What Happens in Vegas... Aug 20 2019 Cally Dayna Mellanby Del Tarrant Kerr Avon Orac Slave Soolin Vila Restal Zen I was doing so well, turning things around. Then I went to Las Vegas for work for nearly three full weeks. That was nineteen straight days of no workouts, and of eating nothing but restaurant meals every single day. The good news is, the results weren't as bad as they could have been. The bad news is, the results were still bad. So here we go. Read more ...
I told you to stand by, not lie down Jul 24 2019 Cally Dayna Mellanby Del Tarrant Kerr Avon Orac Vila Restal Zen Eighty push-ups today! Granted, I broke early on in the final set, so I am not ready to increase yet. But still, I completed eighty push-ups in five sets of sixteen, and that's not nothing. It is also my fourteenth wedding anniversary, and my wife and I are running away tonight for a short getaway. I don't expect to work out tomorrow. For today, though, I spent some more quality time with Blake's 7. Read more ...
Positively Hoskin-esque Jul 22 2019 Cally Dayna Mellanby Del Tarrant Kerr Avon Orac Vila Restal Zen These next few are going to be brief. It's my wedding anniversary this week, and I am distracted. But this was a great workout day. I was back under 270 again, which was awesome. As for Blake's 7, well... it was a weird one. Read more ...
Neutrality or passivism, it all boils down to the same gutless inanity Jul 20 2019 Cally Dayna Mellanby Del Tarrant Kerr Avon Orac Vila Restal Zen I don't even want to talk about it. I really don't. But I'll talk about Blake's 7. Read more ...
When you live on the permanent dark side of a planet, no-one cares too much what you look like Jul 17 2019 Cally Dayna Mellanby Del Tarrant Kerr Avon Orac Vila Restal Zen This is gonna be quick, I'm playing catch-up. It was a good workout, with a hundred sit-ups and then over 7,200 steps on the treadmill. My weight continues to be frustrating, being as I have bounced back up over 270. So... crap. Blah blah blah emotional bear trap. So I'm not gonna think about it, and move on to Blake's 7. Read more ...
A bald dwarf shouldn't be too hard to find Jul 16 2019 Cally Dayna Mellanby Del Tarrant Kerr Avon Orac Vila Restal Zen I just got home from a massage, and am ready to just fall into bed. This is going to be a fairly quick one. I mentioned before that I am trying to work my way up to doing 100 push ups (done in five sets with a two minute break between each set). Two days ago I did 65 in five sets of 13, but I broke on the last set. Today I was very pleased to do the 65 without breaking. That means the day after tomorrow I will bump it up to 70 in five sets of 14. At this rate the very soonest that I will get back up to 100 is in another two weeks, but I am skeptical I will hit that. More likely it will be another month or so for me to work back up there. Still, I'm feeling pretty dang good about that. Other than that, I don't have much going on workout-wise, so let's get down to Blake's 7. Read more ...
There isn't a volcano alive that'd dare to swallow Avon Jul 15 2019 Cally Dayna Mellanby Del Tarrant Kerr Avon Orac Vila Restal Zen It's another happy day here on the Time Treadmill. My weigh-in this morning came even lower than the one yesterday, which is just lovely. That also means that I am due for a correction tomorrow, but I'll deal with that emotional train wreck when it happens. I was definitely still a bit dehydrated this morning -- I didn't sleep well last night, and this morning I was not able to maintain my previous day's pace. I didn't quite manage to break seven thousand steps, which is a tad frustrating. but on the whole it was a good workout. I am three weeks out from needing to be parading around in my formal business attire at a huge conference, and I am feeling pretty good about that. As for Blake's 7, the most I can say is that the content of today's viewing did indeed live up to the title. Read more ...
That's a difficult way to commit suicide Jul 14 2019 Cally Dayna Mellanby Del Tarrant Kerr Avon Vila Restal Zen Right off the bat, can I get three cheers for hyper-dehyrdration? As I predicted yesterday, this morning after my regular workout plus doing the yard work I weighed in more than three pounds lower than yesterday and hit my target of getting back below 270 by the 15th. It's not real, it is an artificially low number, and it will certainly bounce back up if not tomorrow then on the day after. But I am just proud enough to take the win. I spent several hours this afternoon walking around in the Florida sun at Epcot photographing princesses with my autistic son, and even though I have been drinking water like crazy I still feel dehydrated. We'll see what tomorrow brings, but for today I am satisfied. The five day moving average has finally turned in my favor, and it's full steam ahead from here. Read more ...
I'm all in favor of healthy curiosity. I hope yours isn't satisfied too easily. I think you've cured my headache. Jul 13 2019 Cally Dayna Mellanby Del Tarrant Kerr Avon Orac Vila Restal Zen Let's say it all together again: "Weight loss is an emotional bear trap." Rationally speaking, I am all good. I am a solid three pounds ligher than I was a week ago. Broadly speaking, in my (emphatically non-medical) experience, roughly two pounds per week is a healthy and sustainable rate. Why, then, am I so frustrated? Because after missing workouts for over two weeks, and then literally getting back on the treadmill and logging two days of agonizingly high numbers, last Sunday I dropped to barely over 270. I knew I was hyper-dehydrated that day, and expected a bounce up the next day, but it didn't. So I figured a goal of getting solidly below 270 by the 15th was a reasonable and acheivable thing. For five consecutive days I kept at it, and my weight crept back up to just over 272. Understand, that's still two pounds lower than where I started after my gap, and a perfectly reasonable number in that context, but it is just so damn frustrating. T ... Read more ...
At least we'll recognize it when we see it, even if we don't recognize it when we see it Jul 11 2019 Cally Jenna Stannis Kerr Avon Orac Roj Blake Vila Restal Zen Two thousand, five hundred miles as of today. How wild is that? I remember when just five hundred miles seemed almost unachievable. And yet, here we are. Fitness-wise, I seem pretty much in a holding patter. The moving average dropped, only because the very highest number dropped off, but in the last couple days I have had no real movement on that front. Which is, to put it mildly, frustrating. But here at the Time Treadmill we don't dwell on our anxieties, we just press onwards and commit to the program. Right? Well, that's what I keep telling myself anyway. Read more ...