Things are getting better, or so I think...

09/20/08 Weigh 205.5 pounds, blood pressure 143/98, heart rate 39 bpm.

09/21/08 Weigh 208.5 pounds, blood pressure 132/76, heart rate 38 bpm.

09/22/08 weigh 208.0 pounds, blood pressure 157/89, heart rate 37 bpm.
Jog 365 calories, 45% fat, Hr 117 bpm, Zone 31m57s, Exercise 37m50s.

I think stopping the medication is having an effect, and my body seems to be going through adjustments, I am not exercising, stretching nor doing enough but I have started on the Procrastination Pile, so some stresses should disappear - not as fast as my money seems to have flown, but I am making progress.

Good Start

09/19/08 weight 204.0 pounds, blood pressure 139/80, heart rate 39 bpm. 2 1/2 CU 40 x 3

Walked to dock, walked park with wife.

Did not turn computer nor television on until after breakfast gruel and exercises, priorities straight this morning. I expect my M1 Garand today, FedEx says by 10:30 AM. I took the Statistics counter off my Just the Library Keeper site - just distracting. I write for me. Practicing the sitting position showed me that I need to stretch much more - way too tight.

Strawberries after my jog, should do it more often...

9/15/08 weigh 211.0 pounds, blood pressure 150/99, heart rate 41 bpm, dumb bells in evening.

9/16/08 weigh 211.0 pounds, blood pressure 175/89, heart rate 41 bpm.

9/17/08 weigh 207.5 pounds, blood pressure 136/86, heart rate 41 bpm.

9/18/08 weigh 206.0 pounds, blood pressure 144/92, heart rate 41 bpm.
2 1/2 CU 2 1/2 CU Jog 548 calories, 45% fat, Hr 119 bpm, Zone 51m45s, Exercise 54m18s.

Why fit in that box? who is doing the research?

09/14/08 weigh 209.5 pounds, blood pressure 140/96, heart rate 43 bpm.

Jog: 352 calories, 50% fat, Hr 116, in Zone 32m, Exercised 37m20s. Passed the front entrance work crew making our lives prettier and increasing the value of our properties, feel guilty but don't that I am not there with them, since I spent years cutting grass where no one else would and not one minded my efforts not applauded them.

Thoughts: I am out of blood pressure medicine, have to cancel my doctor's appointment on the sixteenth at nine in the morning, jury duty. Wonder how many sixty year old men have the exercise schedule that I do, and if I am doing more why do I have to try and fit in a box of the general population, since I am only a lowly sergeant not one of the generals. Seriously, the Cooper Institute says that exercise is more important than LDL and other measurements. I have to work on that thought.

I quit, no more trying to be what I ain't & never were

I would have used 'would' instead of were, but I do quit just can't get it all on the title of this post. I have been hanging around the internet too long, and I am falling behind, so one hour a day at home in the evening and if I miss it, it will be there if I need it later.

Sexy, don't know how much stuff is sold to make me sexy, I don't buy any of it - the motorcycle doesn't feel sexy, it feels like my machine but sexy isn't there. I can feel a woman's sexy and if I am polite I will remark on it, but mostly she will never know. Young, I am older but I am never going to be young again - and I have a certainty that I wouldn't want to have to make the same stupid mistakes the second time around if it happened. I am me, and being old and underestimated is just fine. Rich, no one out there is going to make me rich and I am sure I am programmed to spend beyond my earnings to keep me from becoming rich. All those that offer me an opportunity to become financially independent - depend on a bunch of folks believing their story and program to keep themselves rich, don't support co-dependency! Thin, was once as a young boy, and again as a warrior wanna-be in Vietnam, it wasn't very healthy and seems to be caused by poor adjustment to adverse environment. Dangerous, only seems to be a power thing, the problem with it is that once in a while you must kill something or someone to prove the dangerous - and the dead and the death really stink, if you aren't afraid of it and aren't going to eat it - dangerous is not useful in polite company, children don't grow well in its shadows. Perfect, I will not fit inside the box my doctor thinks I should, my life isn't common and what made me must be part of the plan, don't adjust for the general standard - everyone has a chance to be what they are and hope that it works as things change.

9/10/08 weigh 206.0 pounds, blood pressure is 131/86, heart rate is 43 bpm.

9/13/08 weigh 210.0 pounds, blood pressure is 157/89, heart rate is 41 bpm.

All weight isn't gain, just all mine...

09/09/08 weigh 208.5 pounds, blood pressure 113/76, heart rate 50 bpm.
Jog 385 calories, 445% fat ones, Heart rate 117 bpm, in Zone 32m, Exercised 39m10s.

Such a slug, so slow...

09/07/08 weight 204.0 pounds, no BP, no exercises, no excuses

09/08/08 weigh 207.0 pounds (!) no excuses don't burn calories do they? neither does no exercises, sigh. BP 115/86 heart rate of 76 bpm (sex is good for BP). 3 chin ups. Eat and run

Jog 418 calories, 40% of them fat, Average Heart Rate 124 bpm, in Zone 35m6s, exercised 38m5s

Think I will concentrate on posting on this blog, with some exercised muscles, sweat dripping from my face and the beginning of bad smell - not that I would ever care, I know where the hot shower is with the Irish Spring and Pert with conditioners - like I have enough hair for conditioners? A beautiful girl was running to the bus stop this morning, she is half Asian and that is always exotic to me. Her hair was flowing and I thought that the shampoo folks would want that picture, long glowing and flowing hair - and she runs much faster and happier than I, for I was worn and going to work and she was fresh and going to be with her friends and teachers. May her school years be blest and the best, preparing her for all the rest.

I walk to the dock and I feel fine, Summer is still here.

Walking the dog...

I am following Wyatt and feel his disappointment in gaining pounds after working forty of them off, but he is aware of it and will address the issue. So as I commented to him, I am a lost cause and want to blame everything and one except me, but I am so much smarter than that and after weighing this morning I go and jog, a long one for an hour and fifteen minutes. As I run, I think and look for money (found three bright pennies and rescued them). I notice a long legged red head and she is walking with a chubby fella that is walking their (?) Chow Chow, whose red hair almost matches the lanky lady's. But as I think, people with dogs get out once a day to walk the dog, twice if the dog and they are really lucky and the dog thrives on the walk, the new stuff to sniff and the joy of the pack prowl. So I wonder why the rest of modern America isn't out walking or jogging their heart - it needs the same care and concern one gives the favorite pet, exercise, time together and adventures in what is on the way, the smells of bakeries and pretty women and the smiles of children - it all does better for the heart than the constant pounding while piled on the recliner in front of the TV with remote in hand... take the heart out for a walk or a jog, you both deserve it.

09/04/08 Weigh 205.5 pounds, blood pressure 150/86, heart rate 28 bpm. Walk to dock.

09/05/08 Weigh 204.5 pounds, blood pressure 146/83, heart rate 62 bpm. Walk to dock.

09/06/08 Weigh 203.5 pounds, blood pressure 134/89, heart rate 40 bpm. Go for a gentle jog.
768 calories, 40% fat ones, Heart rate average 120 bpm, in Zone 54m28s, Exercised 1h14m53s.

If I want to win, the electronic haze must die...

09/01/08 Weight 207.0 pounds, blood pressure 156/91, heart rate 37 bpm.

09/02/08 Weight 207.5 pounds, blood pressure 143/89, heart rate 39 bpm.

09/03/08 Weight 206.0 pounds, blood pressure 127/86, heart rate 38 bpm.
Walk to the dock, thirty plus minutes about two miles.