And I’ve lost 10.4 pounds. I’m thrilled. I’m a bit apprehensive about it though, as it’s a bit TOO MUCH, TOO FAST. However, my summer of marathon training ahead of me should keep it off and keep it COMING OFF! Toot toot! Naaah.
I’m just excited to see if I can get to a lower weight than I was the previous two summers.
Okay, so this is my first entry from my Red Hat 9 installation on my main desktop at home. Man, what a bitch it was to get this thing up and running due to my motherboard’s nVidia chipset. The problem was that I couldn’t get the network card to work. Thanks to Mike at iskream.com, I followed his directions…a FEW times (my bad, my bad) and I FINALLY got this thing up and running. I NEEDED to get online with it so that I could get out to the “net” and get updates to various programs. Getting back into Windows, downloading files, and burning them to CD was getting real old.
I still have to get this Linux to be able to read my Windows (NTFS) drive. It can read the CD-ROM no problem. I just need it to get to my other files. It’ll make things a lot easier if I decide I want to play with Red Hat 9 for a while. I have no reason not too. MOST of my computer lifing at home deals with emailing and some website changes that can be done with any old text editor for the most part.
Certain other activities, like dealing with my digital camera, have to be used with Windows XP if I want to NOT pull teeth to try and get something like that going. I’m sure there’s a way to get my camera recognize on this thing. We’ll see…it depends on how much I want to play. :D
This is crazy. This guy turns down a 3.6 million dollar contract from the Arizona Cardinals to go to work as an Army Ranger! Poor guy. I feel bad for his family.
Well, my efforts are paying off. The key will be to see if I can get to a lower weight than last year. I’m thinking I can because of the longer duration of training: 27 weeks vs. 18 weeks, plus seeing that we’ll be doing biking once or twice a week, the weight might work itself out.
Ars Technica wrote up a review of various IM client alternatives.
This is the conclusion page. It’s all you really need. I’m a pretty big Trillian advocate, but I’ve been looking at and using gAIM a bit more and more lately. I like it’s simplistic design. It seems to operate nice and fast. Although, it did give me grief one day at work, but that could be due to Ford’s firewall.
Norman sent me this link this morning. We always talk about various things; one of which is stocks.
This might seem crazy, but I’ve lost 6.8 pounds in exactly one week. Started dieting last week for the most part, and this week, started the South Beach Diet. We’ll see how it goes. I’d rather just exercise a lot and have the option of sucking down a bag of gummi lips if I wanted to.
Some of these terms are crazy!!!
FINISH
Women: Nde.., 2:24:27
Men: Cher.., 2:10:27
These are pictures my cousin, Ike, sent me from Greece. It was during the “Carnival” that the city of Patras was having. Patras is about 10 miles (or less) from my parents’ village.
My cousin, Ike, the professor
My cousin, Ike, and his wife, Gogoula
My cousin, Ike, and his wife, Gogoula
Marty wakes up at home with a huge hangover. He forces himself to open his eyes, and the first thing he sees is a couple of aspirins and a glass of water on the side table. He sits down and sees his clothing in front of him, all clean and pressed. Marty looks around the room and sees that it is in perfect order, spotless, clean. So is the rest of the house. He takes the aspirins and notices a note on the table “Honey, breakfast is on the stove, I left early to go shopping. Love you.”
So he goes to the kitchen and sure enough there is a hot breakfast and the morning newspaper. His son is also at the table, eating. Marty asks, “Son, what happened last night?” His son says, “Well, you came home after 3 A.M., drunk and delirious. Broke some furniture, puked in the hallway, and gave yourself a black eye when you stumbled into the door.”
Confused, Marty asks, “So, why is everything in order and so clean, and breakfast is on the table waiting for me?” His son replies, “Oh that! Mom dragged you to the bedroom, and when she tried to take your pants off, you said, “Lady, leave me alone, I’m married!”
A self-induced hangover - $100.00
Broken furniture - $200.00
Breakfast - $10.00
Saying the right thing - Priceless
Okay, so I normally erase the spam I get from EliteFitness.com. This one, in particular, caught my eye because of the subject line: Low Carb Stupidity.
Here is the relevant text:
Low carb stupidity #1
Selecting your beer or liquor carefully to make sure you have the brand with the fewest grams of carbs.
Low carb intelligence
Avoiding alcohol if you?re trying to lose body fat. Drinking only in moderation if you?re trying to maintain your weight and be healthy.
Low carb stupidity #2
Believing any of the following: Low carbs diets are the only way to lose fat, low carb diets are the best way to lose fat, no one should ever eat a high carb diet, high carbs always make you fat, starches and grains make everyone sick and unhealthy.
