e's Life

2005-03-03T15:59:00.000-08:00

I like things.
Yes I Do
Yes.

2004-09-25T09:32:00.000-07:00

w:161.6
bft:16.0
a:35.0
h:38.0
f:11.0
wr:6.8
pp:12.0
ap:23.0
tp:13.0
ft2:14.1
pp2:11
ap2:26.0
tp2:14.0
***
A new low! 161.6.
I think my new diet plan is working out. Its VERY simple, I just eat what I have *PLANED*...
I think that is what was lacking all this time -- a clear plan of attack. Now that I have one.
I'm unstopable!

it is getting boring tho ;)

I don't know what I'm doing for a workout today. I need to clean out my car, get a nasty old rug in there, along with other garbage, drive it down to iselin, dump it without arousing too much suspicion...
THEN I have to help Amy with random other stuff since her mother is moving tomorrow. I'm hoping to skate at some point, but I don't won't count on it.

**peace**

2004-08-14T05:46:00.000-07:00

Here they are, must write more later, going to garage sales
w:165.0
a:35.2
h:38.0
f:11.25
wr:7
pp:8.0
ap:21.0
tp:11.0
ft2:11.7

2004-08-13T17:49:00.000-07:00

Wow, my wart hurts (look a few posts ago), and my legs hurt. I had trouble getting my shirt off from all the sweat. I'm tired, I'm hot, I'm thristy.
but... DAMN, I haven't felt this good in YEARS!

I got my skates today (for my birthday - a present from the wonderful gf). I strapped them on and went out for a quick little skate. I forgot how wonderful it is.
I went to the only curb in the town (waxed), and busted my ass doing a Soul Grind, A SOUL GRIND, can you belive it? I must have looked like a fool - 27yrs old and skating like a punk.
Wow.

2004-08-13T04:00:00.000-07:00

A little faster today... the pics came together pretty quickly, the only thing that took a lot of time this morning was going to the bathroom :)
I'm 165.5 today, thats great! I think this water weight is gone and now I can see what I can accomplish!
I really wish I had a scale that did .2lbs increments, mine only does whole and half pounds.
Well here they are - the daily numbers!:
w:165.5
a:35.5
h:37.9
f:11.25
wr:7
pp:8.0
ap:25.0
tp:11.0
ft2:12.9

I'm off to the gym, I think I'm going to do chest and tris today.
I need to post about XM - short version - IT ROCKS!

2004-08-12T18:24:00.000-07:00

Today's Diet:
Today wasn't great. It started off with a bowl of kashi golean crunch (w/ vanilla soy milk). When I got to work I was starving, so I went to 711. I got a Nutri-grain bar and a thing of baby carrots and celery (didn't eat the ranch sauce). For lunch I had TWO PB&Js on potato bread with natural PB.
Those have to be about 450 each (Two slices @ 100 each, a TBLS of PB and the same of jelly).
So, I'm probably at about 1500 already on the day...

2004-08-12T07:01:00.000-07:00

Woah...
this is crazy - I use dotster for all my domains, and Cory over at boingboing has this to say:
http://www.boingboing.net/2004/08/12/how_dotster_cost_me_.html

This is very discouraging. I haven't had problems with them, but with this tale of woe, I might be switching over.

2004-08-12T03:22:00.000-07:00

Well, its 6:21am, and I'm up.
For some reason I woke up pretty earily this morning.
In any event, I'm a bit sore from yesterday's workout (I bet it was the dips), but I'm on my way out anyway ;) I think its another HIIT day - although I could make it a long cardio session.
I'm not sure, but with my skates coming soon, I might stick with HIIT at the gym and make long cardio my fun time.

Today's measurements are:
w:169.0
a:36.0
h:38.0
f:11.25
wr:7
pp:8.0
ap:27.0
tp:10.0
ft2:13.2

the only thing that changed were the fat caliper pinches... and I think I did them wrong yesterday - my bf was 13.2% on it today - and yesterday like 11% (It was the abdominal pinch that screwed me up)
that and my weight. I'm only a pound down from all the water weight, and I'm not going to let it get me down (3lbs higher then my lowest)

2004-08-11T09:38:00.000-07:00

Ok, here was the workout today:
Pullup - upper arms parellel to ground! (getting close!)
Isolation Curl - 15lbs 3x5
EZ bar curl - 30lbs 3x5
Hammer Curl - 10lbs 3x5
Bench Dips - 3x15

as for the diet today:
oatmeal with brown sugar and cinnamon
some almonds, some cashews
some baby carrots.

