I resumed my exercise schedule today and visited the gym this morning.

Fasting Glucose was down to 97, and weight down to 282. Yay, me!

Still to come: Pilates this afternoon, once I finish at the DayJob.

It's been more than two weeks since I swore off bread and drastically reduced my intake of flour and sugar. And, despite the lingering effects of some qep'a' con crud, I feel amazingly good. Empowered, actually ( Read more... )

Appro pos the previous post, what's up with cinnamon as an aid with Type 2 Diabetes ( Read more... )

As many of you know, particularly if you've seen me at recent worldcons, I've had back problems for years. I'm thinking it has something to do with, oh, I don't know, being morbidly obese. Anyway, many months back, at the urging of my wife, I started doing pilates. Wow. What a difference. My back pain went away, my posture improved, I lost a couple ( Read more... )

I returned to the pool this morning, after some three weeks away. It elt good to stretch again, and I didn't find that I'd lost any strength or stamina. My half mile passed in about half an hour. As is my preference, I was able to free up some processing time in my head while doing laps, and worked out some tricky revisiony bits of the current ( Read more... )

Wide awake again, for the third time tonight ( Read more... )

KFC's Bacon Sandwich, it's bacon and chesee served up on two pieces of Fried Chicken "Bread"



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Last year, after developing Bell's Palsy, I let my Van Dyke grow into a full beard to help mask the paralysis on the left side of my face. I've since made a full recovery, and so today I decided to shave off that excess, and return to neater, more demonic facial hair that is the Van Dyke.

It's three hours past my usual bedtime, but I can't seem to sleep.

And I had some exercise today (two rounds of shoveling snow -- sans back pain, thank you very much).

Any volunteers to come and whack me on the head? Line forms to the left.

On Tuesday my wife couldn't come to pilates so I went by myself. While there, I was discussing with the instructor a second element of the "core" that I had noticed at the prior session, which led me to ask what the other elements might be. We went through them (apparently there are four) and they all fell into place for me. It was so odd. I felt ( Read more... )