Interesting Days
For those of you who don’t know, in my last post I refered to the RHOLMFw/FH getting engaged to his RH woman. RHOLMFw/FH is Anthony. He is the Red Headed Oppie looking MF with Facial Hair and he’s now engaged to his Red Headed Woman Heather. So Congratulations to the two of them.
Life has been pretty interesting. As those who have read Sarah’s Blog know, her parents are going through a rough time with each of them going through two major surgeries in the last month or so. Her mother has recovered nicely from her surgery and would have improved dramatically had it not been for the stress of Sarah’s Dad having to have a major surgery of his own. Unfortunately what he anticipated being a minor hernia repair turned into a much more serious ordeal when the Doctors discovered a very large cyst growing on one of his kidneys. Needless to say he’s not a happy camper right now and I’m sure that Mr. Yeldell would appreciate your thoughts and prayers for a speedy recovery. Sarah’s parents are very good people and they don’t deserve to have to go through this. Life has it’s ups and downs and this is definitely a down for them right now.
I’ve been back on my bike pretty regularly lately, atleast three days a week once I got over my sinus infection. I did nearly 20 miles of rolling terrain yesterday with a pretty stiff wind. I’m not in as bad shape as I thought I would be, but I have a long way to go to get back to where I was two years ago.
I couple of things have been really hitting me hard lately. I look at our national debt and I think it’s indicative of the way we as Americans live daily, way beyond our means and we’re always struggling to keep our head above water. It’s the same with how we eat and live. Our bodies are like a bank, everytime time you eat a fast food meal or drink a coke it’s like taking a loan out or buying something with a credit card. In order to pay that debt off every month you have to excercise like an animal. Unfortunately just like our finances most of us don’t pay back the full amount on the loan we’ve taken from our bodies and we carry more and more of a balance each month until we struggle just to pay the interest.
I keep thinking about what I’m going to look like when I’m 40 and I have a 10 year old kid who wants to play catch or ride bikes and I’m scared to death that I won’t be able to keep up. So the time is truly now. I don’t want to be the average american that’s 10 lbs overweigth and $9000 in debt. I don’t want to be a part of 30% of Americans that are obese. I don’t want to live outside my means anymore.
I don’t believe that one person can change the world, but I believe one person can change theirself and that can have a huge impact on the world around them.
So I ask those who read this blog to keep Sarah, her dad, and her mother in their prayers, and I ask you to do the same for me.
I’ve been researching lately how to be more healthy. I looked at Colonix, but frankly, that scares the *hit out of me (literally). So, Saturday, I’ll start a different “cleansing” program, Isagenix. I’m doing the 9 day routine. Hopefully I’ll make it through having not eaten off my arm! I’ll let you know how it goes.
Comment by Amy — 7/14/2005 @ 6:51 pm
Yeah, you’ll have to let me know how it goes. I’m a little freaked out by those things. I think the qoute that expresses my feelings about them is, “If diet pills really worked, why are the major pharmcuetical companies making them?” But if it does really work then that would be great.
My plan is to work on getting back in the habit of excercising everyday. I’ll do that for 6 weeks or so and them I’m going to start working on the diet. If you’re dieting and excercising at the same time it can be a little dissappointing because you build so much muscle so quickly when you get started that you offset the weight loss. It’s not until I start burning more fat that I really want to work on changing the eating habits.
Comment by Todder — 7/15/2005 @ 10:01 am
This, I think, is similar to the Slimfast approach, but better engineered. And I know what you’re saying about losing weight whilst exercising. I gained 3 pounds my first two weeks of kickboxing. About 6 weeks into the kickboxing now though, and although my weight hasn’t changed at all from the norm, my measurements definitely have! Plus, I love it!
Comment by Amy — 7/15/2005 @ 12:39 pm
Yeah, I guess bottom line is that weight isn’t as important as body fat percentage. That’s what I’d like to be able to track.
Comment by Todder — 7/15/2005 @ 12:45 pm