All I’ll say is that the pills have taken effect. The pain is lessening. I’ve had to make frequent stops today. And I don’t want to eat anything. Thank god for modern medicine.

Well, it was bound to happen. Between the weight gain and the beer and the crap diet the fucking gout has acted up again. I’ve got enough pills to take care of it, assuming these things still work, the expiration date was 07/2007. But it’s late and I’ve got to do something. At this hour the doctor isn’t an option.

It’s been over 2-years since the last time this acted up. I didn’t miss it at all. Now I remember why I started losing weight. Damn health issues. Started this morning as a dull ache and I was hopeful that it wouldn’t get any worse. By the time I was driving home from Muskegon it was a screaming pain.

So it’s take two pills and then one every two hours until you’re shitting sewer water. I’ve got 2 pills left and no stomach cramps yet. Here’s hoping something takes over night.

I don’t hate my body. But I do hate the way that I’ve treated it. Got to get back on the horse and make some changes.

We actually came home Saturday night, got home late, and slept in. After lazing around a bit on Sunday we went to see Star Trek. Tasha loved it. I thought it was an entertaining movie, but I had issues with it, as I do with every movie I see. I’m just not a movie fan. The whole time thing being my biggest peeve. Kinda annoys me that Star Trek uses that crutch as much as it does.

Monday I came home from work, felt a little off, had dinner, and was in bed by 8:00 pm.

Tuesday, yesterday… I think I sat right here and surfed until I had exhausted the entertainment potential of the internet. It took surprisingly little time. We walked the dog and took our new tennis rackets down to the courts and chased the balls around for 45-minutes. It was fun. Then I made Tasha play some Xbox360 with me. Then she watched the Red Wings.

Now that you’re up to speed, did you notice that I didn’t mention writing in there at all? It’s shameful, I know. I can’t say that I left out the writing, because I’m completely guilty of not having done anything with it since last Wednesday. Bad Ronn. Lazy Ronn. Tonight’s writing call didn’t happen. Not sure why, but I’m guilty of not calling/emailing to confirm that it was on. Ah well, perhaps we’ll get it later this week.

I finished listening to Scarlet by Stephen R. Lawhead. It’s the second book in what I believe is a trilogy. I haven’t read or listened to the first book, Hood, but I don’t feel like I needed to. Which is always a good thing. I’m a big Robin Hood fan, but some of the things I’d read about this take on the legend turned me off. Like I said, I like my Robin Hood, so I gave it a go when I found it at the library. I must say that I enjoyed it, and the historical aspects of it that I expected to turn me off, didn’t. In fact, I will probably seek out the first book and when I’m done with that read or listen to the third, Tuck. If you like Robin Hood give it a try, there have certainly been interpretations of the story that were far worse than the one that Mr. Lawhead has put together for us… and his is actually plausible.

Ok, so the above is why I don’t do reviews. Anyway, that’ll do it for tonight. Later.

Stepped on the scale today and realized no gain and no loss to my weight. But the scale is acting odd. Can’t seem to calculate BMI, muscle mass, all that other good stuff I’ve been keeping track of. It just errors out. I tried four times, but faulted out each time. I’ll check the batteries and hope for better next Monday.

Peace out.

Feeling better this week, but having trouble getting back on the routine of hitting the gym everyday after work. Still eating healthy and being more vigilant of fast food. Resulting in losing the 1.8 pounds I gained last week, but nothing more.

I’ve been sick, hell, I still feel sick. Not like I’m going to die, but just not feeling well all week. Even took a day off just to be sick last week. So no exercise this week to speak of, I think I made it to the gym twice.

The result, weight gain. Stepped on the scale this morning to a gain of 1.8 pounds.

Well, I’ve not felt all that great this weekend. No energy, sluggish, stomach turning in circles, cough, all the signs that I’m heading toward getting sick. And to make things worse, I haven’t made it to the gym since Wednesday.

But what we all want to know is, how’d the weigh in go? I stepped on the scale this morning and it read a gain of 0.6 pounds. Maybe I just need to take a good shit, but if I’m honest it’s because I’ve had a lazy week and fast food lunches Thursday and Friday.

The gym is working out. I met with the trainer Saturday morning and got a new exercise plan that should do me better than what I’ve been doing. And best of all, I got on the scale this morning and I was down 3.4 pounds. Sweet.

Positive thinking, exercise, and eating right. I can do this.

The long and short of it is, I lost 1.2 pounds this week. Not the results that I was hoping for, but better than gaining.

I have today off and no real plan. Tasha is at work. I drove her in so I’d have the car to pick up a new cable box. But as luck would have it Comcast is closed for the holiday. Should have figured that. Oh well, there’s always tomorrow.

I spent some time working on the website. Nothing that you can see just yet, but I have high hopes for the future. I also put in a little time in City of Heroes fixing up my super group base. All in all I did nothing of note.

Time to go pick up Tasha and then off to the gym. Later.

Had my second of two free personal trainer sessions this morning. The first one was all about the talk; what do I eat, what’s my day like, what are my habits, etc. for an hour. A get to know me meeting and to get an idea what will work for me. This one, the second, was all about the exercise. Body weight and balance exercises to be more precise. I was shown and asked to do something like 10 exercises. To make a sad story short, I’m strong, but I have no sense of balance. i.e., the weight machines are easy, standing on a bosu ball and using dumbells is hard.

I like and am a big fan of the body weight stuff. I was doing a lot of that stuff back at the old house. I’m just horribly out of shape and out of practice. Embarassingly so. I’m good with the first set, not so much with the second, on every exercise. The trainer says it’s all about stamina and that it’ll come with time. My job is all about doing it once and has led to bad habits and muscle memory.

So the plan is to mix these body weight exercises into my routine. One day of weights and one day of body weight exercises, rinse and repeat.

I’ll keep you in the loop. Later.

So I stepped on the scale this morning, as I do every monday morning, and my exercise and diet have started paying off. I’m down 6 pounds from last monday. Sweet.

It’s hard work, but it’s work I need to do. Later.

I took a sick day today and slept ’til noon. Some day’s that’s all it takes.

Tonight was the On Target Living Seminar at the East Hills MAC. It was a seminar that was free to I Lost It participants. Chris Johnson was the speaker, according to his website he’s America’s Peak Living & Performance Coach. The gist of his message is that little changes make big differences, thus the 15% difference. Meaning the first step, the first 15% is the biggest part of getting fit. He talked about the importance of diet, not calories, but quality of food. The necessity of rest, balance and white space in your life. And he showed some simple exercises that anyone can do almost anywhere. I say almost because he wanted us to try them and it was a bit too crowded to actually do exercise. It was a good seminar, I think even Tasha liked it, and you know how fussy she is about food. But two hours is a long time to sit on a folding chair.

My fast today went badly. I went without food for most of the day, but right before we left I had some taquitos, about 340 calories. Not a total failure, but definitely a failure of willpower. Tomorrow will be a better day for my willpower.