted what I ate, and I was shocked to realise how much crap I was putting into myself on a daily basis. I was eating about 3200 calories a day when my body really requires closer to 1800.

When the diet kicked off, I guess my body just heaved a sigh of relief and went back to how it was. I was always quite trim and never really made any effort to stay that way. Then when I moved to the UK about 7 years ago, I had a couple of high pressure jobs and lived on take-out and vending machine food for about 5 years. This bred some bad habits :)

Just taking all the crap out of my diet made a big difference, and then just reducing my calorie intake did the rest.