More than just Martial Arts
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Finito
0Alright, enough of this experiment. It’s been enlightening, but it’s stressin’ me out. Final tally, after one month; I’ve lost about 5 pounds, and almost 2″ off my waist, and things fit better. I also stopped randomly snacking on everything in sight, so overall I’ll call it a success. I didn’t do as well at adding variety as I had hoped, but with less crap and more working out I think I’ll survive. I’m still tracking what I eat on my own, so there will hopefully be more progress from here out.
I will still be around, posting when I feel like I have something to add to the world, instead of every night. Every night leads to boring posts about my day, and it’s not fun for any of us. I will also try to get back to doing my form occasionally, although with kickboxing keeping me in shape I’m feeling less pressed to practice for health’s sake and more to make sure I don’t forget it. That approach is kind of lazy and needs much less practice time, but I’ll try. Until next time, stay well amigos.
Moscow Mules
0Ah, hello. I got home last night about midnightish and somehow the blog didn’t make it on my radar. Not much to report, though, for yesterday or today. Tomorrow (technically today, I guess) is my arbitrary end, because I’m all out of interesting things to say every day. I’m very sleepy right now, which I have no right to be since I slept in and then did nothing all day, but somehow that sort of day always ends up leaving me sleepy. When I’m busy, I wish for boring weekends, and when I have boring weekends, I wish to be busy. What can you do.
Whelp, let’s get to it.
Food:
Breakfast: Do I even have to say it at this point? PB&J
Lunch: Taco/burrito/whatevers
Other: Supper was a special dish I call a Peanut Buster. Provided by my friend Dairy Queen. She’s very nice.
Yesterday started out identical, and then I went to a housewarming party and that would be too complicated to try to document. Various party-type foods, and a Moscow Mule. If you’re not familiar, and a surprising number of people at the party were not, the Moscow Mule is an alcoholic beverage best known for being served in a copper mug, and for the fact that bars make you give them a credit card and a drivers license before they’ll serve you one – so you don’t make off with the mug. The copper is important for its reaction with the ginger beer, or so they say. Anyway, it was interesting, and pretty good, but I don’t know if I need that much ginger in my life. Half of one would do me fine.
Current Weight: Yesterday 161, Today 159
Saturday
0Last night, I went to bed early so I could get up at 7 to go to kickboxing (early being 11:30). That was a great theory, but at 1:30 I was still awake, and I didn’t fall asleep for a while after that. I never really felt like I was getting sleep at all, actually. BUT. I got up, I got out the door, and I got to class on time. Then I remembered why I don’t work out in the mornings.
First thing after getting up, I realized I was out of bread. This was bad, because I usually eat PB&J in the morning, and because bread is about all my stomach will handle when I’ve gotten up early. I have a very acidic stomach and I knew I was going to be in trouble. But I didn’t have many options, so I had a tiny bit of milk and some straight peanut butter, popped an antacid and hoped for the best.
I drove to class only to find out that my friend, who had said he would be there, hadn’t shown. I hadn’t told him I was coming, so he didn’t ditch me, but class is more fun with company.
Bad sign number three: only one other guy there. Small classes never have much energy, and usually seem slower than big ones.
Bad sign number four: A different instructor than I’ve had before, who doesn’t usually teach kickboxing.
Actually, if you take all of that into account, it wasn’t a bad class. It wasn’t fun, though. It didn’t take long for me to get nauseous, which confirmed that I almost always do when I work out early. The instructor wasn’t bad, she just switched things up and threw me off a bit, and she added a couple drills that I chose not to attempt due to my shoulder. Let’s just say it was a long hour. If I hadn’t felt like I was going to puke most of the time it would have been better (sorry, but it’s true). And then I’ve been crazy sleepy all day to round it all out.
So, I think I’ll be skipping morning classes from now on, or at least finding a better breakfast solution before I try another. Being tired is bad enough without feeling sick to boot.
Food:
Breakfast: You already know about breakfast – PB & milk
Lunch: BisonWitches!! 1/2 Club, chips & queso. Mmmmmmmmmm.
Other: Chocolate Milk….did I really forget to eat anything else? I guess I was full from Bison.
I honestly didn’t realize until just now that I haven’t eaten anything since about 1. I had a lot of water, but no food…hmm. I can’t decide if this is a good trend or not. I’m a little hungry, but not starving by any means, so it’s not like I’m trying to torture myself. Actually all told I feel amazing. I feel like I have muscles again, injured or not.
Current Weight: 160 (booyeah! 5lbs, 1 week – What a difference a little kickboxing makes.)
Monday
0I’m baaack! Back to mobile, that is. Still a few tweaky parts in my shoulder, so I may very well end up hurt again, but I’ll try not to go too crazy. It’s the downfall of sports. I could do something nice and graceful, like ballet…oh wait, I AM. Yes America, to prove that I am more than a bloodthirsty martial arts machine (and also because I’ve always wanted to), I am taking a ballet class. Please try not to laugh so hard, you’re bugging your neighbors.
That’s where I was tonight, my second class, and so far I’ve learned that I am almost as un-graceful as I feared. Taekwondo helps a lot, because I have base flexibility and balance, but man is it a paradigm shift. Part of the reason I’ve always wanted to take some kind of dance is because I’m so hopelessly awkward, and man have I proven that true, but I’m finding that it’s a lot of mind over matter. So I’ll get there. It’s fun, challenging, and definitely different.
Now I have 6 years of Taekwondo habits to learn how to turn off…hunched shoulders, bent knees, flexed toes; none of these are good things in ballet. But I like a challenge.
Food:
Breakfast: PB&J & milk
Lunch: Hot Dog & baby carrots
Supper: Umm
Snacks: PB, Chocolate milk, popcorn
I don’t know what it is about summer, but I never want to cook. I should just admit that I don’t want to and stock up on more things I can eat cold.
Current Weight: 165