Indefinite Hiatus

My apologies to everyone, but I'm going on an indefinite hiatus while I work on getting my life back in order.  There are many things I need to take care of.  I still have a desire to get this off the ground, and to get back to the roots.  I will wait until I can do that in a quality manner, and consistently, before starting up again.

Thank you to everyone who has stuck with me so far.  I hope you have a great Thanksgiving.

Motivation

Don't let anyone tell you that you can't do something.  Not even yourself.  If you've got a dream, you can accomplish it.

Moving (Somewhat)

To get more on track with the content goal for this blog, I'm moving my fitness quest over to a new blog.  That can be found here: http://kevinsquestforfitness.blogspot.com/

That is all for now

Momentum

Motivation that you can do anything!  I'm lost more than 10 pounds in my quest for getting into shape!  It's helping me keep going!  Even when I want to eat all of those nasty (Delicious) carbs, I'm managing to tell myself not to because of the progress I've made.

What I've taken out of it, is get the ball rolling.  Starting the ball is very difficult.  Instead of throwing all of my strength at it, and getting so tired that the ball stopped before I could recover, I had to give it a series of shoves.  It didn't tire me out completely, so after the first push, the ball was barely rolling.  But before it stopped again, I gave it another shove.  It was rolling faster now.  More rest, then shove again.  Repeat.  Repeat.  Repeat.  Now, several weeks later, it's taking less effort to at least keep the ball moving.  Which is basically momentum!

Whoever you are, whatever you are trying to achieve, I believe in you!  Let's get everything done that we wanna do!

Running!

So, the past few days I've started to get back into running!  It's been several weeks since I trained it, and expected to be a lot worse off.  Boy did I surprise myself!  Today, I was able to do 5 min. jog/2 min. walk, three times in a row.  Going back to planning out my running, I'd like to start by adding 15 or 30 seconds to a 4th set, every day until that is up to 5 minutes.

Then, after I hit that, every day I run, I'll cut off 5-10 seconds from my walking portion until I'm jogging for 20-30 minutes straight.  When I get there, I'll pick up from my other plan.

I'm planning on coming into work early everyday to work on my running.

As a side note, keto flu is coming and going in spurts.  Bleh.  Here's to just a couple more days.

Stage 2 of my Diet

So, for the third time, I've finally hit the second stage of my diet.  This is the stage where I've finally removed most of the glucose and glycogen that was floating in my blood, or stored in my muscles and liver.  With that, my body is now forced to look for an alternative energy source.  That would have to be my fat stores!  Now, my body will start using ketones as its energy source.

The only problem with this, is that my body isn't adapted to using it as an energy source yet.  This is where the next couple days to couple weeks will suck.  I've got to stick with it though!  Even one day of cheating will set me back at least 2-4 days.  I can do it!

1:16PM Update: I've got Keto Flu again.  Headache and tiredness.  Only lasts about a day though.  Bleh.

9/15/14 Update!

So, as I "cheated" on my diet again last Friday eating out at this delicious sushi place with my friends (Very rare opportunity, and then we went to the Book of Mormon afterward), I began dwelling on the effectiveness of the place.  In the end, it came down to being a product of how consistently you adhere to the plan, multiplied by some factor of how efficient the plan is.

Well, even with a couple cheat days in the last several weeks (Almost once a week, unfortunately), I have validation that my diet is going great.  I'm down 9.2 pounds as of this morning from my heaviest point!