Greetings and Salutations -
My apologies for those of you who follow my blog, but I have very limited internet access at the moment and when I do have access I usually won’t have time to post.
Putting things on hold until I can replace my computer.
Read as *indefinitely* . . .
I guess this is the part where we come to the realization that if our blog is primarily a fitness blog and we aren’t doing anything fitnessy then we quickly run out of things to write about.
You know, unless we’re willing to fess up and write about our unfitnessy crap.
Which is what I am doing today.
See, for me, cheating is pretty easy (I know, *duh,* right?). My problem is that I find it hard to stop cheating.
It starts slow. Skip a day walking. Which turns into 3-4 missed days in a week. Which turns into quitting altogether.
A piece of candy today turns into permission to have a whole candy bar tomorrow turns into grabbing pizza for lunch instead of brisket and cucumbers on a bed of fresh crisp spinach.
Yeah. That’s where I’m at. read more…
Are you a food addict?
I’ve gone off on this particular subject before on my old blog, but the absolute ridiculousness of the term begs for it to be done over and over and over again until every bloody soul on the planet takes a good long hard think about what the f*ck it is they are actually saying when they use that bloody phrase.
This video is done from the perspective of fat acceptance, and while that might seem a bit counter intuitive on a fitness-centric blog, it really, really isn’t. read more…
So I know some of you on my blogroll are probably wondering if I’ve forgotten about you.
I promise I haven’t.
It’s just been a loooong and hectic dozen days. Hopefully I’ll have time to catch up on my reading tomorrow or Saturday.
It has been a disappointing month for all my measurements, but I have only myself to blame. You want results you have to put in the effort, and quite frankly, this month I didn’t really put in the effort.
And that’s okay.
I’ve paid the price. I have to own that. And I have this vivid reminder of those consequences to carry me forward. Next month is my quarterly photo shoot and I’m already not going to be quite where I wanted to be. But if I fail to pour it on over the next thirty days my newest set of photos won’t look any different from the last except for maybe my hair.
At this point I could drop a pound just by lopping the locks.
As you’ll see in my stats below, not much has changed and what has changed has changed for the worse.
But, we’re here to see the measurements, so without further whining ado: read more…
Up a pound this week and not too surprised. My eating hasn’t been too bad (not perfect either), but I think the big culprit lately is that I’ve neglected my daily walks and even a workout or two.
And that is bound to be undermining my attempts to create a calorie deficit. Yeah, I’m doing the low carb thing, but I am definitely not in the “calories-don’t-count” camp that is becoming more and more popular these days.
I don’t count calories. But calories do count. No question about it.
The past two weeks have been a real eye-opener for me. But I’m not as concerned about the setback as I am about making sure I walk away with the lesson.
After all, I’m still . . . well . . . under construction. And this isn’t a quick fix. One day I’ll look back on this time as the first days of a whole new life.
I’m looking forward to that looking back.
Current Weight :: 296 lbs
This Week’s Adjustment :: +1 lb
Total Weight Loss So Far :: -5 lbs
I’ve found one of the biggest things that sabotages my diet is food anxiety. My family lives pretty tight. We have a budget and we stick to it.
There is always plenty of food in the house.
But there is not always money in my pocket.
And that is where I get weird. If I know I have money to buy food if I decide I want it, then I’m fine and often can go hours without eating and without thinking about eating. When I don’t have money, I think about food all the time and I get anxious and antsy and will generally find some (usually unwise) way to get some money. read more…
” I twittered facebook and the internet imploded”
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- random quote seen somewhere on the internet
Something is f*cked up with me lately.
I just can’t seem to get untired.
So any of you who know me know I’m death on gym memberships and expensive equipment.
For one thing, I don’t have the money for either. But more importantly, I don’t want to be beholden to either.
So, sometimes I make do with what’s available. Like cinderblocks.
And sometimes I get creative.
For instance, I’ve recently started my son on lifting awkward weights. Like cinderblocks. But one of his exercises involves carrying said cinderblock to the bottom of the hill behind our house and then turning around and hurling it as far up the hill as he can, running and snatching it up and hurling it a little farther up until he gets to the top.
Only problem is he lurches forward as he throws and ends up on his hands and sometimes the cinderblock comes rolling back pretty fast. Images of a brained child on my back hill led me to come up with a better solution.
