Day 3 - Fast approach - Tuesday, 9-29-09

So I am still Going Ghandi and it is going well, you can absolutly feel the toxins and crap leaving your body. I have spent quite a bit of time researching this fasting thing and it has been uncanny how the predicted effects have followed. Your breath gets stinky from toxins leaving the body through your lungs, slight back ache as the intestines that are close to the spine purge toxins, my muscles have tightned up a lot (mostly my legs) as toxins build up and find there way out and some tiredness (of course I am fairly lazy so it may not have anything to do with that). Overall it has been amazingly easy and enjoyable, there is also quite a nice euphoric feeling attached to fasting - it worked for Jesus, Buddah, Moses, Isiah, King David, both Madonnas and Beyonce so.....

I didn't really do anything today besides go to the kids soccer practice and a little working -
no exercise today - lazy ass.

On a seperate note, I hate those Charles Scwabb commercials where the actors are bizzarly animated and creepy - what is the point - investing is "fantasy" or your money is being handled by Disney - just don't get it.

Talk to you later,
Joe G.
Peace!

Day 2 - Going Ghandi Monday 09-28-09

So I am almost through day 2 of the 100 day (hmmm..what to call it, adventure, plan, journey -I will have to work on that) thingy. I have been fasting for these first two days Sunday and Monday, I think it will be a good jump start to the (quest, challenge, goal...ahh) thingy. I really like to fast, it is a great feeling of accomplishment and cleansing - just drink a lot of water and the hunger goes away pretty quickly - I have gone 4 days before with no problem .

I think more people would fast if it was cooler you know hipper for the kids- so I have come up with a hot new marketing term for fasting "Going Ghandi". I believe this will be the perfect counterbalance to the Kanye West, Joe Wilson douche syndrome we are currently in.

You make the call

"Be the change you want to see in the world" "My life is my message"

"YOU LIE!" His reasoning - "it was spontaneous"
"I realize that my place and position in history is that I will go down in history as the voice of this generation....this decade." Countless others examples of douchebaggery

Certainly this can be something that can catch on, Ghandi has his own movie staring Ben Kingsley (by the way if you see the movie Ben Kingsley was born to play that part), has easily 20-30 books written about him, he respected women and held them in higher regard than men and he spun his own cloth and made his own clothes.
He is the perfect new hero for this generation, movie star, surrounded by the ladies and his own clothing line. So when you start hearing - Dude#1: "dude want to catch lunch" Dude #2: "nah - I am GOING GHANDI" or instead of people yelling "EAT SH*T and DIE!" you will hear "eat nothing and love one another" remember you heard it hear first. Let's get on the band wagon now, put on the Khadi wear, the Topi cap and the sandals - stop all that eating - walk 100 miles just to get a beat down by the man - do it now so later you won't be called a "whandi".

Besides going ghandi on Monday I also did a 20 min interval routine on the treadmil and "picked up weights" (this is a Leboism named after my son) did chest, shoulders and back - I am sore today.
Talk to you soon!
Joe
Peace!

Day one - the virgin blog Sunday 09-27-09

I have decided to start a blog, some of my favorite people in the whole world have a blog - they have inspired me to give it a whirl. Deciding to write a blog is one thing but what to write about, that is something else.
I have been considering an idea for quite a while of pursing a goal of losing 100 pounds in 100 days. It seems possible to me, I have been trying to find out on the Internet if it is - I can't find any success stories..yet. I have tried to find out the timeline for biggest loser, it looks like about 100 days on the "Ranch" and then sometime at home before the finale - men typically lose 100 pounds in that time period. Cheryl loves, loves, loves biggest loser, I have only seen a few episode can't really get into it.
So I started on Sunday September 27th 2009, 100 days will make the deadline date January 5th, 2010 (did you know you can just google 100 days from today and there is a calculator that will give you the date - matter of fact there is like 20 such calculators - the Internet is so wonderful and strange - who creates these things). My starting weight is 331 (5301 ounces, 150277 grams, 4809 troy ounces -so if I was made of solid gold I would be worth $4,770,528.00 - more calculators) I have been heavier in my life but this has been my fairly consistent weight for the last couple of years. I am certainly not a self hater or anything, I don't care for being fat really but I don't obsess on it or either. The fact is it will help to lose the weight - there is the health issues (diabetes, high blood pressure etc....), encouragement for my wife, the example I set for my kids, smaller clothes means more room in the suitcase when traveling, being a smaller target for flying objects (bird poop, spit, sneezes, dropped sodas and those flying pieces of wood like in the movie "Twister" that haunts me every day) and I may be with any luck and by Gods will be just a little better soccer player (fingers crossed).
So why am I telling you all this, why is this pertinent to your life - well it's not really. Usually when people want to lose weight they keep it a secret, the bigger the person the bigger the secret. You get afraid of letting everyone know because you might fail and look like a fool or you will draw all this attention that most fat people don't want. Mostly I think you get afraid of the accountability & vulnerability that comes with exposing your secret weight loss desires. It is easier to talk about the reason you can't get started or bust out the self deprecating humor and mourn the failed attempts in the past. The times I have had success in losing weight has been with a set goal, support from friends and family and a good plan - hopefully this will be the recipe for success again.
I will try to be a diligent poster and keep those who are interested in the progress and process along the path. I will also try to make it as entertaining as possible and not just all about this little weight loss challenge. I hope to get better at the tech side of the blog with pictures and graphics very soon.
Exercise today was playing 3 1/2 games of soccer (well one was a forfiet and I didn't really like the team so I mostly stood around - why can't people just stay with their man)
Wow, cool my first blog!
Talk to you soon!
Joe G.
Peace!