Another Today

I had an amusing dance this morning as I contemplated my options for breakfast. I ended up making a macaroni and cheese, baked beans and tuna combo. For lunch a diet coke and pastry, for dinner a beef Mexican tortilla with cafe-con-leche. Now I down waters as I fight not to go to bed too soon, tired from my second day back at work.

Holiday Over Adjustments

How the bed rocks in nightmarish twists and turns as the mind set adjusts to returning to work. But how small still my vocabulary of fast foods for the pace of employment. Yesterday had me in the morning for sweet pastry plus Starbuck-style beverage at the local convenience store.

OK, so I am side stepping my responsibility by blaming being busy... I am not so busy that I can't make a boxed lunch, a healthy breakfast alternative, or find a better alternative at the convenience store. Get real, dear self, think nutritious alternatives, eat well at home, while exploring alternatives while at work.

Bad health is hardly a choice, yet the one I am taking when I slip to default.

How can diets do what they do?

While walking through the hills, my chest felt extreme pressure on the incline up. My stamina has dissipated. Breakfast was a slice of buttered toast, and coffee. Lunch a large size bowl of ramen. Dinner was a salad with dressing and macaroni and cheese. There was also a glass of beer after lunch and a soy milk drink or two.

The thoughts in work is a blog for my teaching and a video blog marathon to compliment this process. Images merge to manifest affirmation.

This could be the One

There is no secret about video podcasting. This is a way for distribution centers, i.e. You Tubes, to consolidate page viewing which, in turn, establishes their site as a major player. Content has been the problem for distribution companies for some time now, there just isn't enough 'value content' for a world with so many cable stations and internet sources. So why not seduce the creative juices of the masses to produce content for free, occasionally throwing these dedicated creators a bone, like syndication, prizes, and/or their 15 minutes of fame.

But for me, there might be one more incentive. I could use it to see myself and perhaps resolve my issues concerning weight loss, by consistently going public.

Fun Forty Day Project

I had great pleasure in the investigative web page creation of my 40 day diet blogs and now feel creating a video blog of my dieting would be challenging fun. I will want to get a running start before I brought it completely public, yet I feel I am getting close to initiating the process.

This thought makes the notion of a smaller 'guerrilla-style' camera more practical to the more elaborate cameras I was considering. Initiating video-blogging as a personalized diet makes sense. Later I can move into more content oriented programing once I have learned about uploading, editing, and the myriad of other skills necessary for minimal quality.

Knowing specifically the target audience and production variables helps initially to get me going. Setting my target low, within pragmatic reach, helps as well.

Sunny Walk Day

Springing forward, I look forward to my first long walk in quite sometime. Food dances in and out of my day in great abundance, as well as the symptoms of a lingering sore throat. One can argue the relationship of diet and exercise to health, but why argue? Just meet my friend and walk the streets of Kyoto.

My Weight tied to Gas Prices

Getting angry? Going mad, to facilitate a diet... does it take drama to diet?

I invested an entire year in learning about nutrition, exploring both a vegan and a raw 'living-food' lifestyle. What did I learn? For one, eating is an integral part of who I am. Only when I live in an extremely supportive community could I make such a radical shift. Even though I know 'intellectually' what is more healthy, the pleasure and social expedience of local foods out weighs my 'knowledge' of health.

I love eating with friends or alone. When alone I want to bath myself in pleasure (feel full) and when with friends I want a joyous voluptuous eating experience for everyone. Unless I were to move into a raw vegan, vegan, or vegetarian home, with a willful and skillful cook, could I sustain such a diet... And, even then, I suspect this would only be maintained while under the umbrella of that closed environment. As soon as I ventured out I would again relish the local sinful fare.

Spring offers promise... or "Who am I kidding?"

I am learning by leaps and bounds about blogging software yet I am by no means any closer to my objectives. This seems to be a pattern... research something to death. Yet in each attempt there must be a collective expansion of consciousness or at least brownie points for trying.