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OK, so the cake yesterday was great.
Now for the counter measures. Today is a Thursday, which is always the killer. It will include at least 7.4 km on the bike, a trip to the gym for Victoria’s Killer Homework and 2 hours at the dojo for karate. There will be ibuprofen and white wine as pain levels indicate. Your comic book character is Killer Croc, who is in Suicide Squad. The only place I want to see a crocodile is at the Toronto Zoo. |
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Here’s where you go in Vancouver for frozen yogurt after cake. |
Day 52 involves me recovering from Day 51. I did the homework yesterday and I felt like I’d been through 85% of a personal trainer session. My legs this morning going over the Burrard Bridge were distinctly whiny. Today’s a yoga day. Maybe I should just lie there and moan?However, today is the 8th birthday of a little boy at my house.
Hence the cake. Duncan Hines plus my chocolate icing (as taught to me by my mother) will later today render our chocolate receptors helpless. |
By the way anyone who tells you that being on a diet for a while removes your interest in sweets is a lying dirt bag from a long line of delusional swamp creatures.
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This guy is Slipknot and is in the Suicide Squad movie. He needs to visit Wasaga Beach in Ontario. |
I had a small stash of carrots in the fridge at work. Someone did a fridge clean up and tossed my carrots. You know your diet is a bit intense when something as trivial as missing carrots really pisses you off.Speaking of intense, Victoria at Steve Nash Gym amp’d up the workout. I was using the “battle” ropes. You can google “images battle rope exercises” to see what I mean. She also came up with this technique involving a broom stick sized stick to jam into my uncooperative hip flexor muscle.
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But I warn you all. Wednesday is Tim’s birthday. There will be cake.
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It’s the start of Week 8; there are 7 weeks left. I may live to regret this.
Today marks the first Victoria (the person, not the city) Killer Trainer Session. Hopefully there will be a smooth transition into the muscular distress that I’ve come to expect from personal trainer sessions. Of course to make us all feel lame, I saw on CTV news that some guy in Beijing held a low plank for 8 hours and 1 minute. This broke the previous record held by a US Marine who, inexplicably, when interviewed, was not wearing a shirt. The Captain Boomerang cover shows how old this character is. The actor doing the character in the Suicide Squad film can use his own Australian accent. I think everyone should go to this Lake Louise page and plan a vacation you may never take. |
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Katana, in the upcoming movie, I think is part of the good guys trying to manage the bad guys. I may visit Peterborough zoo and train this summer. |
For a Sunday before week 8 I realized that there were some funny things I noticed about this process.Important safety tip: don’t tell the yoga teacher your shoulders are really tight. She might modify almost every pose she delivers to include shoulders. Yeeeeoooowch. Today is rest day for the shoulders.
Speaking of advice, notice I gave you some advice cleverly disguised as a safety tip. I have concluded though I will not give diet or fitness to anyone. They can ask me what I did to achieve whatever I will eventually achieve, but I doubt anything I do can be assured to work for others. |
Yesterday I was having a discussion about diets with the lady who cuts my hair. The discussion turned to salad dressing. (Yes, my life is so lame that I have discussions with people about frigging salad dressing.) Anyway, I discovered when buying my salad dressing that there can be a 50 calorie per tbsp in some ranch dressings. I was told that was terrible I should use lime and/or oil and balsamic vinegar. My life is so busy it was a miracle I looked at the salad dressing bottles in the first place. So, I said, “Look, you come to my double karate class on Thursday nights, then you can talk to me about salad dressings.”
When you have an argument involving salad dressing, karate wins.
