Given that I had a truely busy monday, I really did not end monday unitl 5 on Tuesday. I ate mostly from my bag, so I did not get all the nutrition that I am used to getting, though I figured that I was working out enough to counteract the bag snacks. Do not attempt. I was so hungry by the end of it, that gorged on thai food at the end of it. So today I am cooking again.
I have a small steak for later, and I am cooking a pizza (yes there is pizza on the diet, though, at least I am trying out a pizza that qualifies on on the diet. Tomorrow, it is yoga day. I am looking forward to it. The day after is yoga and martial arts day. These are also know as my days off so for me it is friday.
Funny story of the post: I have been saving this one. A little bit of back story we have a tea called Passion. A woman comes in and asks for hot passion. She tells us that she is used to getting t cold, though she wants to try it hot today. (I can barely keep a straight face by this point, she has never said the word tea). I tell her that once she has hot passion that she will never go back to having it cold. Oh, I never have cold passion, this is for my co-worker. (Me:) So your co-worker needs some hot passion? She tells me that that might make her easier to work with.
Song of the post: There are so many songs out there, at last check I have over 20 GB of just straight music. Today though I will take it to a different place. This post it will be Jack Johnson's "Times like these" It is a great song to keep you motivated if you miss a day or just feel awful. It just reminds us that we have times that are above and beyond our control.
So I was looking forward to going to Yoga today. I even set alarms packed for the day, and I was to be off. Well I was off, off by a half hour. yep, I was leaving when the class started. Thankfully there is another class, though it does not start for a while. So I will post what I am up to today, and check in again tomorrow.
Today I am attending Yoga, then work, Then Yoga again, ending the day with Martial arts. Then up at 4am tomorrow to go to work. Sounds busy. Fresh off of the heels of resting all day yesterday.
Funny story of the post: This comes from the files of you cannot make this stuff up. One of our customers works in a pet store. She was busy telling me that they had to close because the store was flooding really badly. I ask her if they were able to get two of every animal out before the flood happened. She looks at me as tells me no, that they have more than two of each animal.
Song of the Post; This one may not be for everyone. The band is called Hatebreed. I have worked out to this band for a long time. The lyrics are up lifting and the music is fast paced. So now for the song. Let's go with Perseverance for this post. I will be posting more songs by the band, so we will start with that one.
Wow, so I found out great news from work. Things have always been tenious between the staff and myself. Well, my co-workers are so taken with the results that I have achieved, that they are looking into the diet that I am on as well. I am setting a new bar at work, this one is pretty high, though greatly rewarding. When those around me are using me as the example, makes my "fat days" seem a little better.
When I worked at Hot Topic, we had a running joke about how none of us every got sick, so we made a deal with each other. We would call in Fat. I was the only guy, so there was a lot of talk about TOM (I think that is the acronym that is commonly used by eeps members). So, "fat days" became a regular word in our vocabulary. We never actually called in Fat, just joked about it.
Funny story of the post "Fun with the english langauge. People have no idea what they say. If you read what people are saying like a dialog, there are gaps in context. Try this sometime, you will see and hopefully you will laugh.
Song of the post: There are so many great songs out there. This this time I will offer John Digweeds "Renaissance transitions vol. 3" OK, this "song" is an hour and twenty minutes long, though it is a complation of all the songs on the transitions vol. 3 album.
I hope that everyone out there is having a great time with the weight loss, and I look forward to reading.
Ok, I am still trying to post more often, if for no one other than myself. It helps me stay accountable. I like that, I would have to answer to someone in this journey. So a pre-emptive thanks to those reading and posting and checking in on me.
Glory Update: I have not talked to her, though I know that she is well, if for nothing more than she is tough ( an assassin or something in her own words). If I hear any thing, and I can share it I will.
SoF Update: I have been shopping around for foods that I can eat that are reminiciant of junk food. It is few and far between. Actually, most things are few and far between. I cannot have wheat, corn, dairy or potatoes. Crap, there goes most of the foods that are out there. So, after lots of shopping, I have found a Wheat-Free, Gluten-free, Dairy-free, Corn-Free (those are on the package, it is also potato free) Pancake mix, pizza mix, and other mixes. (it is namaste foods who makes it). If I post a gain, they go away, until then, they are a welcome change to the meat and vegetable lifestyle.
In other words, I had chocolate chip pancakes that were on the diet that I am on. You cannot beat that.
The other big issue with the diet is that I feel when I eat something that is off diet. Yes, I have eaten things that are not on the diet, though I do not think anyone wants to read, I ate something with Wheat in it, not knowing and I spent the rest of the day nauseaous and achey. I think that that is one of the great parts to what I am doing as well. Eat wrong, your body revolts. Plain and simple. No mental guilt, just physical pain.
