What? Why would someone start off a post with that? Let me back up a little bit. This blog has had the tagline of the heavy and single, I have not been posting about the adventures part because of lack of them. Now, this is because of the weight, I will admit. Though since I have been losing weight, I have felt more adventurous in life, and since I have the philosophy of NOW (no oppertunity wasted,[to and extent, I tend to pick and choose based on events that transpired]). So I took up the offer of someone to meet up with them after work, I politely declined, but offered another night. She tells me that it is tonight or never...So I went for it, and she was bluffing. Cool...
I am reminded of a story about (pick one roman or greek, I have heard both versions) man who was walking the streets with a lantern.. he would hold the lantern to everyone's face, and people thought he was crazy. Finally, a guy (insert female if you would like) tells him that he is crazy, and he smiles, He was looking for an honest (wo)man. I am the same way, If I am not in the place that I need to be, I leave, move on.
Rejection is a great tool, it can be used. What did I mistake? What did I miss in the conversation? DId I miss body langauge? Was I too engaged with something else? It is the old addage, you learn more from losing than you do from winning. That, and I still have the co-worker that I am crushing on, friends of another coworker who are intersted in me, and the occasional random phone number (hopefully not left on the napkin, which is left on the table, and I do not spend all the next morning looking for it.)
Ok, so it is day three; I have had customers come up to me and tell me how good I am looking, even offers to come and workout with others who are more active than I am. I had a great lift session yesterday, and today was spin sprinting. I came home and cleaned the kitchen. When I work out, I tend to have too mcuh energy. So I do something, tomorrow is legs, and multiple yoga sessions.
The Stats:
Scale Weight: 245.8
BMI: 44.4
Bone Density: 5.0
Water: 42.8
Lean Muscle: 37.6
These stats are before I started the BFL challange. I will put them up every week, Also this saturday is the before pics day for glory an I.
I will have Funny story next time, I am under tiem crunch for now.
Thanks for reading, I will be around tomorrow for updates and new posts.
Ok, I admit that I like gadgetry. Anything that will make my life easier and more productive is great. It also takes a little away from interaction. That part I do not like so much. So this is entitled SoF's mom vs the iPhone. Yep, my mother hated the 6 months that we had seperate phones because I forgot how to works things or explain things to her about the phone. So once I had one, she ordered one. Well, two actually. She ordered an 8 GB and a 16GB. So the first day she has it I get phone calls about how she cannot call anyone, and the thing does not work, and how can I fix it. Slowly, though she does more with it than any phone she has had in the past. She puts all her books on it, and has been going to town with one device. The great part of this is that she is a technology teacher who does not deal well with technology.
Tomorrow, monday, I am off to start up a BFL challange with Glory. We are supporting each other through the 12 weeks to help each other out with workouts, food and moral support. No girl scout cookies even if they are laying on the counter, opened talking to me...
So tomorrow's BFL challange is going to reflect my diet that I am currently on, as well as the BFL workouts. Tomorrow is going to be a cardio day if only for the fact that I am biking into work tomorrow. Yeah me. I also have two hours of Yoga planned, all of this as well as cooking, so I have organic cliff bar down as a meal somewhere. I will eat and post the eating. I am off to rest to be able to do all of that and work a split shift tomorrow.
Funny story of the post: So I have been falling in like with a co-worker. This is bad for SoF, as nothing typically good has ever come from this, and she has been fairly receptive to my offerings to associate. Actually the only reason I am on now is to check for an email or something as the night progresses. The funny part of all of this is that in the last week. I have heard the following lines "my husband and I are very open about our sexuality, you should join us sometime", I was at a starbucks and the girl there was working for a charity. I told her that I was more interested in her than the charity, and she tells me when she is getting done with work, and fora 5 dollar donation, she will offer her phone number. I seemed to have upset a different ex-coworker. I only asked her about the new one that I seems to be having a crush on, she waited on her and her son, and came in to tell me about it. So when I asked, she was not thrilled with me for asking. The why? She has liked me for such a long time, and I have not been very receptive to it. I do not think I bruned a bridge as much as danced naked around it with that move.
Song of the Post: Wow, so I have had the chance to listen to many great tunes lately. Thanks in no part to the iPhone, I think that I will offer one more bit of trancy good ness here and that will be Signal runners "Don't look back/One last look" EP. This is great music, great pace, and it makes 15 minutes go by really quick, so when you are running or out doing something that requires listening to so good music, I will always recommend trance.
Thanks for reading, take care all...Be around to post comments this week, I do not know when.
I have been away from the computer for a while. This is the first night that I have even sat in front of the computer.
So off to it.
