Spinin with the Mrs's....

Spin class was awesome tonight! It was hard, fun, fast and really helped me get a good work out..

The only thing that could have made it better would have been if my wife had gone with me.....

OH WAIT!!!!!


SHE DID!!!!!! What a blast to have my honey next to me in spin class! She outlasted life five of the younger ones who where so, um, buff? No, that is huff huff... Cause they were huffing and puffing then leaving as me and my honey where moving and grooving!

Amen.. Spin is where the hardcores go! Me and Jenifer Leilani did the class from start to finish....

Those other kids? Maybe they went home to bed..... ;)

Thank you dear for my new shoes!

Well "Da Wife" went with  me a few weeks ago to get some shoes for my spin class.



I love them shoes... I love that class.. I am still losing weight but it's not coming off fast...

Not much to say just glad to be Jay.. Trying so hard to maintain the fitness but it is working! Too sleepy for more.. Night all

Update with pictures of my progress...

Me a few months ago.

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Living Large.. But not much longer at this size...

Another angle..

Another shot of me a few months ago.

 

Me today              .

I am not thin today. But I am thinner. I feel better, much much better.....

I did a spin class today and it was awesome!!

I feel great, look healthier and sleep better....

I still have a way to go. But at least not as far as when I started...

My spin class was fun today not just very hard and very tiring.. I remember when I could not stand up and sit down with the rest of the class....

Now I can... And I enjoy it!! 

My belly today......

Watch it shrink.... For the first time in a long time, I truly believe I can.

New shoes mean better spins.....

This  is a sweaty me after spin class. For the last two or three classes my feet have hurt because they are too big for the pedal straps. SOOO, I made a promise to myself a month ago. - If I kept up going to spin class at least 3 times a week, I would get myself a pair of bicycle shoes.... 

Well yesterday.Jenifer Leilani and I went to the store and got some for me!!...

The clip helps hold me in the bike and my feet don't hurt!!

They are comfortable and it is easier to work the pedals.

Still get sweaty though..

I am beat! So, what am I gana do now? Get ready for work!!!!

Ahhhh life... It just keeps coming at ya... Down to 227 now... Next goal - 220.....

Working hard and working it off! BUT WITH NO DIET!!!

Yep, its me! I little bit thinner, a lot happier!! Did the Spin class this morning and man did it kick my behind!!!

Due to my brother's influence I have started eating mostly organic foods as well. I feel fantstico!


So, I did a spin class at 7:45AM... Now it is off to work...

Jenifer Leilani is also using our WII fit Plus! She is feeling better and working hard and working hard!


I had a guy at work come up to me and tell me I look great! Said I was losing the weight and looking more fit!

I know I have a way to go, but man it feeels so good!!!

Gots to go to work now...! BYE!!!!

Saturday and yes I am still a diabetic but......

Hit the 220's.... I weighed in at 228 this morning.... I have not been that low in a long long time. My goal right now is 200 but the thing is I am not dieting...I am just eating more healthy.... Funny thing about this picture is that not all the food in it is food I would eat...

And the classes...We tried to go to Santa Fe today but missed the train... So, I also missed a class.. But I am going to hit the Wii fit tonight and see if I can get a good workout in...

I am still working with my food... Trying to see how much to eat, what to eat, when to eat...


My levels are way down... I had a reading of 98 today which is awesome even though I am sure my dinner reading with be higher...

That's OK though.. It is still much lower than the 219 I started out with...

What am I talking about? Check out this cool video...

So, I am type II. I am being told that I may now be back to Pre-Diabetes levels.. My blood sugars are getting lower over all each day.. Funny, in researching I also found out something my mother-in-law had mentioned,,,, Cinnamon! This stuff, in small amounts is supposed to help your blood sugar levels! Well, I can certainly try it... But I am still not stopping the exercise and way of eating I am doing...


A 2003 Pakistan study found that a gram of ground cinnamon a day seemed to help lower blood sugar. According to one of the researchers, people can get that with a quarter- to a half-teaspoon of store-bought cinnamon twice a day or in cinnamon capsules that are sold over the counter. Another option is ground or stick cinnamon in hot water


Worth a shot!

That's all for now..

Sugar Sugar it's a booger!!!! At least to a diabetic...

So, I have diabetes, at least that is what my doctor told me.

