Ok, so I've walked 25-40 minutes every day this week. Score!
Maybe I'll add something to the regimen next week. The post that Blogger ate was all about how I know variety is good for your body but routine is good for my brain but also how even my routine-loving brain likes to shake things up now and then (like, try doing things left-handed you don't normally do left-handed....it kind of tickles your brain). (Note: Do not try this with power tools.)
How YOU doin? (pronounced not like Billy Blanks, but like Joey Tribiani).
(Oh yeah, the post Blogger ate also talked about my Tae Bo DVD that I've had for about 3 years. It's still shrink-wrapped. Maybe I'll unwrap it today!)
13 June 2008
11 June 2008
billy blanks
How you feelin?
That's what billy says. My answer, after yesterday is "a little sore.". I thinkb it is cuz those tae bo moves make my body stretch way further than they are used to. I'm sure that is good long term. I really need to stretch more in general. My flexibilty stinks with a capital s and that rhymes with chest so let's go dig up some buried treasure. Sometimes I think my destiny contains physical treasure to be found. In the meantime, I will keep exercising and making good eating choices and drinking lots of water. Ice mountain is purified by reverse osmosis. That's probably better than perverse psychosis. See ya.
That's what billy says. My answer, after yesterday is "a little sore.". I thinkb it is cuz those tae bo moves make my body stretch way further than they are used to. I'm sure that is good long term. I really need to stretch more in general. My flexibilty stinks with a capital s and that rhymes with chest so let's go dig up some buried treasure. Sometimes I think my destiny contains physical treasure to be found. In the meantime, I will keep exercising and making good eating choices and drinking lots of water. Ice mountain is purified by reverse osmosis. That's probably better than perverse psychosis. See ya.
08 June 2008
looking back to end of laat week
Thursday indeed entailed gnarly denise austin workout. She combined kick boxing, step aerobics, yoga, and weight training into something that should be called "you will hurt for the next two days no matter what.". Anyway, it hurt but felt good to accomplish. That was thursday after work. On friday, was very active with yard stuff, mowing chopping, spraying, etc.
Weekend has entailed little exercise and/or activity mostly cuz of outdoor dampness. Perhaps after church the family (4) can have a go on the treadmill, whoever wants, though we have company coming at 4. We'll see.
As for calories, BMR (basal metabolic rate) is an old fixture in health science. It varies based on height, gender, age, and activity level (and weight to go over or under). You can find BMR calculators on line. There are pretty standard multipliers for activity level and the rest is simple math to gain or lose or stay the same weight the rest of your life. The net has thousands of calorie counting resources so it's not nearly as cumbersome to count calories as it was in my young 20s to start learning about such things.
Sorry for the long answer. When I run three days a week (2 miles moderately), I can do a 1.5 multiplier and still lose weight. My lifestyle is somewhat mobile anyway. Right now, I'm doing my best to stay below a 1.375 multiplier, knowing that I want to lose weight. I think my baseline comes out to 1975 or something like that right now.
When I train for mini, it gets fun to try to not lose too much weight. I can remember being 20 pounds less and having to force myself to eat more and choose sugar filled drinks to get extra calories so as to not keep losing weight.
As I recall mathematically, 3500 calories are a pound so in essence shaving 500 calories off your exacted baseline times exacted multiplier will have you losing 1 pound a week (though bad to think like that cuz it becomes like saving for retirement and you feel like a little won't do much but slow and steady will win the non-race life journey to continued good health). Actually pound a week pace is a habit forming and good pace cuz most want to get way more radical and see faster results but they then burnout cuz they starve themselves.
Anyway, sorry for the pamphlet. I'm done with breakfast. Raisin bran, milk, and a yogurt. 560 calories total. Easy game though much more difficult to tally the casseroles. Doable though. Later Gator!
Weekend has entailed little exercise and/or activity mostly cuz of outdoor dampness. Perhaps after church the family (4) can have a go on the treadmill, whoever wants, though we have company coming at 4. We'll see.
