Geek On The Mountain

Well, I’m down about 4 pounds overall anyways. That’s at least something.

Last week (or the week before I guess….they all blend together) I started to eat better, or rather less I should say. This leaves me feeling hungry but that’s pretty much inevitable when you’re used to eating a lot and you try to cut back. Oddly, I get a good sense out of it all anyways. I think it’s more satisfying than feeling full in a away. I didn’t completely cut back quite so much last week with my being sick and all. I’ll have to start again, but I’m sure that I’m better off now even than I was a couple of weeks ago anyways.

The pull-up thing quit working out really. This is mainly because we’ve tended to have a temp helping out lately for various reasons and this person ends up working in the area where the bar is, so I don’t have much in the way of a chance to use it like I would if I were doing that job. Secondly, I quickly found that a square bar isn’t really a good thing. I hadn’t really put any thought into it, but after using it for a couple of days my hands felt bruised from the uneven weight distribution. I got over that but it’s still a bit of a deterrent. I’ll still practice when I get a chance, but I’m not making plans to do 2 in a row for anytime too soon.

Our treadmill doesn’t work quite exactly right. Something is broken on it, and the bar on the bottom of it that adjusts it’s slope won’t stay in place. This means that it’s at it’s maximum incline at all times. This makes for difficult walking if one wants to use it. I gave it a go for about 10 minutes one day. Not only did my legs get tired really quickly from walking uphill, but my arms were just as bad. If I don’t hold onto the handrails, I start to fall off the end of the treadmill. The only way to avoid that is to walk faster. Even though the thing is motorized, when I walk faster, it moves faster. Of course with it moving faster, I fall off the end faster. The equilibrium is when I’m into a slow jog. Uphill. I can’t do that for long. So my only alternative is to use my arms to pull myself up, which gets tiring after a little while. The treadmill is out really.

I’d love to jog instead. It would work out great with my iPod. This silly winter thing is getting in the way though. Really, it’s been too cold. I can’t remember a winter this cold or snowy in a lot of years. I don’t mind it if it’s even 20 degrees out, but 5 is a bit too cold for exertion. Not that it matters anyways. The sidestreets around my house where I would go have been at least partially covered in snow and ice for weeks now. It never gets warm enough for them to melt off all the way before they get snowed on again. Maybe this weeks they will though….it looks like it’s supposed to be in at least the upper 20’s all week.

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