Kind of scared me... Really scared me. Since I found out (the beginning of July) I have been working out, bowing out (desserts and soda and bread) and testing out... I have to test my blood level three times a day...

I do the test with a little machine that pricks my finger and then there's ya know... Blood... Gross.... Then I use this machine to test the level...

Normal levels are 95 - 120... When I started out I was oh about 219..... Not good... My average now is about 130... Yesterday I tested 124 (Morning) 150 (Lunch) 128 (Dinner)... I think I used to much mayo at lunch...

I have brought the levels down by exercise and eating meats, vegetables and small amounts of potatoes, and occasional slices of bread. Whole wheat, etc... No pie, no Carl's $6 dollar burgers  with fries, Large Coke or Route 44 Iced tea with 2 bags of Sweet and low three times a day...








Now I drink abut 3 liters or more of water a day. I prepare all my food. And I write  down what I eat..

Instead of making me crazy, finding out I have diabetes has actually helped me. I know where I am at with my body all day. I don't crave or go from full and tired and cranky to starving. Now I have to listen to my body to tell me it is hungry and it is soooooo strange!

Now my body just feels a little different and I am beginning to  recognize it is hungry. I mean before I am very hungry now my body tells me but it is a different sensation.

At first, I thought I was not feeling well. Then I ate and felt better... (Snack). I was like "Oh wow! So that is what hunger is like! Then I started to understand the feeling...

If it is meal time instead of snack, I do get hungry but not the same STARVING feeling I used to have.. It feels like hunger just much milder than the sugar beast hunger...

I hit the gym almost every day now and I have replaced sugar with spin classes!!! (these are some of my instructors...)

Funny how life changes with some news......

No pills yet... I see the doctor on the 11th of August.. My goal, to be very close or within the 95-120 range by then... So far.. Everything I am doing IS working...

I guess I am pretty lucky. Sometimes bad news can be a good thing......

Diabetes and me

About two and a half weeks ago I found out I have diabetes. I am still not sure how to spell it.

A lot of people told me they where sorry to hear that. I got a lot of support.

I am not sorry. I consider it a Godsend that I found out. It has changed me. I found out on a Thursday, on Friday I started eating differently. On Monday I started attending spin classes. Today I did my first "Body Pump" class.. It is a weight lifting group class and it is awesome. Not a class for sissies....

Finding out I have Diabetes has change my life.  I have lost about 10 pounds and I feel like a different person. I mean, I am not craving sugar, I am not starving half the day. I do not need to jump on food as soon as it is in sight.

For the first time I passed up pizza at work where I used to eat 6 or 7 slices. ME, Mr. "Where's the food" Jay!

Classes are a must now. I got up early today to hit my first "Body Pump" class. It has been about a week and a half of steady classes (Every other day).

I have to check my blood levels 3 times a day and the sugar levels are going down... (This is a good thing.)

Only time will tell if I need to do meds or shots but for now, the fight is on and I am not gana lose.

blah blah blahh

Here i sit feeling like a pit . [family friendly] My weights back up~ what the puck~ another day is passing.                     Friends, I  am not sure what I bother for its not like its long  lasting. And so I sit very unfit and looking for something i am not grasping.....

Here we go again.......

Well Here we go again. It has been weeks, yes weeks since I have touched the gym... I feel FAT, LARGE. ROTUND! Seems like I lost weight shaving my head and gained it on my belly... Notice this picture is NOT of my belly... It is disappointing to get to a certain point and then fall from grace.

I feel kind of, I don't know, blah.... Not surprising since I have not done much since my last gym visit...So, this weekend is my wife's birthday.... After that I will attempt to again begin my trek. 

I guess the question is; Why do we fail? Why do we move to a certain level then falter? What happens? I wish I could track the way I feel each day and then actually SEE the part where I stop... 

OH WAIT! I CAN!

I can buy doing this each day... This simple tracking each day will help me see where I am and where I have been.... Maybe I could put in a tracker on the side so I can see some kind of progress...

Hum... We shall see...

ABQ

It has been a year now since I have first touched down in ABQ! I still love it here. Working out was OK yesterday.. Not great, OK. Jenifer said that we would go together tonight. I hope we do. I know we can, I need too...

I am finding that the endorphins from working out really help my day. If I work out, I feel good in general. If I don't, then I don't.

Today is short as the dogs are calling me!!