As for calories, BMR (basal metabolic rate) is an old fixture in health science. It varies based on height, gender, age, and activity level (and weight to go over or under). You can find BMR calculators on line. There are pretty standard multipliers for activity level and the rest is simple math to gain or lose or stay the same weight the rest of your life. The net has thousands of calorie counting resources so it's not nearly as cumbersome to count calories as it was in my young 20s to start learning about such things.
Sorry for the long answer. When I run three days a week (2 miles moderately), I can do a 1.5 multiplier and still lose weight. My lifestyle is somewhat mobile anyway. Right now, I'm doing my best to stay below a 1.375 multiplier, knowing that I want to lose weight. I think my baseline comes out to 1975 or something like that right now.
When I train for mini, it gets fun to try to not lose too much weight. I can remember being 20 pounds less and having to force myself to eat more and choose sugar filled drinks to get extra calories so as to not keep losing weight.
As I recall mathematically, 3500 calories are a pound so in essence shaving 500 calories off your exacted baseline times exacted multiplier will have you losing 1 pound a week (though bad to think like that cuz it becomes like saving for retirement and you feel like a little won't do much but slow and steady will win the non-race life journey to continued good health). Actually pound a week pace is a habit forming and good pace cuz most want to get way more radical and see faster results but they then burnout cuz they starve themselves.
Anyway, sorry for the pamphlet. I'm done with breakfast. Raisin bran, milk, and a yogurt. 560 calories total. Easy game though much more difficult to tally the casseroles. Doable though. Later Gator!
06 June 2008
Belated Wednesday
On Wed, Ella and I tromped around the flooded golf course. (Ok, the course itself was mostly not flooded--though it was pretty squishy), but the retention ponds were way overflowing and part of the golf cart path was underwater, including an entire BRIDGE that ostensibly goes over the retention pond. We weren't going fast enough, though.
I am really hoping my neighbor is up for walking next week because that would be way more motivating than anything else.
Last night went to see Shine a Light (Stones concert flick) with mom and dad (Father's Day present).......It wasn't as good as the U2 IMAX concert flick, which was AWESOME, but it was nice to be there anyway. Those are some gnarly old dudes. Except for Charlie Watts; he's normal-looking. He must smoke less than the other 3 main guys.
calories? wow. What's your daily target?
ox socks
I am really hoping my neighbor is up for walking next week because that would be way more motivating than anything else.
Last night went to see Shine a Light (Stones concert flick) with mom and dad (Father's Day present).......It wasn't as good as the U2 IMAX concert flick, which was AWESOME, but it was nice to be there anyway. Those are some gnarly old dudes. Except for Charlie Watts; he's normal-looking. He must smoke less than the other 3 main guys.
calories? wow. What's your daily target?
ox socks
05 June 2008
thursday shmurzday
Today I will work out. It is undecided what will be done but it will be done. I have been writing down caloric intake lately and exactly. It keeps me in check. I find it effective plus there so many web resources for calorie figuring. Basically I just do the simple math compared to my rough baseline and make sure I stay under to shed some pounds. Things compound as I get into habits of heightened activity, doin this workin out stuff. I have learned fairly decently my baselines and have actually found myself able to gauge hunger again, knowing and feeling I need to eat more as I exercise more or eat less as I get sedentary for a few days in a row. Sometimes I get sedimentary and that's really weird. It's sedimentary my dear Watson. And sometimes metamorphic.
I guess what I'm saying is that even though the schedule hasn't permitted fantabulous exercising number (as I had hoped), I'm starting to feel and see, at least, some comprehensive effort. I'm trying not to get psycho extreme with spreadsheets and checklists cuz I tend to overdo it and then burn out after a few months only to rest from it for a year. So, for now, I have paper on the table and write the cals. Total it at the end of the day. I've played with baselines versus activity levels in the past so I know basically where I'm at and right now I am working into a good place it seems. I am hoping to sustain present course.
Tonight will entail treadmill or aerobic tape, maybe some accompanying isometric (weight lifting without weights) action. Party on Wayne. I think I might have to mow tonight also? Party on Garth.
You didn't know wayne newton and garth brooks were pals did you?
