When I came back from
In the hellish last job I had, I managed to eat myself into 50 lbs overweight. See, that’s how it starts with computer people, we sit at a keyboard for upteen hours at a time, and we don’t friggin’ move. On top of that, we need to eat but there’s seldom any time to really take an hour-long lunch, so we are always “grabbing a quick sugar rush” from some horrible source or another. And to top it off, we drink coffee by the BARREL. If I drink enough beer to be considered borderline alcoholic, it’s a wonder I’m not dead from an aneurism after all the caffeine I ingest. Somewhere upwards of one pot a day, at last calculation. How doctors keep this pace up without going insane is beyond me.
All that time at work left absolutely NO time to train. I barely had time to simply TEACH the classes I have, hell, most of my students have seen me come tearing into my own driveway, 30 minutes to an hour late for class.
So two months ago I stepped on a scale for the first time in years, and knew what was coming: I needed to start working out hard again, and get my cardio back. I’m aiming to be back at fighting weight in mid August.
So for the past month I have been on a good workout regimen, I get up at 6:00, work out until 11:30, have a light lunch (usually Vietnamese Pho) with tea, and then tackle the day. Nothing to eat past 8:00. I break this last rule about once a week, usually when Todd comes over for class & we have a beer together. But otherwise I’ve been pretty faithful, and it’s starting to show: I have dropped 10 Lbs.
Now for the other 40…
9 comments:
I dunno Bobbe. It didn't seem to slow you down. I never saw you eat Monday (that Coke doesn't count) and yet you were going like a squirrell on Jolt all day, never stopping. I wanna know YOUR secret.
Yeah, see, I don't like to talk about it because it's embarassing to me, but I'm actually WAY faster than that. Also, I used to could fight in that damn armor for an hour without breathing hard, now I can't go 30 minutes. Now, some of it is age, but most is simply not training right.
Also, I failed to mention: I now have tendonitis in my left elbow from the severely increased training.
Tendinitis, ouch... take it easy on that. Joint replacement tech isn't up to scratch yet. But losing weight and getting in better shape is good, congrats on the progress.
Yeppers, I iced that baby DOWN last night! My fingers were tingling & I couldn't feel anything with my left hand on Wednesday night during class. Had to just talk them through most of it.
... thinks of obligatory "Sexy Losers - Bobbe's Left Hand" comment ... decides it would be too easy ...
Such restraint. I can only imagine it will come back to haunt me...
Keep going, brother. I know how hard it is to maintain my weight, let alone lose any...
BTW, I LOVE the new pic with the wrench.
Take care,
Jay, The Man who never posts
Yeah, I took that a year and a half ago, for something entirely different.
I had an idea for a novel once, I called it Crescent and Spanner, set in a post-apoc future. Main character was a master mechanic, and he developed a martial art using common hand tools as weapons.
Never finished it, and eventually put it aside, but I liked the idea of using wrenches and saws and hammers that way.
I figured out that a crescent wrench, when flipped into the air for a three-sixty is weighted such that it will do a half twist during the flip.
Useless information, but interesting.
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