No fitness goals for 2021...maybe

 It's a new year...a month ago.  I'm not a timely type person.  I'm busy.  Which is part of my physical fitness hurdles.  

How many years can come and go with lofty goals, yet next to nothing is achieved?  At least one more.

We should respect the realist that does not make a fitness goal only to have it covered in junk food crumbs.

Weight: 275 pounds

My typical goal is that I want to lose 30 pounds and get into the 240's, yet here we are.  So we know how effective those goals have been executed.

When goals are just things that you want, but not actions you take, pigs fly and dreams die.

I wish I could ride a rainbow to physical fitness and find a pot of gold. 

Instead of goals here is a list of things that I maybe will possibly try to do:

Basketball

Twice a week I'll play some recreation basketball.  Unless I don't.

6 Minutes of Really Slow Push-Ups

I read a book that claims six minutes of working out really slow should burn out your muscles and be sufficient for your weekly workouts.  I'm going to try it.

Wish me luck...

Die Bunny! Die!

There was a day not so long ago where I had a choice.  I could workout OR eat my children's Easter candy.

I deliberated:

I tried to resist:

Working out would be good for me.  I need to work out.  I want to lose weight.  Eating a chocolate bunny won't achieve that.

...BUT it's dark chocolate.  I really like dark chocolate.

And then I succumbed to desire...

What have I learned from this?  

Well.  This occurrence was at the end of the day.  Working out in the morning tends to be the ticket.  At the end of the night I am tired, unmotivated, vulnerable to the temptations of dark chocolate.

PLUS doing the hard workout in the morning makes you think, "Nope!  I didn't wake up early to workout and then eat a dark chocolate bunny." And then you walk away.

I could also go to bed and avoid the temptation or do the drink gallons of water trick to feel full...

Not sure.

Just another impulsive moment.  We press on.  Hoping for better eating choices tomorrow.

Birthday Party Binge Eating Hot Dog Failure

I lose all self-control at group gatherings.  My family got together with extended family to celebrate a bunch of birthdays all at once.  It turned into a hot dog eating contest: me against no one.  I just ate and ate and ate and ate dawg after dawg.

The Damage

I inhaled 4-5 hot dogs without thinking.  But those hot dogs needed friends, so I ate a small army of tater tots.  And also there was shredded pork, so I gobbled that up too.  

Then comes desert...

I ate entirely too much ice cream and cake.  Food failure.  Shame.  Disappointment, that I can't restrain myself.  But what of it?  All we can do is try again.  Get back on course.  

Weighing In

The most painful moment in this comes when I step back on the scale.  Here we find the tangible outcome of going off the rails.

I now weigh 281.6 which is an uptick from the mid 270's I had enjoyed not too long ago...

I'm upset.  I'm frustrated.  I want to be more consistent in my food choices and activities.  Emotional vomit session complete.  

Tomorrow is a new day, full of new opportunities to make healthy choices.

Fearsome Fish Oil Failures

Fish oil is great, there are benefits...go read this website because I don't want to do the work of regurgitating already good information and plagiarism isn't my style.

So good things right?!

Well fish oil isn't all that it's cracked up to be.  When the rubber meets the road there are some downsides.

Taste

Fish oil tastes like licking a dead fish that's fermented in the noonday sun.  Once you've swallowed the greasy nutrient you think it's all over...WRONG.  It keeps tasting bad.  You burp, the fish oil mocks, "Oh hello there!  Remember how bad I taste?  Yep, still taste bad.  Bye!"  And that happens as many times as you burp. 

Smell

Jazzed up from a killer workout, I feverishly poured the fish oil onto a spoon to consume...because I'm sooooooooo healhy.  In my haste I spilled fish oil all over my workout hoodie.  The repulsive fumes clung to the fabric until I was forced to trash said hoodie. 

The lesson is to be less jittery or simply take fish oil pills.  You decide.

May fish oil help you and not haunt you.

Bologna Lies

I'm full of bologna!

What a bunch of big talk about getting in shape during Coronavirus.  I'm a fraud.  A fat loss phony.

I've not worked out consistently.  Have I ever?

I console myself with the thought that no one is reading this, so I'm not REALLY doing any harm to anybody.  BUT by mistake someone could accidentally read this...and boy would they be disappointed.

I'm at 276 right now.  Will it ever change?  Will I ever change?  Will I ever get my act together?

I guess there is always tomorrow, but maybe not, who knows what could happen?

I have more questions than weight loss success right now.

Stay safe out there!

Wedding Weight Loss Plans Become Covid-19 Goals

Hello vast empty internet,

I thought I was going to ramble about how I wanted to lose weight for a wedding that my wife was going to be in at the end of May 2020.  Well...things have changed!  The world is now shut down due to coronavirus.  I do not anticipate going to the wedding in May, even though we are two months out.

Now my weight loss is about burning off nervous energy during these days of limited movement.

Going for walks and doing some body weight workouts has already yielded results.  It's also helpful working at home where we don't have sugary treats sitting about like I do at work.

For a long time stuck at 280, but recently I've dropped to 274.5 with the recent changes forced by coronavirus.

My Routine

• Walking - the beauty of walking is that it can be done daily because it's not too strenuous.  What I like to do is go for walks especially after a body weight workout to break up soreness.
• Body Weight Workout - it's simply movements with only your body weight.  There are a variety of movements that you can do without any weights!  Yay!

Squats

Push Ups

Sit Ups

Lunges

I just burn out on each one, then move to the next.  I'll do three or four cycles and then tap out.  I do this every other day or so.

Go get it... while staying safe at your homestead.

Another Thanksgiving of Binge Eating

So I ate a bunch of food over the Thanksgiving weekend.  No restraint.  None whatsoever. 

If it's got corn syrup or gravy on it, then I'm eating that.  Probably 2 or 3 servings of whatever "that" is...

Anywhoo...

Now I decide to weigh myself after a binge eating free fall.  Bad idea, I know this, but I do it anyway.

The damage: 288.2 pounds!

So posting again and thinking I need to workout.

Will this actually happen?

I hope so, because I will be attending a wedding in May.  So this is the push, to slim down for a wedding spectacle.