I realize now the problem with my 90 day mission was the first day I gave myself a cheat. It was called perfection for a reason, but that really didn't mean that much to me. I'm over it which it good, but still got this beer gut which is bad.
Currently it is 7:46a.m. and I am waiting for my laundry to finish. I got up at 6:30 this morning to go for a run, my new attempt to stay in shape, but when I got down to the street it STARTED raining. When I was getting ready in my apartment it wasn't raining. When I left the buiding it was spitting. But when I got the light, it was totally coming down. I decided to turn around and call it quits because #1, I had my MP3 player on me (brand new, to replace the one I lost drunkenly) and #2, to avoid getting sick.
I can't believe it been so long since I last posted. Or I can because I have been running in the morning and that doesn't leave much time in the morning to do anything but get ready. You know me, once the sun goes down I'm closed for business. I can't rightly do anything. I have got the change that before I become an old man, but the truth is I get do so much during daylight hours, I think I deserve some time to myself.
Sure, sure, what could me more self serving than blogging. I just don't like to get my mind going at night, because I'm kind of neurotic and I could very easily see being kept up by my churning brain. And my sleep is very valuable to me. Very.
So what has happened since my last post. Lots of nothing. Went up to Seoul at the beginning of the month. That was fun. Homo Hill was a fucking dissappointment. Went to the DMZ. Fairly interesting though also kinda boring.
Dear god I haven't gotten laid since my last post either. April 11 - now is... 5 weeks and counting. I was at the bar last night and I said, if I go though all of June, I'm going to stop trying. Oh, p.s. I'm going home for the end of August.
Gotta go get ready for the school. I'll be back.
Wednesday, May 20, 2009
Monday, April 13, 2009
90 days to Perfection: Day 14 [Weekend Update]
So this weekend wasn't much different from last weekend. I cheated major hardcore. But the weekend was GLORIOUS.
Friday I went to the gym (yay me!), and then I went to glabi and got shittered. It was fun. Saturday we went for brunch on the beach. The place was really, really nice and had really good food. It was almost $10 a head, and of course I wanted nothing to do with that, so I drank beer instead. Then we proceeded to Heaundae beach and had such a wonderful day it was disgusting.
I drank lots of soju, played some kick ball, went for a dip in the freezing water, talked a bunch of shit to a bunch of people, just good fucking times. I remember being hammered and standing in the sun and being very happy with myself.
Saturday night was messy. We didn't get out until after midnight. Ended up at Ghetto bar, making out harcore with Matt. Almost the half the bar clapped for us. Terrible. Went back to his house, yada yada yada, I took the subway home Sunday morning.
The plan was to hit the beach again on Sunday, but plans were slow to come together so me and X decided to hit the jimgyobong. We went to Spaland, the one that opened recently in the new mega department store Shinshegae. It was really nice, cost like $14, but it was a full day experience so it was worth it. Ended up doing fried chicken and pizza and beer for dinner. Nice relaxing Sunday.
I skipped morning cardio Monday, went out for a few beers with the girls that night. But I'm not stressing. Things are going quite well, so I'm not going to beat myself up. Going with the flow.
Peace out.
Friday I went to the gym (yay me!), and then I went to glabi and got shittered. It was fun. Saturday we went for brunch on the beach. The place was really, really nice and had really good food. It was almost $10 a head, and of course I wanted nothing to do with that, so I drank beer instead. Then we proceeded to Heaundae beach and had such a wonderful day it was disgusting.
I drank lots of soju, played some kick ball, went for a dip in the freezing water, talked a bunch of shit to a bunch of people, just good fucking times. I remember being hammered and standing in the sun and being very happy with myself.
Saturday night was messy. We didn't get out until after midnight. Ended up at Ghetto bar, making out harcore with Matt. Almost the half the bar clapped for us. Terrible. Went back to his house, yada yada yada, I took the subway home Sunday morning.
The plan was to hit the beach again on Sunday, but plans were slow to come together so me and X decided to hit the jimgyobong. We went to Spaland, the one that opened recently in the new mega department store Shinshegae. It was really nice, cost like $14, but it was a full day experience so it was worth it. Ended up doing fried chicken and pizza and beer for dinner. Nice relaxing Sunday.
