Ten Minutes in the Morning

Well, trying to find ten minutes in the morning to do some toning muscle exercise shouldn't be tough. I have got half an hour after the significant other leaves for work and the smaller significanee wakes up. If I cannot be a gym-rat, at least I can try to turn the home into a gym using the only equipment I need, my own (heavy-haha) weight! That I can say, is a massive weight, at this point in time! Sigh...

Trying however, to fit all that needs to be done in the morning, now that is another challenge altogether. Let me see, what's there to be done every morning?

1. Wake up the same time the significant other does
2. Prepare the breakfast, put on the bread spread, pack it into a bag, leave it next to her bag, clean up the kitchen
3. Fill the water bottle for the smaller significant other, ensure that all is packed for the day.
   
4. Do my ten minute muscle toning work out and exercise. [Could be longer if I can only stick to it more]
5. Brush and shower
6. Wake up the small one
7. Go through the entire routine
8. Well... you can probably figure out the rest...

What can I say, Gen-X'er, my parents have taken care of me, now it is my turn as a parent to take on the job of being one myself.

Feeling Great!

Wow, today is a good day! Cos I get be a gym rat! Spent over an hour in the gym first thing in the morning at 9am. What was even better was being able to run 5km on the treadmill. Feeling great! Gym was quiet at this time, so managed to grab a run before the hordes came in.

Haha, but honestly, need to have greater frequency if I am to shed some kilos. Cannot believe that I am now at 93kg. I really have to address the other side of the equation- the eating side. So, from this week on, I am consciously going to be very careful of what I put into my mouth! Fingers crossed.

Just glad I pump in a 5km circuit and started slowly at 7.4km/h before gradually pumping it up to about 8.3. So overall, I was on the treadmill for over 40mins!. Which frankly, at this point in my state of conditioning, I surprise myself! Managed also to get in some weights. Spent at least 60% of that time in the athletic zone, at over 160 bps! If the Polar heart-rate monitor can be believed, this bumped up the caloric count to over a thousand! Regardless of the figures, it sure feels good to be able to do just that.

As a result of the great workout this am, could eat lunch without any guilt. Went to a German restaurant selling weiners and stuff and had a pork weiner with pork chop combo, with a side of potatoes and a stewed vegetable that tasted just like 'mui choy'.


The rest of the day was a bore, especially with heading over the in-laws and trying to find something meaningful to do, but of course couldn't. Harmony, just keep that in mind! Should have brought the Mac to blog, and not have to do this only now, in-between all the household chores and trying to stay positive in spite of the few hours left of this weekend! Haizz...

Think for the rest of the night will lie low as well. The significant other is spoiling for a fight, no prizes for guessing what time of the month this is! Sometimes, I try to be accommodating, try to go whatever I can- but to no avail. If someone is spoiling for a fight, no compromises can work.

In a paradoxical way, I am hoping the day will end, but at the same time, hoping for this would mean the onset of another work-week. AND that is something I am not looking forward to!

The Spirit is Willing, but the Flesh is Weak

Was supposed to go running this morning. Set the alarm, put it beside my bed. Went to bed, thinking that when that alarm rings at 6.20am, I am going to go running...

Well... guess what... it did not happen! Sigh...

And to make matters worse, had a big fried seafood dinner with my family last night. One of those fast-food type of preparation. Fried sotong (calamari for all you who don't know what a sotong is!) fried prawns (tasted like tatters!), fried breaded fish.

It is not rocket-science to say that we humans love fried food! Why? Simple! Because frying has the highest caloric content of all the different types of food preparation. And we humans are calorie-storing machines! You see, we cannot deny our ancestry, human beings have developed some pretty seriously efficient way of storing energy for that 'proverbial rainy day'. Those days when food was not easy to hunt/ track/ gather, when our meat came on four feet, our fish from us jumping into the water and our grains from gathering it from fields.

So, in order to overcome the instability of food supply, our evolution has seen fit to bestow us with taste buds that crave high caloric food... fried foods, sweets, sugars- all which fit into that category. So you see, our destinies are written in the stars! (Hahaha).

Anyway back to my run- or lack of will to do so. Will have to find ways of coming around to pumping up the exercise now. Clothes are getting tighter, especially that pair of jeans bought last year! And people are now beginning to call me FAT again!

Really gotta go do something about it!

Reviving this

Hmm,

Let's see how this can be done.

Perhaps I could spare some time in the morning before my routine kicks in the morning, just like today. In any case, between the last post and this, a lot has happened in-between. But, a lot remains the same.

Same crappy job though. Same pay, same higher-upper, same nonsense from the same people.

But wait, somethings's changed! I got more stuff to do! GRReeaaat! Sigh...

Exercise, that's the other thing I must say has not been the same. Accepted that I cannot be spending the same amount of time as previously, but, the current set-up is too extreme man. I got to get back into a routine. Cannot keep going like this or it would be back to square one!

Ok! Admittedly it would be an exaggeration to say exactly back to square one, but, one might never know. The amount of work taken to drop that MUCH amount of weight and for me to regain it back would be absolutely frightening, to say the least!

So here goes my plan... I am going to TRY to DO SOMETHING, anything, about this current malaise.... and I will use this to check in on my own promise!