And so it goes...

So I am thinking of expanding this blog. So far it has been mostly about ME working out,,, But just about me when I hit the gym, not me thinking about hitting the gym, me working on new ways of eating or not eating, or eating too much.

My working out is not a main part of my life although it is a bigger part now than it was two months ago. I worked out last on Wednesday. It is now Sunday night. I plan on going tomorrow. I eat a lot. Still eating a lot.

My dogs and I went for a walk today and one of them, Holly, hurt her foot. She seems better now, but gave me a scare and I had to carry her from up top a hill to the 4runner. I think she just hurt it somehow and it better now.

I am sleepy, I am sleepy a lot, usually after eating. It is 10PM and I am ready for bed.. I want to eat more. I have cookies and soy milk.. (Not soy cookies though! Good Ole american chocolate cookies...)

Tomorrow is my last day of my 4 day weekend. (I had to work 8 days to make that work) So, I have a lot of around the house stuff I want to do and the gym. I want to make sure I go to the gym 5 days a week at least and maybe 6, but not stress on the weekends cause the gym has shorter hours. If I can do 5 a week, I will be happy.

I want to sit in bed and read and sleep and sleep and sleep...

Lots done today.. I am going to start posting more I think cause my whole life affects my workouts.. I think I will stop posting to Facebook though... Just not feeling like putting it out there.. If you want to read about my life, (Truly why would you?) then come to me, here...

What happened?????

Oh my God! It has been like 6 days since I spent more than 20 minutes in the gym working out.... WTF????

So, last Thursday was the day I made the decision to stay home from the gym... My wife was due back from Cali on Friday. I was tired, etc.. So, I decided to talk "The Day Off". No biggie, no problem right..

Well Fri, Sat and Sun are always iffy cause the gym closes early. Friday.. OK, had to pick up Jen.. Understandable... Saturday? No, no real excuse, Sunday,, Same... Monday I was really tired and had lots of house stuff to due and had the closing shift so I planned to go later in the morning... This led to that and BANG I missed the chance and of course I was too tired to go...

Tuesday.. I actually went to the gym and took the dogs with me in the truck. Got on a machine, spent like two minutes and started to feel guilty about the dogs not getting walked in the last few days... SO, I left the gym and walked the dogs... Slow walk, not a brisk, lets exercise walk, but a slow let them sniff around walk...
No workout... And of course, too tired after work..

Here we are on Wednesday morning at 7AM... I went to bed at a reasonable hour, got up early and here I am...Will I go today? Will I have a good work out? WTF??? I went from three solid days in a row to blah, blah, blahin about not going at all.. I have also noticed I have been staying up way too late and feeling mildly depressed for at least half of my day each of the last two or three days.... Man I need me some gym time..

Wish me luck.. I am hoping today is the day I get back on track, on the track, tracking...

Ups and downs of Gym and life..

So, I worked out yesterday... First time in four days.. Yesterday I did not so much work out as attend the gym.  I was on a treadmill but not going very fast and not working very hard.. Jenifer Leilani was the one who encouraged us to go.

She had been gone and I did work out while she was gone but my last FB entry saying I was not going that night turned out to be not just that night but the three consecutive nights after...

We did go last night and it is good. I went.. Did not do so much but I went..

I am home today. Day off and taking care of my dog Pax.. He was throwing up yesterday and this morning.. Went to the Vet who gave him a shot and gave me instructions on how to make him better and an $85 bill.... Since this morning he has been drinking a little water at a time (1/2 cup) and I gave him a little food and some pepto for doggies.. Oh yeah, and working on the rug to get the mess up....

As for me... Tonight feels like a raw, hard workout night. Stair master, stride master.. Jay master.. I need it. I need the endorphins  push too.



Well, gyming it helps. Tomorrow night, we are going to have a short session with a friend who will be training my wife and I on the lifting systems at the gym so we can start moving into that area...


Lastly, why the mask? Cause I have been so busy taking care of Pax, from getting up 2 times in the night and then getting up again at 6:30 AM and going to the vet, cleaning the rug, poop outside, etc.. that I look like do do myself and a mask seemed appropriate...

Every day every day I work the master....

Good work out tonight! Went to the gym about 10PM and did 25 minutes on the STAIR MASTER! You have no idea what thats like until you do it...

