Ok… so I didn’t make it to the gym yesterday morning when I got off work. I was too tired, then I had to take the kids to daycare and have an important conversation with my fiancee. However, I did do 30 crunches and 10 push ups before i went to bed. When I woke up it felt like someone had worked my stomach over with a baseball bat. I didn’t drink as much water today and didn’t meet the 64 oz. requirement but I’ll definitely make that up today! I’m definitely going to the gym in the morning then heading home for some rest. 2 more days of the old job and then a few days off and starting the new job!
I did eat healthy today probably less than 1200 calories.
Ok so my significant other pretty much told me yesterday I have to lose weight to keep her around. She said that since we’ve been together I’ve let myself go and gained a lot of weight, and she’s worried for my health. She’s right this is the biggest I’ve ever been size wise, and weight wise I’ve weighed as much as 310 lbs. A lot of it is because of a medicine I take, I switched to the new medicine about 3 months after we started dating and that’s precisely when my weight gain began.
I’ve stopped taking the medicine and I’m going to the doctor sometime in the next couple weeks to see about switching me to something that doesn’t have the weight side effect. I’ll be ok for a few weeks without it I hope. Lol.
I was gonna wait until the 25th when i start my new job to start working out at the gym but after our talk yesterday I decided to forgo sleep in the morning and hit the gym hard. Without the medicine, eating right, and exercising the weight should fall off pretty rapidly like I talked about in my last blog. I’m gonna try and drink more water as well as eat healthier. She’s gonna have to help me with this so she’ll know about this either after she reads this or when I see her tomorrow. Lol. If you make demands in a relationship you gotta help contribute to the final result, right? So shes gonna have to start cooking healthy meals instead of us eating out all the time, and I definitely gonna need some fresh salads just the way I like them with low fat vinaigrette dressing. Love ya dear!
So I’m going to try to keep track at least weekly of my progress of weight, how much water I’ve drunk per day, and eventually measurements and such.
So here’s my Day 0:
I had a drug test yesterday for the new job so thats why I drank so much water… but I’m definitely going to try to drink atleast 64 oz of water a day, and limit my intake of other beverages.
So lets see if I can lose weight and save my life and save my relationship. lol.
Filed under: General Life
Ok, so its been over a year since I last blogged… so much has happened good and bad, but I really don’t feel like summarizing things. Let’s just say this past year has taught me alot about family, friends, work, and relationships. I just turned 31 less than a week ago and I really feel old and young again. Contradictory I know, but I feel old in the fact that I have reached that point in my life where I feel like I’ve seen everything that life can throw at me and young by the fact that with knowing what I know now I can make the next years of my life count most.
I’ve come up with some goals:
Lose at least 10 lbs a month until I reach 230 lbs.
So that means with me being currently 299 lbs according to a calibrated industrial scale I have can reach that goal in a minimum of February of next year. That is my standard goal but I plan on utilizing the gym membership that my fiancée has for me and hit the gym at least 4 times a week once I start my new job on the 25th of this month. So my stretch goal is 20 lbs a month. I shouldn’t have a problem reaching that because once I start eating right and exercising I can drop weight easier than most. I’ve dropped a 100 lbs in less than six months before.
Pay my financial situation down
Im in better financial shape than ever right now. Even though I owe the IRS and NC DOR a boatload of money for the first time in my life I can see myself getting closer to being in the black and staying there. I’ve had a plan for a couple years now and I have been working it and working it. I’ve had some stumbles here and there but I’m good now. I plan to have everything paid off except my house and my car by this time next year. Its going to take alot of OT, and hustling on the side but once I make it to the black I know there won’t be a freer feeling. With a wedding coming up a lil bit from now (2 years lol but that’ll be here sooner than you think) and having to buy a bigger house than the one I have now I’ll need that financial freedom to be able to pay for what is needed in my new family. I’ve never been one for fancy or shiny things (gadgets exempt) but I know when the day comes I want to move my family no matter how big or small into a nice house in a nice neighborhood.
