Two days ago, I went to the gym in the evening.  I could only go for 45 minutes, but I went.  Yesterday I went to the gym on my lunch hour and got in another half hour.  I’m also eating lighter with veggies, fruit, tuna being the main bits.  Unfortunately I did make trips to Tims the last two mornings and had a small coffee and buttered bagel.  I reduced the coffee!  I didn’t get cream cheese!  Well, the real problem here is when I stay up later, I feel that need for a coffee very strongly.  I must go without the coffee.  I must say no.  I still can’t believe I went nearly 18 months without.

I also got new batteries for the scale.  The bad news is that my starting point is officially … 240 lbs.  That means I’ve put on 10 pounds in the last 4-6 months.  The challenge is now bigger than ever.  Can I get fit and lose 50-60 pounds?  Can I run a 5k?  Stay tuned…

 

Ok so I set the alarm for 4 or 5 hoping that I could get my body over to the gym in the morning.  First lesson learned:  if you stay up late the night before, watching Tessa Virtue skate, then getting up early the next morning will not work.  Not only that, but you’ll require a coffee to get yourself awake and enable you to do anything.  So, no gym and had a coffee.  Not a good start.  I did bring some fish and yogurt for lunch and don’t intend on eating out.  I might get to the gym tonight too.  I have to take every opportunity if I want a positive outcome.

I also went to get on the scale today for a baseline weigh-in only to find that the batteries in the scale were dead.  I’m not sure but that might just be a sign that I should not weigh myself and just do the right things.  On the other hand, if I don’t weigh myself, how can I say that I lost ‘x’ pounds?  Oh wait, they have a scale at the gym.

 

 

Ever have a bunch of things going on that make you so busy that when they are done, you feel like saying ‘what now?’.  I just completed my work as Derek Spencer in Casting For Murder.  It was fun.  The adjudicator said things like ‘one to watch’ and ‘loveable’.  Can’t go wrong with that.  Then I found out that next season, the group is doing A Streetcar Named Desire.  The first thing that comes to mind is the iconic moment – an near cliche – of Marlon Brando shouting ‘STELLAAA!’.  Then I think of Brando and how engaging an actor he could be.  Could I play this part?  I’m only 40-50 pounds overweight for it!  But could I?  With 9 months to figure that out, it becomes an incentive to reshape.  Many great actors – Bale, Hanks, Leto – have adjusted their physique for a role.  Could I be disciplined enough for that?  What if I didn’t get the role anyways?  Well, then I guess I’d have to live with my progress.  So here we go.  Back to the gym, diets, no coffee…  Yes, I’ve been drinking coffee for the last 4 weeks.  After being off it for 18 months.  I can’t wait to get off of it again