Grey Ghost Hunter's Diary

M_Marie said:
well sometimes you need a change of routine anyways... and you have been really pushing yourself lately... this could be a good thing!!!! :) Keep up the good work and just keep at it!!!! do the best you can !


ps- thanks for being my new facebook buddy... NOW GO UPDATE YOUR STATUS!!! hehe
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yea yea yea..... I'll get to it....he he
 
Ok, So.

My scale and I are starting to work out our differences this week. We have actually started talking again. So this week when I stepped upon the old boy he told me that I weighed in at 176. A four pound lose from last week. WOO WOO..

For some reason this is up from Friday when I weighed in at 173. I can't quite figure it out. I lose 7 pounds between Monday and Friday, but once the weekend is over and I weigh in on Monday I'm up from the Friday weight. What is even weirder is that I didn't do anything different on the weekend that I didn't do during the week when it came to diet and exercise. Except for going to BK on Sat. but then I only had a small pop and a grilled chicken sandwich. And then on Sat. night the wife and I went to see Wild Bill Bauer and I only had one Cpt. and Diet and one Coors Light, that was it. Hell I don't know.
 
to try and understand the human body... is impossible hehe... never seems to make sense to me that when i am feeling I totally pigged out and ate poorly... i lose.. and vice versa.


but congrats on the 4 lb loss!! :) :hurray:
 
Just a quick post to update my weigh in before I head to work.

Weighed in at 175 this morning.

Will be back later today to post more.
 
This has been a very long week.

I have yet to do anything close to excersice all week. Been working anywhere from 13 to 16 hrs a day, literally 7 days a week.

So when I try to get up in the morning to go for a run, it just doesn't happen. I'm so worn out from work I just can't get myself going. As for the diet, I've tried to stick with it pretty good. It's just when I'm sitting at my desk at 10:00 at night I usually end up breaking down and hitting the vending machine.

The overtime money is nice, but I wish the hell the overtime would stop cause it is killing me.
 
Well Hell week is pretty much over. Ended the week with 81.5 hours worked and 3 lbs gain. I have determined that when under stress I eat. Didn't want to, but I did.

So now the new week has started, the project is out the door, and now I'm back to my orignal project before I started the Hell week. I am still doing overtime just not as much. So I can pretty much get back to my workout routine.

Made me some ham and beans last night, and I plan to live off that for the next couple of days for my meals. We'll see how that works out.

Did go out and play a round of golf on Sunday with my daughter. That is always a fun time. We have always enjoyed getting out and having a father/daughter time together which typically would either be golf or our favorite passion Archery. And since she starts practice this week for the high school golf team we thought it would be good to get out and get some practice before practice. Since we haven't played almost all summer. If you can understand that.
 
I'm a huge fan of archery as well.

What do you shoot with?

I use a good old-fashioned recurve and my arrows are wooden shafts and feathers. I like 'natural' archery.
 
Depends on the situation.

For hunting I use the Hoyt ViperTec with Easton Epic carbon arrows.

For Indoor Target I use the Hoyt ProTec with Easton 2614 eclipse arrows.

and

For Outdoor Target and 3D I use the Hoyt UltraTec with ACC 3-39 arrows.

Do you think I'm a little passionate about Archery? he he.

Gotta luv it....
 
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Yeah, I've been shooting compounds my whole life.

I have thought about getting an Olympic recurve and trying it out but haven't got around to it.
 
ok, so lately I haven't had the most motivation in the world and have felt pretty crappy emotionally for reason I will not go into here. As for my diet and exercising, they have been pretty none existant. When ever I try to get up in the morning to run I either just plain out don't have the motivation to go or it is raining and I can't go, and I have been eating everything under the sun.

So Fastforward to Yesterday morning (or would that be rewind, no matter) I'm driving to work all upset about my life and I see a cloud with the sun behind it shooting rays of sun out from behind the cloud. It just kinda brightened things up. It was like it was telling me to relax, everything will be ok. Well anyways, I just felt at ease all of a sudden. It was like a sign from God. Something told me that I needed to remember this moment, so I took a picture with my phone.

The funny thing about it, is the fact that I really didn't know just what the impact that sunrise was really going to do for me until later on that morning. I'll post that seperately after I finish posting this. You'll know why once I do it. Also, I am posting the picture I took.
 
Ok, so to continue.

After I took the picture I continued to work. Once there I was working along and my blackberry went off telling me that I have an e-mail. So I opened it up and out of no where my life turned 180 degrees.

Before I tell you what the e-mail was about. I need to give you some background. I spent 10 years in the Army to be medically retired back in '99. If it wasn't for my illness I would still be in today. I live and breath military. My wife can contess to that. Well for the last 10 years I have been working in an Architectural office drawing plans for buildings. Don't get me wrong this is what I went to college for, and I love working in Architecture. It's just have always had a passion for the military.

Well anyways, a couple months ago I got into nagotiations (sp) with a private military company and yesterday that e-mail was from that compay. They offered me a position with there company and I accepted. I am now going to be a Force Protection Officer for this private military company.

Now here is the best part about the whole thing. With this position I will be making double what I am making now. Which is a life saver for me right now.

But it comes with a price. Boys and Girls I am here to announce.............








I'M GOING BACK TO THE SAND BOX!!!!!


Yep, with excepting this postion I will be going to the Middle East for the next year minimum.


Well thats all for now, I'll more to come later.
 
So now with my soon to be new adventure. I decided to try not to worry about what I weigh everyday and work more toward conditioning myself. I am still going to continue with the same workout and diet, I'm just not going to live on the scale and worry about if I lose or not. I will perodically check to make sure I am still on track in losing weighed, just won't be so worried about it.

