Slimdude

Well, as many of you know, I’ve moved into my new house. We are still unpacking everything and organizing, but I am very happy to be a home-owner. My son is still enjoying DayCare, although we are thinking of moving him to a closer one. And my wife wants to go back to college full-time in the New year.

We had a wonderful time at the AF Ball.

I am considering giving up weight lifting in favor of a three times a week Yoga practice. I’ve been considering this for a while now. I want to experiment and see if yoga will help my back and spine feel better. I have 3 different Yoga DVDs right now, the P90X one, one by Rodney Yee and one by Shiva Rea called Yoga Shatki.

I think tomorrow morning I will do the Rodney Yee one since it is only an hour. I will let you know. My concern is that I don’t want to do anything to make my back and shoulders hurt worse. But what if, by doing Ashtanga Yoga three times per week it actually helps? I still want to do the Leslie Sansone walking DVDs just because I love them so much. And the Gazelle…

What about you guys? Any really positive feedback about yoga? I want to do something that will make me strong and flexible but doesn’t stress my joints the way weight-lifting does. We’ll give it a shot tomorrow…

—Matt

Well, BSers… we finally got our internet connection UP and Running at the New Place. There are boxes everywhere and we have so much to do. I think it may be a month or more before everything is fully in place. If then. Which is fine because we are planning a Housewarming Halloween party near the end of Oct.

As far as diet and exercise news, I have stayed on my plan to eat about 1500 calories per day… sometimes it is 1400 and sometimes maybe as high as 1800, I don’t count every little piece of gum or swipe of mustard, ya know.

But what I really wanted to work on was that pesky eating at night. So starting last Saturday when we spent our first night here I ended it… or so I thought… I went 5 nights straight and the most I ate was a few pieces of gum and water and some diet soda. And you know what I found? It IS hard but it really is some kind of behavior thing, it is NOT a hunger issue. I am thankful for that but also it annoys me to think I have such a hard time breaking the habit.

Last night at about 1am I just gave in and had a huge snack attack that started with an ice cream sandwich and went downhill from there. And the whole time I was telling myself “Okay we’ll stop with this cookie… okay with this bowl of cereal…”  but I should know by now that if I start I won’t stop until I am just too stuffed to continue. That is whyI MUST make myself do the gum-water-soda thing. Well, hell… I did it for five nights in a row surely I can make it 7?

Starting today!

More later, perhaps…