Category: Mutant Diet

Sleep is an issue. A cold keeps trying to bring me down and I’m just not getting to bed soon enough.

But, just because I’m doing this fitness program does not mean any of my other responsibilities have diminished.

I wonder if there’s a superhero named The Juggler?

How am I doing? No idea. Today I’m not riding the bike because I’m tired and short on sleep. Sucks, but I don’t want to get sick or injured. And yes I should go to be earlier.

I do have a plan to do the Killer Mary Homework at noon.

I do have some stats though:

As of this morning, after 31 days of the Mutant Diet, I have recorded these figures.

But, I’m also convinced I started off in far worse physical condition (i.e. a bigger overall hill to climb) than I imagined. In two months the numbers reveal will tell the story.

I need to make sure I don’t lose the focus during this middle month of the plan. One thing about fitness and diet is that the effects are cumulative and there’s no realistic way to do the equivalent of cramming for the exam.

You will see this week’s Mary Killer Homework below.

I am baffled by this whole process. Yesterday, however, I learned at the beginning why there was an air of polite skepticism from the Trainers at Steve Nash. Many of their clients who take out a membership and buy a set of personal training sessions never come into the gym except for the sessions.

By the way, the reason there was no yoga was my son Tim who placed in the top 10 so far with his competitive dance team. However, if I see another pink sequined 8-year-old girl thrusting her hips to an age inappropriate pop song, I may hurl.

For today’s sponsorship, I suggest dancing your way to Kingston Ontario.

I was the beneficiary of Jerry’s cooking yesterday. You will see below the massive plate of pulled pork.

I did a meat run to Costco on Friday and I also have a huge roast beef all packaged up and frozen. It’s an expensive trip to Costco but I haven’t bought lunch downtown in a couple of weeks now.

This is the end of week four. On Thursday it will be a calendar month and the demolition phase will be complete. The mental challenge will be the middle. I am feeling fatigued by the process and not sufficiently satisfied with the results.

It’s also my mother’s 86th birthday today. This is a more powerful birthday than usual because only three days ago she left hospital to come home after a month battling pneumonia, some heart issues and the subsequent loss of movement.

I read in the Economist that exercise is proven to deter cancer. See Exercise and Cancer.

They should cool off in Whitehorse.

In other news, the blood pressure seems to have stabilized at about 126/71, without meds for about 7 days now. It does spike up as high as 134/71 but simple breathing and relaxation brings it down.

My pulse was a strangely low 64 beats-per-minute pulse. My regular is about 72.

Today’s wet weather said to me, “Hey, if you are going to do Mary Homework and double karate, maybe cycling as well might be too much. Like last week, when by the end of the night you were loopy.”

Bu the yoga class allowed me to twist in new ways and my right SI joint/hip area made new and exciting crunching noises that I had not previously heard. Hopefully this is a good sign.

But, how to stay motivated for another 67 days? It’s clear that, to make the radical changes I’m hoping for, I’ll need all 67 days.

For sponsorship, please check out this ‘vision’ on Saltspring Island.

The normal schedule is heating up on a number of fronts and I have to be careful that unwanted carbs don’t creep in. It’s also odd that I’m not hungry so much until I start eating. Go figure.

The weather in Vancouver is STUNNING and it makes riding the bike all that much easier.

By the way, who’s taking bets on how many medical emergencies today for the “4/20” event on Sunset Beach?