I guess what I'm saying is that even though the schedule hasn't permitted fantabulous exercising number (as I had hoped), I'm starting to feel and see, at least, some comprehensive effort. I'm trying not to get psycho extreme with spreadsheets and checklists cuz I tend to overdo it and then burn out after a few months only to rest from it for a year. So, for now, I have paper on the table and write the cals. Total it at the end of the day. I've played with baselines versus activity levels in the past so I know basically where I'm at and right now I am working into a good place it seems. I am hoping to sustain present course.
Tonight will entail treadmill or aerobic tape, maybe some accompanying isometric (weight lifting without weights) action. Party on Wayne. I think I might have to mow tonight also? Party on Garth.
You didn't know wayne newton and garth brooks were pals did you?
03 June 2008
Chiquita Tamale, Ole, Ole
When I hopped out of bed this morning, I put on my exercise clothes, planning for an exercise break later in the day. But then, before I got to the break, Mom dropped in for lunch after she went to Curves. She brought frozen tamales from TJs and raw sugar snap peas. YUM. But it took a lot longer than I would normally take for lunch, and I had too much work to take ANOTHER break. Maybe when I'm done working and get dinner started, I will have time to cram something in. But it was nice to see Mom.
02 June 2008
Cosmo Workout
Wow. The old school aerobic tape from Goodwill, the "Cosmopolitan (magazine) low or high impact workout" was exhillirating. If that means something like "hard to follow" then it really was. The main gal was doing high impact and the gals behind were doing low impact. I was somewhere in between, basically jumping around like a monkey, sweating and such. The music was sweet. Sweet like sweet potato without all the brown sugar and syrup. Did I mention sweating? Yes. It was done. Muscles a flarin. Heart a thumpin. Frogs a courtin. Houston, this is Apollo June 2. We lifted off. All systems were a go. I better stop procrastinating and start tweaking resumes and getting inspired now to kick tookas in my up and coming career endeavor(s).
old joints
What up, bro? That camping trip got us off our mojo. (Oops, edited to add---NOW I see that you did post. I find my feedreader is off by a few hours, which I find exceedingly annoying. We also had a huge crop of strawberries this weekend--the first one since we've lived here that I would actually call a crop rather than just "a handful." Don't know if that's due to cool rainy weather of May, or that the plants ahve finally matured to a point where they can produce a crop. Either way, I was psyched. Glad you were active over weekend. I did lots of stick-picking-up and covered areas of the garden with newspaper to discourage weed growth, and hung some pictures, but on the whole it could not be counted as exercise. However, perhaps the garden part was hard on my knees--see below.)
Ok, so I managed 30 minutes on treadmill earlier today, but I had to slow down from 3.5 mph to around 2.7, because my knee was "twinging" -- sort of an ice pick feeling-- and I didn't want to risk doing anything bad. Still, better than nothing.
My next-door neighbor's baby started sleeping through the night so she might be up for walking in the wee hours again soon. Rock on, that is much better than exercising alone.
(more editing: Did you ahve any damage from the storms? We did not, but a few people in the neighborhood did lose large tree limbs. Not whole trees, though.)
Ok, so I managed 30 minutes on treadmill earlier today, but I had to slow down from 3.5 mph to around 2.7, because my knee was "twinging" -- sort of an ice pick feeling-- and I didn't want to risk doing anything bad. Still, better than nothing.
My next-door neighbor's baby started sleeping through the night so she might be up for walking in the wee hours again soon. Rock on, that is much better than exercising alone.
(more editing: Did you ahve any damage from the storms? We did not, but a few people in the neighborhood did lose large tree limbs. Not whole trees, though.)
well,.... do ya punk??
Go ahead - make my day. Go ahead and make my day by saying THIS:
Well, I did spend 5 hours in the garage over the weekend with my bride, doing labor intensive things in the garage - moving stuff to shed, moving shelves and bricks back and forth, removing nails and screws and hung shelves, and painting the thing in it's entirety and then reassembling. Muscles are telling me that it counts as exercise. The three days prior, I was admittedly "under" on the exercising discipline but it can be explained by the "zilchness" of my eating. I'm trying to figure out next steps in my (career) life, which is always a trying time in which I take great effort to ask God to advise me (hence the no eating). Anyway, I still remained pretty active those three days with lawn mowing, housecleaning, strawberry pickin, music rehearsin and leadin, errand runnin, and graduation open housin.