2004-08-11T04:18:00.000-07:00

Day 1:

Alright, well its not that easy getting up and working a camera, tape measure, and a pair of calipers.
Its now 7:18 and I'm JUST getting the pics uploaded - LAME.
I really need to streamline the whole process... but here are the measurements for today:
w:169.0
a:36.0
h:38.0
f:11.25
w:7
pp:9.0
ap:16.0
tp:14.0
ft2:11.4

Gotta run!

2004-08-10T18:18:00.000-07:00

Ok, well my diet hasn't been too good lately. Sunday night: Pizza. Monday night: Pizza. Tonight: Cake and pasta (its my birthday)
This morning I did HIIT again, and it felt good, my legs are SHOT!
went to the doc today and I have a plantar wart on my foot - thats what's been hurting so much.

Here's the deal - sorry for the rambling post - but I got a lot in my head!
My next "phase" is 1 year. I am going from the day after my birthday (tomorrow), until my next birthday. I know that it won't be 100% effort as I get derailed easily, and I know that I'm going to change up my plan a million times! But I really want to see where I am in one years time.

I'm taking pictures tomorrow morning, and I want to see if I can take them every morning - we'll see how that goes. And seeing how I can't know what the next year will hold, I'm just going to stick to this whole plan as best I can.
Long term goals:
8 minute mile
20 dead hang pullups
> 10% bf
12inchs added to my vert. leap. (currently at 12 inches!)

We'll see what I can accomplish. For my b-day, my girlfriend got me skates, so I think cardio will be a MUCH bigger part of my plan!

Well thanks for reading, and wish me luck!

one more thing. I really think (and this is mostly for me, but applies to anyone I guess.) that in order for me to DO this... I mean REALLY do it. It needs to become a habit for me. My whole live I've lived in fear of habits. I've gone out of my way to avoid a routine b/c I know it will become my lifeblood. But I think I have to make this a habit - thats the ONLY way I'm going to accomplish all of my goals. I'm not the kid anymore who got so damn lucky to find something - that A) I was good at B) was really good for getting in shape (although I couldn't care less at the time) and C) I wanted to do ALL THE TIME.
I'm not saying thats not going to happen again - it VERY well may. But for me to make the changes I want - WHEN I WANT (aka - NOW), I need to make getting up every morning at the same time - coming to the computer, taking some pictures (2, 3?), uploading them (the croping I'm hoping to do automatically), posting a short entry, then going to the gym, coming home, showering - THAT has to become a habit for me. EVERY MORNING. no breaks. no excuses....
phew, this could be hard ;)

2004-08-09T18:07:00.000-07:00

Working out and losing weight.
Ok, I stared working out hard again, and it seems like the harder I work out, he harder I eat...
I'm not sure how to work out and eat well - its like my body is telling me not to do one of the two.

In any event, I'm going to the doctor tomorrow, and I have a whole list of things I want to talk about, I hope she doesn't get too mad!
I most want to talk about my foot, its not feeling well at all...

2004-08-06T06:44:00.000-07:00

165.0
Ok, well thats what I weighed in at. If I only lost .5lbs this week, that would be lame.

I told my dad not to get me Roller blades for my birthday (in 4 days!!!), I'm not sure why.
Amy *might* get them for me, but I'm not sure.
I should really get my foot checked out.

VERY weird dreams last night. Can't type coherently this morning

2004-08-04T11:48:00.000-07:00

For some reason JK wants me to post now. I think it has something to do with the fact that I had a medium Mountain Dew to cheer and wake me up earlier (I rarely have caffine), and since I was having a bad allergy attack, I took some benedryl, which had in it Pseudoephedrine and acetemoniphine in it... so I'm maybe a little loopy.. not sure tho.

I'm not sure if I wrote it b4, but I could NOT get out of bed this morning to work out. It felt like I was boxing for 6 hours yesterday and my body was just mad at me. I worked out in the morning, then helped my boss move stuff (a tv that jk too, a mattress in the garbage, etc etc)... not sure which contributied more to the sorness, but it feels good (aside from the not waking up part).

Alright well I'm bored now, so I'm off

2004-08-04T08:19:00.000-07:00

wow I'm sore!

Like I said, I did pull-up type exercises yesterday, and I am VERY sore today. My lats, my posterier delts... crazyness

I really feel like I can achive my goals. But its going to take focus - something I can be lacking in.

