I’ve been sick which has left me with a huge lack of motivation lately. I’m hoping to get over this cold so that I can get back on track. Before getting sick, I was hitting the Health Club nightly and sticking to my plan. This past week I’ve stopped tracking my food intake and not getting any exercise in. I was able to make it out for a walk this morning, but immediately went back to sleep when I was finished. I’ve been hovering between 15 and 17 lbs lost. I haven’t weighed in a few days. I’ll step on the scale tomorrow to see where I am at. Now that the weather is nice it really sucks that I am not.
3. Feb 2010
Week 5 Progress Report
Week five came and went… and I gained 2 pounds. It wasn’t a surprise, I saw it coming after week fours downward spiral. I’m doing good this week… I’m staying focused and have met all of my food goals so far. I’m still walking the dam 3 times a week with my friend Jim. There’s even a treadmill in the house now but I’m having a hard time getting used to walking on it. It’s a different walking experience all together.
Later today I am heading into town to pay a visit to the Redwood Health Club to inquire about a membership. This is a huge step for me… putting myself out there online is easy since I don’t have to deal with direct interactions from people I don’t know. I know this is my shyness and fear creeping in but I just need to push it aside and go for it. I know that going to the Health Club will be awkward at first, I’m hoping that I can get over that feeling quickly and move on. We’ll see how it goes.
| week | plus/minus | total | notes | posted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | -5.2 | 5.2 | support from friends & family on Facebook has been nice. | 01/04/2010 |
| 2 | -5.2 | 10.4 | survived another week and have reached a major goal | 01/11/2010 |
| 3 | -3 | 13.4 | took a few days off from exercising | 01/18/2010 |
| 4 | -2 | 15.4 | 01/25/2010 | |
| 5 | +2 | 13.4 | meh. | 02/01/2010 |
30. Jan 2010
Blog Issues
My blog was having some issues this week which required me to reinstall the software that I use. I’ll be repairing it over the next few days.
Update: Things are back in working order. I lost the old layout somehow so I changed it a bit. It might be too wide for some, I like wide [...]
25. Jan 2010
Free Samples from Kashi – Get Some!
Someone sent me this on Twitter today, I just got around to looking at it.
Kashi is giving away free samples of a few of their products. I’ve actually never tried anything Kashi, but free is free and I’m not going to turn down free. Free rocks.
You can choose from:
GOLEAN Crisp! Toasted Berry Crumble cereal
TLC Dark [...]
25. Jan 2010
Week 4 Progress Report
Another week, another decline in both numbers and in progress. I kinda gave up during the weekend and fell back into bad habits. I’m doing good today and am feeling reinvigorated… I’m looking forward to joining the health club after the first of February (payday). I’m hoping that a steady plan of walking three days [...]
24. Jan 2010
Hagakure Wisdom – Pg. 69
I’m still reading through The Book of the Samurai and found another interesting quote:
Be true to the thought of the moment and avoid distraction. Other than continuing to exert yourself, enter into nothing else, but go to the extent of living single thought by single thought.
The above is from page 85 of, Hagakure : The Book [...]
18. Feb 2010
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