Another Phony-Bologna Milestone

Yeah, yeah...I trust you're all bright enough to get the little joke in the title...and no, I don't mean me on yet another MediFast go-round.

Yes, boys and girls (okay, girl...and maybe boy)...it's 90 days until I turn 39 years old. Three statute months. One typical corporate password-expiration cycle. The length of a standard warranty. A quarter (call someone who cares).

So, what's the goal this time? 250 lb, or basically dropping 75 from where I am now. I'm allowing myself 2 days of "bad": Christmas, and Dec 27th (going to an aunt's house for a visit, and don't feel like explaining anything). I need to drop this weight (and more) if I ever hope to progress much further physically with Tae Kwon Do. As of tonight, I'll have earned my green belt, but I'm not sure I feel I've earned it. I mean, sure, I know the sequence of moves in the form, and I do them to the best of my ability, but having watched the Black Belt testing for the schools this last time around, I was underwhelmed. *These* are what I'm aspiring to be? *This* is the standard against which I'll be judged? I'm not trying to disparage anyone's effort. I'd personally rather see someone who's doing their personal best and busting their ass at it get rewarded with a belt than someone who's just incredibly physically gifted and sleepwalking through it. But I want to hold myself to a higher standard, even if the school won't. That may mean holding myself back testing cycles...it certainly means more serious attempts to get into shape...increase stamina...improve balance...extend range of motion.

As before, I'm going to try to keep stats in the blog, but the old format was a pain in the ass to keep up, so I'm thinking just a line of data...

weight(delta day / delta overall);bp;pulse;glucose;last bp med;last meal

it's mostly the same information, but without the weird formatting, I may be able to keep up with it better.

You've just read my latest "good intentions" post. Do you:

A) chuckle
B) shake your head ruefully
C) get a little mad at my stupidity
D) yell at the screen that I'm a putz

Well?