My good friend JK suggested that I should have mini-goals as well - I couldn't agree more. So my first mini-goal on the way to the pullups is 1 pullup - clean OR messy, in a week.
Lets see how that goes.

2004-08-03T09:14:00.000-07:00

Goals Goals Goals.....

I think one of my major problems is taht I don't have SET goals... I change them a lot, b/c there are a lot of things I WANT... I want to have 8% bf, I want to have big shoulders and lats.. I want to be able to run a mile in 8 minutes.

I really think I need to have ONE goal at a time :/... I'm still losing weight without much work - so I'm setting a goal...
20 pullups... Impossible you say? maybe... but I'm gonna go for it... I'm not giving myself a time limit, it might be 10 years... but thats a major goal right now.

I did some asst. today and negatives... I'm gonna try and do more on thursday - I'll post more about it later :)!

2004-08-01T08:07:00.000-07:00

My Mobile Phone
Some guys at work put a big order in on ebay for a bunch of phone junk. We bought it from everydaysource, one of the BIGGEST ebay sellers (like #2 in feed back or something crazy).
Everything was great with them, except their payment form (all the big guys use 3rd party shopping carts instead of just pay pal so you can combine easily), has a problem with Mozilla. I emailed them and they helped me out my taking off the insurance, which was supposed to be optional!In any event, one of the things I got was a new battery.
I put it on my phone when I got it to drain it before charging it fully. This was friday, its now sunday... the battery is totally full, and I've been messing with my phone all weekend.
Which brings me to - the Data cable. I got this as well and its been a royal pain!
I did get it working, and downloaded all my pictures and phonebook. I'm using BitPim - a suprisingly well written Python program that works cross platform. I had to hack together a little perl script to change the names of the picture files off of the phone.
But since yesterday morning, I've been trying to put a mp3 ringtone on my phone, and its been nothing but trouble. But I've learned a lot about the brew filesystem :)

2004-08-01T07:56:00.000-07:00

Update on my progress.

Well... on the one hand I could easily say I've had none. I've been to the gym all of once in the past week. I've been eating whatever I want (but not much at all)...
However, On the scale today, I was 164.5, then 165.5... SOOOO... I have NO idea.
I really want to reach my goals. And I really feel like I want to have an active part in getting there, but it seems like the harder I try - the less I progress, and the less I try (while still trying), the better I do. Seems like a good position to be in, but its not. Its really discouraging, I feel like I have no say in my body, its kinda got a mind of its own :/.

2004-08-01T07:53:00.000-07:00

Nicole's Baby
Last night we went to Amy's Brothers house for Amy's mother's birthday. Nicole, Amy's best friend for years, showed up with her baby Michael. He's about 9 Months old, and he's such an awesome baby. He's always laughing and smiling, adventureous and just all around fun.
I remember when Ethan was around that age. Kids are the best then! All they want to do is explore and be entertained.
I know tho - when I have a child, I'm DONE! I'm not going to want to work on any cool projects like gmail or my phone for a long time. I'm just going to want to sleep and play with them!
Here he is!

2004-07-27T10:50:00.000-07:00

I'm a poor blogger - AT BEST.
but I am a capitalist, and I think thats the only point that Anil Dash is failing to see here: http://www.dashes.com/anil/2004/07/27/optimizing_sear
SEO is flurishing b/c its VERY easy for a company to say - "Why aren't we at the top of Google - let's throw money at the problem!". And also easy to have a cold call, "Hello Company X. We've done market studies (read Searched for 'Company X's business' in google), and see that you are in position Y in google. Wouldn't you like to be #1?" - Which we've gotten!

Aside from that, I DO have a copy of "Search Engine Visibility", but I haven't read it yet.

2004-07-26T06:19:00.000-07:00

The Monday's
Wow... I was supposed to start my thing this morning... I just can't get up on monday morning, it kills me!
I stay up until like 1am on sunday night - so I can't get any sleep...
I'm going to the gym tonight, I gotta figure out what I'm doing...
damnit.

2004-07-24T08:51:00.000-07:00

My sister's birthday is tomorrow (7/25), and I need to go to the mall and get her the gift she wants.
She's going on an ECO adventure for her "Ultimate Black Belt Test" (over a year long test that includes a TON of stuff). Here's one of the things she wants... Lemme call the mall and see if they have it: Water Filter.

