Since today is a baseline-establishing day:
Today's Weight: 340 pounds (baseline)
Delta (day): 0 pounds
Delta (total): 0 pounds
Today's BMI (lb x 0.1319): 44.8
Yesterday's Calories: not measured
Last Night's Sleep: 5.25 hours
Yesterday's BP: not measured
Yesterday's Glucose: not measured
Yesterday's Exercise: Tae Kwon Do class (45 min)
Thursday, August 31, 2006
Wednesday, August 30, 2006
Once More Unto The Breach, Dear Friends...
Yes, MediFast again. Tae Kwon Do has been doing wonders for my general level of fitness, but mostly, it's just redistributing weight, not reducing it. For example, while my waist seems to get progressively (albiet slowly) smaller, my thighs have bulked up to the point that my jeans feel tight.
I have 7 weeks until the next belt test. At that time, assuming I graduate to camouflage belt, I'll begin live sparring. Plus, I'm starting to reach the point where my ability to perform the moves is based more on my weight and balance than on my muscular condition. Time to shed the weight, not just maintain.
Roughly a month after that belt test will be my 20th high-school reunion. If I can't go with the love of my life on my arm, I want to go looking at least improved over my high school self. So, figure 12 weeks until that, or 84 days. I could publish an unrealistic goal here, as I've done before, but I think I'm going to settle for just tracking progress. I'm going to commit to myself to post the following here on a daily basis for the next 12 weeks (8/31 - 11/23):
Today's Weight: nnn pounds
Delta (day): nn pounds
Delta (total): nn pounds
Today's BMI (lb x 0.1319): nn.n
Yesterday's Calories: nnn
Last Night's Sleep: n.n hours
Yesterday's BP: nn/nn at nn:nnn
Yesterday's Glucose: nn at nn:nn, nn:nn after meal
Yesterday's Exercise: xxxx
I have 7 weeks until the next belt test. At that time, assuming I graduate to camouflage belt, I'll begin live sparring. Plus, I'm starting to reach the point where my ability to perform the moves is based more on my weight and balance than on my muscular condition. Time to shed the weight, not just maintain.
Roughly a month after that belt test will be my 20th high-school reunion. If I can't go with the love of my life on my arm, I want to go looking at least improved over my high school self. So, figure 12 weeks until that, or 84 days. I could publish an unrealistic goal here, as I've done before, but I think I'm going to settle for just tracking progress. I'm going to commit to myself to post the following here on a daily basis for the next 12 weeks (8/31 - 11/23):
Today's Weight: nnn pounds
Delta (day): nn pounds
Delta (total): nn pounds
Today's BMI (lb x 0.1319): nn.n
Yesterday's Calories: nnn
Last Night's Sleep: n.n hours
Yesterday's BP: nn/nn at nn:nnn
Yesterday's Glucose: nn at nn:nn, nn:nn after meal
Yesterday's Exercise: xxxx
Tuesday, August 15, 2006
Feeling a Little Low
L is as adamant as ever that she's sticking with the ex. The funny thing is, I never hear how much she loves him, just that she's sticking with him, and that he's changed and getting better all the time. To me that says she's just being stubborn...
Yup. There's nothing I can't turn into a ray of hope to justify my own view of the world.
Also, I came to a bit of a realization last night at Tae Kwon Do class. One of the teenage students (the adult class is 13 & over) is an attention-seeker with a short attention span. Over the past several weeks, he's had his belt taken away, his weapons taken away, injured my hip by being impatient during a stretching exercise, turned into a mini-stalker trying to impress a 15-year-old female student, and just generally run aruond showcasing his "hyperness", which he seems proud of, given that he'll gladly tell you what sugary treat he's had right before class. Supposedly, he's ADHD (but I only have that information from him). He's not a bad kid, it doesn't seem, just seems unwilling to take things seriously and pay attention to the instructors (yes, I know, if it's ADHD, he's incapable of it, but this seems more like "teenage boy" than ADHD).
The trouble is, I find myself getting drawn into conversations with him, which ultimately serve no purpose other than to distract me from my reason for being there, which is to train. And, since I have a bit of a clown gene in me as well, I need to watch myself to make sure that my attempts to amuse myself and other students doesn't become a disruption in their own right.
On the plus side, I'm really enjoying the classes, and I'm seriously considering signing up for the leadership program, which is essentially the training program for future instructors. I wouldn't want to do it unless I were completely physically capable of demonstrating all of the moves, but I do enjoy teaching, and I have noticed other students seeking out my opinion and help on the forms and techniques, at least from a "what do we do in what order" kind of way. So, maybe I'm a natural. :-)
Guess I forgot to feel low there for a minute or two...must mean the Black Mood doesn't have a total grip on me yet.
Yup. There's nothing I can't turn into a ray of hope to justify my own view of the world.
Also, I came to a bit of a realization last night at Tae Kwon Do class. One of the teenage students (the adult class is 13 & over) is an attention-seeker with a short attention span. Over the past several weeks, he's had his belt taken away, his weapons taken away, injured my hip by being impatient during a stretching exercise, turned into a mini-stalker trying to impress a 15-year-old female student, and just generally run aruond showcasing his "hyperness", which he seems proud of, given that he'll gladly tell you what sugary treat he's had right before class. Supposedly, he's ADHD (but I only have that information from him). He's not a bad kid, it doesn't seem, just seems unwilling to take things seriously and pay attention to the instructors (yes, I know, if it's ADHD, he's incapable of it, but this seems more like "teenage boy" than ADHD).
The trouble is, I find myself getting drawn into conversations with him, which ultimately serve no purpose other than to distract me from my reason for being there, which is to train. And, since I have a bit of a clown gene in me as well, I need to watch myself to make sure that my attempts to amuse myself and other students doesn't become a disruption in their own right.
On the plus side, I'm really enjoying the classes, and I'm seriously considering signing up for the leadership program, which is essentially the training program for future instructors. I wouldn't want to do it unless I were completely physically capable of demonstrating all of the moves, but I do enjoy teaching, and I have noticed other students seeking out my opinion and help on the forms and techniques, at least from a "what do we do in what order" kind of way. So, maybe I'm a natural. :-)
Guess I forgot to feel low there for a minute or two...must mean the Black Mood doesn't have a total grip on me yet.
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