So I've resolved to lose weight before I hit 30 (which is almost exactly 6 months away). This won't be the first time I've said something similar. But this time, I'm trying my best to stick to it.
How come? Well it all started with a health scare of my older brother last Christmas. He was brought to the hospital due to dizziness, which was later on diagnosed as a bout of hypertension. My brother of 32 years young is hypertensive and is taking maintenance medicine for it. And while he's big, he's not ridiculously so...well at least not compared to a lot of people we know.
This prompted me and my dad to get our blood checked, and the results were not good. I was also given medicine to reduce everything. Cholesterol, triglycerides, SGPT. That's what scared me. From the advice of a good friend of mine, I refused to stay on a regimen of pills. Instead, I went vegetarian.
I went on a strict Vegan cleansing diet c/o Dr. Tam. In 10 days, I lost about 20 pounds, and after a blood test, everything became NORMAL. Now, of course, this is sort of cheating (the test results I mean), because I had been cleansing myself for the past 10 days. But what was astounding was the degree of the effect. I'll look for both tests and post them here.
Now I never planned on being vegetarian for the rest of my life. I love food too much. But I did tell myself to eat more vegetables, and to stay away from red meat as much as possible. And I have been. I went from about 240lbs all the way down to 208. Then I started exercising.
Exercise for me now includes the following schedule (which doesn't always get followed to a T, but I try for at least 4 of the following 6 scheduled exercises)
M - Suspension Training (TRX/EFX)
T - Circuit Training and Tai Chi
W - Basketball
Th - Circuit Training and Tai Chi
F - Suspension Training (TRX/EFX)
Sat - Rest (or Basketball)
Sun - Basketball
I'm also trying the Abs Diet now. How's it working out? Well my weight seems to have stagnated at about 213 pounds, give or take. This might seem like a negative, having come from 208, but I actually feel healthier now than 5 pounds ago. I'm fitter and its starting to show. I'm (supposedly) looking better, but more than that, I'm playing much better ball. Getting more rebounds, running the floor better, even shooting better.
So, at 29, I'm still fighting the good fight. Here's hoping I win this time. 30 pounds down, 50 to go.
Tuesday, July 26, 2011
Monday, July 18, 2011
Finally
After 8 years of resisting, I finally made a blog. Which begs 2 questions. At the risk of sounding cliche or cheesy or both, those are "Why?" and "Why now?"
Why?
Wasn't life easier with one less thing to do? One less "commitment" to worry about?
Well for a number of reasons. So my ego and vanity have a more constructive outlet (or I hope its constructive). So I can rant and rave like a lunatic. So I have stuff to do while procrastinating at work.
But really, I just miss writing. And the 140 characters on twitter and the status updates on facebook just aren't doing it for me anymore. I needed an outlet. Somewhere to simply let the words flow without character restrictions. One liners are cool, and Lord knows I've used my fair share of them (and am far from done), but there's something more put together about writing real sentences. Real paragraphs. I remember when texting was a new phenomenon, I used all the shortcuts like "wru" and "hus dis" until I said screw this I'm texting real words and real sentences. And so I did. And so here I am finally writing paragraphs of thoughts, without much care who reads it and if they'll "like" it (or +1 it, thanks to Google+).
Why now?
I guess this one is easier explained than the previous question, which is rather subjective. One of my best friends was raving about podcasts during his birthday dinner, particularly those of Mohan Gumatay (Mo Twister) and Sebastian Artadi (Basti of Wolfgang). We then started texting back and forth how cool it would be to have our own podcast. One where we can talk about the stuff we like, cars and food (and well, chicks). So it got me thinking about blogging. Something I resisted the urge to do for so long because I didn't want to be another self-absorbed, condescending kid mouthing off about the "secrets of the universe" (or ranting about school and girls). Thanks to my years of self-control, now I can be another self-absorbed, condescending adult mouthing off about the "secrets of the universe" (or ranting about work and girls).
Another reason for blogging now is that I am entering one of the more important crossroads in my life. No its not puberty. Been there, done that. Took the picture, bought the souvenir. I'm almost 30. In fact I am almost exactly 6 months away from 30. And because I'm about to hit 30, I've been forced to start thinking really hard about life and all its got to offer and all I've got to offer it. Health is finally a real issue. So is career. So there are now real problems and real issues to face. Personal issues. While there's always room for a rant on how unfair the AI in NBA 2k11 is (and no my ego will not allow me to play at any difficulty under Hall of Fame, no matter how many times I get creamed) or how awesome Nerf guns and Super Soakers are (I could write for hours on how cool they are), it doesn't just end there. I guess now there's actually a lot to say. And it (mostly) isn't just B.S. (I hope).
Why?
Wasn't life easier with one less thing to do? One less "commitment" to worry about?
Well for a number of reasons. So my ego and vanity have a more constructive outlet (or I hope its constructive). So I can rant and rave like a lunatic. So I have stuff to do while procrastinating at work.
But really, I just miss writing. And the 140 characters on twitter and the status updates on facebook just aren't doing it for me anymore. I needed an outlet. Somewhere to simply let the words flow without character restrictions. One liners are cool, and Lord knows I've used my fair share of them (and am far from done), but there's something more put together about writing real sentences. Real paragraphs. I remember when texting was a new phenomenon, I used all the shortcuts like "wru" and "hus dis" until I said screw this I'm texting real words and real sentences. And so I did. And so here I am finally writing paragraphs of thoughts, without much care who reads it and if they'll "like" it (or +1 it, thanks to Google+).
Why now?
I guess this one is easier explained than the previous question, which is rather subjective. One of my best friends was raving about podcasts during his birthday dinner, particularly those of Mohan Gumatay (Mo Twister) and Sebastian Artadi (Basti of Wolfgang). We then started texting back and forth how cool it would be to have our own podcast. One where we can talk about the stuff we like, cars and food (and well, chicks). So it got me thinking about blogging. Something I resisted the urge to do for so long because I didn't want to be another self-absorbed, condescending kid mouthing off about the "secrets of the universe" (or ranting about school and girls). Thanks to my years of self-control, now I can be another self-absorbed, condescending adult mouthing off about the "secrets of the universe" (or ranting about work and girls).
Another reason for blogging now is that I am entering one of the more important crossroads in my life. No its not puberty. Been there, done that. Took the picture, bought the souvenir. I'm almost 30. In fact I am almost exactly 6 months away from 30. And because I'm about to hit 30, I've been forced to start thinking really hard about life and all its got to offer and all I've got to offer it. Health is finally a real issue. So is career. So there are now real problems and real issues to face. Personal issues. While there's always room for a rant on how unfair the AI in NBA 2k11 is (and no my ego will not allow me to play at any difficulty under Hall of Fame, no matter how many times I get creamed) or how awesome Nerf guns and Super Soakers are (I could write for hours on how cool they are), it doesn't just end there. I guess now there's actually a lot to say. And it (mostly) isn't just B.S. (I hope).
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