I skipped morning cardio Monday, went out for a few beers with the girls that night. But I'm not stressing. Things are going quite well, so I'm not going to beat myself up. Going with the flow.
Peace out.
Sunday, April 5, 2009
90 days to Perfection: Day 6 [Weekend Update]
So I totally cheated this weekend. And I am okay with that because I had a pretty awesome weekend.
I skipped the gym on Friday, and I tried my hardest not to, but it couldn't be helped. My friend Dawn got into teacher's college in Toronto (so excited) and so she wanted someone celebrate with, and there I was.
That was followed by Galbi, which was awesome. That was followed by Kino and Ghetto. Then I look at my phone and it was 3:30 and I paintball in the morning, so I called it a night. X, however didn't and drank til 7a.m. When I went to his house on Saturday morning at 11:15, he was hugging the toilet. So he missed paintball.
At paintball I spent the entire time getting drunk off soju/orange juice. Playing was a lot of fun too. I got fucking mascured, got some beautiful bruses to prove it.
Saturday night got off to a late start but had a wicked predrink and then went a bar that we don't frequent called U2 and had a blast. Then of course we ended up at Kino. Went to McDonalds on the way home. Glorious.
Sunday went to the beach. My widget said it was going to be 18, but it definitely wasn't 18. Nice but not 18. Played some frizbee, learned a new game called tips. Hard. My team was losing, and so I start sacrificing my body to make plays. I cut my leg open pretty nice on the sand. Had a hilirous conversation about licking the wound.
Sunday night watched a Canadian movie called Passchendaele. The first half of the movie was very questionable. It was a WWI "epic" (used very losly), and this soldier comes home from the front shell shocked and so he gets assigned to recruiting. Blah blah blah, falls in love, blah blah blah, gets sent back to the front. The battle that it showed was really really well done, and really puts into prespective what fighting a war is all about. The film itself was beautifully shot, and the acting wasn't bad. But the writing was fucking brutal.
Anyways, I am not going to say that I failed, because I didn't. I got up this morning to do my cardio. I'm going to the gym tonight. I am starting to look slightly better and its been two weeks. Gonna stick it out. Gonna get'r done.
I skipped the gym on Friday, and I tried my hardest not to, but it couldn't be helped. My friend Dawn got into teacher's college in Toronto (so excited) and so she wanted someone celebrate with, and there I was.
That was followed by Galbi, which was awesome. That was followed by Kino and Ghetto. Then I look at my phone and it was 3:30 and I paintball in the morning, so I called it a night. X, however didn't and drank til 7a.m. When I went to his house on Saturday morning at 11:15, he was hugging the toilet. So he missed paintball.
At paintball I spent the entire time getting drunk off soju/orange juice. Playing was a lot of fun too. I got fucking mascured, got some beautiful bruses to prove it.
Saturday night got off to a late start but had a wicked predrink and then went a bar that we don't frequent called U2 and had a blast. Then of course we ended up at Kino. Went to McDonalds on the way home. Glorious.
Sunday went to the beach. My widget said it was going to be 18, but it definitely wasn't 18. Nice but not 18. Played some frizbee, learned a new game called tips. Hard. My team was losing, and so I start sacrificing my body to make plays. I cut my leg open pretty nice on the sand. Had a hilirous conversation about licking the wound.
Sunday night watched a Canadian movie called Passchendaele. The first half of the movie was very questionable. It was a WWI "epic" (used very losly), and this soldier comes home from the front shell shocked and so he gets assigned to recruiting. Blah blah blah, falls in love, blah blah blah, gets sent back to the front. The battle that it showed was really really well done, and really puts into prespective what fighting a war is all about. The film itself was beautifully shot, and the acting wasn't bad. But the writing was fucking brutal.
Anyways, I am not going to say that I failed, because I didn't. I got up this morning to do my cardio. I'm going to the gym tonight. I am starting to look slightly better and its been two weeks. Gonna stick it out. Gonna get'r done.
