Health report

As long as were making New Year's resolutions, I should note carefully developments on my personal health and fitness.

I have not been as faithful as I should be to keeping tabs on my Weight Watchers program. At my last report in September, I was down to 295 pounds. I'm thinking some of that may have been dehydration as well as fitness. At this point, after the festivities of the holidays, I find myself back up to about 315 pounds. This is still a far improvement over 329, which is where I really started my plan to be serious about my eating and exercising. I have been spending far too long in this chair, and that does not make for a happy body. If I live like a clam, I'm going to have the blood chemistry and cholesterol of a clam.

Good old Matthew Fury, the baldheaded fitness guru who I confess has been actually very helpful to me, recommends three workouts today. As I interpret him, for a person like me, that's three sessions of 20 minutes each day doing something. Breathing exercises for one period perhaps, a walking session, and then body weight and resistance exercises.

Last week I started with a 20 minute session of aerobic and resistance work on the Total Gym; I was sore for four days afterwards, so I know I'm quite out of shape. I am actually in better shape than I was prior to Christmas because of all the walking have been doing while hunting. I know I have more muscle mass and a lighter step than I used to have. Nevertheless, I obviously need to take Matt seriously. This is going in one of my 10 goals for the index cards. Basta cosí. Stop writing; now act!