Low carb intelligence
Adjusting your approach according to your health status, your goals and your body type, not according to generalizations preached by dogmatic diet ?gurus.?
Low carb stupidity #3
Going on the Atkins diet (or any other very low carb/ketogenic diet) with absolutely no idea why you?re doing it or how the diet works (going on it because ?everybody? is doing it and because you see it advertised everywhere.)
Low carb intelligence
Studying the physiology and biochemistry of the low carb diet and completely understanding all the pros and cons. Then making an informed decision whether to restrict carbs based on your own personal goals, needs and heath status.
Low carb stupidity #4
Thinking that very low carb (ketogenic) dieting is a maintainable ?lifestyle.?
Low carb intelligence
Understanding that reasonable (moderate) restriction of carbs can be a helpful short term strategy for fat loss, a good way to reach a peak, a legitimate method to control appetite, and an effective way for some people to control insulin. But also understanding that a balanced diet of natural foods is probably the most suitable of all the diets for health, lifelong maintenance and weight control.
Low carb stupidity #5
Believing calories don?t count if you just cut out your carbs (or not counting calories because it?s ?too much work.?)
Low carb intelligence
Knowing that fat loss always did and always will boil down to calories in vs. calories out. Taking the time and effort to crunch your numbers (at least once), typing up your menu on a spreadsheet, keeping a diary, and/or using nutrition tracking software.
Low carb stupidity #6
Staying on a low carb diet that has stopped working (or never worked in the first place).
Low carb intelligence
Adjusting your diet according to your results; understanding that a common definition of insanity (and/or stupidity) is to continue to do the same things over and over again, while expecting a different result.
Low carb stupidity #7
Believing that you don?t need exercise because all you need to do is cut carbs.
Low carb intelligence
Knowing that dieting is the worst way to lose fat and that exercise is the best way to lose fat (Burn The Fat, don?t starve the fat).
Low carb stupidity #8
Using the argument; ?There?s no such thing as an essential carbohydrate? as justification for low carb dieting.
Low carb intelligence
Realizing that textbook definitions of ?essential? can be taken out of context to promote a fad diet and that just because there?s technically no ?essential? carbohydrates (as there are essential amino acids and fatty acids) doesn’t mean carbohydrates aren?t ?essential? in other respects.
Low carb stupidity #9
Using the argument, ?You have to eat fat to lose fat? as justification for a high fat, low carb diet, without explaining it or putting it in context (exactly how much fat and what kind of fat?)
Low carb intelligence
Understanding the importance of essential and omega three fats (the good fats), but not taking any single nutritional principle to an extreme (such as, ?If a little fat is good for you then a lot is even better.?)
Low carb stupidity #10
Saying, ?All carbs are bad? or ?All carbs are fattening.?
Low carb intelligence
Avoiding generalizations, and instead, having multiple distinctions about carbohydrates (and other foods) so you can make better choices. For example:
Low GI vs. high GI carbs
Simple vs. complex carbs
Starchy vs. fibrous carbs
Natural vs. refined carbs
High calorie density vs. low calorie density carbs
Low carb stupidity #11
Not clarifying your definition of low carbs.
Low carb intelligence
Realizing that there are ?very low? carb diets, ?low? carb diets, and ?moderate? carb diets and that you cant lump them all together. (Some people consider The Zone Diet, at 40% of calories from carbs, a low carb diet, others consider 40% carbs quite high).
Low carb stupidity #12
Believing that carrots are fattening because they?re high on the glycemic index and because a popular fad diet book says so.
Low carb intelligence
Have we lost all vestiges of common sense? With an average carrot clocking in at 31 calories and 7.3 grams of carbs, do you really think that this orange-colored, nutrient-dense, low-calorie, all-natural, straight-out-of-the-ground root vegetable is going to make you fat? (if so, you are in “carbohydrate kindergarten.”)
Low carb stupidity? Lucky #13
Eating lots of processed and packaged low carb foods (including those protein ?candy bars?)? and thinking you?re ?being good? and ?following your diet.?
Low carb intelligence
Realizing that natural, unrefined foods are one of the keys to lifelong weight control and that anything man made and refined is NOT an ideal ?diet? food ? including the highly processed low carb foods that are all the rage this year. (Doesn?t this bandwagon reek of the late 80?s and early 90?s ?no fat? craze, when all those ?fat free? foods were being passed off as healthy diet food, but were really highly processed and full of pure sugar?)
Can you believe it? We ran 4.28 miles this morning on a new trail we found that is near our house.
We then rode our bikes at Stony Creek’s mountain bike trails for 1.05 miles this afternoon in 84-86 degree weather.
We feel like machines… we’re obese, and we have to shed this shit!!!