Heart rate was pretty right on! (I recalculated what it is supposed to be before going to the gym)

I feel good, proud of myself...  A step at a time.. No pun intended..

Then after the master I did another machine which I think is really fun.. It kind of lets you do a stride.. I will have to video it so you can see what I mean.. Helps me get that heart rate up again too...

Tomorrow I hope to do some weight stuff!  Soon OB1... Soon...

Early in the morrrrrrning

I love getting up early and going to the GYM... Today Jen Lei and I went pretty early and worked out.. NOW, I have the whole rest of the day, feel spantacular and have done, finished, completed my work out.. Already planning for tomorrow...

I took this pic cause I wanted you too see what I am seeing.. My face, my chin... Slimmer... Belly is taking its time but soon grass hopper, soon my belly will follow suite....

Oh yes and a side not....The Stair Climber is not correctly named.. It should be the ass kicker... 20 minutes on the stair climber is like four years... and I am not moving fast but the heart rate goes up to the sky! (Well, not over max but right there without trying...)

SO, within the next week or so, I will be starting to get some weight machine training... I want to do two days a week of that. On those two days I will do some cardio but a shorter amount just to get myself warmed up, then some lifting IRON baby! Well, some machines anyway...

All is well, I feel swell and I am looking better as you can tell!

Every do or else....

OK, so what I have found out is; If I don't hit the gym, my back hurts when I wake up the next morning.

I have also discovered the Stair Master... I can get my heart rate up with out really going for it because I am working my legs.  Thing is, if I don't hit the gym, my back kills me the next morning...

SO, I also have a friend who is going to teach Jen and I the weights, machines so we can work on specific body parts.. I am really looking forward to this as it is the one major piece missing from my workouts...

It is amazing to me that NOW I am talking about the one piece rather than the frustration of just not working out and trying to make that happen. I am still heavier than I want to be. That has a lot to do with what I eat... I am working on that too but as they say: "Rome was not built in a day." (I am not sure who they are but they have a good point.)

So, just so we are clear... Last year, (It has been almost a year now) when I moved out here, Bad shape, no gym, felt like an old man... Now, gym almost everyday, feel awesome, motivated to look even awsomer...(not a word but I don't care!)

Life is pretty darn good right now... Pretty darn good...

Just keep movin it and groven it and I will be there soon..

And Jeannette said......

There are times in your life when people say something to you. They don't intend it to have the impact on you they wish they had, but sometimes, it really, really, really sinks in.

Yesterday and co-worker and friend of mine, Jeannette was talking to me about my last blog. She noticed that in my blog I said that my wife and I went to "Wing Stop" and she was concerned because we where eating "crap". (Chicken wings soaked in sauce)

What she said was this: 

"I just hate to see people working out so hard for nothing. When you eat like that it completely negates what you have just done in the gym."

Now, this might not be exactly what she said, but the point she was making drove home, deep. 

 

I thought about it, thought about what I am eating, and how I feel after eating something like Chicken wings, ice cream, large fast food burgers and fries.... 

 

Then I thought about working in the gym for 45 minutes now, and how hard that is to do everyday and how great I feel when I am done...

I should probably feel pretty good when I am done eating but usually I feel a little groggy. Humm, that tells me something... Another friend at work suggested I write down everything I eat. Funny, I keep forgetting to do that!

So, yes Jeanette, I heard you. And I did not just hear you, I HEARD you! Wow.. Now every time I eat, EVERY TIME, I will be thinking about what I am putting into my body, how it affects me, what is it doing for me or against me. For whatever the reason, that sentence: "I just hate to see people working out so hard for nothing."  Wow, what a great point. If I am not eating right, then I am asking my body to work overtime when it is already working overtime flushing out gunk because of the great workout..

If I work out that much and that hard, don't I owe it to my body to fill it with good stuff? I need to research more about good stuff to eat that is good for me so my body has an extra boost in between workouts too.

It makes sense to fill the body with good food before and after  a workout otherwise, your bogging yourself down. What's the point of a great workout if you then fill it up with cement? 
Wow.. I have heard it for years, I have heard it many times but I have never, NEVER worked out almost every day before.

Thank you Jeannette for helping me make that connection. You hit me like a deer in the headlights...
Like they say in the book "Younger Next Year"   "Don't diet, just stop eating crap!"

Oh how life has changed....

