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Day thirteen of fitness plan
I’m on vacation today. So, I’m going to goof off more than usual, but I did manage to get my exercise done. I’ve been having a lot of trouble dragging myself out of bed in the morning lately, so I’ve decided that I’m going to spend today thinking of reasons to get out of bed…
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Day twelve of fitness plan
I was watching a video on youtube earlier today that provided a supposed secret to success. It was a computer science lecture from the University of New South Wales in Australia. Lecturer Richard Buckland was saying that the way to get really good at something that requires discipline and years of practice is to make…
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Day eleven of fitness plan
Weight: 280 pounds Exercise: Week 2, Day 2 of hundredpushups.com plan. 5 sets of push-ups (5,6,4,4,7). The last push-up in the last set was a struggle, but the rest was a cakewalk. I’m hoping that I’m improving enough that I won’t have to repeat any weeks. Yesterday’s breakfast: 6 Weight Watchers points. 1 cup All-Bran…
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Day ten of fitness plan
Weight: 282 pounds Exercise: Week 2, Day 2 of the couch-to-5k plan. It was easier than the last run. On Sunday, I was about to fall out, but today I was just breathing heavy. I’m still doing terrible on the diet portion of this. Maybe I need to phase it in bit-by-bit. First things, I’m…
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Day nine of fitness plan
Weight: 281 pounds Exercise: Week 2, Day 1 of hundredpushups.com plan. I did five sets of push-ups (4, 6, 4, 4, 6). The last set wasn’t done with very good form. Hi, everybody. Well, it’s Monday. I only have a four-day work-week because I’m using another vacation day on Friday. Time to get my butt…
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Thinking about joining a spiritual organization
I was reading this article on Slate about whether atheists or religious people are happier. It came to the conclusion that religious people are happier on the whole, but not because of their religion. They are happier because they are connected to a community. That makes sense to me. So now I’m thinking that I…
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Day eight of fitness plan
Weight: 282 pounds Exercise: Week 2, Day 1 of Couch-to-5K plan. Five minute warm-up walk, followed by 20 minutes of alternating 90 seconds of running with 2 minutes of walking. (Obviously, that doesn’t come out even, so the last walking section only lasts 1 minute.) Jake and I went to the Bridger track together today.…
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Day seven of fitness program
Weight: 279.5 pounds Exercise: Took Ollie for a 25 minute walk around the neighborhood. It’s my off-day from both the pushups and the running. We’ve had our English Setter, Ollie, for 10 years this month. He was a full-grown stray when we took him in. Michelle’s sister Billie found him outside of her work near…
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Day six of getting in shape
Fallling back to the wimp category allowed me to finish the Week 1, Day 3 workout of the hundredpushups.com plan but just barely. I did five sets of pushups (4,5,4,4,5) and I just barely managed to do the fifth pushup in the last set. Although the plan is six weeks long, I suspect that I’ll…
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Day five of exercise program
I think my bathroom scales must be broken. I weighed 283 this morning, and two days ago I weighed 277. But I did overeat again yesterday afternoon and evening. I really have to cut that out. Jake and I went running together this morning. I’m on Week 1, Day 3 of the Couch-to-5k running plan,…