Yes, I am lost in a fog.

I weigh myself everyday, but I fail to record my weight in any type of log.

I exercise 4 to 5 times a week, but I fail to log the exercise.

I overeat, and I eat junk food, and I have tried to log my food, but fail to log my eating habits.

If you don’t measure it, did it really happen?

I don’t need a log to understand my feelings and see my body composition. I am not obese. I doubt many would call me fat, but the opposite is true. I doubt many would call me the image of fitness. Yet, does it matter what the many would or would not say?

It matters what I think and feel. As I said before, I am lost in a deep dense fog walking through a forest. Searching. Sometimes, it doesn’t matter why we do it. We must Dream Big, Act Small. One step at a time. I have often thought to myself: Who cares about why? I care. Yet, while I am searching. I can still take small steps and trust my inner compass.

Long time no talk,

Yes, I am still here.  Yes I don’t have much to say right now.  If you have not figured out by now, I blog when I have something to say.  When I do, I hope its of value.

Where am I at?  What’s my exercise goals for 2011?  What am I thinking?  Where do I want to take Simpleweight?  I’m not sure on all fronts.  More introspection must be done.  In the meantime, I went swimming today for the first time in about a month.  It felt awesome.  Its amazing how energetic exercise can make you feel.

Merry Christmas.

— Scott

As always, if there is anything I can do to help you achieve your fitness goals, let me know.  I aim to help!

I know in my last post, I promised an article on smiling. I still plan on publishing that article, but I decided to postpone it for a bit due to the heavy research lifting required.

This post is short and sweet. I’m still training for my Triathlon in August. It is fun. Lessons I have learned so far:

1. Rigid training schedules do not mix with full-time work schedules, work at home dad duties, wet and cold spring weather. I just can not bring myself to swim, bike, or run on the exact days the rigid training schedules require. I’m going to require a more flexible training schedule pronto. The rigid schedules make it difficult to plan a life. While I search for a more flexible schedule, I continue to workout, but I just don’t do it on the exact days the schedule requires. Here’s my average workouts for the past couple of months:
   • two 40 to 60 minute swim sessions a week, (Wed & Sat)
   • one 60 to 75 minute bike ride a week, (Thursday but not always)
   • two 35 to 60 minute runs a week. (Tuesday and Friday, but not always. It depends on the biking days.)
   • two to three 20 minute circuit strength training a week. (Mon, Wed, Fri?)
2. Exercise alone will not generate weight loss, but it might change your body structure. I’ve been exercising regularly now since Groundhog day. Since the beginning of the year, I have lost 10 pounds. When many of my fellow weight loss bloggers are losing 2 to 3 pounds a week, I’m totally not losing that much. However, I have noticed my belt needs to be tighter than normal, my shirts feel a little bigger, and my pants are starting to fall down without a belt. I think my body is gaining muscle. Yet, why am I not losing weight? My eating habits have not changed. I still eat food I know is not good for me such as fast food hamburgers, french fries, ice creams, chocolate candies, and all sorts of other no-no’s on any diet. I guess I’m just happy I’m not gaining weight.
3. The more I exercise, the better I feel about exercise. When I first start running, swimming, biking, or weight lifting, I think of all the other things I could be doing with that time. I think do I really need to be doing this exercise. I think isn’t there another way to get physically fit? Then, after I go for a little while I settle in and exercise is tolerable rather than unbearable. Then when I’m finished, I feel good. Still, there are often times, I complain about my muscles being sore. I whine to my wife asking her if running ever actually feels good, because now I don’t feel it. Give me a mountain or a trail to hike, and I go for hours, but running not so much (yet).
4. I salivate over gear. There are so many triathlon, running, swimming, and biking gear that I could spend all sorts of money. I try to resist the urges. I don’t want to be that guy with the billion dollar golf clubs shooting 130 on the golf course. So, I resist the urge to buy new gear for now as I try to identify if I’m into triathlons for the long haul.

So, as you can see with all my exercise, combined with my busy technology consulting and training business and my fatherly duties, blogging and side projects take a back seat. I’ll keep posting when I can, and I’ll make some progress on a new design for Simpleweight sooner or later, but my physical fitness comes first these days. Its my priority action.

What have you learned from your habit of exercise and diet?