1) I got my iPhone this week. This is something to get me out more. It has worked. I do not turn my computer on in the mornings anymore, which class if you are paying attention is when I typically post. What does this mean? That I maybe posting less around here, though I will try to read up on everyone during the week when I change of the songs. Also, there is this lovely contact me button just under the picture of the day changing. If you are a regular poster, just click, and I will be able to send off stories, support and updates to those who miss the regular postings here.
2) Work has been a rollercoaster. First two of the other managers have had multiple doctor visits to determine their surgery's respectively. They both cannot be out at the same time, and I have been picking up the slack around there because of this. It has made me a little crazy and loopy all in the same breath. Fortuantely, I have great friends...(see glory or gettinfit). Who have been keeping me sane.
3) Seperate at work post...Hold you arms out to the side at shoulder level. Doing so? Good... One represents love the other anomosity...You must have one or the other in that amount to work with SoF...I have been offered by my co-workers many things over the course of the time there. I even got promoted because one left the store for me. The flip side is that I have to go in on my day off to get yelled at by a co-worker. I was also broken down yesterday because another co-worker thinks I am out persacute her. I had to collect myself, because I do not think that I have a spiteful bone in my body. Needless to say that all things pass, and everyone there that I am on good terms with at one point in time or another, I was not.
What else?...Oh, yeah it is nice enough to go outside. I think that I may if I am not attached to anything or helping my mother clean out the three households that she has in her house.
Funny story of the Post: Appearantly, SoF needs surgery of his own. yep, I need someone to donate to me a sense of humor. That is right, i am putting up a funny story of the post about the fact that I ave no sense of humor. Ironic. No? I am very stoic in person. I do tend to be very witty, and I have a kinda dry sense of humor. My mother talks about me not having laugh lines. So If there are any donors to help me, Laugh I guess, or can offer a sense of humor, let me know. Thanks. Though Please do not add me to any joke mailing lists...
Song of the post: If you can find it tell me where you found it...Vicki Devine Eternal Dreams...I heard the song and went to my local music store (iTunes) to find it, and it is not there.
Thanks to all the readers, Look forward to hearing everyone...
Ok, I will be honest, I do not count points, calories, nor do I really consider myself as dieting anymore. I use a bottle of oil a week, A shaker of Curry about every two. There is plenty of things that I include in my diet, like salt, and others. I have been doing well though. I have been maintaining my weight, and i am off to do many things to help me along the way. My co-workers are all into the healthier options that I bring now. It is very good.
I am cleaning this weekend, as it seems that I will be cleaning many things up in the near future, It is a never ending process. So, off to cleaning.
Funny story of the post: Ooohh..Ooohh I am the ghost of Ms. Pacman.....You did not play at dave & busters....
I think that you are in the wrong place, I have actually never played Ms. Pacman...
Nooo...I am here for you to bring you into playing...Come play Ms. Pacman...
Ahh..How did you find me ghost of Ms. Pacman...
Yooou are getting fit....I found you from the extrapoounds website.....
Ok, I see now, You are looking for the blog three blogs down. I am getting fit not gettinfit...
Hooow can you be getting fit without being getting fit?
Simple, three blogs down...where you need to be. Can I go back to bed? Yeah...I am off to gettinfit....
Ooooh, I am the ghost of Neverwinter Nights 2....
Crap, I know you are here for me arn't you???
Song of the Post: I will leave this one short and sweet, Grab Break my fall by Tiesto and BT.
Thanks for reading everyone, and A special thank you for Kristy.
Ok, I have a new scale, one that helps me track body fat, muscle density, water weight, and actual scale weight itself. I will be honest, as this is a website dedicated to honesty. I have not been exercising the last 6 weeks, It is too cold to leave the house, I have not really been trying to eat 6 meals a day, though I have been keeping up with what I can and cannot eat. The biggest thing about all of this. The weight difference between now and when I lost the last scale, can be explained as changing scales. I am tracking a baseline for the next week to see how the week affects me, and I will post a new weight this weekend.
I was able to enjoy some great time with friends this weekend, and I tried to take full advantage of my one day off as much as possible. That being said, I have to help my mother sort out the house on the next two days off. There is about 4 families worth of things to sort through, as my family are all pack rats except for me. I have been packing up things to donate all day. I even packed up the last Nancy items laying around (that is another story, a long story), and I have been spending my 15 mins in the morning organizing.
Oh, and I made it to Yoga today, I am a little stiff, though I will limber up again shortly, and I hope to get out to ride tomorrow, provided the sky does not fall like it did today. I cannot say that it rained, sleeted, snowed or hailed, mostly because I half expected satallites to fall at some point in time.
Funny story of the Post: I have been threatening to paint an "L" and "R" respectively on all of the Yoga teachers, appearantly the closer to enlightenment you get, the more you forget the everyday things like that object with the points that you use to eat things with or that soft thing that keeps you warm at night.
