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40 days Outside the Dessert

Wednesday, March 9th, 2011

Yes, I'm Catholic (converted- baptized Presbyterian). That means on the day before ash Wednesday of every year, I overeat and otherwise overindulge. This is because for the next 40 days I will deprive myself from over-excess to mirror Jesus's 40 days in the desert. It is a time to reflect on the past year, a time to focus on God, a time to lose 20 pounds (in the name of God, of course)!

This year, I will be spending every one of those 40 days consuming no more than 1,900 calories (which is a lot for a diet) and will be exercising (at least) 20 minutes.

Day one starts today (6:55am). I have completed my exercise- now I must go my first day [without]. I have done this before and I can do this again!

Another Lenten decision I've made is to be more active in my writing (this is a blog, after all). While I cannot promise every day, I can promise it'll be more (a lot more!) frequent than it has been in the last 5 months!

Say some prayers for me (even if you're atheist ;). I'm off into the desert, for my family, for my God, for me.

 

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Summertime is Pool Time!

Monday, July 19th, 2010

If there was any doubt, because of the unseasonably hot weather (unless you're on Venus), it's summertime! Time for ice cream, playing outside and SWIMMING! Being a child of the south, swimming was something we did all summer long (mainly because it was so freak'n HOT)! I earned my water wings at the age of 4 and LOVE the water! Adolescence and adulthood meant visiting the pool less and less however. Now that I'm a father, however, I'm rediscovering the pool all over again with our son :)

There are few things that I've [re]discovered since coming back to the pool:

  1. I float like a cork! Due to the even layer of dad blubber I have all over my body, I float evenly in as little as 2 feet of water! My wife, Cathy... not so much. That's because she's sexy and thin ;)
  2. I can't dismount gracefully off of a diving board to save my life! I'm probably saving my life not doing so, anyway!
  3. Lifeguards are still disgustingly fit! Bastards, all!
  4. A man my age should keep his eyes to the ground! It's really embarrassing to find, that girl walking away from you (that you were ogling) is only 13 years old! #facepalm
  5. I can see under water without a mask! Of course, the rest of the day everything is slightly blurry like a love scene in a 1940's movie.

Our son, John (not his real name), has taken to the water like I did. He doesn't know how to hold his breath underwater yet, we never did the water-baby thing with him. There were a couple of scary incidents last summer where he went under, but he (ok- and I) overcame it. He's taking swimming lessons for the first time where they're introducing the kids to the water by kicking, playing and dancing. Slowly teaching them how to put their faces in the water. I tell the little guy how awesome it'll be when he can swim underwater and how it's like flying!

I'm really enjoying this summer with our little family. I'm looking forward to many more in the water!

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Immortality

Wednesday, June 23rd, 2010

A couple of posts ago I wrote about mine and Cathy's entry into a new workout and diet regimen. It is week two and I have lost 6.5 pounds! Starting at 195, I am not a slightly leaner 188.5! Yes- ".5" - because when I moved that counter-weight (centimeter by centimeter) to 188, it tipped the scale. SO CLOSE!

It's been a really tough workout regimen- the toughest I've been on! The (demon-from-hell-sadist) awesome fitness guru that wrote the book "Making the Cut" (a.k.a- "Kicking Your Butt") is relentless in her routines. I did mention some of the exercise names previously, but there's one called "the Scorpion Pushup."  A particularly apt name because I felt stung afterwards... all over.

Actually, I find allot of exercises in routines have "cute" names. In Pilates, there's one called "teasers." I guess it's because through the entire second-half you are constantly thinking to yourself "This is the last one?...no?...This is the last one?...no!" , all-the-time  you're feeling like someone is wrapping a red-hot cable around your midsection!

The reason we're doing this is because Cathy and I want to get down to our ideal weight . Ever since my metabolism shut down at 24, when I was 160lbs, I've been slowly progressing to my current weight (with a brief and awful few months when I had gotten to 208!). Cathy, on the other hand, has maintained here wonderfully [sexy] figure during our whole marriage. So, I've kinda felt we look like [this] most of our marriage.

So, onward and upward! It's kinda hard but the results are showing and I'm really kinda excited :)

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