Wednesday, April 1, 2009
90 days to Perfection: Day 2
Lordy, lordy, nothing rally goes right for me eh? So yesterday was day 1, not bad, just like any other day. Glad I tried to "set a tone" last week. Woke up this morning and my shoulder fucking kills. I must have slept on it funny. But it fucked with my cardio this morning. Strange because I could do push-ups no problem, but when I was doing leg raises it was blindingly painful. And today is supposed to be my shoulder day.
Morning cardio is also starting to tire me out. Last week I felt awesome, but I'm starting to feel it at work. I think I have to be VERY strick with my bedtime. 12:00-12:15 I'm fine, but 12:15-12:30 I definitly feel it the next day.
Also the drinking temptation is too much. Its only Thursday and people are making plans and I'm like "resistance... is... futile..." The girls are all going out of town so it'll be just me and X and two (or three) other friends. But we're all good times, no one I know is boring. Luckily, one friend is doing a detox which doesn't end til Monday I think. So I will need to use her as cruch. Or I could just drink. But I had said I only wanted to have two cheat day per month. And Leanne's birthday is one at the end of the month. And I don't even have any money or anything right now (like I'm literally broke, gonna have to get a loan from Leanne til Monday).
Terrible. Trying to get my food-cheats under control as well. Yesterday was just a few cups of tea, which I'm not sure I will be able to give up. But there always seems to be treats showing up in the office, cakes or pateries or cookies. I wish they had rice cakes in this country.
And my weight keeps going up. I set a mental goal of wanting to weigh 169 pounds at the end of this, checked my weight yesterday and it was 79.7 Kg (175 pounds), up from 77..8 (171). I can't fucking win.
Whatever I'm trying, we'll see how it goes. Power through bitch.
Morning cardio is also starting to tire me out. Last week I felt awesome, but I'm starting to feel it at work. I think I have to be VERY strick with my bedtime. 12:00-12:15 I'm fine, but 12:15-12:30 I definitly feel it the next day.
Also the drinking temptation is too much. Its only Thursday and people are making plans and I'm like "resistance... is... futile..." The girls are all going out of town so it'll be just me and X and two (or three) other friends. But we're all good times, no one I know is boring. Luckily, one friend is doing a detox which doesn't end til Monday I think. So I will need to use her as cruch. Or I could just drink. But I had said I only wanted to have two cheat day per month. And Leanne's birthday is one at the end of the month. And I don't even have any money or anything right now (like I'm literally broke, gonna have to get a loan from Leanne til Monday).
Terrible. Trying to get my food-cheats under control as well. Yesterday was just a few cups of tea, which I'm not sure I will be able to give up. But there always seems to be treats showing up in the office, cakes or pateries or cookies. I wish they had rice cakes in this country.
And my weight keeps going up. I set a mental goal of wanting to weigh 169 pounds at the end of this, checked my weight yesterday and it was 79.7 Kg (175 pounds), up from 77..8 (171). I can't fucking win.
Whatever I'm trying, we'll see how it goes. Power through bitch.
March: By the Numbers
Number of times I went to the gym: 14/31 (j.c)
Number of days I smoked: 11/31
Number of days I drank beer: 9/31
So I got better on my non-beer and cigarettes days, but Jeez, didn't realize the gym was so bad. I guess the week of my birthday had something to do with it.
*As a note I was working on my 10k time, rather than lifting at the gym. I've got it down to 51:40.
Number of days I smoked: 11/31
Number of days I drank beer: 9/31
So I got better on my non-beer and cigarettes days, but Jeez, didn't realize the gym was so bad. I guess the week of my birthday had something to do with it.
*As a note I was working on my 10k time, rather than lifting at the gym. I've got it down to 51:40.
Sunday, March 29, 2009
90 days to Perfection: T-2 days
The alternative title to this post was "Cheese and Carbs many, many"
That was my Saturday. The plan was to stay in Friday night and then run to the beach on Saturday morning and spend the day hanging out and oogiling foreigners. Instead I woke up close to 2 p.m. with a wicked hangover and spent the day eating - cheese and carbs.