I am pleased that there is great potential for us to open the door to some pretty good habits of "good choices." I'm continuing to meditate on the lifelong and spiritual implications though certainly appreciating the short term general joy and confidence boosts that come from the simple things like: better body shape, better sleep, more energy, knowledge of better health, etc. Aint nuttin wrong wit any o dat. True dat. Word.
I will keep you posted.
Well, I did spend 5 hours in the garage over the weekend with my bride, doing labor intensive things in the garage - moving stuff to shed, moving shelves and bricks back and forth, removing nails and screws and hung shelves, and painting the thing in it's entirety and then reassembling. Muscles are telling me that it counts as exercise. The three days prior, I was admittedly "under" on the exercising discipline but it can be explained by the "zilchness" of my eating. I'm trying to figure out next steps in my (career) life, which is always a trying time in which I take great effort to ask God to advise me (hence the no eating). Anyway, I still remained pretty active those three days with lawn mowing, housecleaning, strawberry pickin, music rehearsin and leadin, errand runnin, and graduation open housin.
I am pleased that there is great potential for us to open the door to some pretty good habits of "good choices." I'm continuing to meditate on the lifelong and spiritual implications though certainly appreciating the short term general joy and confidence boosts that come from the simple things like: better body shape, better sleep, more energy, knowledge of better health, etc. Aint nuttin wrong wit any o dat. True dat. Word.
I will keep you posted.
29 May 2008
27 May 2008
may is ending soon
The lawnmowing and packing took all the time and energy as well as cooking on that fateful thursday. However, I'm pleased to report about 5 miles of hiking/running and much football throwing and horseshoe tossing and kickball playing over the camping weekend. Sweeeet! I don't know how to make this entry amusing. How about with a poem??!!:
Exer exer
exer cising
Hard to schedule
Not surprising
Maxi maxi
maximizing
Not so easy
I'm realizing
Not guhn not guhn
not guhn give up
Gonna stick to it
Just like syrup.
Eeeble deeble duh deeble.
That's all folks. ;-)
Exer exer
exer cising
Hard to schedule
Not surprising
Maxi maxi
maximizing
Not so easy
I'm realizing
Not guhn not guhn
not guhn give up
Gonna stick to it
Just like syrup.
Eeeble deeble duh deeble.
That's all folks. ;-)
22 May 2008
Wed Nez Day
About 22 minutes on treadmill. Ellen is a good show to watch, because she dances. Mike Myers was on. His parents are British. He did this funny thing about how growing up in Canada his friends liked to come to the door to hear them talk, and so he did a hyper-Liverpool accent of his mom saying "Mike's not home" and then a hyper-Canadian accent of his friends' responses.
coolio
I don't know if the balloon popped yet, but I'm sure the world's a nicer place because of it, according to 70s group the Fifth Dimension:
The world's a nicer place now that it has my beautiful balloon
It wears a nicer face with my beautiful balloon
Love is waiting there in my beautiful balloon
Way up in the air in my beautiful balloon
If you'll hold my hand we'll chase your dream across the sky
For we can fly we can fly
Up, up and away
My beautiful, my beautiful (blue) balloon
Balloon...Up, up, and away.....
coolio
I don't know if the balloon popped yet, but I'm sure the world's a nicer place because of it, according to 70s group the Fifth Dimension:
The world's a nicer place now that it has my beautiful balloon
It wears a nicer face with my beautiful balloon
Love is waiting there in my beautiful balloon
Way up in the air in my beautiful balloon
If you'll hold my hand we'll chase your dream across the sky
For we can fly we can fly
Up, up and away
My beautiful, my beautiful (blue) balloon
Balloon...Up, up, and away.....
still probable
Looks like all systems are a go for thursday lawnmowing and potential additional exercise. I am writing this right now in effort to steer my big heart with the rudder of my small mouth(email). I will let you know how it went tomorrow.
And lastly, a question:
Do you remember when we accidentally let that balloon fly out of the car? Do you think it popped yet??
