The Plan

Well after a very long time floundering nutritionally and living style-wise, I've decided to really go after some things. The first is to be really kind and gentle with myself as far as food is concerned. My plan, as of yesterday, was to basically fast during the day for about a week then eat a meal. I fasted during the morning, had a great raw granola, then rode bike with my family over to a Penn State women's soccer game. They were in the NCAA tournament. It was a great time despite PSU's loss. The only problem was it was freakin cold! I didn't exactly feel like raw food after that. My wife suggested chili so we ended up going shopping for vegan chili ingredients.

This is hardly a failure of nutritional sorts. It's just not the absolute best thing I can put in my body. Everything was organic and not very processed. We ate that along with some organic whole grain bread. It was a very nice dinner with not too much going down the pipe.

This morning all I've had is water and a nutmilk and chocolate beverage with macca, spiralina, and blue-green algae. It was yummy, although I'm feeling the effects of the chocolate right now. I'm not all that thrilled about that, but the cacao helps with detox symptoms and detox is a real killer for me. For today i'm going to basically drink things and have a raw dinner.

The physical plan for me now is pretty aggressive in you consider how I've lived. My plan is to spend 2 hours a day exercising at least 5 days a week and exercise in some form every day, or at least 6 days per week. When I say exercise I don't mean 2 hours in the gym. My plan is to spread things out a bit and keep my metabolism going. Today for instance I'm going for a walk as soon as I finish this post and then I'm going out to the mall and doing some shopping. While shopping isn't really exercise it is activity for my fat body. We are going to play tennis later and I hope that lasts for about an hour. With the walk and tennis that's an hour and a half. I plan to do 10 minutes of step workout and then about 20 minutes on my exercise ball.

Tomorrow I'll have to do a longer ball workout and do walks when I can and it's not raining. I'll report back and let you know how this goes.

I really think it's time to get all my physical affairs in order. There are tons of reasons and I feel like I want to and I believe that I can. I don't feel the negative messages I normally do. Plus if it's a 2 hour exercise day and I only get an hour in, there is no way in hell that I'm going to feel like a failure. I'm going to feel great that I took enough care of myself to get an hour in. This is how I want to live from now on and this is how I want to focus.