Goals

It’s kind of like throwing a pebble in the ocean…I suppose

October 5, 2011

I was playing around with some numbers for other projects I’m working on, and decided to see how only one small change could affect my weight (in theory). For example, a 12 oz. can of Coke is 140 calories. Now, let’s say I have only one can a day. If I’m not doing enough activity [...]

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Back to the Gym Update: This whole running thing is going to take longer to build up to than I thought, but that’s okay

October 3, 2011

Well, this is the beginning of Week 3 of my Back to the Gym adventures, and today was rough. Last week, my knees (specifically, the area just below my knees) started feeling really achy and sore, and I thought I might have damaged them by overdoing “the running”. I have to use quotation marks with [...]

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Taking it one-tenth of a mile at a time

September 21, 2011

Last month, after Cindy and I finished the juice fast, I wrote “I got to where I am by making lots of small negative changes over an extended period of time that felt good in the short-term but resulted in negative long-terms consequences. I’m not talking about just my weight here, either. So, the only [...]

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Being better for no reason

May 8, 2011

I’m going to be better for no good reason. I’m not going to lose weight because I’d feel better, or because, if I lose enough, I’d promised myself I’d get a tattoo, or anything like that. The truth is there is no one reason why I would want to do something like lose 50 lbs. [...]

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Fight or Flight

May 6, 2011

There’s this scene in Serenity where Malcolm Reynolds is making a deal with two “businessmen”, Mingo and Fanty. And one of them tells Mal that he’s too unpredictable. “You run when you ought to fight; fight when you ought to deal.” It’s not a pivotal moment, but sometimes I think about that line because I’m [...]

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May The 4th Be With You!

May 4, 2011

Happy Star Wars Day, everybody! Some of you have heard this before, but some of you haven’t. And this being Star Wars Day, I thought it’d be the perfect opportunity to write it down. Those of us who grew up wanting to create for a living — writer, actor, artist, etc. — were often encouraged…right [...]

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Nulla dies sine linea

May 2, 2011

“Not a day without a line. By writing, reading, working and practicing daily, perseverance will lead me to a good end.” – Vincent Van Gogh Not a day without a line. I love that idea, that commitment. Whatever your endeavor — writing, painting, learning a new language, earning a degree, etc. — this is the [...]

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Maybe…for 31 Days

May 1, 2011

This month’s theme on National Blog Posting Month (NaBloPoMo) is “Maybe”. I tried doing this daily-blogging-for-a-whole-month business once before in October 2009, but I gave up after a week. And like most NaBloPoMo themes since then, I wasn’t planning on participating in this one either. But I’ve reconsidered because I’m attempting to do some of [...]

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I’ve Just Spent One Full Week On The 4-Hour Body Program

March 21, 2011

About a month ago, I picked up a copy of The 4-Hour Body by Tim Ferriss. I’ve been off the better-eating bandwagon since about November 2010. Between the holidays, kidney stones (and with it, a lack of any kind of exercise), birthday dinners, Mom’s comfort foods, good-bye meals with friends, and eating out way too [...]

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Get the Clay on the Table

January 6, 2011

This year, I’m focusing on writing. One of my biggest problems with getting it down on paper is that I think about random scenes that go somewhere in the story, but I don’t like to write them down as they come to me. I like to write them down linearly, as they fall into place [...]

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