And lastly, a question:
Do you remember when we accidentally let that balloon fly out of the car? Do you think it popped yet??
21 May 2008
Tuesday, Tuesday, Pudding and Pie
No exercising for me on Tuesday. It's always hard when the girls have swimming, and a late afternoon headache did not help matters. I took meds, and they vanquished the headache, but I had a weird "hungry" feeling all evening, even after eating. (I think a side effect of the pseudoephedrine.)
I went to bed early, and I don't mean "went to bed early." (Euphemism used in our household....as in "Let's go to bed early, wink wink, nudge nudge")
Today should be better. Will also be sprinting to do laundry etc. in mad dash to get packed for camping! I also have book club on Thursday night which will be getting in the way of prime packing time.
I went to bed early, and I don't mean "went to bed early." (Euphemism used in our household....as in "Let's go to bed early, wink wink, nudge nudge")
Today should be better. Will also be sprinting to do laundry etc. in mad dash to get packed for camping! I also have book club on Thursday night which will be getting in the way of prime packing time.
other brother daryll
Okay. After all the hype of a "three in a row", it most certainly did not happen. Let us not forget the buzz from the astounding "two in a row" however. When you think about the yo-ball toy, you think....why shouldn't you smack your siblings head with the plastic ball...it's no big deal? Similarly, I think in my heart I was like "dude, I walked 2 days in a row, don't you think eating enchiladas and paying bills and cleaning your room and then eating spoonfuls of peanut butter and jelly are in order?
Dr Shazz: Alex, I'll take "three in a row" for two hundred.
Mr. Trebec: Answer: I don't think so, pal!
Dr Shazzmonds: What is "my response to walking tonight on the treadmill?"
Mr: right.
Dr: for four hundred please
Mr: oooh Daily double!! You can risk up to 3000.
Dr: I would like to make it a true daily double.
Mr: answer: giving it your all mowing the lawn and possibly hitting the treadmill also
Dr: what is....uh....thursday before mad scramble of packing for camping trip??
Mr: right!!!
Fans go nutz. All blogreaders are inspired and elated continuingly and joyfully!
Geeze Louise this is groovy!!!
Dr Shazz: Alex, I'll take "three in a row" for two hundred.
Mr. Trebec: Answer: I don't think so, pal!
Dr Shazzmonds: What is "my response to walking tonight on the treadmill?"
Mr: right.
Dr: for four hundred please
Mr: oooh Daily double!! You can risk up to 3000.
Dr: I would like to make it a true daily double.
Mr: answer: giving it your all mowing the lawn and possibly hitting the treadmill also
Dr: what is....uh....thursday before mad scramble of packing for camping trip??
Mr: right!!!
Fans go nutz. All blogreaders are inspired and elated continuingly and joyfully!
Geeze Louise this is groovy!!!
20 May 2008
Bump on the frog on the blog.....
No spinach for us either. We had Indian curry--chicken, cauliflower, green beans, and brown rice, plus garlic naan. And we'll have it again tonight after the girls finish swimming. (Ella will complain but too bad for her!)
Did you see Cousin Barbara will be in town on Tuesday? Obviously you are invited to any festivities, including ISI music program. You can hear Ella sing in French--- "Jaunte le meule, tikka tikka takka" (something about a windmill....), and if my prediction is correct, her singing it to you solo afterwards will be more pleasurable than hearing the whole group sing it at the concert, but you never know.
40 minutes, at 5% incline? That sounds like some kind of triple-dog dare. But just as I will stick to my guns about not sticking my tongue to a frozen pole, I will also stick to "no incline" for awhile longer. I'm no thrill seeker. 3.5 mph is about what I aim for too. when I do the funny stuff with my arms, I hit the ceiling. Rock on, I'm so tall.
Did you see Cousin Barbara will be in town on Tuesday? Obviously you are invited to any festivities, including ISI music program. You can hear Ella sing in French--- "Jaunte le meule, tikka tikka takka" (something about a windmill....), and if my prediction is correct, her singing it to you solo afterwards will be more pleasurable than hearing the whole group sing it at the concert, but you never know.