Song of the Post: Black Rebel Motorcycle Club (BMRC) has a great album howl, the track that I am recommending is called complicated situation, it is nice short and it is a very good song, I like offering up things that are not the everyday.
Hope the week has begun great for everyone and thanks for reading
Ok, I have had two six day weeks in a row. Actually, this is about part way through the six day week, hence the title. The great part is that I cannot work on Sunday, so I have been making plans left and right, ok... maybe just plans with all the people whose company that I enjoy the most, anyway, I will be much happier then.
I am heading off to Yoga tomorrow, happily, I look forward to going back. I am hoping to head over to the gym first, then off to Yoga, and finally a little shopping before I have to go to work. yeah goals...
Funny story of the Post: But I'll Work for free....
My female co-worker lost her voice. The first few hoarse words out of her mouth were to another female co-worker, while I really enjoyed kissing you, did you have to give me your cold? Appearantly, I am working the wrong shifts...
Song of the post: Can you have a promiscious remix? I mean there are some that get around, and all but how do you if they have been around the block or if they are giving Rand Mcnally pointers? What? The song is called promiscious? Oh yeah...One of the great dance hits, about male and female promiscuity, though it also talks about respect. There are several out there, and Nelly Furtado is the singer, with someone else who is not so important, though sings none the less.
Thanks for reading, and Happy Tuenesday to all of you.
Ok, so I am finally putting up the list that I was trying to put up from a very long time ago. The funny part of this is that since i wrote the list, I have actually completed some of the items on it. So from there, I will come up with new items.
To gettinfit: When you look at life you can adjust, tweek, and change. Changes are the hard part, adjusting, and tweeking are not so difficult, just they take time. So 21 tweeks is not that hard.
So without further ado: 1) Exercise daily - Do something other than sit in front of a computer during my time off. That is not to say that I need to be at the gym everyday or that I want to just get out there and do something. 2) Meditate daily - This is to collect myself, and to help me on my spiritual path, I doubt this will come off the list even if I am doing it regularly. 3) No fried foods - why eat things terribly bad for yourself? 4) Eat more often/less amounts - this is in almost every diet book. 5) Personal Hygene - When I get really fat, I tend to stop taking care of myself. That needs to go out the window. 6) Suppliments - Since I am on a weird diet, I need to make sure that I am getting enough suppliments to hlep keep me going. 7) No eating in my car - Most calories are gained when behind the wheel 8) Cook three times a week - Hmm, cooking was always the bane of my existance. I wanted to try and do more of it. 9) Bike places - Ok, with it being winter, biking is not really an option yet. Well it is, I am a wuss when it comes to being cold. 10) Eat fresh foods - nothing from a can, nothing from a box if I can help it. 11) No refined sugar - This means anything with the letters OSE in it. Regular sugar is about #5 down from the top best sugars.
a. Agave, b. Stevia, c. Honey, d. Cane sugar, e. Regular sugar.
anything else is a cause of the problem not the solution. 12) Drink more water - Water is in everything, it encompasses our being, why not get more of it? 13) 15 minutes in the morning - This can double your metabolism. 14) Practice daily - With all the things that I do in my life, practicing them on a regular basis would be a great thing. 15) 1 HR of Screen time - Monitor what I watch and when I watch. In addition keep an I on how long am on a Computer. 16) Keep things clean/organized - Once again when i get fat things around me fall to the wayside, keeping organized will help me stave off the fat. At least I think 17) Throw things away - Yep, I come from a family of Pack Rats, that does not mean that I need to become one of them. 18) Track things - my weight, my workouts, and my food. This will help me stay on track 19) Get out more - I am a home body. I also like me time. I actually like lots of me time. I need to adjust to having more people in my life. 20) Go back to school - Finish off everything that I have started and was unable to finish 21) Learn something everyday.
Wow, that is a long list, though easily attainable. All of them are. In fact, Since I have wrote this list, I have managed to adjust6 things. I cook more than three times a week, I do not eat in the car anymore, and since I have a new car, that will make things easier. I try to eat everything fresh now, with little exception, everything that I eat I buy fresh. Refined sugars, all gone. I am a huge label reader now, if it has anything not on the forementioned list, I put it back. I carry around water with me everywhere. I try finish off 32 oz everyday in addition to whatever I drink at work. (I drink more than I make an hour every shift I am there). Since most fried foods have wheat in them, I have eliminated them from my diet. Finally, I have large piles of things that need to go away, though they are set aside to go away. I am working at removing clutter from around my life.
Wow, that is a lot and a lot of an update. Onward...
Funny story of the post: Shhh...We hired a new girl at work. As part of the hazing, I have told her to count the number of splenda the boss uses. This was met interestingly last time, let's see what happens this time.
Song of the Post: Let's get Dancing, actually let's have a song that gets me moving everytime that I hear it. Icon of Coil's Shelter. There are many things about gothic industrial music that I love, this has them all. Great beats all the way around.
