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Seismic Event Recorded in North Texas…
… the tremor was felt throughout the blog-o-sphere. One injury reported.
One good thing which blogging about my efforts to get into shape does is that it caters to my inner actor/performer. As I move step by step forward on my journey toward fitness. I get to share my successes and revel in the thunderous applause [cue canned applause soundtrack] 😉
The bad part about blogging and sharing my experiences with the whole world, is that when I mess up, well, the whole world knows. Or at least the dozen or so people who are actually reading this blog knows when I fall from grace.
Yes, it is true. I fell off the fitness wagon. The large bang heard throughout the North Texas area and ensuing earth tremor was not the cannons announcing the opening of the Margaret Hunt Hill Bridge, it was me. Hitting the ground. T-H-U-D! Falling from grace. Hitting the gutter. Succumbing to temptation. Crossing over the dark side. I transgressed. I frolicked with chocolate! I was a baaaaaaaaaddd cowboy. *sigh*
We’ve struck an Iceberg in an ocean of Green Tea…
People are slobs. I should know because both my roommate and I are both bachelors. We. Are. Guys. Do the math.
I prefer, however to view the situation at home as “having my priorities in order.” After all, when the great tally at the end of life is done and folks are standing around with little cups of punch balancing small plates of snacks, I don’t think that “He kept a clean house” will be an epitaph by which I’d care to be remembered.
So, what does this have to do with the tea in China? Actually it does have to do with tea. As in the Green Tea that I’ve switched to now that I’ve mostly given up Diet Coke. I’ve only had two (maybe three?–can’t remember for sure) glasses of Diet Coke over the past 2-3 weeks. Yay Me! Go Team Tony! Uh-huh Uh-huh Uh-huh!
So.. I’ve been working on getting everything in place so that can drink Green Tea at work instead of Diet Coke:
- Buy four jugs of Organic Green Unsweetened Tea from Whole Foods — Check!
- Take half of my supply of Stevia from home to work. — Check!
- Snag a handful of individual packets of lemon juice from QT. — Check!
- Feel ever so slightly guilty at snagging the aforementioned lemon juice then getting over it quickly. — Totally Check!
- Remember to buy an extra “souvenir” spill proof container from Disney World while I was on vacation to use as my “Tea Glass” for work with lots of fun Disney Characters on it to make me smile when drinking tea. — Check!
- Take all those items to work. — Check!
Awesome! I so rock! Woo Hoo! You *can* tell this is going too easy right?
I’ve been a good cowboy!
Brace yourself, this is going to be a short post. Friends that are reading this, can stop laughing. I can be brief if I am tired. And I am.
But…. (the snorts of laughter can stop now!)
In all seriousness, I lost my fitness spreadsheet last week when it was time to do the “weekly stats” posts and had to retrieve it from my backup drive. But life kinda got in the way so I never even noticed that I ….
<drum roll please>
Have met my first fitness goal! I dropped below 280 lbs! Yay Me! Go Team Tony!
Check out the cute smiley face with a cowboy hat that I found to put on the chart to show the goal has been accomplished!
And, while I was updating my chart page:
I noticed something that is really awesome.
2012-01-19, Weekly Stats — Week 5
Just a very quick recap of the week. Because I’m tired and I need to get to bed. Six am is going to come early tomorrow morning. 🙂
Still not completely back on Jenny Craig because of vacation and trips and this and that. But on the other hand, I’ve been making smarter choices and the numbers are headed the right way. I’ll try to do a week’s summary tomorrow.
See ya on the dance floor! (after I’ve had some sleep!)
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- Setting Goals: You gotta do the math! Ugh! (txcowboydancer.wordpress.com)
- Charting My Progress (txcowboydancer.wordpress.com)
- Check-List: Checking it Off! (txcowboydancer.wordpress.com)
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- Progress Photos (txcowboydancer.wordpress.com)
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2012-01-12, Weekly Stats — Week 4
I’m actually posting these a week late. Hey, life kinda gets in the way of blogging every once in a while! 🙂
Numbers are headed in the right direction. Watch for this week’s numbers in just a bit. They look even better! Woo Hoo!
See ya on the dance floor!
Related articles
- The Ticker Factory (www.tickerfactory.com)
- Setting Goals: You gotta do the math! Ugh! (txcowboydancer.wordpress.com)
- Charting My Progress (txcowboydancer.wordpress.com)
- Check-List: Checking it Off! (txcowboydancer.wordpress.com)
- Check-List: Done! (txcowboydancer.wordpress.com)
- Progress Photos (txcowboydancer.wordpress.com)
- Weekly Fitness Stats, from Now through back in the day… (txcowboydancer.wordpress.com)









