Maybe give me a few weeks to get “fully ready”
See Slow Carb – 20lbs in 4 weeks? I did lose a bit of muscle though. Shouldn’t be too hard to bulk back up.
Dinner last night – Slow Carb – 20lbs in 4 weeks?
Hey,
Recently, I’ve started on a slow-carb, high protein, fat reduction experiment. During the summer it seems that I managed to put on a few pounds. With the eating out, drinking often and generally not really taking care of myself like I have in the past.
I’ve decided to do a little experiment to see if I can more rapidly drop that bit of fluff to bring back a more defined physic.
This experiment is not for the faint of heart and definitely not for someone who cares how food tastes. In this experiment food is not really to be enjoyed, it’s just something you need to do.
If anyone is interested in the meals or the results (pending) let me know and I’ll post the meals I’ve been eating.
So far it’s been 1.5 weeks and I can tell you, lentils suck and beans grow on you.
Here’s last night’s dinner (at 10pm) to get the idea. This is probably the tastiest meal so far.
Baby Spinach, with Black beans, Pinto beans and a Round Eye Steak.
I’m also taking 500gm of Niacin (the flushing is insane) and 200mcg of Chromium.
Let’s see how it goes.
Been a while, thoughts on life.
Hey All,
Yes, It’s been a long time since I’ve posted anything. It’s not because I’ve been sitting in the house and not doing anything. In fact, I’m busy most nights.
The truth is, I just didn’t feel like it.
I’ve been spending a lot of time thinking about what I want from life. What things I want to accomplish, what goals I want to complete. What adventures I want to have. Not an easy task.
Here are some things I started to help get my mind in a more receptive mode to hear itself.
- Stopped entirely reading the news. (I used to spend hours everyday reading hundreds of RSS feeds, which added no real value to my life.)(Also no Daily Show or the Colbert Report)
- Stopped Blogging/Producing content with no vision. (Hence the lack of updates and videos)
- Decided to sell my condo. (When I think about it, the place I’d like to most live right now (in this city) is right downtown. Will be moving as soon as my condo sells.)
- Signed up for Aikido at the Japanese Canadian Culture Centre (JCCC) (Something I’ve always wanted to do.)
- Stopped checking email (with the exception of checking work email at 11am and 4pm) Stopped receiving email on my phone entirely.)
- Bought a notebook (paper) – If anyone knows me they know I rail against the use of paper. Getting back to basics has helped me focus. There are no unproductive distractions when it’s just you and paper.
- Try to only watch 1 hour of TV a day (my typical method of procrastination, with Hulu and a Media Centre PC there is never nothing to watch.)
- Everyday write down a list of Accomplishments and a List of Things to Accomplish the next day. (I do this for work too)
- Attend a Zen Buddhist Retreat (I’m not a religious person, but I feel it would be a great new experience to spent a few days in silence in a foreign environment, perhaps the change of perspective will be illuminating. If anything it will be a chance to try something new.)
That’s about it for now. Let me know what you do to keep life interesting and moving forward. Do you have a grand vision? Are you working towards it?
First tennis of the year!
Saturday May 23, 2009 I finally got to play tennis!
My friend Elieth, who you’ll see int he video, txt’ed me out of the blue an wanted to know if I was up for tennis. I jumped at the chance as I always seem to have a hard time finding a tennis partner.
This is my first ever attempt at editing video which is probably why it took me so long to get this footage up. I learned a lot but mostly I learned that;
a) video huge
b) my computers cry under the pressure of encoding
c) my internet cries under the weight when uploading the videos
d) video is time consuming, but worth it.
Here is my first edited video since high school (VHS editing deck). Enjoy.
The song is Go-Getter Greg by Ludo
Retraining begins. The damage.
I was ill for about 1.5 months and ordered by the doctor to not do any excersise until I was completely better. Guess what? I’m better!!
Now I start the journey to get back into shape.
There might not look like a big difference in these pictures but there is.
