Well, I guess Sunday will be when I update... it could always be more frequent, but it will never be less frequent. How's that for a tag line? Anyway, there's really not much to report on the Quest to Lose Weight except that in terms of lifting, I'm close to being back to where I was before. If there's anything I love being able to do at the gym, it's lifting heavy. Not because it makes me any better then anyone else in the gym, because it doesn't... but putting a bunch of weight on a bar or taking the heavier set of dumbbells and having people look at you like you're nuts, then being able to lift, push or pull that weight multiple times gives one a nice sense of accomplishment. Still eating well also.
Not much else to say... baseball season is around the corner and I won't talk about the White Sox until the final roster is made. Just so it can either be a happy one (Morel @ 3B) or a sad one (MARK FUCKING TEAHEN AT 3B). I also have 4 books coming in (tomorrow!) that I'm stoked to read up on. 1 is called The Extra 2% which is about the Tampa Bay (Devil) Rays and how the road they took to be able to overtake both the Red Sox and the Yankees in the AL East, from a business/financial/statistical standpoint. Another one is Ball Four which is by Jim Bouton and is basically the author recalling all the debauchery he came around while moving up in the Yankees system. The other two are advance statistics books, so I won't get into those because I don't want to start an argument, hah. Lastly, I am getting this on Tuesday (hope this works)
So until next time....
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Showing posts with label Weight loss. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Weight loss. Show all posts
Sunday, March 13, 2011
Sunday, February 27, 2011
The Intro 3: Electric Boogaloo.
Taking a look back, I never thought that I would take 11 months in between posts. Now, I realize I am going to writing this for an audience of like 3, but it doesn't really matter to me, I just need the forum to write to get shit down that's in my head.
But the question is, where have I been the last 10.5 months? Well the last post was April 11, 2010, talking about another 3 months of training. Which I completed but as my lack of posting can attest to, there was a lack of intensity. I got it done just to get it done. My diet started to crack and by the end I was just glad to be done. The main thing I was trying to accomplish was being able to continue doing what I had been doing after my sessions had finished. I last maybe another 2 weeks, at least diet wise before I did a swan dive off the wagon. I still went to the gym, but instead of going 5 or 6 times a week, it became 4 or 5 (Still pretty good... buuuttt) then it became 3 or 4. Then it became 2 times... then I'd go 2 times a week, then not go for a week and a half before going again. Then for about 2 months I went probably 3 times total. Needless to say, it got to the point where I pretty much just threw those first 6 months of 2010 out the window. It's been humbling and humiliating. It wasn't an outlier, it's pretty typical of me.
The problem was that I basically just let it happen. I could have gone to the gym whenever I wanted to. I chose not to. I could have cooked some pork or chicken with veggies instead of calling in for a pizza. I chose not to. Hell, it didn't snow until the middle of January, I could have walked around the block or something. I chose not to. I get very apathetic and lazy, it's just "how I roll."
But the good news, I've found what I'm assuming is my 20th wind for doing this stuff. Actually, I've started to go back to the gym regularly about 2 or 3 weeks ago. I'm not drastically changing my diet (yet) I am just going to change the real bad habits. Going back to cooking meals myself 5 or 6 days a week. Cutting back on soda, drinking more water (and try to do the 5 meal a day thing again, that always took the most effort, believe it or not). Beer/alcohol? I don't know yet. Everyone should have a vice to keep them sane. For the time being, that will be mine. If I need to drop it in order to accomplish goals, so be it. I guess that's why it took so long for me to write this. I kinda knew by doing it, I'd be locking myself into everything I want to do, officially.
In order to make this more fun for me (blogging) I'm going to be making more posts just on random shit too. Because I'm sure you guys were just as bored reading that as I was writing. I'm a baseball fan, so I'll write about baseball once in a while. I like TV, so I'll write about that occasionally.
But the question is, where have I been the last 10.5 months? Well the last post was April 11, 2010, talking about another 3 months of training. Which I completed but as my lack of posting can attest to, there was a lack of intensity. I got it done just to get it done. My diet started to crack and by the end I was just glad to be done. The main thing I was trying to accomplish was being able to continue doing what I had been doing after my sessions had finished. I last maybe another 2 weeks, at least diet wise before I did a swan dive off the wagon. I still went to the gym, but instead of going 5 or 6 times a week, it became 4 or 5 (Still pretty good... buuuttt) then it became 3 or 4. Then it became 2 times... then I'd go 2 times a week, then not go for a week and a half before going again. Then for about 2 months I went probably 3 times total. Needless to say, it got to the point where I pretty much just threw those first 6 months of 2010 out the window. It's been humbling and humiliating. It wasn't an outlier, it's pretty typical of me.
The problem was that I basically just let it happen. I could have gone to the gym whenever I wanted to. I chose not to. I could have cooked some pork or chicken with veggies instead of calling in for a pizza. I chose not to. Hell, it didn't snow until the middle of January, I could have walked around the block or something. I chose not to. I get very apathetic and lazy, it's just "how I roll."
But the good news, I've found what I'm assuming is my 20th wind for doing this stuff. Actually, I've started to go back to the gym regularly about 2 or 3 weeks ago. I'm not drastically changing my diet (yet) I am just going to change the real bad habits. Going back to cooking meals myself 5 or 6 days a week. Cutting back on soda, drinking more water (and try to do the 5 meal a day thing again, that always took the most effort, believe it or not). Beer/alcohol? I don't know yet. Everyone should have a vice to keep them sane. For the time being, that will be mine. If I need to drop it in order to accomplish goals, so be it. I guess that's why it took so long for me to write this. I kinda knew by doing it, I'd be locking myself into everything I want to do, officially.
In order to make this more fun for me (blogging) I'm going to be making more posts just on random shit too. Because I'm sure you guys were just as bored reading that as I was writing. I'm a baseball fan, so I'll write about baseball once in a while. I like TV, so I'll write about that occasionally.
Friday, March 19, 2010
Another Quick and easy update
Well, it only took 2.5 months, but I've lost 20 pounds! While I said I wasn't going to focus a whole lot on the scale, 20 pounds is a good benchmark for progress. Even if I don't see anything, I can at least look at a 20 pound dumbbell and say "I've lost THAT much weight!" Now let me shoulder press you!
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