Sept 5:

• Ate my fish oil and amino tabs
• Chapter 2 of Web Fundamentals: Codecademy done!
• No soda today–rawr!
• Went to gym AND got my 100 pushups + some additional strength training!
• Got into work EARLY!

 Sept 6:

• Apologized to a co-worker for overstepping my bounds, put in a good word for another co-worker 
• Ate my fish oil and amino tabs
• No soda today–doin great!
• Gym and 100 pushups

Over at NerdFitness.com, Steve threw out a challenge that I thought was very doable: 

Take on one healthy activity every day for the next 30 days.

Anything is fair game: whether it be a victory over junk food or undertaking a new fitness challenge, or embarking on a course of self-improvement. Every day, just one thing. 

Of course, one thing isn’t asking too much in my book. So I hope to do at least 3, no matter how minor and insignificant it might seem! 

Yesterday, Sept 3:

1. I went to strength training class even though my neck and shoulder felt like hell.
2. I finished chapter 1 of Web Fundamentals at Codecademy.com.
3. I did 5 sets of 10 push-ups (again, my neck and shoulder pain tried to keep me bed-ridden). 
4. I filled out 3 reference surveys back-to-back for a friend looking for work.
5. Got in my fish oil capsules!

Today, Sept 4:

1. I got up a little early and made it into work at 10:30a (better than the last couple of weeks of getting in at 11:30 or noon).
2. I went to cardio class and finished Kickboxing (my neck and shoulder weren’t as painful today).
3. I did 10 sets of 10 pushups and 10 sets of 15 squats (bodyweight, but I was feeling the pinch).
4. Talked to my new business partner, did some sketches on a new web project, laid out some ideas. 
5. Got in my fish oil capsules!
6. I stayed under 100g of carbs — woot!

 Hope to keep up with logging every day! 

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S’ok, I admit that I was perhaps a little to ambitious getting my fitness groove on.

Here’s where I am starting week of 8/25:

1) Eat paleo/primal for a 4-week stretch: Sorry, but the muffins and the corn have been throwing me off. The sodas are DEFINITELY not helping. I sense my hormones are going a little berserk right now which are contributing to the sweetness cravings. Ice cream has also lately caught my attention.

2) Eat at goal 1300 cals (net): Started off strong…then crashed. I’m thinking hormones here too.

3) Push-ups: 100 pushups a day for 4 weeks. Okay, I thought I did pretty well with this…getting to the point where I was enjoying the pain of making it through 100 pushups in one sitting. But then, I pulled a muscle or pinched a nerve somewhere, ‘coz now it’s agony trying to work through even 10.

4) Strength training: have not touched the weights at all. With the exception of PBT classes.

This morning I weighed in at 140.4. No significant weight gain or loss…just maintaining. 

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…and you’re 90 percent done.

This is a quick summarization of the 10/90 rule that Mark Sisson wrote in his Daily Apple blog.

He calls out 10 activities that one can perform to get on the road to health-happiness: everything from abandoning processed foods to moving (exercising) more, from getting more quality sleep to loving oneself. 

One of the 10 things that particularly caught my attention was the exhortation to throw off the yoke of unhealthy habits and relationships, poor decisions, painful memories, and bad history–all of which trap us in an emotional shroud that undermine our ambitions and bury our dreams.

“Fidelity to self” is a maxim I live by (thanks, Marcus Aurelius). Have faith in yourself in all things, and moving on will be possible. In fact, I think that this is the only way to move on and get the most from life. If you give your personal authority over to others – even experts and those with good intentions – it will be much harder to let go and move on.

I believe that many times we “get stuck” in the wake of something negative because we’re not trusting ourselves enough to lead ourselves out of it – we submit that power to someone else. When you make yourself C.E.O., your soul becomes free, and the bad stuff just dissipates in its proper time, as it should. But most people never do this, because it takes a massive leap of faith. We’re conditioned to cheat on ourselves, essentially, by giving our personal authority to others. As the soul dies, so goes the body.

Read more: http://www.marksdailyapple.com/10-90/#ixzz2ceiBrSOF 

I think emotional eating contributes to a lot of the weight and health issues we see today. Learning how to manage those emotions plays a big part in one’s success to lose weight, get fit and be healthy and happy.

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