So I have been actually able to get out and run in the morning the past few days. Something I noticed as I was running these days. IT'S DARK AT 5:00 IN THE MORNING. Wasn't like this a month ago. So since the morning is the only time I get to run I went out and bought me one of them lights you strap to your head. Guess you could call it a "HEADLIGHT". he he. Anyways, motivation is good and running feels great.
 
So yesterday morning I acidentelly overslept and didn't get my run in. So when I got home after work I punished myself and made myself run 6 miles, to include 5 hills. Talk about a kicker. Anyways the run was great and I felt good afterwords.

Fast forward to this morning I made sure not to over sleep. The radar was showing rain in the area but at the time it wasn't rainning. I almost talked myself out of running because of the chance of the rain, but kick myself in the butt and told my self to stop make excusses and to get my self out to the road. So out to the road I went and 3 miles later I finished my run with not a drop of rain on me. Only the sweet smell of the sweat and accomplishment.

Diet is doing good. Even thou the office vending machine keeps screaming my name. Good thing is that I have been able to aviod it.
 
Yet another morning of waking up to rain. So needless to say I didn't get to run this morning. Oh well, probably better off due to the fact that my legs are extremly sore from working out and running.

Maybe this evening when I get off work the weather will be better and I can get a run in.
 
I had a decent weekend, except for eating a little to much. Not alot just more than what I should of. The wife ordered pizza Friday night and I ended up eating like 5 slices. On Saturday the wife fixed hog burgers on the grill and I had 2, along with fries. On Sunday my better day. We had catfish fillets with fried zuccinis.

Did get plenty of exersice this weekend. Ran an average of 3 miles a day all weekend. Also, took 2 1/2 hours to mow my yard. Then Yesterday afternoon my daughter and I spent the afternoon on the golf course playing a round a golf.
 
I didn't run this morning. I decided at the last minute to put it off until after work. Why, because it's to cold to run in the morning and I'm not ready for the cold. Especially when I'm going to the sandbox at the end of the month. So I decided that I'm going to hold off until this evening after work to run when the temp will be a bit warmer than the low 40's.

I'm not doing as well on my diet these days. I was doing pretty good yesterday until I got home last night when I had 2 PB sandwiches, the last of the fried zuccini, and a bag of popcorn for a evening snack. I have got to get better control of my diet. I for the life of me can't figure out where or how I've gone wrong. When I first started my diet I was doing great in staying away from the bad stuff and keeping with my portions. Now days I just can't stay away from the crap. Starting to make me wonder how this weekend is going to be with the holiday. We have plans to go to this huge flee market complete with several food vendors, and are going to a family cookout at a camp ground. This is not going to be a good weekend.

Wish me luck.
 
Its tough sometimes to stick to the diet when SO MUCH is going on in life... maybe thoughts of the sandbox trip soon has you stressed and you dont even realize it? Or you might be burnt out... i know i was and i needed to take some time away to regroup.... and that truly helped.


glad you had some quality time with your daughter this weekend.... i know every moment i spent with my dad i truly cherish... we dont do that nearly enough these days
 
Well another holiday weekend has come and gone. Kept myself busy pretty much all weekend. Only missed one day of exercise. Tried to stay with the diet all weekend, but was dificult because of the holiday. We went to a camp ground where alot of my family was going to be for a cook out. Needless to say I was elected to run the grill. So standing over the grill all afternoon didn't help much, but I was able to limit myself to one brat and one burger. So I think I did pretty good.

Again, I have decided to not weigh myself until just before I leave for Kuwait and consintrate more on phyically ability, and just hope I keep dropping weight. I've decided that I'll weigh in the week prior to leaving so I'll have some idea as to where I'm at and make any adjustment then.

I think your right M, about my mind set of going to Kuwait. It may have some impact of how my diet is going currently.
 
Had another busy weekend, only difference is that I kept myself in check as best as I could considering the circumstances.

The Archery Club I belong to had it's annual Hog Roast and 3D shoot this past weekend and my job was to cook the hog. So starting Friday evening I was at the range and didn't sleep or leave until 5:00 p.m. the next day. Matter of fact if I total up the entire time I was awake to include getting up at 6:00 a.m. Friday til I went to bed Saturday at 9:00 p.m. I was awake for a total of 39 hours. Ouch... Anyways I had to get up early on Sunday to go back to the range for the final day of the shoot and roast.

Anyways not to get off subject. During the whole time I was at the range I managed to limit my self to the hog. I only allowed myself one slice of hog each day. To tell you the truth, it was easier than I thought to avoid the hog. Maybe it had to do with the fact that I was sitting up with the damn thing all night and once it was done I was sick of looking at it, or maybe it was for the fact that we pushed over 200 people through the course and the food line and just simply didn't have the time to eat. Either way, I'm pround of myself for limiting myself.

The bad part about the whole weekend. After it as all and done with and I was about to say good bye to the hog for ever. MY WIFE BOUGHT WHAT FEW POUNDS WAS LEFT AND BROUGHT THE DAMN THING HOME.

Well anyways as the workouts got I have kinda tailed off the running and have concintrated more on the ab workout. I'm not liking what I have been seeing with my stomach. It's seem that I'm just not losing much around my waist like I would like to see. So I have been increasing my abs workout and slowing down on the running.

Again I haven't weighed myself in a while and don't plan on it until probably the end of next week, which is the weekend before I leave for Kuwait.
 
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