Oh yes.

Are we sore? Yes.

How sore are we? Sore enough to want more.

I have finally put myself back....a bit aggresively, butthen again, my pretty ones, it is about destroying the person I allowed myself to become, and take bak my lost sense of direction, optimism, and, most importantly, self worth.

I am now sketching out a weight regimen, but, have been taking it conservatively, due to lowered strength (you can thank the stint I did, serving my country under General Chou's command for that), and the need to get some self esteem back on my mile time.

I am definitely looking for some guidance, because, I am a big fogged----what worked for me before is, obviously, out of my reach, right now, and I want something new, besides.

Like the Arc trainer. WTF is that thing? I always thought these devices were purely for middle-management types, or for reading Marie Claire.

Christ almighty, thanks for making me feel thirty, Cybex. Are you publicly traded> Because I will add you to my portfolio, you sadistic cyber horror. That is quite a mean streak you got, not to mention what care you showed my knees, previously the neglected, abused lumpenproletariat of my anatomy.

I am hoping someone can point me to some guided advice, for putting myself back in the fire, so to speak? Any new things, etc, going on?

I can post body stats, if you want, but at least let me finish the week out.....

My diet is decent, getting back to where it should be (where others roll their eyes, and covet my designer sunglasses with a glare) and I really do not want any scientific bric-a-brac, just yet, on that.

I want some maximum fat burning: I am utilizing free weights, a pool, running, calisthenics, (actally started to enjoy this time I get to spend with myself in the wee small hours) , the Jesus Lizard, Slayer, the aforementioned Cybex, and....

I found this tucked in away in some last row/forgotten end of the gym, down this half height corridor, and through a grate:

a rowing machine.

First time was fun. Second time? I threw up in the locker room. Have not done that in more than a year. It was all bile and water, and the stench of ammonia/acetone rising from my dripping pale skin was ridiculous. Like, a 10K circa July 27th, and your boss is also running so you better put some fortune favors the bold behind your heels.......



Additionally, and this is probably what I report with the most pride, is that I haven't had a drop since December...30th? Yep. If I can make through the two worst months without the boose, then I can probably go all of 2008.

And that is worth more than anything I wrote above, the secret weapon of getting fit and fast.....


If anyone wants to participate in "Byron, Inc.'s Organizational Reassignment Audit for 2008" on a consulting basis, let me know.

I will be happy to really get involved with the group here, and, more importantly, watch the stones of the temple fall around me, crushing slave girls and Philistines while I wait for my own....

Thanks in advance.....

Byron out.

Umm....Welcome to JSF? :p

Check out the stickies in the introduction forum, it is a great place to start!

Sounds like you're ready for some changes, do some research but most importantly DO something. :tu:

Good luck! Everyone is here to help! :D

Hi, Byron! :wave:
Good work stopping with the alcohol. :tu: As for the puking, that's a blood sugar thing. If you continue having problems with it then I would suggest adding some dextrose during the workout. :)

Hi, Byron! :wave:
Good work stopping with the alcohol. :tu: As for the puking, that's a blood sugar thing. If you continue having problems with it then I would suggest adding some dextrose during the workout. :)



Ah yes.

Like many American adults, for me, the only possible thing to do to deal with being alive is to numb the central nervous system; we say well it's social!"

The we blithely, cheerily refuse to acknowledge it is not social in this country, it is an endemic symptom of this nation's disorganized personality: a Calvinistic, ignorant, and pedantic philosophy which explodes in moments of unlettered excess and vulgar, primal violence.

Disagree all you want, you will merely show how unlettered and culturally illiterate we are here; we are the dysfuntional, bend-sinister bearing bastard child of Western Civilization, and we know it. America cannot grow up, until Americans decide to.....I am merely doing my own patriotic function. I am sure California will slog on without me, seeing as how home values and wages are both dropping......

My advice is to buy into vice-index equities and funds. People should pay for their sins, no? Well, why should we not profit from that?

So yes, I am resolving to drop the boose....forever? Who knows. Probably not. After all, Oscar Wilde took Communion on his deathe bead, so one can never say never.