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Let me take a moment to talk about my weight again since I'm sure people have been waiting eagerly for updates on that. At last report I'd managed to drop finally out of the Obese categories as measured by body-mass index and given a height that wasn't really stretched significantly above my real height to make the numbers less intimidating. Since then I've been increasing my exercise regimen, so that it's now been at least an hour daily most days, with a lot of that coming from the EA Games 'Active' which really needs a better name because it sounds bare when put into a sentence without the company name prepended. They probably intend it that way.
Anyway, I finished the first, 'light' level of exercise, and am getting near the end of the second thirty-day challenge. This is a series of exercises ranging from just running to doing side lunges to actually fun stuff such as tennis or baseball. Those are just brief moments of fun activities, though, before you go back to bicep curls or jumping lunges. The 'medium' level is really interested in jumping exercises, which according to it rack up calorie expenditures rapidly, but which also involve a lot of jumping. A little of this would be fine, but twelve side-to-side jumps followed by sixteen ``jump lunges'' where you go from a lunge position, leap up, and drop back to lunging with the opposite foot back, that wears me out.
Also between my mother's and my exercise in the various routines that use a resistance band, included with Active, we broke the resistance band. It was this wide, yet flimsy, rubber thing that we needed about a week's efforts to get tied to the handles. Although it wasn't too strong an elastic, it snapped anyway. We re-tied the snapped end, but that lasted under a week before snapping again. So I bought a real and proper resistance band --- in fact, one with three bands for variable resistance --- from Target, and found it was hard enough to use just with the lightest resistance. In part this was because the Target bands came with nice, solid plastic grips that made it impossible to hold them and the Wii control paddles securely together, messing up all the resistance band exercises. Eventually my mother tied the Active's resistance band handles, which are just fabric, to the ends of the Target resistance band, and we use that hybrid now.
Anyway, now, and coming up on eight months into this real exercise regimen, I'm passing around the level of having lost eighty pounds total. Amazingly this doesn't yet bring me into the ``normal'' weight ranges. But it isn't so very far away that I could be in the normal range, and I'm starting to think about the transition from a weight-loss (and, my mother notes, muscle-building) exercise regimen to one that'll just be maintaining my weight. To date, these plans consist mainly of going to the Chinese buffet I haven't been to since the start of January and disappearing for the rest of the day. I can worry about the day after later.
Trivia: United States network programming for the Apollo 11 moonwalk also included Orson Welles recounting his War of the Worlds broadcast, James Earl Jones and Julie Harris reading letters and journals of other explorers, Steve Allen discussing the role of the Moon in popular songs, and Duke Ellington performing his original ``Moon Maiden''. Source: This New Ocean: The Story Of The First Space Age, William E Burrows.
Currently Reading: Defining NASA: The Historical Debate Over The Agency's Mission, W D Kay.
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Date: 2009-07-23 04:43 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2009-07-24 10:28 pm (UTC)Aw, well, I've just been able to find a diet and exercise regimen that works for me. I know you'll find the balance that's right for you.
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Date: 2009-07-23 01:10 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2009-07-24 10:39 pm (UTC)Thank you. I'm feeling awfully good about the total loss, particularly looking at the six-month or the yearlong charts on the plot. Although it still hurts when my weight flutters up a pound or two on a difficult day ... I hope I can adjust emotionally when it becomes time to settle on a given weight instead of keep driving it down.
I think the most important change I made was cutting down the oversized breakfasts I was having, and trimming down dinner so it's not quite so hefty either. I've been eating pretty far below the 2000-calorie baseline for not particularly active people, and that's got to have been doing a lot for me.
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Date: 2009-07-27 04:01 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2009-07-27 04:24 am (UTC)Thank you. I'm feeling so close to normal weight now I can almost taste it.