What working out has done for me...
1) I am happier every single day.
2) I feel better than I have felt in years.
3) I am less moody at work, and at home.
4) I feel more rested and enjoy more of my day.
5) I have lost weight, not a lot yet but I have lost it.
6) I don't feel guilty when I eat crazy once in a while.
7) I only eat crazy once in a while now, not every day.
8) My wife and I go to the gym together and it has brought us closer together.
9) People have commented on my attitude, my looks..
10) I am really so excited about everyday now. I feel like I can do this. I really can do this!
11) what is different now is that I have a plan and I have a way to regulate how I work out and if I am working out as hard as I need to, or too hard...
12) I am not longer worried about being old and fat and feeble...
AMEN....

Going going gone.....

OK, the first one is in Feb of 2010. The second is tonight, March 11th, 2010... Not a LARGE difference, but there is a difference. I feel GREAT. I worked out for 40 minutes tonight on an elliptical. My plan was to do a light workout, but I ended up doing 130 to 140 bpm which is 75 to 85% of my maximum...

At 40 minutes I decided I am ready to move up to 45. I actually did do 3 minutes of cool down and the great thing is I felt great at the end...

I feel great now. The awesome thing is I did not want to go. But Jen Lei said, "Go, do it." And my plan to do a light work out made it easy to go as if I go, I went, no matter what I do for that time there.


There is a difference in me. I can feel it. My energy is way up. My mood is more stable and relaxed. I burn off  bothersome tension with these workouts. 

I ate like a bit of a pig today but this was like walking off the food. I was bad, but I feel good because I worked off some of that food goo in the process of 40 minutes at the gym..

This week end, or next week at the latest starts the new gym.. Defined Fitness which is a really good club out here. Spin classes, pool, hot tub.. Very reasonable price for the avid work out person, which my wife and I now are....

I feel lucky, blessed and content...

Home at last...

I Jay, solemnly promise with my hand on the wrong

side of my heart, that I will work out.. Cause I feel great. I am not real happy today as I am a little tired and I was supposed to be off tomorrow but now I am working... BUT, I feel really great inside my body and that is a good thing...SO, I have to keep working out... Must continue to go to gym... 

Yesterday was a good day. We did some house cleaning and some walking the dogs and some gyming...

Friday is still go day for the new upgraded gym.....

OK, so, I am tired of writing....

Back in the saddle....

So, We, da wife and I, we went to the gym...
And at the gym, we worked out.. She doing her stuff, me doing mine! I spent 40 minutes on the elliptical at about 75 to 85% of my max! I felt great! I was up, then down then back up but never below about 72% and mostly closer to 80..

What a great feeling to know I can do this... To be on the workout machine and just be going and going and going, listening to music, trying different machines each night so I don't get board.. I am loving it... I feel better, people tell me I am losing weight and the best part...

I feel better! So much better! I don't feel my age anymore... I still eat too much here and there but not often and I am losing weight!

So, next payday, we switch gyms... From Planet Fitness to defined so I can start workout classes and we can both enjoy the jacuzzi!!

Life is good..... Slowly but surely...

Ouch.... Today my age came through...

So last night I worked out for about 40 minutes at about 80 to 87% of my maximum heart rate.

I did this on a bicycle... At the end I felt great, knew I had worked out hard and went home... No real fluids, did not really stretch out and had a hamburger.... BIG MISTAKE



I woke up at 3:30AM with a leg cramp. My whole body ached... Woke up again at 4 with another leg cramp...

It is 3:51 PM the next day and I am just now feeling better.. I was exhausted the whole day. Eat a little, drank a little and went back to bed... Even now I feel pretty wiped out...

So I guess knowing ones limits is a very important part of working out.... Also drinking liquids, stretching and just being careful...

The good news is, I have no "heart pains", no dizziness... just really, really beat....

I am glad this was my day off cause working today would have been a nightmare...

Slowly, I am coming back to being OK again... Man that was a lesson...

Where I am now Cause ya want to know!

We are in like week three? Not sure.. I went to Cali for a week, then was sick for a week and did not work out during those weeks.... Went to the gym for 4 days in a row now..

The Difference is the Heart Rate Monitor I am using! I can see how hard I am working out.

Before, I would either work out too hard and screw myself up, or not be sure and get down on myself for not working out hard enough....