Be a better man
I’ve always prided myself on being a good man, but this past year has taught me there are areas in my life that I need to work on. All I can do is pray and ask God to mold me into the man I am supposed to be. With a stepson and stepdaughter to be around I have to step up and be a role model for them. I feel like I am based on how the trust and love me but I still feel that I don’t do enough for them. I try to show them discipline and love can go hand in hand, and I know at times they think I’m a hard ass but looking at how they’ve changed in the last year makes me smile. I could’ve easily come in and they rejected me but they haven’t… not that they’re haven’t been rocky moments like the “you’re not my dad” moment lol, or having to struggle every morning getting lil man up for school, but its been well worth it the good times and bad…
Finish school
I start a new job on the 25th in a position that really requires a degree and I am thrilled that the job is taking a chance on me and allowing me to fill this position while I go to school. I’ve bounced around at school between majors and haven’t finished anything but the time has come for me to pick a major and finish a four year degree. If I am to move up beyond this position it is going to require a piece of paper from a university, and to get that piece of paper I’m going to have to buckle down and not let distractions get to me like in past semesters. I haven’t decided on a university but I think I’m leaning towards something Central to NC and in driving range of my job and my house if I decide to move closer to my new job.
Get better sleep.
Anyone that knows me knows that I don’t have a regular sleep pattern, and I think alot of my health problems come from this. So I’m gonna invest in a pillow top mattress set for my fiancée’s apartment so I can sleep without my back hurting when I come to visit on occasion. lol. I also am going to try to get a regular set schedule to help me sleep even though its hard when you work over night especially a rotating 12 hour shift like I do.
Live life to the fullest.
Filed under: General Life
I haven’t posted in awhile… just been busy with school, searching for a regular 9-5 and trying to build my own business. I can say honestly that everything has been going pretty good. There have been a few snags with people being upset with me but nothing that hasn’t been able to be overcome. I’ve come to several realizations lately with the biggest being that Friday (7/9) I’ll be thirty. So I’ve made some business investments that I hope will help me achieve my dream but I won’t say much about it because…. lol just watch wait and listen
Filed under: General Life, music | Tags: beat, jwater, panama gat, production, tracks, vic vega, video
Check out the first of a series of videos that we’ve shot for Vic Vega’s album “Die’N 2 Live” .
In this video Vic, Panama Gat, and myself discuss how “Breakthru” came about as a song and as a video…
You can listen and download the album at vicvega.bandcamp.com
A friend of mine asked me to day “Why are you so impatient?”, and that set off a thought process of why I am impatient. The first thing that came to mind was that I’m impatient because I make myself available 24/7… If you call or reach out to me I usually respond instantaneously or atleast within 4 hrs. That is a product of always having a iPhone on me at all times with apps that make it so I’m available via phone call, email, Facebook, Twitter, Y! Messenger, AIM, and text. I can be in the middle of a meeting and if someone reaches out to me I usually give a response whether it be an answer or a “hey ill hit you back later”. Sometimes I feel like I’m too available for contact, but everyone that is close to me knows that I’m always here. So I assume subconsciously I expect everyone else to be just as available. I realize that everyone doesn’t operate on a 24 hr schedule like I do. I rarely sleep on a regular schedule so people assume I don’t sleep long or at all. I realized that I was too connected this past Christmas. I went out of town and spent Christmas Eve and Christmas Day with a friend of mine and my phone died. For the first time in a long time I just left the phone battery dead, and didn’t charge it until I decided to come home. I had a crazy amount of texts, emails, and voice mails from family and others wondering where I was and why I wasn’t answering my phone. The theories of why I wasn’t answering my phone were hilarious to me… not to the people trying to reach me. The problem though was they were used to reaching me and I was unavailable. This showed me that I need to not be as available ALL the time.
The other aspect of my impatience is that when presented with a “choice” I make up my mind nearly instantaneous. That isn’t saying that I won’t change my mind but on anything in my life once I make a decision I go all out for it. The problem lies within the fact that when other people are involved in something I have had to decide on that I catch myself thinking “Why are the taking so long to make a decison when I’ve already made up my mind?”. I don’t have the patience to wait on things to naturally develop. Sounds crazy and rightfully it is. I developed plenty of patience for many things but when its something that I believe, want or desire I have a hard time waiting. I could write a 20 page paper on this but I just want ya’ll (those close to me) to know that I try hard to be patient I really do. So if you find me being impatient its because its something that I care about, have made up my mind about, or simply just ready to see it come to fruition.
If we are facing in the right direction, all we have to do is keep on walking. (Quote by – Buddhist Proverb)
I have to learn to keep walking and not run… cause you’re more likely to do more damage by tripping while running than stumbling while walking….
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Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: comedy, demented life films, jwater, kakalak gat, short
Just a little video i did poking fun at my bi-polar ways… either in the bed sleep or always grinding… lol
Did a shoot with Kakalak Gat today… first shoot he’s done in over a year… went pretty well got some pretty good joints out of it…
Check out this little video I put together…
