I have to tell you I am a little shy meeting people since I've picked up some stress weight over the last year and I am getting to be fairly self-conscious over it. I would like to lose about 30 pounds, sooner than later.

I used to bicycle and keep it off, but it's just not happening this past year. I am not into the technicalities of riding necessarily but I love riding, I buy the right equipment and have it maintained, dress casual and go for distance. If in the long run someone is accepting of some of my differences then I will almost always want to go riding, if they ask me to go. I try to meet people at least part way. :o)

The worst is the fact that I've lost my wind. I have started to go to the gym twice a week at least and put several miles on the treadmill at a time (not sure why that's my favorite). Probably because brisk walking is one of the most fundamental low-impact aerobic exercise a body does any way. I don't see lions doing push ups and stretching before going out for "fast" food.

Here are more pictures of me, www.leofun.com/compcard/ Some were taken a few years ago when I was married so that's why you see a ring. I think I am about 240 in all these pictures and I am at 260 right now. I think I will always be pretty stocky no matter what I do simply because of my body type. Ideally I think my body weight should be about 210, which is where it was around 12 years ago when I was working a warehouse job, working my butt off every day.

So the question is, as long as there is some common ground in the physical activities, can I find an attractive woman who is attracted to someone with my body type? In the long run I would rather whoever I meet to be a happy friend, rather than a quietly disappointed girlfriend.