I am trying to loose weight, as I have said in past posts. My goal is to loose another 50 pounds and to get off as many of the twenty blood-pressure medications as I can. My proceedure for doing this is simple. First, I am cutting out all...well almost all as this is the Christmas Season...sugar. Next, I am going to eat three meals and a couple of healthy snacks between those meals to cut cravings for sugar. Add to this, I am going to make my portions smaller and eat what I want as i don't do well on diets. Finally, its back to the gym and I am lifting weights again at least three times a week and doing cardio for at least five days a week. It seems to be working as I have lost six pounds, water weight to be sure, since I started on Monday. I really feel good though.
Today was my cardio day, twenty five minutes of biking and five minutes of cooldown on a recumbrant bike. Everytime I get on the bike I am reminded of the scene from the movie "The Right Stuff", which dealt with the early years of the American space program and the training of the Mercury 7 astronauts, and the scene of the chimpanee Ham riding on the stationary bike. When I am riding on the bike, that is kind of how I feel. I feel like a chimpanzee riding a bike and going nowhere fast, at level 1 actually. The pedals go around, but I get nowhere. Is there something wrong in this? Is there something wrong with me...well, that's another story but we won't deal with that here.
Disclaimer: I am afraid that I wasn't exactly truthful with you. I am only on six blood pressure medications. Sorry if I caused you any inconvenience but I want to maintain the credibility and accuracy of my writing. Please forgive me if I caused any discomfort.
---The author
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