NOW, I have balance... I know where I should be and what I should be doing.

People at work are noticing my double chin is not so double anymore....

I feel tons of energy. Yesterday was my first "zone" workout.. I really felt like I was in the zone yesterday.. It was awesome! 35 minutes into my workout and I realized I was still pumping it. I was not tired, I was not hurting, I was not hoping for the end... I was ZONED.......

So, today I will go at night and next week, I think we will be able to join the new gym that has SPIN CLASSES!!! WHAHOOOOO!

Today was a good day

So, this pic is me just back from the gym.... I had a really good workout today. Three days in a row...

Jenifer Leilani and I are really doing the gym thing...

It is 11AM and I have been up since 7AM.. Man I am tired!!!

upgrading to a new gym in a few weeks...

Waiting for the paycheck....

No worky worky out for the last week.... I was gone, and now I have been sick.... I am off on Thursday and Friday and if I am well.. I am hoping to do something tomorrow to get myself back into it!!!!

What to do? I do not know.... Just go just go just go....

Blah.. That is all I have to say.. Blah....

Went to the Gym? Club? What????/

So, is it a gym or a club? People used to say.."Wow! you go to the club every night! Man your amazing! They think I went to go dance or something...

Then they say.. "No!! It is a gym... not a club.."

Well.. My understanding is that it is called a club because it takes a membership...Ya know.. a health club... Like they used to have "Gentleman's clubs..."

So, either way.. Yes, WE did go.. and it was fantastic....

La la la...

Going forward

So, now I have worked out, done cardio at the gym for over a week. Today I did not go because of work and the gym closing early..

So now comes the hard part. Which is, I am giving myself a day off a week but I get on myself because I wanted to go today but did not. SO tomorrow I am planning on going and I will but even so, I don't want to stop. I am afraid I will stop.

I have a friend at work who said I should not think about stopping and not be afraid but just KNOW that this time is different. This time I am going to just keep doing it and doing it and doing it and get in great shape.

One of my goals is to snowboard next winter and I saw someone snowboarding on TV tonight and it looked kind of scary.... I used to ski.. Like a long time ago.. I just wonder if I will be in good enough shape to get out there again and do the snowboard thing...

I know that my plans now are to continue to go to this gym until we come to a place that I can switch to a gym with spin and other exercise classes for legs and back... I know going to a class like that will be great for me. Also, I feel like this is now consistent for me. I have consistently gone for almost three weeks now.

I just don't want to stop. I always get to a certain point and then quit.

I am noticing things now that are improving in my body. I am not exhausted when I get home from work. I feel stronger, I feel less pains and aches in my body. I can bend over to tie my shoes and not feel so winded and I don't get cramps in my side if I bend over wrong or laugh. I think I have lost 10 pounds but I am not looking at that. I am concentrating on how I feel.

I am going to a "Design your own program" on Tuesday which is about lifting or working with weights. I want to work on my lower back, arms, and legs.. Mostly lower back and arms as the cardio works my legs.....

I love that Jenifer Leilani is going too and I want to make sure we keep each other going. I am really committed to making sure do this together. THAT is the key. I really believe that..

Up the hill and down the hill

Went for a walk with the doggies today.. We went up this hill not too far from our house.. The thing is, the "Hill" is pretty long and decently steep... In the past I have walked up, stopping, breathing, resting......

Today, Pax, Holly and I walked briskly up the hill.. the whole hill... All the way to the very top of the hill.... It was awesome.... It was fun! I did it....

Then of course we had to walk back down and back home... Feels good to do that... I may not be able to make the gym today so I wanted a brisk walk at the very least. . We where gone probably about an hour I think... So now back home, they have been fed, I have been fed and instead of needing a nap I want to just get stuff done...

I love feeling this way. I feel like I could do more and I will.. My next step, after pay day.. Is to get a heart monitor so I can make sure I am in at least my 60 to 70 percent zone when exercising. That way I will know for sure I am getting my heart rate up to where it needs to be...

It is sooooo nice to be writing in this blog again. Because when I write in the blog... I am working out....

PUMP UP THE JAM

You can't tell yet,,, But I can... One week later....
So, I have much MUCH more energy after going to the gym almost every day with my honey pie...