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This is Deadshot of the Suicide Squad. He actually has no specific superpowers. I want him to vacation in Banff and visit my clients, when on holiday, not professionally! |
So, on a beautiful Saturday, I contemplate how to maximize the effectiveness of this experience. I am faced with the realization that I probably started out way worse in terms of weight and fitness than I imagined. I had been doing karate, yoga and walking/cycling prior to this Mutant Diet, but it was enough to keep me from serious illness, but not enough for long term freedom from the medical system.The problem is to add more km on the bike, or mess with the diet more, will add more stress in terms of time management. I have a major technical problem to solve by June 1, which effects the main servers for Quokka Systems. |
So I’m going to focus on that, maintain the fitness/diet status quo (which will change with a new trainer anyway) and then kick it up a notch in the last month. This will also give me time to determine which notch to boost up.
I took my bike in first thing this morning and the bike shop fixed the brakes and rear wheel alignment. Phew. A much nicer ride now.
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This is Enchantress from both Justice League Dark and Suicide Squad. Is she good or bad? For sponsorship, especially on Friday the 13th, it would be good to review this article about Stanley Park. |
It’s Friday the 13th. Do you know where your black cat is?I had to take the bus today because my mountain bike’s rear wheel started rubbing the frame and making bad noises. But, in the end, the change up to having to walk home is probably good. I was super sore after yesterday’s efforts.
The big news for this process is that I’m changing Personal Trainers. Mary is moving to another gym and I can’t myself change gyms. I am very lucky that Victoria, another trainer at Steve Nash, is willing to take my case. While I was working out at the gym she and I had spoken and she was very encouraging. Amazingly, she had the same Monday noon time slot! |
So, the experiment is being maintained. Victoria also has a kinesiology background so I’m sure she’ll have fun figuring out the mystery of my right hip and SI joint. I’m sad at losing Mary for this process, but relieved that I found someone who seems to get it.
There’s no evidence yet that anyone has tackled de-lardification in this manner.
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This is one of the Green Lanterns. They’ve teased Hal Jordan on The Flash. I wonder if they’ll do something one day. Maybe he’s hiding on Bowen Island |
Day 46. Technically I’m half way to where the heck it is I’m going with this process.
Yesterday was weird. I did a yoga class and the work on my shoulders from the gym left me whining on a couple of standard yoga moves. Have to check with the trainer on what I’m doing wrong. Probably I’m not doing anything wrong; it’s just that the shoulders have never done this much work before. In the department of Bad Ideas, after the annual work “RSP Season Is Over” Party that happened after work, I cycled home. Kind of hosed. I’ve promised not to do that again. Oddly, I don’t have a hangover. Considering this is a killer Thursday, that’s a good thing. |
On the blood pressure front, I took one pill yesterday and the reading from last night put me in the low side again. Astonishing. I’ll see what it looks like tonight, pill free.
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After a long absence, one of my ribs showed up. I know there are more ribs in there under the lard but I’m not sure how many I can dig out in the remaining 47 days.
As I approach the half way mark, I wonder what I’m halfway to. This is one of the downsides to hiding the data. But I don’t think I’ll know what a reasonable goal is until I’m done. My theory is that this will be the basis of further goals and refinements. But that’s all a side show. |
My blood pressure has been creeping up. Each time I take it the initial number is higher than before and takes a little longer to calm it down. And, after receiving news on a personal front, I took one of my pills this morning. I have zero regret because it’s the right thing. I think my system needs a little reminder.
Here’s where I want to go to lower my blood pressure. Please visit Ruckle Point Provincial Park on Salt Spring.
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Day 44. I don’t have much today. Yesterday was a difficult day for several reasons only one of which was relevant to this process. I’ll be documenting that later once I know what’s happening for sure.One thing that’s interesting is that the natural reaction to disappointment is to reach for food. That did not happen last night despite some awesome incentives.
I have attached a Spider-man cover that is one I own and is somewhere in storage. I needed a pick-me-up so I went looking for covers. These are now considered “retro” covers. My son, when one day I finally crack open the boxes in storage, will be amazed. He thinks I have “ten hundred” comics. |
The homework for today is showing below. Yesterday’s session involved a lot of shoulder stuff that was really liberating in that area. I don’t think I’ve been stronger.