It was actually pretty glorious, but that is the type of shit that I am going to have to avoid on the 90 day journey. But I had to get that (Saturday) out of my system. I am going to remember that day so that I can convince myself that no, I don't need to go out drinking till 6a.m. No, I don't need the spend the whole day nursing myself like a heartbroken teenage girl. Yes, I will get out of bed, out of this house and go and do something active.
This Saturday paintball part 2. Excited.
Morning Carido again today. Awesome. Gym after work. I can do this. Watch me.
That was my Saturday. The plan was to stay in Friday night and then run to the beach on Saturday morning and spend the day hanging out and oogiling foreigners. Instead I woke up close to 2 p.m. with a wicked hangover and spent the day eating - cheese and carbs.
It was actually pretty glorious, but that is the type of shit that I am going to have to avoid on the 90 day journey. But I had to get that (Saturday) out of my system. I am going to remember that day so that I can convince myself that no, I don't need to go out drinking till 6a.m. No, I don't need the spend the whole day nursing myself like a heartbroken teenage girl. Yes, I will get out of bed, out of this house and go and do something active.
This Saturday paintball part 2. Excited.
Morning Carido again today. Awesome. Gym after work. I can do this. Watch me.
Wednesday, March 25, 2009
90 days to Perfection: T-5 days
I think I have gotten off to a pretty good pre-start. I have found that going to bed a reasonable time is fucking amazing. The past two days I have woken up at 6:40 and I really don't feel any more tired than I usually do at school, and to be perfectly honest, I think I feel a little bit better.
The think that I think I am going to have to try and figure out is the whole food thing. This my current diet:
Breakfast (9:00)
2-3 Bananas
1/2 cup of milk (sometimes a yogurt)
24-35g of protein
in a shake
2 boiled eggs (just the whites)
Lunch (12:00)
A spinach salad with a moderate dressing
(oriental/yogurt based)
Snack (2:30-4:30)
A yogurt
crackers
An apple (sometimes)
Fruit Juice
Dinner
???
Ranges from stir fries, to pasta, I used to make eggs and veggies, but not so much anymore. The problem with dinner is the timing. If I eat before the gym, its at like 6:30 and when I'm done at the gym I'm staving and will make a small snack when I get home at 10. If I don't eat until after the gym its at 11. That can't be good. But I really don't have much choice. I think what I will try is to try to eat at the earlier time and not make that snack when I get home.
Except on Tuesday-Thursday... because if I leave school at 5:30 I can be home from the gym by like 8/8:30. Tuesday s fuct too, because it has now become my grocery shopping day, so I still don't get to the gym till like 7:30/8. But I have started eating at Mega Mart. A meat stick and some soup, usually does me good and its under $3...
April 1st!
**Update
I went to the gym today and I got some numbers.
Weight: 77.9 Kg
Body fat: 23%
5Km: 26:40
Set goal another day, Boys Over Flowers awaits!
The think that I think I am going to have to try and figure out is the whole food thing. This my current diet:
Breakfast (9:00)
2-3 Bananas
1/2 cup of milk (sometimes a yogurt)
24-35g of protein
in a shake
2 boiled eggs (just the whites)
Lunch (12:00)
A spinach salad with a moderate dressing
(oriental/yogurt based)
Snack (2:30-4:30)
A yogurt
crackers
An apple (sometimes)
Fruit Juice
Dinner
???
Ranges from stir fries, to pasta, I used to make eggs and veggies, but not so much anymore. The problem with dinner is the timing. If I eat before the gym, its at like 6:30 and when I'm done at the gym I'm staving and will make a small snack when I get home at 10. If I don't eat until after the gym its at 11. That can't be good. But I really don't have much choice. I think what I will try is to try to eat at the earlier time and not make that snack when I get home.
Except on Tuesday-Thursday... because if I leave school at 5:30 I can be home from the gym by like 8/8:30. Tuesday s fuct too, because it has now become my grocery shopping day, so I still don't get to the gym till like 7:30/8. But I have started eating at Mega Mart. A meat stick and some soup, usually does me good and its under $3...
April 1st!
**Update
I went to the gym today and I got some numbers.
Weight: 77.9 Kg
Body fat: 23%
5Km: 26:40
Set goal another day, Boys Over Flowers awaits!
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