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Happy Rosh Hashana
Yesterday was the 2nd night of Rosh Hashana, the Jewish New Year. To those of my Jewish friends out there in Internetland, I wish you a new year.
As many of you already know, though I am Wiccan, my family is Jewish. We still celebrate the Jewish Holidays. In general we do so by having dinner at my grandmother's house. Yesterday was no exception.
We had potatoes and carrots, brisket and gravy, homemade applesauce and green bean casserole. It was delicious and I had way too much. (Let's not even talk about the "Lo-Fat" Swiss Cheese and Veggies I had BEFORE Dinner. My grandmother serves QUITE a meal.).
My brother, Marc, the one I can't stand showed up for dinner. He looks like he's turning ultra-Jewish. He brought a pitcher to wash his hand and "wouldn't eat' any dairy products (though he DID have Green Bean Casserole and that has melted cheese in it). He's got a scragly beard, a mustache and looks like he should be walking around in all black with the funny black hat.
He makes a mockery of Judaism.
Because you can't be jewish but have no respect for the 10 commandments or, indeed, any sort of moral rightness.
Amusedly yesterday we were discussing my diet (the scale CURRENTLY says I'm 286.5, but we'll discuss the scale reading later in this post) and how I'm going to a gym nearly every day to do my cardio workout and to work the weight machines. As I'm a UB Student, getting into the gym is free.. which is great for me! It doesn't have everything a Club might have... no classes, no trainers (We have attendants who know how to work the machines and act as spotters as need be, tho) etc. But the price is right and *I* am not complaining!
So, anyways, I'm talking about and Marc's eyes sparkle. He says "it's free?' and I say "Yes." and he's like "So, can I "borrow" your Student ID?" And I'm like "uh.. no..." Cause without the Student ID I can't get in to the gym. And he's all "Well, I can wait until AFTER you're in." and I'm shaking my head no. Even if I liked him. I'd be very uncomfortable about doing it this way.
So that was an interersting couple hours.
So, I've been doing alot of reading. I've almost totally gone through "Exercise For Dummies" and "The Hacker's Diet" and learned some interesting things.
Exercise for Dummies has been invaluable. It's helped me find a workout schedule I'm happy with. I'm now on a new schedule.. the self-called Push/Pull schedule. Basically, I divided the 12 Weight Equipment exercises into two programs.. Push and Pull.. Pull is almost exclusively exercises where I pull things back or sideways (except for one extra Push exercise, the Fly, that I added to Pull so that I had six exercises per class.)
My Pull Schedule is..
Two or Three Sets of 10 Reps of the Following Machines
Arm Curl
Leg Curl
Multi-Hip
Rowing
Ab Crunch
Fly (the one Push exercises added)
My Push Schedule is...
Two or Three Sets of 10 Reps of the Following Machines
Leg Extension
Chest Press
Shoulder Press
Back Extension
Tricep Extension
Leg Press
Today is a Pull day. :)
The Hacker's Diet, on the other hand, I haven't accepted as fully as Dieting for Dummy, but I've learned some interesting tips including the idea of taking your weight daily but taking a running average out of it. And so, I take my weight daily.. the ups (I'm up 1.5 from yesterday) and downs (I WAS 285 yesterday) and plotting them and the running average trend suggested through their Excel Worksheet. The reason I'm doing this instead of how I WAS Plotting (the occasional check on the scale every three or four days) is because.. basically.. weight is as much (if not more) of a measure of how much water you have in your system at the time as it is how much fat you have on you. On the other hand, if your trend is generally pointed downwards, than yes, you are losing fat. Myt trend is downwards.. and alot slower than the weight the scale reads. (Because the idea that I was REALLY 285 lbs. and I'd losr more than 6.5 pounds in a week and a half or two weeks was a bit scary and up another 1.5 pounds from yesterday's dinner was scary and wrong. And so I copy down the number into my excel spreadsheet (that i hope to post soon so that everyone can see my weight go down :D ) and watch the trend go down. Right now, I think the trend isn't completely capturing the amount of weight lost, but it may take another month's worth of numbers to get an accurate trend. (Right now my trend suggests that My actual "Average' weight is 289 lbs. Which *IS* a loss so that's good.)
Also, I've started using the WebMD Diet and Fitness Journal. It gives a decent estimate of how many calories I eat per day and how many i burn per day. It's hardly perfect and some of the estimates are too big and some too small, but as an estimate of how many calories I'm NOT eating and as a decent nutritional journal telling me I AM getting enough of the nutrients and vitamins I need, I wouldn't give it up for the world (Depsite the fact that I DON'T know how many cups of Starfruit I'm eating when I eat five slices and have to guess.).
