"What Must I Do to Be Saved? It is impossible to ask a more weighty Question! It is deplorable that we hear it asked with no more Frequency, with nor more Agony." ---Cotton Mather
Okay, no more Mr. Nice Guy it is time to get serious and kick this extra weight to the curb. I have been through some stressful moments or days in the past 60 days and while I have not gained more than water weight, I have not lost any weight at all. It is amazing what stress can do to our bodies and our eating habits. In addition, my sleep habits have been horrible and I have been trying to do too much. This guy needs to learn moderation and balance in all things. I took on a new job within the company I work for and the training was intense and it is rush, rush, rush to get the training done. There were several all-nighters and then I get home and no sleep due to various events. In addition, I seem to have the habit of doing all my communicating very late at night. I communicate with friends, male and female, during hours that the majority of people are sleeping. This would not be a bad thing; however, my day typically starts at 4am. Staying up chatting with friends and flirting with women is causing me sleep deprivation. This all needs to be balanced and rearranged so I do not continue to ignore my exercise and weight reduction program. Now is not the time for maintenance as I still have those last stubborn forty pounds.
"Because of their size, parents may be difficult to discipline properly." ---J. O'Rourke
Therefore, since it is already Sunday night and it is nearly bedtime, tomorrow I begin anew. I am setting goals to exercise a minimum of one hour per day and get back on my eating program. I want the rest of this stuff I have been packing for two decades gone before summertime. I can visualize it now, cutting the grass and then laying back in lounge chair wearing a Speedo… Blech! Even I know better than that. Seriously, it would be so wonderful to spend this entire summer back at the weight it all began. Confident, energetic and doing things I have not done in years. This is going to be the most enjoyable summer in years. Now, I had better find me a summer playmate to keep me company. ;-) I hope that my new playmate likes walks and hikes in the hills where I live. I cannot wait to play with my kids this summer. They have never known their father at his regular, recommended healthy weight. This will be a summer to remember. Amazing how that works. Last summer was a summer we would never forget and this summer will be a summer to remember. It seems that father time is the great healer and equalizer.
"Adversity is the first path to truth; He who hath proved war, storm, or woman's rage, Whether his winters be eighteen or eighty, Has won the experience which is deemed so weighty" ---Lord Byron
"Well, I have lost you; and I lost you fairly; In my own way, and with my full consent. Say what you will, kings in a tumbrel rarely went to their deaths more proud than this one went. Some nights of apprehension and hot weeping I will confess; but that's permitted me; Day dried my eyes; I was not one for keeping rubbed in a cage a wing that would be free. If I had loved you less or played you slyly I might have held you for a summer more, but at the cost of words I value highly, and no such summer as the one before. Should I outlive this anguish -and men do- I shall have only good to say of you." ---Vincent Millay
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