What matters is as important as what doesn't.

Motivation:

"You wouldn't worry so much about what people really thought of you

if you knew just how seldom they actually do." ~unknown

Diary:

b: eggs and turkey sausage
s: protien bar
l: turkey and mixed green salad, xs, vitamins
s: turkey and canteloupe chunks
d: celery and peanut butter
s: chicken tortilla wraps (shredded chicken wrapped in tortilla)
g: 5K training: warmup, run 1.5 laps, walk 2 laps, run 1.5 laps, walk 2 laps, run 1.5 laps, walk 2 laps, run 1.5 laps, walk 2 laps, run 1.5 laps, walk 2 laps, run 1.5 laps, walk 2 laps, run 1.5 laps, walk 2 laps, run 1.5 laps, walk 2 laps, warmdown, sauna

Notes:

Not much for notes, except I have been trying to reorganize my priorities and commitments to make life a little easier, but this is going to be a task to do. For example, my home is somewhat disorganized and that needs to change. Also, I think my water softener is/has been slowly leaking and I need to get this fixed. Even though there are so many reasons in my mind to NOT keep training, I continue to remind myself that with all the menutia and drama going on around me that I am on a mission and should keep true to the basics - workout/training, 5 meals a day with healthy choices, drink water, watch the total calorie intake.

I am planning on going doctor-shopping once again this year. Last time I went doctor-shopping, the doctors that I met with saw me walk in and I could see a light go off in their head "OBESE!, there is no way I am getting anywhere near this sinking ship!" They were so hands off that it was obvious and embarrasing. I don't know if they were scared of giving advice and being frank, or if they were ignorant about overweight issues, or what their problems were, but it didn't give me much faith in the medical community. If everyone were healthy, then why would doctor's exist? You would think that doctors would want to be as educated and empathetic about weight issues, as many claim that this is the #1 health concern in america.

So I found another doctor through a friend referral, and supposedly he is a caring nice guy. I have a list of things I need for him to do, and I am going to share with him my charts and what I have done so far. I am going to demand from him that he give me a letter indicating I am/was obese and that I am recommended to do workouts and diet. I am hoping this will suffice tot he IRS to let me deduct my gym membership from next years taxes. (IRS will let you deduct diet helps and workout, but it has to be prescribed. I think I discussed this earlier.) There is also a list of other things I need to have checked. I will put these things in another blog. Let's finish this one up with a little fun:


Things That Just Don't Matter: Let some other guy worry about all this nonsense
By: Duane Swierczynski

• How cool your job is. Doesn't matter what anyone else thinks. Be you an oyster shucker or a hit man, the important thing is that they pay you for having fun.
• Death. It'll be either unremarkable or really cool. If it's the latter, smile as fate cuts you down. Some guys sell their souls to be as cool in life as you'll be in death.
• Fame. Kato Kaelin is famous. Lynndie England is famous. You don't need to be famous.
• Perfect attendance. People who take personal and sick days are happier, more rested, and in better physical condition to beat the living crap out of people with perfect attendance.
• How much money your colleagues make. They probably have smaller penises.
• Pleasing everybody. You can't please everybody. But you can pleasure a few.
• Getting fired. Dismissal from a job is always a promotion in disguise. You can catch an afternoon game, rethink your career, and bring possibility back into your life--all while the guy who just fired you is still at work.
• Keeping up with technology. Because years from now, you'll learn you're just a simulation stored in some computer deep in the future. You think you're alive. You're not. You're a string of data manipulated by pimply programmers in small cubes. So does it really matter if your old iPod stores only 15,000 songs?
• Slaving to fashion trends. It's the quickest way to date yourself. Everybody knows that the only thing Don Johnson ever wore was pastels.
• What you don't have. Raymond Chandler's Philip Marlowe said it best: "I needed a drink, I needed a lot of life insurance, I needed a vacation, I needed a home in the country. What I had was a coat, a hat, and a gun."

more later,

Chazz