Ok, this is slowly turning into Nate's blog, cause poor Dixie doesn't have time to write, and I'm sitting in front of a computer ALL freaking day. So I hope you don't get bored with my rants. Not that I don't keep busy at work, but I have a few minutes every now and then. And at least this one isn't about the shed! I just thought I'd share my exercise/weight woes with everyone. Now don't get me wrong, I don't look at myself as obese or anything, but I would like to get rid of the gut, and just get in better overall shape, not to mention my cholesterol is off the charts! (thanks
Dad grandpa genetics)
I've been riding my bike to work this summer (except I've kind of dropped off while working on that shed), and been running on the days I don't ride. And I've also started a pretty cool pushup program you can find at
HundredPushups.com. It's supposed to take you from however many pushups you can do in one set, to being able to do a hundred pushups in one set in about 6 weeks. Don't know that I'll actually reach that, but it's a good measurable program that keeps me doing at least some bit of weight training, since I don't make it to the gym enough. And I have already noticed a measureable difference in the number of pushups I can do. In the first 3 weeks I've gone from being able to do 22 to being able to do about 35 in one set. I'm happy with that kind of improvement. Hey, let's face it, if it weren't for the fact that the TV set and the refrigerator are so far apart, some of us wouldn't get any exercise at all.
Anyway, it's going pretty well, but exercise alone just ain't gonna cut it. So I just found this cool little site called
TweetWhatYouEat.com. It's basically a food and weight diary online. By itself, it's not anything special, but paired with
Twitter.com, which is a service that lets you send updates via your cell phone, it's pretty nifty. Now I can enter everything I eat, with the associated calories, via text message from my cell phone! Anyway, I don't know how long it will last, but I'm going to try it out, cause heaven knows I eat/drink too much crap. And perhaps tracking it will allow me to keep tabs on myself a bit better.
Why am I telling you all this? Well, if I
know think that someone else might be looking at what I'm eating, it might just give me that little push to eat more healthy. So feel free to see exactly what I've been eating or drinking by checking out my food diary at
www.tweetwhatyoueat.com/diary/paqman. Ok, yes, this will allow Dixie to see EXACTLY how often I eat out. Ouch! You ever feel like sometimes you are cheating on your significant other via food? Sometimes I do. What if she thinks I love the food more than her? Ok, I'll stop there.
I just started it today, so there won't be much up there for a bit, but hey, I'm willing to try anything to get rid of this gut!
And if any of you have similar woes, and are interested in trying it, it seems pretty easy, and I could show you how to get set up if you want. Ok, enough from me. Dixie, your turn!
