TOTFIT's Total Fitness Page

Well, hanging at the KOA on Sugarloaf Key, tent camping. Just got here today and took a family 11 mile bike ride to get dinner for a warm up. My thoughts are just mainly to create and maintain the totfit attitude through the New Year. Had a good 2007, though I am a bit heavier than I want to be. The old knees would love to run at a lighter weight and that is part of the plan. Though I haven't done much strength training per se in the past few years due to physical work, my current IT position is not very taxing and I plan to include some weight training a couple of days a week. Right now I am setting with wife and laptop by the pool listening to my six yearl old tell the older kids the "rules" for the pool games. He is really a loud little guy. Hope noone takes a notion to squash him. I will continue moving forward and enjoying 2008. Oh, in addition I am tapering and dropping Lexapro which I have taken for about a year and a half to help with anxiety. Instead I am going t

Well, haven't been able to get cranked up due to a bad could over the past couple of weeks. I am going to begin tomorrow and move, move, move. I have to get out of this funk. Though generally I feel pretty good, I will begin moving much more run at least three days a week until the new year.

Time to crank it up entering the New Year. I am starting to set new goals and getting myself in condition to really start cranking next year physically. I am now exactly where I want to be in life. I have the job and family that fits. I have finally figured out what I want to be when I grow up and am doing it. I am merely 48 after all. Life is good and it is time to start looking at going from good physical condition to excellent. It is time to look at areas where I would like to contribute in my own small way to the greater good. I will get there and I will make that contribution. I think we can all contribute here in the US by not buying into the overconsumption game. It is vital that we conserve so that there will be a good sustainable life for all. It is time that we toss aside greed rather than going to war to sustain a lifestyle that is unsustainable. Where I will concentrate my efforts I know not, but it will most likely be toward environmental preservation and social justice.

Long time no post. Life has taken a wonderful turn for the good. (Never really been bad) I believe the "old guy" who was yet to figure out what he wanted to do in his life has found his way. I am working field IT Support for the local school system now and loving it. I can easily see as this being it until retirement. My fitness goals have suffered a bit during the first month on the job, but now that I am settled in I will pick up once again and continue on the road of a balanced life. I will also once again commit to writing here more about life experience and related thoughts. While life for me is good I am saddened by the turn of world events and our hand in making the world not a safer place for those our actions are affecting. I hope that some sanity will take hold and that we will realize that peace and protection of the environment in which we life is paramount to a good life for all. I hope we realize that we can't make peace at the end of a gun barrel and that u

Wow, the monkey has for some reason been on my back tonight. I think it may be a bit of boredom from a long summer of recreation. It could also be that I got quite a bit of work done around the house (painting) today. It has almost been 14 months without drinking or smoking anything at all and I would really like to keep and am going to keep the streak alive. I just could not imaging being in that vise/vice once again for want of a fling. It just doesn't work for me. Life otherwise has been grand. Have had a great summer at Disney World, the beach, and a four day bike ride in Ohio. I would not trade for anything. Also the running program is progressing. I did a five miler Monday and will continue with increasing my weekly mileage till the first of the year and then see if I am anywhere near able to train for the Music City Marathon. I figure I need to be getting at least 25 miles a week in by the first of the year even to consider the training ramp up. We will see. Oh well, "L

Haven't been doing much writing here, or practicing real awareness. I pretty much have just been slogging through. I will make an effort to beginning staying more in touch with what is going on and documenting the thoughts, feelings, and experiences occurring in life at any given time. The teaching is about done for now and will be taking an A+ test next week. Let's see what career that I will eventually settle upon. Hey, I am just a babe of 48, so I should still have some time to figure out what I will do when I grow up. Still a Linux fanatic, Mepis 6.5 is the flavor after trying several varieties in the past year and a half. Open source software and being open to "the source" is the way to go. :-)

I am sick of eating a senseless amount and feeling like a slug. I have mentioned a couple of times that this is it, but God I have to start something different RIGHT NOW before other things get way out of wack. I will begin moving forward and not worry about the rest. Movin on and doing what I want and know.

I have now officially had it. I am going for the 4-14 kick. I will do it from now on guaranteed. I will not make the mistake of going backwards any more. Run tomorrow and Monday for good. Got to push it.

Saturday trip to the Zoo. Wonderful day and a wonderful life. There is not much going on other than the usual living things. "boog si efil"

I am now at the point that I must just kick it in tomorrow and go for the total change. I have been a bit too long dragging it out. Though I am doing good it is time for the lifestyle finishing touches. Primarily my changes will be in the area of attitude towards gain, finalizing the exercise consistency and tweak eating habits. Things are going well, it is merely time that they are better. Just Do It!

Well, I most certainly can't complain about my life as it is. At least I can't justifiably complain. I have it made. No, nothing is perfect by a long shot, but dare I ask for more. I'll write more later

Wow, for some reason this unreasonable urge to imbibe has been plagueing me. Well, probably not unreasonble for the thinking part of it anyway. Having resigned my job before Christmas waiting on a teaching job and I am going stir crazy. Supposed to get a call any time now, maybe tomorrow. Don't know if now that it is finally so close and I have bee so stir crazy, I just want to "blow it out". My problem of course is that my "blowouts" always have ramifications. So, I will not do it. My 4 mile run today even only calmed me for a bit and that is unusual. Well, I will make it through this patch and move forward. Really and truly "boog si efil".

Saw a Hummer Ad on my blog. Only a fucking gas hog imbicel would own a hummer. I guess there are pigs a plenty out there though.