Day 29 - Progress Picture Eve
One of my favorite things in the world is to have a cold bedroom while under the covers all toasty warm with the pillow feeling perfectly right under my head. That’s how comfortable I was this morning and I saw I had to wake up and get my day started at 5:15 am.
I was going to stay there until I remembered the words of Jack Lalanne! I once read that he said he has woken up every single day at 5:30 in the morning to work out. He said he hates doing it because he’d rather stay in a warm bed with his wife than have to get up and exercise. But he did it because he knew he had to get it done to be as healthy as he is.
Did you know he’s still alive?? He’s 94 years old doing fingertip pushups. The spritely little machine is still kickin’. And did you know he invented the Smith Machine? I didn’t know that.
I remember my mom pulling a chair to the middle of the living room early in the morning, turning the TV dial to the Jack Lalanne show and kicking her legs out to the side and to the back and then doing some deep knee bends with her arms stretched out in front of her. I’d have my dirty blanky with me doing what they did. I think I was around 2 or 3 at the time.
Hey, do me a favor. If I reach the age of 94 and have to be spoon fed while crapping my diapers, just take me out into the woods and shoot me. Please.
Since I don’t want that to happen, I got out of bed and did my cardio. I burned 514 calories in less than 25 minutes. I couldn’t bear to be on the machine any longer than that.
Breakfast: 1 whole egg, 3 egg whites
whole wheat toast
coffee w/ skim
Snack: pear
Lunch: Black beans with salsa
Celery sticks and hummus (I finally finished the last of it!!!!)
Snack: Almonds
Snack 2: banana
Dinner: Chinese takeout - Steamed chicken and mixed vegetables, no sauce.
September 25, 2008 at 5:14 am
Ahh, yes, the requests for someone to pull an ‘Ol Yeller… I think some guys will wish for the same the day they start havin prostate issues and the doc says, "Yeah, that’ll never stand at attention again…" Pretty sure most of us would consider that worse than being spoon fed (optimism of a cute young nurse??) or crappin’ diapers.
September 25, 2008 at 5:34 am
Viagra wouldn’t work?
I guess men have lower standards for quality of life. I don’t know, crapping your diapers is pretty damned bad enough to go the Old Yeller route. (LMAO @ pull an Old Yeller, btw).
September 25, 2008 at 8:18 am
Death or health…there’s motivation for ya! lol
One more day, wow. I’m cheering for you!
September 25, 2008 at 2:31 pm
Hey, you are talking to a guy with a CAT on his head
September 25, 2008 at 2:35 pm
The cat wasn’t there this morning.