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The Plan and Getting Ready

For months things have been happening that have kept me from my goals. My brother’s colon cancer and death and then my mother finding she had lung cancer soon after. The summer of incredible heat. Falling off the bike due to stupidity. All have conspired to keep me from my goals but no more. Things must change.

As of January 1st I will have been retired for 14 months. My weight has been consistent, moving from 290 to 295. This is insane.

. This is the plan.

DIET: Plan to juice. Juicing will help give me vital nutrients. I plan on documenting everything I put in my mouth. I’ll be using MyFitnessPal to keep track of calories.

EXERCISE: I joined a gym so I need to get there as often as possible. Cycling will be a big part of this change so as soon as the weather breaks I will be on the bike as often as possible.

I have a lot of plans for my retired life. Being morbidly obese is hampering them. Things must change.

Metrics

10 Dec

Planning on using a couple apps for my iPhone/iPad to keep track of weight. The first is Weightbot. It is a slick looking app and the other is Fatwatch. Both do the basic keeping track of the weight but they differ in how they parse the results. FatWatch uses mathematics to compute a moving average and your daily energy deficit/surplus. I like both and will be posting the graphs from both.

Another iPhone app I will use is Everyday. It takes a picture of you every day and then creates a movie. Assuming I actually lose the weight it will be an interesting way to show the progress.

For cycling I will use Cyclemeter. The app uses GPS to map out where I’ve ridden. It tells me distance, average speed, max speed, and elevation. This allows me to post the actual rides that I’ve been on. It’s easy. I just toss it into a ziploc and turn it on, stuff it into my back jersey pocket and ride. When I’m don’t I stop it and examine my workout

The technology will help, I’m the only one that is holding back. I need to get my ass in gear and HTFU (Harden the Fuck Up).

Reboot: Transformation

09 Dec

Recently we watched a documentary of an Australian guy who went on a juice fast and lost and astonishing amount of weight and got in shape. Of course he was rich and had all of the resources a person could have. But in that same vein, I retired with enough money and time that I could do a similar thing. Here is the trailer for the film, Sick Fat and Nearly Dead.

We bought a fantastic juicer. It is a masticating juicer the Omega VRT350.

I tried it out and it works quietly and really extracts the juice.

So the idea is to do a juice fast and now about exercise.

Cycling is and needs to be the basis of that. It is easy on the joints and with the MUP (Multi-User Path) from Kipton to Elyria and the Metro Parks I should be able to do this. Plus I just got an iPhone 4s so I can use the GPS feature and keep track of the rides using Strava.

The key will be to make sure I do it EVERY DAY.

The plan is to start Monday and document everything. Ideally I’d like to do P90X but I’ve never made it more than a few days. I have to focus on the positive and do this.

My brother Terry died back in May at 47. I don’t have time to waste.

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