By
Scott, January 4, 2010
We are four days into 2010. Did you make a new year’s resolution? I actually did make one last year and I stuck to it pretty well. I’m making a similar one this year.
The key to keeping your resolution is making it a habit or routine. No doubt that is easier said than done. To keep doing any new activity, or an old activity in a new or better way mainly just takes a lot of will power, and a reminder now and then. If you are a goal-driven kind of person this website may help supplement those things.
The website is called “Rootein“.
The way it works is that you sign up and then enter the things that you want to do. Then, when you do those things, you can mark them off the calendar. The site will send you reminders if you want, and if you fall behind, it will put that task in the dreaded “slacking” box.
Yes it is kind of a gimmick, but hey, if a nagging reminder or the satisfaction of marking a task off as “complete” helps provide a little motivation, why not?
By
Scott, December 18, 2009
I was talking to my buddy Jim the other day, and he so “kindly” pointed out that I’ve not posted anything here in, like, forever. He’s right, I’ve not done a good job at updates.
Keeping up a blog seems to be a catch-22 kind of thing. Its not much fun to keep posting when you know so very few people are reading, and very few people will read if you don’t keep posting. So, whats a person to do? I dunno. I’ll ask Jim, he’s the answer guy.
In honor of “posting something”, I will share today’s “Stupid Deal of the Day” at Musician’s friend. I have no association with Musician’s Friend other than I buy some stuff from them and I watch their daily deals for a good sale.
If I was learning to play guitar, or had a budding guitarist on my Christmas list, I would request, or get them the deal of the day. It is an electronic guitar chord database. Its a little box that you can select the chord you want to learn, and this will show you how to fret it on the guitar.
Today (12/18) only, its on sale HERE for $13 instead of the usual $25. It is a “Planet Waves” brand which I have some other things from them that have been good quality. I see this item doesn’t have the greatest reviews, one of them being “Its no better than a book”. But its electronic! Tech is always better than paper, isn’t it? I dunno, it just seems kind of cool to me.
This is where I should also add that I will do a better job of posting updates from now on. I think (know) I’ve said that before and failed. I will try to do better at posting from now on, but I’m not going to say that I’ll do better in case I don’t do better.
Now, I need to go see what Jim has posted on HIS blog today.
Merry Christmas!
Wow, its been a while since I’ve posted anything here.
We are still involved with our “25 Weeks” adventure and Lori and I both have been posting things over there. I’ve lost 12.5 lbs and Lori is down seven. We’re both feeling better about the direction we’re going.
Anyway, its that time of year where our lilac bush blooms. It seems extra pretty this year:
My mom loved lilacs. When ours blooms, it always makes me think of her.
Our group of 12 loser friends have just finished week #3 of our 25 week adventure. We’ve lost 70.3 lbs now in just thee weeks. I think that is really great.
Myself, I somehow managed to gain almost a pound this week. I’m supposed to be going down, not up! I’m not sure why I gained as I didn’t do anything different from what I had been doing up to this point. Last week, I lost more than I “should” have so maybe it was just a “light” day when I weighed which would account for what looked like a gain this week.
We’ve been concentrating on eating better and getting more exercise. Even if the scale does not show progress, we have to be improving our health. I feel better about the example that we’re setting for Logan too. Hopefully, we can keep it up and it will be something that will set good habits for him as well.
Lori has been sweatn’ with Richard Simmons most every day when she gets home from work. She’s doing a great job of keeping that up.
I’ve been working on weights and the elliptical. I know I’m making progress. I’ve increased what I’m lifting by quite a bit, and have more than doubled how long I can keep going on the elliptical now. Thats gotta be helping my heart.
Maybe this week will produce more expected results.
Our first of “25 Weeks” is over.
As a family, we did pretty good this week in eating better and moving more. I worked out every day and I’m feeling good about that. I lost 1.4 lbs this week and Lori lost 1.6. Thats not a stellar amount, but thats better than we were last week! 
When we reach the end of these 25 weeks, I will get a cholesterol test again to see where I’m at. The last test I had showed that my cholesterol was borderline high and my triglycerides were way high. Along with working out, I’ve been taking Omega 3 fish oil, and “Red Yeast Rice”. Those things combined have to be helping.
As a group, we lost 39.8 pounds in one week! I think that is awesome for a group of 12 people to lose that much in one week.
Off we go into week #2!
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