So i was going over my list of things that I want to post, and I found out that I have already achieved more than half of them. yeah me. So what I need to do is sit down and write out ones to fill the gaps that I have listed. So this will be up soon, just not in the timely manner that I was hoping. So the great part of all of this is that it is finally warm enough outside, and I can start working out again.
I am getting greener by the minute appearantly, Why do you ask. Well, I started eating mostly organic, and local. I love the biking to work that I am looking forward to this, even looking into getting a bike rack for the car. Finally, I am excited to say is that I have a hybred now. I love it. My mother bought it, and was not able to drive it. It only took her a week before she called it quits, and traded with me for the explorer that I was driving. I may even put up a pic of it, though since I do not like looking at other peoples pictures, I most likly will not.
Funny story of the post: ??? I may leave this one blank for now, and just wait for new things to happen, right now, the only thing that is coming to mind is a story about soy cows. I will say this, I have a friend B, He is always great for a laugh, even if it is at his expense.
Song of the post: How about we slow things down a bit. I offer this one to everyone. Raphael Saadiq's Be here. This is one is great for sitting down with a signifagant other and just relaxing. He has a great voice, and there are just some things that everyone can agree on for background music.
So I have start with something fuuny. I went to weigh myself today, only to find out that the scale is broken. So I did what everyone does when something does not work. I kicked it. Granted it made me feel better, though it has nothing to do how to get a new weight to post. So I updated my tracker, and I will go buy a new scale next week. So for the time being I am only going to be able to post about Non Scale Victories until then.
So Let's talk about Non-Scale Victories for the time being. I have a few that are on the top of my mind. I have heard the saying about 21 days to change. So I will extend that to 21 days and 21 items to change. I have picked 21 things in my life that need changing. I will post them tomorrow, for now I am a little tired and a little out of it.
So on to the things that I think most people read:
Funny story of the post: You would think that after a while, I would just sit down with pen and paper and put these into a tactile form. No, I just try to remember them as them come about. Some people may ask where all the material comes from, I will quote from a comic, "I just wake up". Interacting with people gives you the most material. Today's I will just quote from the paper (well it was a year ago). " the power goes out at the gateway arch in St. Louis. the only thing standing between these people and starvation was stairs". A great post for an exercise site.
Song of the Post: Since this post is about things outside of my life, I will post a song in homage to a friend of mine. This one will be Scissor Sisters I don't feel like dancing. As he puts it "you don't get much gayer than the Scissor Sisters".
Congrats to whom ever brought my blog up to 1k in hits. It is great to see, people reading this, and some caring enough to comment.
So work is like 60% of your happiness, 30% is your signifigant other. So if you hate your job and your spouse, you are pretty much in a world of hurt. I went in for the pre-review today. We get reviews every 6 months, and every 3 we sit down and talk to about what we are doing right, and what we are doing wrong. My review last time was awful, barely passing what is expected of me. So, today, I sit down with the plans and the same review, and everything had changed. Everything was above and beyond what I am supposed to do and what I am to be doing. The cause of this? There was another person at work who did not like me(?) or the way that I did things. It was as if everything that I did wrong was shouted to the heavens, and everything that I did right was muted or looked at as my job. I was told by my boss that some people are just not to work together, mixing like oil and water, so just work right, or as I have been putting it, weathering all opposition to me. I was cheering today, literally, just excited that I have not been doing everything in vain.
So I am thinking about riding into yoga tomorrow, though I may just drive there. It is still cold here(by my standards). Though I am a person who is outside running on heat advisory days. Thanks for all the reading from everyone and I hope that all is well with you, I will be reading soon.
Funny story of the post: As an homage to my favorite section in the paper:
Call the Smithsonian: I have dubbed my boss a splendavore.
Lights are out, anybody home?: Whenever I am out and I pull up to a place with no cars the in parking lot, all the lights off in the location, and no activity to be seen, the first thing I do is call to see if they are open. It makes perfect sense when you think about it.
Give it a month: My co-worker asked me how long I would like to date the bottle of honey, I say 30 days is about par for all of my relationships. Start there.
Sometimes you just feel Grande skim latte: The most common way people answer how do you feel today, is to tell me there drink order.
If they were really important: I was out at a bennihanna, and there was a large table of people celebrating the birthdays of two people there. Out of the nine people sitting around the table enjoying drinks and the show, 3 of them had bluetooth headsets on, and at any given time they were talking to other people. I really feel the love of my friends when they are out with me talking to someone else...
Song of the post; Dispatch Steeples off of Gut the Van. The song is great, somewhat fast though it is easily relaxable on you as well. I recommend getting Gut the Van period. It is a live album, though there are several things in there that are very human about the band. The leave mistakes in there, and have funny stories.
