Diet - This Time I Mean It

As with all previous tries, I'm heading into a diet with full force, but this time I'm not going to give up. It was the realization that I had to wear size 40 pants that depressed me enough into getting serious. I'm going to try my best to get results through hard work and will power. Sounds corny, but ultimately those are the only things that will provide results.

I'll keep the progress updated on here, and possibly have progress pictures, but those will come later, as I have progress to show, and not just my fat body.

Writing is easy, funding is hard

To say writing is easy is actually a lie, I should say that writing is easier that getting funding for publishing, at least for a new author. I understand that there is a doubt that the book will ever see the light of fluorescent in a book store, but I think that I'm worth the risk. However, this experience will surely lead to an essay called "I Wrote a Book and No One Read It".

I appreciate the current donations more than the donators probably realize, I think I'm starting to love them all, those with faith in me.

I have tried to spend as much time with my family, but there is a lot of time spent in my home office writing away or at our kitchen counter writing down notes. There is also the all too common waking up in the middle of the night because I had an idea that I needed to get in my notebook before it left my brain. Putting a price tag on my time is hard - but I think that over the course of writing this book (and all processes related) is worth well more than the $5,000 I'm seeking for publishing, which isn't for my time it's for me being able to publish my book so that the world (or at least the United States for now) can read and hopefully enjoy my story. It's a long 11 (probably 10 now) days, and my hope is low, so I'm hoping to be pleasantly surprised. Please Help!

Busy Busy … Busy

Well, I've been busy. Busy writing, busy working, busy. I've been working on getting a copyright in place so that I can post the first chapter (or at least part of it) of my new book, so be sure to subscribe to my blog so that you'll get notified when it's ready.

I've been also working on the new Gaming Together site, and planning for a return of the podcast, but that might be farther off than anticipated. In addition to that, I've been designing some leather items that I'll be selling soon - some are gaming related, such as Nathan Drake's shoulder holster and Desmond Miles Backpack. The holster should be pretty close to the one in game, while the backpack will have a lot of modifications, including a slight color change. Let me know if you might be interested in that and I'll post sketches as well as tentative prices and shipping dates.

For those of you who don't know, I've gained some weight. I've learned that when someone says "You're looking healthy" that's a polite way to say "Hey, you're getting fat." I'm now on a diet, started at 215 and now I'm down to 212 (after 2 days), I think it's a fluke that so much loss has happened so fast, but I'm not questioning it.

While some of my other stories\books won't be leaving my computer for sometime, I've been working hard at securing a publisher for my current work, so I'm hoping to have it on shelves before the end of the year.

As I mentioned before, I plan on updating this more often, and I'm slowly living up to that, so please - stay tuned!

New Book

I just let Lyndsay read the first chapter of my new book, and after making her grammatical corrections (typical teacher) she said it almost made her cry. The book, which is complete fiction is a very emotional book and I didn't realize it was until she pointed it out. The first chapter is by far the least emotional, so if she does read the rest (and I expect her to) she may be an emotional wreck. For those of you who don't know, I am a writer, aspiring to be published, but for now, I am happy writing what I do, when I can. I have started my autobiography, but I figured I may still be too young to finish that one out, so I have it on the back burner, adding to it slowly. Now that I'm back in the swing of things on my blog, don't forget to subscribe! I will post the first chapter, but I need to secure the copyright first.

More Regular...

I haven't been faithful to updating my blog. I realized the other day that I enjoy writing the blog wether or not anyone likes reading it. Don't get me wrong I am extremely happy that some people do, but I shouldn't be writing for approval, so I won't.

2012 was a pretty bad year for me, on a lot of levels, and while I'm not ready to go into details, lets just say that the last few months have been much better than the whole of  the year. The exception to this is the last week, which has been my time to endure strep throat. 

Here are a few of the things I've learned from 2012:

• Never take anything for granted
• Easy solutions aren't always the right ones
• Take time for yourself, but not too much
• Reevaluate your priorities often, make sure things are where they need to be

Sounds silly, but it is very effective.

Post Day 1 (Start Day 2)

Ok, so after much consideration the meal plan on this routine is a bit much. I've always heard that it's heather to eat less, but more meals per day (i.e., less portions maybe 5 times a day), but this plan initially included 6-7 meals a day and portions that are about what I usually eat, so I was having a hard time eating, I was having to force food down, and as a matter of fact the "pre-workout" meal I skipped, as not to puke at the gym.

If you know me, you know I hate large groups of people, and going to the gym (in this case it was the YMCA) is a place crawling with people, and I'm out of shape, so it's a bit embarrassing the limits to my workouts (when I was younger, I could push almost twice my body weight, now I am lucky if I could do 3/4 of my current weight.

Speaking of weight, I started on Day 0 at 203, (35% BMI), and last night, I weighed in at 200.2 (33% BMI), and this morning 198.4 (32% BMI). I don't know if it a coincidence or what, but I think it's not - I think that will change even more radically since I'm not gorging myself as the plan originally intended (In looking bad it was for someone with a little more pre-existing mass and muscle, so it makes since right now to cut back. Chest and Triceps are tonight, luckily it looks like I have all the needed equipment at home, I may just go run and get a few heavier weights, but that would be it. Tomorrow is a day of rest. Yea!

Not in Order?

OK, so I spent some time yesterday contemplating how I got so out of shape. It was depressing, I'm overweight, and have no energy most of the time, whether that is a result of medical conditions or just physical condition I don't know. I know this though, I won't let it continue.

After talking with Lyndsay, I am going on kind of an extreme program that will be a process to get used to, but hopefully in 3 months the difference will be obvious. I've been doing a lot of cardio (walking\jogging\stationary bicycle), but I'll be continuing that on tho program, which won't be difficult, it's the going to the gym part that I'm worried about - as most of you know my anxiety is a little high, and changing a daily routine for 3 months is going to be rough. Lyndsay goes through a schedule change every year for three months, but that's a bit different - summer break isn't quite like this program.

I will be taking pictures everyday (Front\side\Back) to track my progress, if after one month there is no noticeable change (physical or mental), I may not continue.

I don't know about sharing the photos, fyi - that's opening myself up to some cruel possibilities a bit. :)

 

-J