I just cooked a chicken for dinner for Jen Lei and I with potato's and onion and other goodies (The hardest part about backing the chicken was not eating all of it.. GD is tastes so goood!)
... Did all the kitchen stuff... walked the dogs.. About to do all kinds of other stuff... Bottom line...

This going to the club and just doing 30 to 35 minutes right now is the bees knees.... I feel soooo much more energy and I feel better about myself..

Energy.. That is the most important element that has been missing from my life. Not feel like I can do much of anything and getting tired out easily. I hated, HATED that feeling... Right now I am like chompin at the bit to do more stuff, just move, anything! Sooooo I am not gana sit here any longer..

Help me stay pumped just by giving comments now and then!!

Thanks everyone for going through this with me!

Sore sore sore

So I woke up this morning with a very sore back.... Upper back mostly.. Today is a day off with aspirin to help the healing....

It has been one week of exercise now... I am excited, I am hopeful, I am soooooore.....

Will continue to update you all but first...

Some changes I have noticed... Outside of being sore....
1) I have more energy. I am not exhausted later in the day.. Still tired a bit, but not exhausted.
2) It is not as hard to bend over to tie my shoes anymore.
3) Gross but true... Bowl movements are quicker and less frequent...
4) Later in my work day I do not get cranky cause I am tired...
5) I am sleeping better.
6) Did I mention my bowl movements? Cause I like to mention those a lot!

Sun, Mon, Tue, Thur, Fri Gym Gym Gym

So, Jenifer Leilani and I - that's just two.. She is J Lei.... Went to the gym... What has been really fun for me is that SHE has been saying.. "OK, so when are we going? Now, or after a small snack.."

I am loving it and I have gone online to look at heart monitors. I am reading a great book that recommends them to help you stay in your zone. I feel really good right now. Much more energized in general. I want to push it up a notch but I am not sure how or if that is a good idea yet...

I am really enjoying just getting there and finding out which equipment works for me and which does not. Once we are in a good financial place to do so, I am thinking about joining a gym with spin classes... I have done some with a friend from Roseville (Baugh) and I like being pushed like that.. Plus, with the heart monitor, I will know when I am in zone....

It is cool to have "down the road" plans for working out... Now it is all about consistency... I am doing it... Better yet.. WE, my wife and I are doing it.... Working out is fun to do!!!

PS- KEEP MOTIVATING ME! KEEP PUMPING ME UP!

Younger Next Year....

OK... So I just got back from the Gym.. First time in a long time.... My wife and BFF went with me.. I spent 30 minutes on the treadmill.

This is my belly today... Once a month, week, whatever I am going to show you a shot of that belly... I feel good... NO GREAT... I did it!

The reason I titled this Younger Next year is because my friend Tammara Lowe recommended the book as a supplement to her book "Get Motivated".. So, in reading both, I am getting a game plan and motivation to get to that gym...

My plan... For right now.. Working out is now my 2nd job..... I want to go 6 days a week... I started today....


Also, last time I saw my brother on SKYPE he had a flat belly again... HE is five years older than me!!!! INSPIRATION BABY!!!!

My long term goal? I want to snowboard next winter.... I am actually hoping to snowboard with my touchstone... but... one step at a time.....

LASTLY- MY WIFE AND BFF IS DOING THIS WITH ME!!!!!

YAHOO!!

Question: Is it OK to be excited about work?

Question: Is it OK to be excited about work?

The thing is, I am a manager and as a manager in sales, my job is to motivate others. How can I motivate them if I don't care? How can I motivate them if I don't like the job? Well the flip side is, the more I care and the more I enjoy my job, the more I can motivate them right?

Well, then when I get up and am excited about the training I just came back from and I am excited about getting to work to utilize that training to help those who are struggling make more money and higher status, is that wrong????

Or am I lucky to be one of the few who truly feels he can make a difference and my biggest worry is how to best put it into practice... I think it is time to "GET MOTIVATED" and not worry about what others think!!!!!!!

Someone who I can call a friend and the author of Get Motivated, Tamara Lowe asked me to look at the "Goal Achievement Blueprint" in her book "Get Motivated," I own a copy, so I did...

Now I have two very important things working for me..
1) A network of friends from work to help me reach my personal goals
2) A game plan to make it happen....

I thought about how to utilize it for my weight loss and then realized, I can use it for work too!
Thank you to all my friends for your suggestions and thank you to Tamara for the game plan!!!