DaveGetsFit

I had a short but good workout today. After warming up with some kettlebell halos, I did three clean and press ladders with four rungs. I took it easy–didn’t want to toast my shoulders since I haven’t been working out much at all. I was going to do some kettlebell swings after that but I decided to head over to the Concept 2 rower for a little Tabata action. I warmed up for five minutes and then did 8×20sec with 10 sec rest. The distances for each interval dropped from 100 meters from the first one to 82 meters for the 6th. I managed to bump it back to 85 and 86 for the last two. It’s easy to see I haven’t been doing much work that shows up on the intensity scale.

This post marks yet another “restart” to my blogging efforts. My last restart didn’t last long, despite a nice comment from Mark Sission, because I became a Twitterholic shortly thereafter. I just found it much more convenient to knock out 140 character messages on my cell phone than to dig out my laptop from it’s hiding place (paranoid since the last one was stolen) and compose a full post. But I have really slipped in my efforts to be primal over the last few weeks so I’ve decided I need every bit of motivation I can find to get back and stay on track. Blogging has helped in the past so I’ll try it again.

One thing I am trying to do now is to eliminate “sweets” from my diet for awhile. That means natural and artificial. I seem to have this terrible sweet tooth that just takes over sometime. I’m hoping that by eliminating anything that taste sweet (including fruit) I can get a handle on this. Castle Grok had a good post on this on his website that got me to thinking about doing this. We’ll see.

I don’t know what I weigh right now–I’m afraid to get on the scale. I don’t really need to because my belt tells me all I need to know. Whereas at one time I was comfortable using the 3rd hole from the end and could use the 4th, I’m back to the 2nd. That’s not good. I don’t want to undo all the work I did getting from 245 to below 210. So it’s time to draw the proverbial line in the sand.

I’ll probably have some turkey this evening around 4:30, which will be 24 hours after my last piece of pumpkin pie was devoured. There’s still a lot of leftover crap sitting around for temptation–I just have to do what I need to do (like secretly throw some of it away).