Funny story of the post: I have forgotten that a lot of funny things happen at my job, So I will share one a post for this point forward.
I went to a customer: "How are you doing today?"
Customer:"I just found out my fiance is cheating on me with my best friend'
"We are calling off the wedding"
I ask him" So does this qualify for a good day or a bad day?"
At least he laughed.
Song of the Quote: Another newer feature, there is a lot of great music out there, and working out and relaxing are integral part of this process. So I will offer a song that is helping me through either relaxing or working out.
Today's Song of the post is: Explosions in the Sky "Your hand in mine" off of the "Earth is not a Cold Dead Place". It is peaceful, relaxing, I can do yoga to it, or just let my muscles relax.
Now for the emptive Thank you for reading. (Is emptive a word? How about post emptive?)
I have not been posting for a while. This is mostly due to glory not posting. I hope she is well, though I like the site because it keeps me accountable for what I eat and how I am doing.
I have another small drop in weight. This is great, as I have finally broke the 250 barrier. Which is amazing considering that i was approaching 280 at thanksgiving, 3 months ago.
I am still involved in the contest to lose 12 lbs by the End of Feb. I will keep posting on everyones blog that is involved.
I have to say that I forgot about the fact muscle weighs more than more than fat. I will say that I am down a whole pound, yes 1! since I started the challange. I hate to posta 1 pound loss, though I have been checking for the past few days to make sure that I have indeed lost it.
So I have posted the the loss, and I look forward to posting for everyone in the challenge. Good luck as always and I will see you closer towards the goal.
Ok so I have not really worked out in a long time. I have not done any lifting or otherwise in oh let's say 2 years now. I have a gym membership, home equipment and the knowledge to do it, I have just choosen not to. Yesterday, I was awoken as I posted, and i was able to go to three Yoga classes and martial arts. That is a first, doing so much in one day, though this is starting to be a good year for first's.
The aspect of me doing push ups is foriegn since I did not like doing them when I was in shape. So last night I did 2 sets of 8 reps. Pretty good for not being in practice. I was being cheered on by the others in my MA class. A bunch of complete nuts we all are, and have to be to train the way that we do, yet there is not shortage of us.
I have compiled a list of dates, These will help me to focus on my goals ahead. Right now, I am at 252 as of last weigh in. That means that I am able to fit into all my clothes that I had. (this is for those paying attention). In 2005, I was at one of the lighter points in my life. I was at 236, and working out fairly regularly. I signed up for a boot camp class and got really injured which lead to the downward spiral leading to 277 for my friends wedding. In 2003, when I worked at the airport, I was 229, hard core working out, running, swimming looking to try out for a triathlon, then my running friend quit, and I lost my motivation. Lastly, In 1997, (high school), I was my lightest ever at 185. I was really solid, and tournament fighter, wrestler, and supurb athlete. I am looking to lose enough weight to get back around there again.
Thanks for reading this novel, Good luck to you on your path.
The only thing that I have really done today work out and sleep. Mix that with a little eating and you have my day. There is supposed to be torrential rain today, so I will have to make this short. I was awoken this morning with enough time to get to the two sessions of yoga. I came home ate according to the diet, and slept until just a bit ago. I am off to another yoga class and then it is martial arts night.
I hope that everyone else is doing well and stays motivated.
I will be the first to admit that not much goes on in my life, and I am very happy about that. So this weekend was very blaise, not too much happening. I stocked up on food items, and prepared things to eat over the coming days. I have been following the diet and doing Yoga in the mean time.
Since I have nothing new to talk about, head over to Glory's page and cheer her on, she is my competition in losing weight, and the one keeping me honest with what is going on. I will have my first weight in on Wednesday for the competition that is happening. Let us see what happens.
I am going to make an admission. In the last month, I have been contacted by two seperate previous love interests. The first with the message that I was the only guy she ever came close to marrying, and the other the only reason that we never dated is that when I met her she was engaged. She moved away from the state, and then they broke up. The worst part about that one is that the chemisty between was so strong that our co-workers were offering rooms(we met while working at the same store). I will admit that I have had some interesting encounters of the sensual side, though this is par for the course in the random events of my life. How is it that I can be single in my state and have people pining for me others? Weird.
Today was an on track day except for the watching too much T.V. today. I was waiting for my phone's music list to update. It takes too long for my liking. I did a Yoga class early today and I have two more planned for tomorrow.
I hope that life is great out there in normal land. Eventually I will return to normal myself. I do not mind hearing from people in the past, though I have no idea what to make of these random events.
