Getting In Shape #4

Down to 214 lbs, a total loss of 28 pounds since the beginning of the year. It helps when you can spend 10-12 hours in the gym each week. I am eating two pretty good meals a day, and having a couple adult beverages each night, so there is room to ratchet down the calorie intake.
I need to check with the ListGod on my sodium intake. He has me chewing salt tablets all day, but I draw the line at his daily sodium enema suggestion.
My workout partner leaves for the UK on August 31 and that could be a major blow to my regimen. Let's see how far I get by 8-31 and worry about next steps when the time comes.

Cubs Lose!

Anyone else hope the D'backs sweep the Cubs this weekend? My hatred of the Cubs and their Lemming Fans is both petty and immature...so?

Gettin In Shape # 3

Okay, don't hate me but I keep losing weight. 216 today. Doing 11 hours a week in the gym. Weights, spin, running. I am also ravenously hungry. 26 pounds gone since the first of the year. 18 more to go. Enjoying a nice Balvenie tonight as a reward.
...or maybe two, yum.

Being Unemployed

There is a funny thing about people watching when you are unemployed. The people are invariably mommies or old folks. I went to the Jewels this morning for some groceries and got the heebie jeebies from seeing all these seniors shuffling around. It was almost as if I somehow got stuck in a parallel universe where eveybody was ancient. Is that what I am going to look like in 20 years? Hope I die before I get old. (That was done by The Who, right?)

Who Did "My Generation?" Who. Yeah, Who?

I am such a music troglodyte sometimes it makes me laugh. The new fangled radios that display the artist and song have been helping me get hip. Up until yesterday I thought "Walk of Life" was done by that Springsteen guy. Imagine my surprise that iit is Dire Straits. duuhh

Get In Shape Update #2

Despite some adult bevvies Friday night, I weighed 218 this morning, another new low. Friday I stayed away from the gym but ran 3 miles. Today was an off day. My heartrate is around 80 right now, so I may have been over-training a tad. I will see what it is like tomorrow after golf.

Get in Shape Update #1

At the beginning of 2005, I had 242.5 lbs packed onto my 6'2" frame. My quack told me to lose weight or die, so I decided to get in shape. The local gym in my hometown has a wide variety of exercise classes. My favorites are Muscle Works/Coreboard and the Spinning classes.

Today I took Pilates for the first time. Now I know why women live longer than men on average. I am usually the only male in Muscle Works, and one of a few in Spinning. Most of the guys at the Club are overweight but they insist on playing raquetball or basketball. A few regulars use the free weights. We don't have a lot of body builder types at all. Some of the guys use the treadmills or stairmasters, but usually they employ incorrect form, holding on the rails.

So far this year I have lost 22 pounds (10 kilos) and about five inches off my waist. My goal is to get to 199 by year end if possible, but no later than next March 26 when we are off on vacation. A secondary goal is to get off this blood pressure med. It's good to have goals.

Harry Potter is EVIL!!!!

Good Christ Almighty! (No irony intended) With all the horrid problems pressuring our world these days, the Catholic Church finds time to blast harmless children's books because their mythologies clash with those of the church.

I am not surprised by this garbage. Liberal Christianity/Conservative Christianity. Islam. No diff. They all require belief in myths supported only by the convoluted logic of 1st millenium thinkers. And Judaism, the root of them, promotes belief in a vengeful interventionist supreme being that continually kicks your ass. I have no use for any of them. Except Mother Mary. From what I know of her, she was pretty cool.

What the World Needs

Another blog! Welcome to Wrong Side of the Saw Kerf, my personally twisted view of the world. I do not know where this blog will take me (well, wherever you go, there you are anyway) but it is a good time for me to start one because I am NEWLY UNEMPLOYED and enjoying the summer.