40 minutes, at 5% incline? That sounds like some kind of triple-dog dare. But just as I will stick to my guns about not sticking my tongue to a frozen pole, I will also stick to "no incline" for awhile longer. I'm no thrill seeker. 3.5 mph is about what I aim for too. when I do the funny stuff with my arms, I hit the ceiling. Rock on, I'm so tall.
frog on the blog on the hole in the bottom of the sea
No spinach in my turkey sandwich last night. Happy to report another 40 minutes of sweat on the treadmill though - 3.5 mph at 5 percent incline again (which is moderately fast walk for me).
Joon Ree commercial say "nobody bodduh me.".
And, for the record, Kemp Mill records breaks its own records.
It feels good to have done a "two (exercisings) in a row" for the first time in ages!
That is way less scary than two exorcisings in a row by the way.
Planning on a mind blowing "three in a row" tonight just cuz it looks like the schedule may lock down tighter as the week advances. Smoke em if you gottem, right??
For the record, I'm totally inspired by the gardener over there yonder. WORD.
Joon Ree commercial say "nobody bodduh me.".
And, for the record, Kemp Mill records breaks its own records.
It feels good to have done a "two (exercisings) in a row" for the first time in ages!
That is way less scary than two exorcisings in a row by the way.
Planning on a mind blowing "three in a row" tonight just cuz it looks like the schedule may lock down tighter as the week advances. Smoke em if you gottem, right??
For the record, I'm totally inspired by the gardener over there yonder. WORD.
19 May 2008
~30 minutes on treadmill
Did about 30 minutes on treadmill while watching end of My Name is Earl finale and end of The Office finale. Also did some back and leg stretches. Huzzah!
Now must go make super-healthy dinner para mi familia.
Que bueno!
Now must go make super-healthy dinner para mi familia.
Que bueno!
My Very Own Popeye
Ok, how did we ALREADY get comment SPAM? I guess I will ignore it!
Yesterday I planted 50 ajuga plants, transplanted a volunteer sedum from one location to a better location 2 feet away, dragged some tree limbs from the yard to the driveway where they are just as unsightly but at least aren't killing any grass, and did some weeding. Again, probably not exercise, but I do appear to have aggravated the nerve that runs up the back of my neck to the top of my h ead, because I'm getting one of my stabbing headaches and when I rub the stabbed part it tingles all down that side of my neck......Woot!
I think I will drag Ella on a walk after school. THAT IS MY PLAN. In the meantime, I will do gentle neck stretching.
Ate lamb stew at Mom's last night. She served it with spinach salad.
Lydia, out of the blue: "Mocia, thank you SO MUCH for making this delicious spinach."
Dad: "Have you been practicing with her all day or what?"
so sue me, the girl likes spinach! I love it. She didn't want any of her main dish; just more spinach. (And she even likes lamb......)
Yesterday I planted 50 ajuga plants, transplanted a volunteer sedum from one location to a better location 2 feet away, dragged some tree limbs from the yard to the driveway where they are just as unsightly but at least aren't killing any grass, and did some weeding. Again, probably not exercise, but I do appear to have aggravated the nerve that runs up the back of my neck to the top of my h ead, because I'm getting one of my stabbing headaches and when I rub the stabbed part it tingles all down that side of my neck......Woot!
I think I will drag Ella on a walk after school. THAT IS MY PLAN. In the meantime, I will do gentle neck stretching.
Ate lamb stew at Mom's last night. She served it with spinach salad.
Lydia, out of the blue: "Mocia, thank you SO MUCH for making this delicious spinach."
Dad: "Have you been practicing with her all day or what?"
so sue me, the girl likes spinach! I love it. She didn't want any of her main dish; just more spinach. (And she even likes lamb......)
saturday
I think the garden stuff counts in some regard. I did manual labor on saturday, tweaking and moving old cabinets at Sr. Millers, unloading and moving 100 bricks, - all causing sweat even in cool breezy temps. If you were squatting and moving and extending beyond day's normalcy, you get some sort of sticker for the merit badge book in my book. Keep on bookin. GO SPEEDRACER GO!!!
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