Tuesday, February 7, 2012

Big changes happening...

So, I've been slacking a little bit. Or, as my lady would say "hey, remember when you had a blog?"...

I'm back in school again. Am.Psych is playing another show, and I waited until February to start my new year.

On the school front, the stuff has been busy for me. More reading than I have done for any of my classes, and these are just 100 level classes. One of them in on interpersonal communications, the other one is on race in the geography in America. Some interesting stuff in there, and there is some overlap between the two classes. All I know is that I am doing a TON of reading.

Am.Psych: Yup. We're playing again. Headlining a night with Dark Clan and I:scintilla for our friends, Tony and Amie Asman who just got married not too long ago. We've got some new tricks up our sleeves, so this will be a good one.

As far as the starting a new year business: Over the weekend I watched Forks over Knives with my kids. This prompted them to want to see the next part that talked about the Engine 2 diet. Both are on Netflix instant if you have it. My kids were in to it and it seemed to open their eyes a little bit.

While I was watching it, I am listening as well. Even though I am vegan... and not a damn thing I eat is animal based... there are still aspects of my diet that are not the best. I think they put in best by saying "for most people that are vegan, that means they eat a lot of processed food."  Know what. He's right. I looked at what I was eating, a lot of processed or boxed food that says it's vegan, but when you get down to it... there is a lot of CRAP in there. Too many oils, added sugar, and added salt. Time for me to make a change. I can't stand the belly I have. It's been there for a while. I'd like to make it go away. So, starting on my next trip to the grocery store it's whole grains and oil free cooking for me. I know I can do this. I am not a fan of butter or oils anyway, so I think I can do just fine.

So, along with taking my diet a little more hardcore, I've joined a gym too. I have missed the days where I used to wake up super early in the morning eat breakfast, head down to the YMCA for a swim, come home and head to work. It really boosted my day. I know I had a lot more energy. It was during that time that I actually gained muscle mass and didn't look like a 145lb skinny kid.

I am going to enjoy this. I can go work out while I do my homework. The cardio stations have shelves so I can bring my iPad with me and read. I just have to figure out how my workout is going to work. I want to do 6 days a week of cardio if I can and alternate 3 or 4 days of weights to bring my strength back up.

Hopefully, I can have my belly gone soon. I know it won't happen overnight, getting it took a few years.

I'll keep people posted on progress. There might be some pictures that don't look the best of me in here... but I'm going to track progress of my adventure in this blog.

I think it's a good place to do it.

Today was better because... I got off my ass and got active again.