2004-07-24T08:48:00.000-07:00

Alright - its the saturday before I start my new "cycle" (I really gotta come up with a good term for this thing I'm undertaking).
I just weighed myself- 167lbs! I did the bf% test at Health Central, and here's what I got: 14%. Woohoo..
Good times... good times

2004-07-22T06:39:00.000-07:00

Ok, well its thursday...
I've decided how I'm going to break down the 12-week challenge. I'm going to have only one or two Major goals for the whole time. However I will have weekly goals (i.e. Run a whole mile non-stop, then in a few weeks, run a mile non-stop in under 9:30, etc). This lets me:

Alter goals as I change (i.e. how can I know NOW where I'll be in 6 weeks)
Lets me meet goals and get more "positive feedback"

I will weigh myself every week - along with two or three methods of bf%. I will also be taking two pictures every week - front and side, with 'notes' (flickr) with all info - waist size, hips, bicep, weight...

I think I'm going to start next monday... maybe sunday.. We'll see.

I also need a good image editor, I uninstalled PSP on my windows (in vmware) to free up some space.

2004-07-21T09:35:00.000-07:00

Trust me, I know its a bad Idea to talk about stuff like this on here. My boss could VERY easily find this blog, and be really pissed about my feelings - but I guess I'm passive aggresive.

in any event - I really need a break. I just can't take this office anymore. I want to take 3 months and just work out non-stop. Maybe no computers... maybe computers, but only working on projects I want to (Like mozilla extensions - they're fun, but VERY hard [and not in a challening way, in a - damn this should be eaiser way]).

I would also like to take 6 months and go do GeekCorps or something.

Oh well. Just needed to get that off my chest...

Oh, I also made a mozilla/firefox ext for posting to del.icio.us quickly, I'll add a link when mozillazine hosts it.

2004-07-19T17:17:00.000-07:00

I'm a sad sad man.
I know its a shocker to all of you - but I'm not going to start my 12 "thing" this week.
I know, I've let you all down... you all were dying to see how it turned out... but honestly, my hearts not in it yet... I really think I need a week to "prepare"... I want one week where I don't care what I eat... I don't care how hard I work out (I will still work out though, if I don't, I'm a bastard at work)... In short, I need a break. I've been at this pretty much non-stop since 4/1, and in that time, I've changed my mind so many times a bout how I was going to do it, what my goals were, etc etc.
So, basically, I'm going to just chill for a little bit :)....
Here is some motiviational pictures for me tho!

2004-07-19T16:32:00.000-07:00

Why why why?
Brant's recent loses, along with that poor 16yrold in brick really hit me kinda hard.
It makes you think about death and loss, and unfufilled dreams. Makes me want my dreams so much more. But to get there, I have to work harder....
Like tonight, I'm going to go to the gym, then I'm gonna eat pizza hut.... thats not gonna get me closer to my goals.. at all.

Oh well...

2004-07-19T13:13:00.000-07:00

Wow, I'm a big fat dissapointment.
I missed the workout this morning (Took a zyrtec last night). And I missed one yesterday.
My "day off" was supposed to be Friday but it looks like sunday it is.

I did however get my stretches in yesterday :)

My new cat!

2004-07-19T07:27:00.000-07:00

This is is new spot...

Picture006
Originally uploaded by kastner.

Tight!

2004-07-18T10:41:00.000-07:00

iPod Nation
Originally uploaded by okoku.

A cool pic

2004-07-17T19:26:00.000-07:00

This is a picture my dad got for his birthday from his wife!
Cool stuff, its really nice in person - the color is amazing (damn camraphones!:)

Picture008
Originally uploaded by kastner.

2004-07-17T18:58:00.000-07:00

a 12 week goal!
Ok, Well I'm about 15 weeks into my inital work, I started around 4/1.
So far I've lost about 15lbs, but I'm not satisifed.
I've started a flickr account for pictures.
I will be taking a picture, weighing and doing bf% once every two weeks.
So here is the deal. I'm going to work for 12 weeks. Here we go:
Stats:

170lbs
13-15% bf
~ 25lbs fat
18 pushups non-stop

Goals:

Lost 10lbs of fat
Be able to do 40 pushups non-stop
Be able to do 3 good pullups.

Plan of attack:

Lift 3x a week
HIIT cardio 3x a week
A week is Saturday-Friday

Wow!

2004-07-17T18:56:00.000-07:00

Jeez thats cute!

funny
Originally uploaded by sparkly_cupcake.

2004-05-08T20:17:00.000-07:00

abc

2004-05-03T13:46:00.000-07:00

Lets do a post JUST for Super BRANT...

2004-05-03T13:35:00.000-07:00

4:39pm....
At work, bored
....