I had a couple of holidays off from work this past weekend, but the weekend wasn't that great. I started doing some minor work on guitar neck building (building a jig to cut the truss rod mounting cavity and a 3/4" thick neck routing template). Neither one came out perfect, and the jig was actually unusable. I was pretty down because I'd already put a lot of effort into these builds and didn't have a lot to show for it. Saturday, my mom called me to borrow a bunch of money. Against my better judgment, I agreed. Hopefully she'll pay me back on the schedule we agreed on. 5k is kind of a lot of money and I really don't want to have to seriously hound her about it. Sunday wasn't a lot better because Erin wanted to go shopping or something, but everything was closed for Easter (why is Easter bigger than Christmas? Shit stays open on Christmas...and schools cancel for Christmas, whereas they don't for Easter.....) We wound up just sitting around the house most of the day.
I started to feel better on Monday because I bought some more MDF and built that jig with much better rate of success. I'm still a little down (not terribly sure why...just have been feeling like I'm not good at anything lately...hopefully it will pass).
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I've been exercising pretty regularly since my last post. Mon., Tues., Thurs. and Fri. I run 2 miles then walk another 2. I've got my first mile down to about 7 minutes and my 2nd is around 9.5. Those numbers are a bit skewed because the first mile is downhill for the most part, while the second is up. I've also been doing some jacknifes and pushups 2 nights a week each. Basically, I'm just pushing to the point of exhaustion. I push the pushups a bit harder than the jacknifes and am at around a nightly total of 130-150 or so right now (number of reps per set being as many as I can do, starting at around 40-50 and descending from there). I'm trying to do jacknifes Mon. and Thurs., pushups Tues. and Fri. 2 days rest between each and taking weekends off. Erin and I have been walking a bit (usually walking somewhere to go eat) on the weekends, so that's some additional exercise. I've lost somewhere between 15 and 18 lbs now since I started a little more than a month ago. It's a bit fast, but my start weight was really exaggerated (I ate a HUGE dinner, then a giant breakfast and a pretty large lunch, then weighed myself). It's really probably closer to 10-15 lbs. I've been pretty happy with the food changes; because I'm eating a bit less, food seems to just taste better; I'm drinking a lot more water. Plus, groceries have gotten a bit cheaper, too.
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I wish I could be as dedicated as you.
I wouldn't really call it dedication...I'm just exploiting my own personal traits...
For instance, I like to do the same things over and over again; by establishing a set routine, I wind up guilting myself into it.
Plus, I don't really like food for the most part...it kind of sucks that I'm cutting most of the foods that I DO like, but the fact that they taste better when I treat myself helps.
Also, it's surprising how having a sort of chart of progress can help...unfortunately, I seem to be leveling out in terms of weight loss...for now at least...so we'll see. I am noticing fairly significant changes in my arm/chest muscles from the pushups, so that could account for some of it.
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