So, to summarize.. I've got some new tools (Running Average on my weight, Diet and Exercise Journal) to help me track my weight loss. I AM losing weight and everything is, therefore, good! :)
As many of you already know, though I am Wiccan, my family is Jewish. We still celebrate the Jewish Holidays. In general we do so by having dinner at my grandmother's house. Yesterday was no exception.
We had potatoes and carrots, brisket and gravy, homemade applesauce and green bean casserole. It was delicious and I had way too much. (Let's not even talk about the "Lo-Fat" Swiss Cheese and Veggies I had BEFORE Dinner. My grandmother serves QUITE a meal.).
My brother, Marc, the one I can't stand showed up for dinner. He looks like he's turning ultra-Jewish. He brought a pitcher to wash his hand and "wouldn't eat' any dairy products (though he DID have Green Bean Casserole and that has melted cheese in it). He's got a scragly beard, a mustache and looks like he should be walking around in all black with the funny black hat.
He makes a mockery of Judaism.
Because you can't be jewish but have no respect for the 10 commandments or, indeed, any sort of moral rightness.
Amusedly yesterday we were discussing my diet (the scale CURRENTLY says I'm 286.5, but we'll discuss the scale reading later in this post) and how I'm going to a gym nearly every day to do my cardio workout and to work the weight machines. As I'm a UB Student, getting into the gym is free.. which is great for me! It doesn't have everything a Club might have... no classes, no trainers (We have attendants who know how to work the machines and act as spotters as need be, tho) etc. But the price is right and *I* am not complaining!
So, anyways, I'm talking about and Marc's eyes sparkle. He says "it's free?' and I say "Yes." and he's like "So, can I "borrow" your Student ID?" And I'm like "uh.. no..." Cause without the Student ID I can't get in to the gym. And he's all "Well, I can wait until AFTER you're in." and I'm shaking my head no. Even if I liked him. I'd be very uncomfortable about doing it this way.
So that was an interersting couple hours.
So, I've been doing alot of reading. I've almost totally gone through "Exercise For Dummies" and "The Hacker's Diet" and learned some interesting things.
Exercise for Dummies has been invaluable. It's helped me find a workout schedule I'm happy with. I'm now on a new schedule.. the self-called Push/Pull schedule. Basically, I divided the 12 Weight Equipment exercises into two programs.. Push and Pull.. Pull is almost exclusively exercises where I pull things back or sideways (except for one extra Push exercise, the Fly, that I added to Pull so that I had six exercises per class.)
My Pull Schedule is..
Two or Three Sets of 10 Reps of the Following Machines
Arm Curl
Leg Curl
Multi-Hip
Rowing
Ab Crunch
Fly (the one Push exercises added)
My Push Schedule is...
Two or Three Sets of 10 Reps of the Following Machines
Leg Extension
Chest Press
Shoulder Press
Back Extension
Tricep Extension
Leg Press
Today is a Pull day. :)
The Hacker's Diet, on the other hand, I haven't accepted as fully as Dieting for Dummy, but I've learned some interesting tips including the idea of taking your weight daily but taking a running average out of it. And so, I take my weight daily.. the ups (I'm up 1.5 from yesterday) and downs (I WAS 285 yesterday) and plotting them and the running average trend suggested through their Excel Worksheet. The reason I'm doing this instead of how I WAS Plotting (the occasional check on the scale every three or four days) is because.. basically.. weight is as much (if not more) of a measure of how much water you have in your system at the time as it is how much fat you have on you. On the other hand, if your trend is generally pointed downwards, than yes, you are losing fat. Myt trend is downwards.. and alot slower than the weight the scale reads. (Because the idea that I was REALLY 285 lbs. and I'd losr more than 6.5 pounds in a week and a half or two weeks was a bit scary and up another 1.5 pounds from yesterday's dinner was scary and wrong. And so I copy down the number into my excel spreadsheet (that i hope to post soon so that everyone can see my weight go down :D ) and watch the trend go down. Right now, I think the trend isn't completely capturing the amount of weight lost, but it may take another month's worth of numbers to get an accurate trend. (Right now my trend suggests that My actual "Average' weight is 289 lbs. Which *IS* a loss so that's good.)
Also, I've started using the WebMD Diet and Fitness Journal. It gives a decent estimate of how many calories I eat per day and how many i burn per day. It's hardly perfect and some of the estimates are too big and some too small, but as an estimate of how many calories I'm NOT eating and as a decent nutritional journal telling me I AM getting enough of the nutrients and vitamins I need, I wouldn't give it up for the world (Depsite the fact that I DON'T know how many cups of Starfruit I'm eating when I eat five slices and have to guess.).
So, to summarize.. I've got some new tools (Running Average on my weight, Diet and Exercise Journal) to help me track my weight loss. I AM losing weight and everything is, therefore, good! :)