Goals, Affirmations, and Success Oh My!

Yah Know?  It’s hard coming up with snazzy titles.  I wonder if the journalists have a piece of software that generates snazzy caption’s for their news articles.  Maybe it’s a table or a series of tables (i.e. baseball table) with 3 columns or so.  You fill in the blank with the subject and then there are several [...]

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GOAL! GOAL! GOAL!

I’ve been spending a lot of time lately thinking about goals and the practice of goal visualization.
A few years ago, a friend of mine purchased Tom Venuto’s Burn the Fat Feed the Muscle eBook and I read it when she wasn’t looking.  In reality, she never got around to doing the whole diet and exercise [...]

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Hey, Fatty. Yeah, You.

T-Nation posted a new article Velocity Diet Lite: Two Shakes a Day to a Leaner, Harder Body by Chris Shugart.  As I was reading, I almost snorted coffee out my nose.
What’s that? You’re just in a mass phase? Listen, buddy, if you haven’t been able to see your penis in three years because of your big [...]

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How I Quit Smoking For Good

I have a little counter on my blog space that says
SUCCESS followed by the number of weeks, days, hours, minutes and seconds since I smoked my last cigarette.
I had tried every half way viable stop smoking remedy or method on record and until this last venture, I’ve never stopped more than a few days (read hours).  I’ve [...]

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Fat Loss Kick Start

One of the first tips or assists in the PN Body Transformation Challenge was posted on the PN Forums as a Fat Loss Kick-start and the basic premise was that for the first two weeks you only eat
Foods that fly, swim or run
Foods that are green and grow in the ground
After two weeks you start adding [...]

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The Precision Nutrition Body Transformation Challenge

Precision Nutrition (hereafter known as PN)is holding a competition called the PN Body Transformation Challenge. To enter the competition, you signed up and included before pictures, body statistics, medical and performance test results etc. The prizes were outstanding for the winner and first couple runner’s up.
I failed to get my challenge in on time and [...]

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My First Windows Live Writer (WLW) Post

 I decided to try out Windows Live Writer (WLW).
The interface is clean looking.  Seems a little slow but that could very well be this dinosaur COMPAQ Deskpro EN I’m using.
Table Formatting works?

Weight Distribution

4/16/2007

7/26/2007

Delta

Lean Mass (lbs)

156

168

+12

Fat Mass (lbs)

94

87

-7

Total

250

255

+5

I just threw these numbers up as part of the test of WLW.  I’m not tremendously pleased with these [...]

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Surfeit

In addition to Lacka, I find myself surfeit after every meal.  Surfeit is defined as

 the state of being more than full
supply or feed to surfeit
glut: the quality of being so overabundant that prices fall
repletion: eating until excessively full
indulge (one’s appetite) to satiety

With that definition in mind, take a look at a few of my meals.
Breakfast

2 [...]

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Lacka

I’m suffering from a lacka something.  I don’t even know what to call it – drive, determination, ooomphf, give a shit.
I was looking at my fitness log, a modified version of Adi’s Automated Fitness Log, and I noticed that I hadn’t worked out in 42 days. 42 days! 
I have a chart showing the daily [...]

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Farmer’s Market

Every Sunday, the local farmers gather at a Dale City commuter lot and sell their produce.   I brought home quite a haul:

Peaches

Freestone
Yellow and White

Tomatoes

Ripe – Tomato Sandwich salivate
Green – yum fried

Okra – yum fried w/ or w/o cornmeal

Cucumbers

Burpless/Seedless
regular

Zuchini
Squash
Green Peppers
Blackberries – tart
Watermelon
Cantaloup

I also bought some swedish farm bread, some dessert bread (kind of like Irish Soda [...]

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