365 days

[thoreau]

On Saturday - I've been in San Francisco for a year.

While not the year I had in mind - it's been a tremendous adventure. I've learned a lot about myself - and done a lot of strategic things for MYSELF - that have propelled my career and my personal life forward in incredible ways. It's thrilling to be here - and affording to live on my own; and finding my own uniquely muffinesque path.

This morning my trainer and I started a whole new workout routine. and on top of it - my friend David (sensory depravation dinner guy?) started as my new gym partner this morning. SO - we were taught a new strength building core workout this morning that David and I have committed to doing five days a week. It starts with 30 minutes of cardio with a sustained HBrate of around 120. Then serious stretching - then 120 reps of back excercises with weight, 10 minutes of crunches in the crunchitizer bench (no counting allowed - just 10 sustained minutes of crunches), then more stretching - then shoulders and chest. It's a real gift to have met David - who is going to make a remarkable new gym partner. Then Saturdays - I'll come in and warmup with Tommy notdefined - and do some lower impact cardio - and hour on the bike or treadmill. The goal is to reduce my tummy and reveal abs by Christmas. That'll be a right fine christmas gift to myself.

I almost posted a picture of Rick and I from this day last year - and posted about having lost 197 pounds (42 pounds from weight watchers and 155 from asking Rick to excuse himself from my life). It's getting easier and easier to live life without discomfort over that part of the last year - and experience is teaching me that I'm better off.

And most recently - I've started to discover a community of like-minded kindred spirits. It's been interesting - like they've been there all along - but my "harmonic" is changing - and they are now available to me. It's been very remarkable. I am finally meeting people here that speak my language - instinctively.

The major difference - is that I'm not meeting people and measuring them up for anything other than who they are. No - "Would he be a good boyfriend?" or "I wonder what he's like to fuck". It's not that I don't want a boyfriend - or that I don't like to fuck. and it's also NOT about lowering my expectations. not at all. It's about engaging people authentically and seeing what happens - and keeping my personal and external expectations at the right level. and folks that don't meet those? don't stick around. It feels like a major climate change in my life in that regard.

It'll be most interesting to look at this entry in September of 2008. and see where the NEXT cycle takes me.

Comments

[bjarvis.livejournal.com]

[...] and posted about having lost 197 pounds (42 pounds from weight watchers and 155 from asking Rick to excuse himself from my life).

Zing! :-)

[low-fat-muffin.livejournal.com]

perhaps in poor taste and bad karma - but it made me laugh - and apparently everyone else - so there!(snaps!)

[pdsexton.livejournal.com]

Yay for milestones in your personal growth. I loved the line of shedding 155 lbs....which just happens to be my weight at the moment.

[low-fat-muffin.livejournal.com]

one step at a time right?

[musicbearmn.livejournal.com]

You made me smile and laugh...and I love said line about the weight loss...

Let me know how the new workout goes. I seem to have plateaud and am trying to figure out where to go from here. Still too much gut to get rid of.

[low-fat-muffin.livejournal.com]

are you doing WW? or?

[musicbearmn.livejournal.com]

No...I just watch my portions. Weight watchers is more $$ than I can afford...I do the gym 4-5 days a week, try to do 3 days/weights with 15 minutes of treadmill before I start my workout, and then 2 days of biking or treadmill. I've gone down about 10 pounds and bulked up, and I am slimmer...it just seems like I've gotten stuck.

[low-fat-muffin.livejournal.com]

you try some more protein - right after your workout - like I do protein fruitshakes at home - give your body a "treat" for having worked out.

and also - how much sugar are you eating? Are you a pop drinker? Please consider removing all processed sugar from your diet - that was a big key for me.

[musicbearmn.livejournal.com]

I drink a lot less pop than I used to. I don't eat a lot of sugar...I moved to more healthy snacks. I do like the protein shakes idea.

[musicbearmn.livejournal.com]

Do you have recipies that you can share? Email to me at

musicbearmn

@

gmail.com

[low-fat-muffin.livejournal.com]

I just get protein powder, yogurt - and fresh fruit at the store. :) and mix it up in the blender

[beastbriskett.livejournal.com]

Happy Anniversary!

[low-fat-muffin.livejournal.com]

thanks Beastie!

[eireangus.livejournal.com]

Wow! Doesn't time fly by so fast???

We will be here a year in late November - it still shocks me!