The Franco-Taiwanese Alliance

Eating right, like working out or blogging regularly, is a tough job, an exercise in commitment and sacrifice.  Alice has managed to convince me that I’m not the raging grease-monger that I sometimes think I am, but there’s certainly a lot of room for improvement.  I eat a lot of things that, while not terrible, should probably be kept out of my diet if I want to look like our good buddy Steve Cho.  For instance, I’m currently eating a chicken Caesar salad that I got from Nugget, and it took a lot of my negligible food-willpower to restrain myself to half the container of dressing.

I bought a copy of the Men’s Health book Amazing Abs on the cheap at Costco yesterday (mainly because it contains interviews with the guy who played Leonidas and Jason All-That-Is-Man Statham), and the introductory section on nutrition has me feeling guilty.  Again, I’m not the kind of guy who downs six-packs of soda or beer a day, and I don’t eat entire bags of Cheetos while surfing the tubes (anymore), but I do tend to use a whole freakin’ lot of salad dressing, and I like the occasional carb binge.  I guess it’s about time all that changed… illusions of getting back into shape aside, even, I’m not a spring chicken anymore, and I need to start taking better care of myself.  My family has a history of both high AND low blood pressure, so either I’m invincible, or I’m screwed!

In other news, this salad totally had like three pieces of chicken in it.  What a gyp.

Late Poast.

• 1 x 50 pushups
• 1 x 40 crunches
• 1 x 75 squats

Now, thinking about that night with Maggie behind the synagogue, where we stayed together until it was nearly dawn, where we made love again and again and fell asleep naked on top of our clothes–now, when I think of that, I want to run away from here, this room, this angel and his task, find a lake, dive down, and hide from the eye of God in the dark muck on the bottom.

Strange.

–Christopher Moore

    Justus let his sword fall to his side with a sigh.  “Go home.  All of you.  By order of Gaius Justus Gallicus, under-commander of the Sixth Legion, commander of the Third and Fourth Centuries, under authority of Emperor Tiberius and the Roman Empire, you are all commanded to go home and perpetrate no weird shit until I have gotten well drunk and had several days to sleep it off.”

–Christopher Moore

I just had my first protein shake… I got a 2lbs. can of Optimum whey protein off of www.bodybuilding.com to test out… let’s see how I feel after a couple of weeks of this and the increased exercises. I also just tried this algae shake stuff my mom gave me, too… it’s supposed to raise your energy levels and also make you more resistant to allergies, so we’ll see how that goes too. I feel a little queasy after pounding both in rapid succession, though! Ah well. I’m switching to doing as many sets of 1x each exercise as I can per day, instead of just one or two max sets in a day. I’m happy with how quickly I’m regaining my old abilities, though I’m still less than 1/4 of the way back to my old daily calisthenics routine.

First set today:

• 1 x 50 pushups
• 1 x 30 crunches
• 1 x 75 squats
• 1 x 20 x 20lbs. dumbbell curls

• 2 x 25 crunches
• 2 x 30 pushups
• 2 x 50 squats
• 1 x 20 x 20lbs curls

• 1 x 30 pushups
• 1 x 20 x 20lbs dumbbell curls
• 2 x 50 squats
• 1 x 25 crunches
• 1 x 20 crunches

I’ve gone ahead and ordered a small package of whey protein shake powder, enough for 30 servings… we’ll see how well that works out.

Today:

• 3 x 20 pushups
• 3 x 15 Eug crunches
• 1 x 50 squats

Not what I used to be, am I? 

WOW.

I like “Harry Potter and the Waterproof Pearl”, personally.

Pageant week is over, and life can go back to something resembling normal again.  If all goes well, I’ll be spending the upcoming time working on my vehicles, and possibly earning some money on the side.  October will mark the start of my time at Wyotech, eating and breathing cars.  Should be fun times!

Alice and I attended the wedding of an old family friend of mine last night.  It was interesting to see various people after 3-10 years (depending on the individual).  I think a lot of people didn’t know what to make of the fact that I want to build race cars for a living… hah!  Take that, Chinese engineering students!

Before pageant week began, I was playing a lot of God of War II and Super Paper Mario… hopefully I can get back to doing that now too.

I’m sad that the only comments I get are spam.