Stop The Dance Machine? NEVER!!!

I Hef Created a New Song.
It's kinda spiffy, if I do say so myself. :)
More mood music, I think, than get off your ass and dance music, even though when I get going, I want to get off my ass and dance anyways.
My thought is, if you can't get off your ass and dance to it, it's not much of a DANCE song, is it?
Anyways...
Should post it to mp3.com soon :)

Back in the Gym

For those who follow my journal, this will be the first time in a while that you've seen this particular icon.
There's a very good reasonof it. I haven't been in the gym for a while.
Why, you ask? It's a good question. I'm asking the same thing myself.
It really started this summer, when it was too hot to be in the gym. It honestly WAS too hot to be in the gym as there was no air conditioning and, well, even for a fairly large gym.. all that sweating and stuff...
So I bought a bike and made a few forays into the outdoors, but not many and I stopped working my muscles, more or less, entierly.
So why not go back this fall, with the temperatures down?
I had a thousand different reasons. I was tired, my contacts were giving me problems, my body ached (and it did, honestly, ache).
What it came down to was that I haven't really been to the gym in a couple months and, of course, I've put on weight.
How much? No idea. Enough that my grandmother can see it in my face. Enough that I just know.
I haven't looked at the scale. I'm, honestly, afraid to. I don't want to see how much I've put on.

So why am I back?
Because my grandmother said how the weight gain was showing in my face saturday night.

And so I'm back in the diet. Today I was in there for 39 minutes. I wanted it to be longer, but by the time 11:30 had rolled around, all the treadmills (that were working) were used by people who would be on for at least 10 minutes and I just didn't want to wait.
I also worked out my arms and shoulders.
Unfortunately, my left shoulder sort of hurts, but I'm hoping it feels better tommorow.
If not, I'll probably just try to do cardio and leave the weight lifting alone until it stops aching.
In retrospect, I maybe should have taken it slightly easier since it was my first day back in a while, but... well, frankly, I'm dumb like that. :) Perhaps one of my typically male traits.
It was nice to be in the gym again. Not that I really enjoy the actual working out aspect, but it's good to do this for myself.
There are, really, a million reasons for me to go to the gym regularly: Weight Loss, Better Health, Sleeping Better, Feeling Better.. etc.
There's only a handful of reasons to not go, and most of them aren't any good.

So, anyways...I'm back. And I intend to continue to be back 6 days a week (I always take a day off. Trust me, after working 6 days in the gym, you need it. At the moment, it's Sundays so that I can watch the Bills. After the next couple games.. I dunno...)
I'm thinking what I'll do is work out, watch my diet and peak at the scale on the 31st, to see how much weight I need to lose the upcoming year.
That is, if my curiosity doesn't get the best of me. I DO like to know how much I'm losing while in the gym.

So, anyways, I'm going to post near-daily.. but not here (since I know, by and large, you guys just couldn't care.). I'll probably post in healthypeople, if they're cool with it (and I suspect they will be.).

Ciao folksies!