Stunt for profit or positive change?

I ran across this picture along with an article.

Some people are complaining that girls will emulate the woman in the picture. Or worse, want to be even thinnner.

Excuse me?

How could anyone possibly view that as some kind of goal? I have a feeling that anyone that looks at that and wants to be as sick as she is, is already well on their way to un-health.

The photographer claims the stunt is meant to raise awareness. I hope it works - this just makes me want to feed the poor woman something. Anything!

Check out the article; the news is a little old, but it's still worth some attention.

Hiking in Briones National Park

I've been meaning to share more pics with everyone, so now seems like a perfect time since I got ahold of a friends digital camera (thanks Mike).


Here is the road leading in to a trail that follows the creek for awhile, from the Alhambra staging area.











Here is me near the Briones peak! I'm about 50 feet of elevation away.


The camera was set to place a time/date stamp on the bottom right corner of each pic. I didn't know the camera was set up to do this. Not only was the date wrong, but it looked ugly. So, I photoshopped them to remove the stamp. I was tempted to add some more hair, but I resisted.

The top pic's edit is hardly noticeable, but I got tired of doctoring and did a rush job on the photo of me.

Hiking has been fun, and great excercise. It's a whole heck of alot easier to eat well and feel good when I'm active often. My goal is to hike at least 3 times during the week and once on the weekend. I was one hike short last week, but this upcoming week I'll be right on track.




AS you can see, in this last pic I was too lazy to edit the stamp out. Ignore the date, it was taken today. I think this is one of my favorites...

Back in the saddle... again

So, here we go again! It's taken me weeks, but I've finally gone from half-hearted "every other meal" good diet choices, to actually hitting the gym every day (sundays off) and eating well consistantly.

Before, when I first started this blog, I did what I seem to do alot - I overplan and overthink. Now, by just doing a little bit at a time, I'm doing much more for my health then when I tried to go ahead full force.

Remember those charts I made to track my weight loss? They were really fun to make (geek) and I loved seeing my progress graphically. BUT it didn't help keep me on track, it just served as a reminder about how short lived all that shit was. But, unlike all those charts and weekly progress reports I live on to shrink another day! Perhaps I'll track progress and make charts every few months instead.. yes I'm a lazy geek.

I'm going to take a much more zen approach to the weight loss thing.. I'll remain active and eat what I know is good for me.

Speaking of which, I had a terrific salad today!! The star of my wonderous creation were some of my roommates olives I found in the fridge (sorry Mike, I'll buy some more). Very tasty.

For exercise I've been doing some very careful resistance training (because of my back injury, I can't do anything that exerts pressure on my spine) and also some swimming. I love being in the water again! I don't have to deal with being self concious, since I swim on my lunch break which occurs at around 3am since I work nights. One of these days I'll just not give a shit about what people think of my body and just do what I want!


Theres a good subject for another blog, the whole body image thing.. what would YOU do if self-image was irrelevant?

Oh and as a last minute thought. The back is feeling awesome from the swimming and the sit-ups and such... yay for my back.

And now, your moment of Zen.....
<~~~ I stole this picture from someone I don't know and put my junk on it. I'm so bad...

I can has cheezburger

My thoughts exactly...

Pictures promised

Long long ago, in a post far far away... (well not that far, just scroll down) I promised some vacation pictures from when my friend visited from the east coast and we tooled around SF and Muir Woods...

Here's a banana... slug.

Wait. No picture... I can't upload!

WHY OH GOD WHY!!

I'll try again...

month or so later, I have some success - yes, this is an edit of a draft =)

So.. it worked.

In other news, I've been swimming lately and have been enjoying it immensely. I wish I had started earlier.

Tonight I went on a lunch break. Well, dinner break.. or is it breakfast... break? I work nights, so I never know what to call my 2 am food time and stuff hour.

It's been tough keeping at it, but I'm on track again when it comes to exercise, which was my barrier to good eating in the past. When I hurt my back, I had to stop lifting - in turn, I had a hard time eating well since when I lift I crave the good-for-you stuff.

So, swimming and very light lifting has replaced hard core pumping iron. Oh well, c'est la vie.

Heres a another vacation pic...
I printed this one and put it up on my wall. So.. you might be saying, "Snow in San Francisco??" Nah, by this time Matt and I had enough of the city and visited Yosemite a few hours away. It's in the mountains, so gets plenty of snow in the winter.

Au revoir, bon chance, est bon voyage!!