Year 3 Week 3 Day 1

Snow week last week, well at least on Monday and Tuesday, and I am all about making excuses so there was no entry for last week and the weight loss and gain was wildly unpredictable due to putting on extra blubber just in case I had to go three days without grocery store runs. It never got to the level of the Donner Party but it was touch and go on Tuesday when I was able to travel on Newnan streets and yet no Mexican restaurant was open.

Weights and Measures:
	Weight	Blood P.	Hips	Gut	Chest	Neck	Bicep	Wrist	Thigh	Calf	Ankle	Pulse
End Goal	200.00	110/70	38.00	36.00	42.00	16.00	18.00	7.00	27.00	20.00	9.00	60.00
August '11	260.00	130/80	40.00	40.00	46.00	17.00	18.00	7.50	27.50	19.00	10.00	65.00
12/13/2010	314.60	143/90	49.75	55.25	56.00	19.00	17.50	7.75	28.50	18.50	11.00	77.00
1/3/2011	317.00	154/98	47.75	54.75	55.50	19.25	17.25	8.00	28.50	18.50	10.50	76.00
1/17/2011	315.40	155/98	48.50	54.75	55.75	18.50	17.75	7.75	29.25	18.75	10.50	74.00
Change	(1.60)	+01/+00	0.75	-	0.25	(0.75)	0.50	(0.25)	0.75	0.25	-	(2.00)
To Aug Goal:	57.00	-24/-18	7.75	14.75	9.50	2.25	(0.75)	0.50	1.00	(0.50)	0.50	11.00

 

Yeah, so not much of a drop over the two weeks some guilt eating from watching the Atlanta Falcons crap the bed against the Green Bay Packers. Almost an inch on the hips and a general lack of exercise is leading to no improvements in blood pressure too. All in all this winter is having a negative effect on my general well-being.

Stress related eating and possibly reactions to trying to change the things I eat lead to a bad food week. My stress is only a little work related and massively debt related. Not U.S. government hitting a $14 trillion dollar debt cap, but for me I am determined to cut my personal debt down this year.

I started 2010 with $18,244.05 in active debt and a good $36,095.43 in shadow debts. I had a simple goal to pay off $5,000 in active debt balances in 2010 and only managed to pay down to $14,881.48 so I was short $1,637.43. However I dropped the shadow debt to $27,107.72, almost $8,987.71. So this year the goal is to drop $10,000.00 across the whole spectrum in case something happens that makes me have to focus more on the shadows than the actives. I've already paid off a balance on one account in January and I hope to pay off at least one more in full this year.

My other problem is exercise. Zero motivation, absolutely none to wake up and exercise or to exercise when I get home from work at night. I need a service where a hot chick, mid-twenties, shows up three or four times a week and shames me into working out. I'd be up early, I'd shower before and after, brush the teeth and make sure the place was cleaned up each and every time I had a work out scheduled. Just sucking in my gut for the entire time she's there would have major benefits. I know it wouldn't work for everybody, but for me it would be a good plan.

Still haven't gotten the X-Box Kinect but I am trying to pick one up this week. The P90-X is out because it seems to involve pull up bars and I don't think there is a door frame that can handle the weight load. I still have the Pilates DVD and I think I am on year 2 of not using it. I only feel a little guilty about that.

Still working on forming my own religion, that is where the real money is, and I have a few road bumps. I feel like I am on to something with the idea that your last moments of life become a nigh-infinite lucid dream. This allows for the conceptual heaven or hell of your own making and suggests that the more full your experiences in life the better this moment will be. This idea also pulls in the whole people who died and came back with the after-life stories of seeing friends and family. I'm just saying I passed out one time, there was a tunnel of light and a really awesome dream. Then my brother slapping me and yelling "get up fatty" so there was that.

The issues come in with the dead babies…so their life experiences don't seem to add up to much. Now they don't have much to miss, but still it makes me sad. Also, really sociopathic egotists won't suffer much in death under this scenario because their lingering moment would be also self-important and ego-boosting. That just doesn't sound fair in the end.

Well, it's just an outline so far, still haven't figured out how to monetize it yet.

Until that day…later,

Year 3 Week 1 Day 1

Have I ever mentioned my odd obsession with dates and time intervals? This started in June on 2009, Year 1. Then 2010 is Year 2 and now we're in Year 3. However, June of 2009 thru January of 2011 is only eighteen months. All this to say that eighteen months in and I'm not thrill with where I am at, but I am glad to see that I haven't back slid as much as I imagined.

The other crazy date interval thing I go around with is that I graduated from high school four decades ago. Now I am only forty years old so that seems impossible yet the year was 1989, the Eighties, then the Nineties, the Zeros(?) and now the Ones to get four decades.

Basically all this to say that numbers don't lie but they don't always say the same thing to everyone and they can be twisted. Ask an Economist if you doubt that.

Here are the numbers:

Weights and Measures:
	Weight	Blood P.	Hips	Gut	Chest	Neck	Bicep	Wrist	Thigh	Calf	Ankle	Pulse
End Goal	200.00	110/70	38.00	36.00	42.00	16.00	18.00	7.00	27.00	20.00	9.00	60.00
August '11	260.00	130/80	40.00	40.00	46.00	17.00	18.00	7.50	27.50	19.00	10.00	65.00
12/13/2010	314.60	143/90	49.75	55.25	56.00	19.00	17.50	7.75	28.50	18.50	11.00	77.00
1/3/2011	317.00	154/98	47.75	54.75	55.50	19.25	17.25	8.00	28.50	18.50	10.50	76.00
Change	2.40	+11/+8	(2.00)	(0.50)	(0.50)	0.25	(0.25)	0.25	-	-	(0.50)	(1.00)
To Aug Goal:	57.00	-24/-18	7.75	14.75	9.50	2.25	(0.75)	0.50	1.00	(0.50)	0.50	11.00
6/21/2009	350.00
12/26/2009	319.00

So you can see that at best I managed to maintain my weight through 2010. Nothing to crow about but at least I didn't have to break out the fat clothes that are hidden in the closet.

I think I am settling on the Xbov Kinect for my new-fangled weight loss and exercise program. Can't wait to pick that up this week. I'll add the information that gets tracked there on here.

I'll update my fiscal goals next week because I haven't pulled those numbers together yet, but I feel good about where I am at going into 2011. I am cutting Cable and Home Phone in January and I doubt I'll miss them. My Cell Phone contract is done in June and I am looking for a cheaper, less functional option. That's about it, more treading water, paying down bills and still looking at 2012 earliest to go home shopping if that's what I want.

Unless I win the lottery.

Then it's lipo, mansions and booze-fueled orgies in 2011. w00t!

Later,