Job Loss Job Gain
So yeah, I'm not a good runner and I have trouble maintaining my weight, fitness and health. But I tend to stay in shape more these days simply 'cos I have a job that requires me to. It's a bit lame really, but it's nice sometimes to have that extra push. It's like getting up in the morning. I used to find it harder, as I knew that getting to work early or even on time was not rewarded as working late (without compensation) was common so I started planning on working late. Not an issue in my (...)
Running into weight loss
I'm not really a running person. I've tried. I've watched Conan the Barbarian, watched Arnold run forever with ease, and thought "this would be cool", but in practice I've really got the wrong body type. My legs are too big for good running, and I prefer it that way. I could just be making excuses as humans are so very good at, but looking at good runners the facts fit. Anyway, as I said I have tried, but I hit a wall pretty soon. But I still have found that running is an (...)
Employing a fitness strategy
Don't get a job as a professional programmer if you want to stay healthy.
Wow. This one was short. Hmm... maybe I'll expand. (No joke intended, but maybe I shouldn't confess about that.)
Continuing on from my last rant I've had issues with weight management for some time. Having an active job helped with this, but things change and I eventually got a job as a programmer which involved spending 8+ hours a day sitting down. Sometimes we'd work all night. The I did for 12 years (...)
Final Fantasy of Fitness
When I decided that I needed to do more than just weight training to keep myself at my ideal weight luck was on my side. Final Fantasy XIII just came out. The relevance? It was something to do while I was on an exercise bike. For better or worse the combat system was very playable with minimal button presses. It was more strategic and timing based. Thus I cut back on some food, kept doing weights, and I played Final Fantasy XIII for hours. Was it the most efficient way to burn (...)
De-fatting the chew
Keeping my weight at (what I see as) a healthy state has been hard for me. Not crazy hard, but I keep finding I lose weight and then it comes back as my life gets in the way. When I was less not young I never had an issue, but that could have simply been 'cos I was poor.... Once I got a job I found people where saying stuff like "you're filling out" and I since was so in my headspace that I couldn't get fat it took me months to realise that fact was no longer true. By then I was busy in the (...)
Need a bigger day
So yeah, as expected no programming progress was made. Sux really. I did loads of software testing, and made some solid decisions on the future of SiegSpace.com, but even the news is still not fully transferred and I still haven't finished sorting though the photos I've taken. (I'm close; Intrepid Museum, and two locations around Fredericksburg. So maybe three or four batches? Although Intrepid could take a while....) But, (...)
Not stealing this bike
Excluding the one I have safely in my garage back home, every one of my old bikes has been stolen. (Even one that I gave away to someone else...) One while I was at a movie, one that was locked in my shed, three that were in my backyard and not locked (long suspicious story there)... but at last I've managed to keep one long enough to sell. My secret? I only had it for three months. I'm leaving where I am for another place prior to going back home, and there's no way to (...)
Science of maintaining a healthy weight
What? Yeah. I can do any topic I want here.
Right now I'm away from home, mostly by myself, 'cos of work. For about 5 months. It's a while yeah, but I've been trying to take advantage of it all, and one of my major goals has been to learn more about what weight management techniques work for me ...and probably to a lesser extent you! Normally some aspects, such as meal replacement/modification/skipping, are a bit anti social as it would mean never eating with my family. But as I said (...)
An exercise in time management and priorities
Back in June I got back to this internet thing. I never really left, I just stopped making visible changes. So I stopped stopping. I had plans to get back to a rapid Beta release cycle so I could then finish this whole 1.9 thing started many moons ago. But due to many reasons, mostly website updates, photos and exercise, that has not happened. In reality, it's not going to happen now for several months as (...)
