Our grandson just finished his testing in karate for first level black belt.
He will be 11 next month and has been in karate for 4 years.
He gets his black belt in an award ceremony tomorrow near where he lives in Wisconsin. Karen is up there visiting – which was arranged some time ago to coincide with this event.
I wish I could be there with Karen to visit our daughter, son-in-law, granddaughter, and grandson, but I have classes to teach.
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Even though I don’t post my weigh-in here every Wednesday, I am keeping up with it and usually post it on the Blog to Fit blog.
Since I’m back to work as a short-term supplemental instructor, I need to watch it so that I don’t fall into my old bad habits.
In the past, each time I worked with a license class, I would pack on more weight. However, these days, I am doing a lot of things differently — besides making it to the gym on a regular basis.
Some of the BAD things that I don’t do anymore include:
…. stopping at convenience store on way to work and buying junk food
…. stopping at convenience store on way home and buying junk food
…. stopping at fast food places and buying LARGE CHOCOLATE SHAKES (not something I’d do regularly, just on impulse)
…. stopping at and buying anything at fast foot places
…. stopping and buying donuts (another irregular impulse)
…. eating out several times a month — we may go out to eat once or twice a month.
…. buying anything from the junk food vending machine across the hall from my office
…. buying anything from the junk food machine on the first floor when I’m working late in the simulator
Status:
Started November 1, 2008 at 285.6 lbs
Last week = 265.2 lbs.
This week = 261.0 lbs.
Difference = -4.2 lbs.
Initial goal: 210 lbs.; 51.0 lbs. to go!
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While we were gone on our May trip, there was a lot of rain here. We expected everything to be really green and wet when we got back.
Well it was really green for sure, but actually had already started drying out.
Up until last night, we had only rain on one day since we got home and that wasn’t very much. Karen was actually starting to water things in the yard.
However, right now we are in a weather pattern where we have a chance of rain for the next several days. Early this morning — I just happened to be up and on the computer — we had a short heavy rain and it turned out we were in a severe thunderstorm warning.
Then about 90 minutes ago we had another storm cell go through and I managed to get a fairly decent photo of the clouds. It was actually a lot darker outside than it appears in the picture, except when the lightning was lighting things up. In the picture, the clouds are being lit by distant lightning behind the trees.
While we need the rain, I can do without the thunder-bumpers.
I have been able to get back into my routine somewhat at the fitness center. My back issues have receded and my endurance is almost back. I’ve been able to replicate my personal best on the stair climber three times since I got back — including two days in a row, yesterday and today.
I made it to the gym four times this week and I’m also working in the yard on a landscaping decking project, though I have been taking plenty of breaks.
Status:
Started November 1, 2008 at 285.6 lbs
Last week = 266.5 lbs.
This week = 266 lbs.
Difference = -.5 lbs.
Initial goal: 210 lbs.; 56 lbs. to go!
Check out the other participants progress at Blog-to-Fit
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We were without internet access for most of the last week. I’ll be sharing some pictures and information from our trip in future posts.
We made it back home today — day 27 of our May 2009 trip.
I was starting to get a little concerned the last few days as my belt and the waist-band of my blue jean shorts seemed to be getting tighter. We have been able to take quite a few hikes and walks, but my exercise is no where near what it had been before we left.
My official scales that I go by for my weekly weight is at the gym, but, for today, I did weigh myself on the scales here, with a bit of trepidation, of course. The results:
Started November 1, 2008 at 285.6 lbs
April 29 — four weeks ago = 265.6 lbs.
This week = 267.5 lbs.
Difference = + 1.9 lbs. in four weeks! — and I typically weigh heavier on the scales at home than I do on the “more accurate” scales at the gym.
Initial goal: 210 lbs.; 57.5 lbs. to go!
See other participants’ results at Blog to Fit – Wednesday Weigh-In.
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We are currently camped near Staunton, Virginia. Tomorrow we will be camping in a small campground in Virginia Beach and will be visiting my Mom in Norfolk.
This hasn’t been the greatest week for a traveling and camping trip. When we are camping, we like to take hikes and we only got a couple in. It’s been raining every day and every night — not continuously, but heavy at times and often enough to make things a little difficult.
When we’re traveling, we stop every couple of hours or so and find some place to walk.
Sometimes, we are able to walk at rest areas. When we are able to do that, we make from a couple of “laps” on the walkways to several if the walkways are limited. It helps loosen us up and makes the trip go better. Today we were able to walk at three rest areas. One of them had a “pet trail” that turned into a half mile loop trail into the woods and we had already done the generous rest area walkways.
Off the interstate highways, rest areas are few and far between. We’ve found other places that work well for walks. Shopping malls, of course, are good. However, we’ll often stop at a “big box store” like Walmart, Lowes, or Home Depot, and make several laps around the inside of the store.
We also walk at campgrounds. Walking the entire campground that we were at in Great Smoky Mountain National Park was probably about a mile, which we did 3 evenings, I think. The campground we are at now is at least that, but also has a rather generous uphill section.
We did get several short walks in that on a couple of days when we were able to dodge the storms. Yesterday afternoon when we the campground, the rain had stopped, so we decided to do one of the closest trails, a 2.6 mile round-trip hike to Laurel Falls. It was nice. I’ll post pictures later.
So far as food, I generally don’t overeat too much when we are traveling. We’ve eaten out twice, McDonald’s and Subway. We’ve been eating sandwiches mostly for lunch and regular food for supper. I’ve been eating less snacks, I think.
See other participants’ results at Blog to Fit – Wednesday Weigh-In.
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The big Six O…….. Oh noes!
February 3, 2012
This is one of those (secretive s-h-h-h-h ) benchmarks that lots of folks seem to want to keep hush-hush, no more than whispered about, when they get there.
Not me. I’d rather just face it (and get it over with) and embrace it (what more can you do?) fully. Today, I turned sixty.
Every day, about 330 or so boomers reach this point. Born in the 50s, radical in the 60s
(not me!) and early 70s, settled down in the 
80s, splurged in the 
90s, and lost our financial butts 
in the 2000s (not me 
).
Supposedly sixty is the new 30 – or is that the new 40?
I don’t know about that. I think it’s just rationalization for some people, to make them feel better when they get there here.
I took another tack on dealing with this benchmark and it really helps to lessen the impact. Over the last year, as the time
grew closer and closer, I just more and more started thinking of my age as 60 instead of 59. After all, since last summer sometime, I’ve actually been closer to 60 than 59. 
I don’t feel 60 – mentally or physically.
Retirement? Still doin’ it – part time.
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