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So nice here today.

Monday, April 7th, 2008

The weather is so nice here today. 60 degrees, sun is out, light breeze. So I went for a walk outside. Normally I don’t do any exercises on the weekends, as its my time off, but I felt compelled. It’ll help balance out my slip up earlier this week, though that’s not what motivated me to do it. Its just SO nice outside.

So I walked the same thing I did the very first day I decided to start working out. Why did I go walking in the middle of January in Wisconsin? Yes, perhaps its because I’m crazy. The real reason, I tried to get the treadmill working and it wouldn’t work. Not sure exactly what was wrong with it, as it worked fine the next day. So my next thought was to walk in circles inside my garage. After a few times around, I felt like it was counter productive and I’d probably go insane doing it. So walking outside it was. It had snowed the day before, so there was still snow covering most the sidewalks. So I walked on the road. It took a lot out of me. I hadn’t worked out in anyway in…a long time, lol. My legs hurt, my feet hurt, my ankle hurt, I had worked up quite the sweat under my jacket.

Today was the first time I’d walked it since. It took me about half the time. My feet, legs, and ankle were sore, but after 5 to 10 minutes for them to relax and it was gone. It actually felt good.

Which made me think again about how crazy the human body is. How it responds when you push it and train it. I do stuff now that probably would have figuratively killed me back in January. If I’d be able to even do them at all. It helps to put things in perspective, and gives me hope for the future. It also keeps me motivated, I don’t want to go back to how I was, how out of shape I was, how unmotivated I was. I just need to keep at it, and I’ll achieve the goals I have set for myself. It might not be as quickly as I want, but I know its attainable with time. That’s a comforting thing to know.

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Just keep on keeping on.

Monday, April 7th, 2008

Its been a month and a half since I started my diet and excersise regime.  I quit smoking a week and a half befor that time. I’m down 30 lbs in that time. So how do I feel?

I feel great, as scary as that is.  I mean, my ankle hurts, my knee hurts(cause of my ankle) and I’ve had a blister the size of a quarter on the bottom of my foot for a week. None of that really lessens how I feel though.  I wake up every day, and I feel more rested then I used too.  There are times during the day that I feel like going out running or something else.  I just need to be active.

Sometimes I kick myself, because this seems so easy, why didn’t I do this sooner? Why did I wait to start changing my life?  Then it dawns on me.  People do not change untill they are ready too.  You can force someone to quit something, but they will start again if they don’t truely want to stop.  I think that goes for anything in your life.

I’ll try to get a larger post with some of my thoughts in it up here eventually.  I get a lot of time to think while I work out, and spend a lot of it contemplating what I want to accomplish, and such.

Here is to keeping postative, and staying active.

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Long over due update.

Monday, April 7th, 2008

I’d like to apologize to anyone who visits the web site. I am aware of how much I fail. I also know its been an eon since I updated the site last. I will try to update more frequently, in fact, I’m going to. Setting my mind to it now, which amazingly in the last couple months has been effective at many things.

So, for the real substance. I’ve been making some life changes and how I live it. Its been a month now without a cigarette or caffeine/soda. I don’t miss either most the time. The first couple days were a little difficult, as I quit both at the same time. A little drastic perhaps, but I felt the need to do so.

I’ve also started a diet and exercise plan. Its amazing really how the human body works. Its perfectly happy when your sloth and stuffing it full of food. It doesn’t even complain a bit as you harm yourself like that. Then when you start pushing it physically it responds in the other direction, I can feel the change. I have more energy, I feel better, both physically and mentally. Its kinda impressive.

I’m keeping motivated, upping what I’m doing a little every week. I have some large goals set for myself. Maybe I’ll share them in the near future. We’ll see.

Oh and yes Forest, I’m stealing your idea a little, but you basically got it from other people anyway. ;)

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