Day 1490 - End of Week 212

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Got 30 minutes of walk done yesterday, and for the first time in 2 weeks, I hit my target of 10k steps for a day.  That felt good.

I also took my druid out in an attempt to get her better trinket.  While that didn't happened, I did managed to get 2 more piece of gears toward the tanking set.  She now has two piece bonus.  Not bad.

119/83/59 90 mg/DL 193.6lb
Week to Week 4.2lb

Day 1489 - Warlords of Draenor Beta Day 78

Now that the late night works have been completed, I can devote more time to raiding.  The Alliance chopper will be expensive, but I should have enough to buy it when the expansion arrives in 2 months.  2 more months.

We're still without the service of the treadmill in the house.  The new motor have arrive, but we need new circuit board plus a new belt, plus someone to install all of it.  Since I'm not restricted by time anymore, I took off to the gym and walk 2 miles there.

131/92/61 96 mg/DL 192.4lb

Day 1477 - Warlords of Draenor Beta Day 66

With the treadmill on the fritz and repairman not getting here until Tomorrow, I have to be creative on getting my exercise in.  Fortunately, I was able to get into an amusement park for the day and just walk and walk.  I got 12k steps with that regiment, albeit, I'm not doing that again.  The shops at the amusement park really took a chunk out of my credit card.

I took the warrior through the first 5 bosses of the raid.  On a bonus roll, I was able to score warforged shoulder piece. Forgoing the set bonus from the previous raid level, I set about to make the DPS set a bit better.  Still cost me a bunch of gold getting it gemmed.

120/83/59 90 mg/DL 197.6lb

Day 792 - A Slight Tweak in Exercise

Due to the new Warcraft expansion that has taken up all of my available time, I've been slacking on the exercise.  Today, I decided to tweak the speed of my morning walk a bit.  Instead of 4.5MPH for 30 minutes, I set it at 4.6MPH.  My knees are still holding up.  We'll see tonight whether this is a good idea or not.

120/84/53 103 mg/DL 170lb

Day 741 - Weight Training Aftermath

I didn't do my usual elliptical exercise yesterday, instead I did 4 sets of 10 rep on various weight training.  Throughout today, I start feeling soreness around my rib and upper arm muscle.  In the afternoon, it became much more pronounced.  It's a good thing I don't have gym tonight.

 115/74/49 172lb 93 mg/DL

Day 712 - Back to the Gym

Last week, I was on-call, and due to some serious scheduling mixed up, I only got to go to the gym once.  I'm trying not to make that a habit, and went for my 15 minutes of exercise today.  If I feel well enough tomorrow, perhaps I'll go again.

112/72/53 167.8lb 87 mg/DL

Day 707 - Skipping Exercise

I had 3 hours of sleep this morning due to the late night work.  When I wake up (one hour later than usual), I know I'm not in any shape to do my usual exercise.  Even now as I type this, I'm still not feeling right on my legs.  Well, that's one day that I'm not doing my exercise.

118/77/47 169.8lb 88 mg/DL

Day 700 - Tire

I got to the gym rather late, and for some reason, I just don't have the energy to do the full set today.  Perhaps I should try it tomorrow again.

110/72/47 169.8lb 98 mg/DL

Day 698 - End of Month 23

One week from now, I'll be having my annual physical examination, and of course, that means I need to get my blood drawn.  Doing this usually messed up my morning routine.  What I didn't realized is that it also kind of messed up my afternoon routine as I completely forgot to bring my gym clothing to gym, thus cut short my workout today.  I cannot make it up tomorrow, since I have support meeting to attend to.

Today is also the 23 months since my surgery.  Nothing much to report, other than I'm still fairly stable.

111/67/45 170.4lb 95 mg/DL

Month to Month -4.8lb

Day 693 - Will to Commit to Exercise

Today is 4th of July.  Unfortunately for me, I forgot to turn off the alarm that wakes me up at 4:30AM.  For the past 2 weeks or so, my left angle have been feeling sprang or just tightness in the morning.  This have really bother me about exercise.

This morning, I decided to forgo my usual exercise and see if a full day of absolutely no exercise will help.  Unfortunately for me, I cancelled that in the afternoon, just as the uninsulated room that houses treadmill is heating up.  I will say that I sweat much more than usual, not exactly sure if that's a good or bad thing.

128/85/58 168.4lb 92 mg/DL

Day 679 - Gym Wednesday

Sorry about the late post.  Just slipped my mind.

Sometimes on Tuesday night, I somehow sprang my left angle.  While it really doesn't affect how I walk or exercise, it's somewhat annoying.  I still managed to get my 25 minutes of elliptical machine exercise done.

109/75/64 167.6 lb 87 mg/DL

Day 678 - Elliptical Ramp Up

I had a good work out yesterday at the gym.  I went ahead and did 25 minutes of elliptical machine exercise and feel fine afterward.  I did my walk this morning without ill effect.  I really need to get the machine at home so I can forgo the knee bracer I need to wear doing my walk.  It makes my exercise so much easier.


113/73/55 167lb 92 mg/DL

Day 675 - Gym Saturday

I was able to watch some recorded TV show on gym today.  The 20 minutes went by pretty fast, and I was definitely ready for more.  But I need to get really used to this current pace before I start ramping up again.  I'm debating on whether to do the gym again tomorrow, or just wait for Monday.  In either event, I'm going to have to clear up some space in the back room to put in an elliptical machine, since I really enjoy working out on that (no knee strap required).  I'll probably still keep the gym membership.  The back room is uninsulated, which  means that I cannot use it in the summer afternoon.

115/75/50 164.8lb 90 mg/DL

Day 670 - Gym Monday

Sorry about the late post.  No excuses.

I had a doctor's appointment, and after that, went directly to the gym.  I'm going to need a better gym bag.  The duffle bag from REI is designed to haul heavy gear, not what I need.  Anyway, I'm comfortable enough that I should go ahead and ramp up on the next exercise (Wednesday).

116/80/55 166.8lb 92 mg/DL

Day 668 - End of Month 22

It's been a while since I remember to mark the passing of months on this blog.  Sorry for being complacent.  It's now been 22 months since my operation that changed my life.  For the past six to seven months, my weight have remain stable.  For a change, I don't feel like hitting a stall, but at a natural weight.  I still have a good chunk of excess skin below my belly and some around various part of my body.  That part can wait.

I work from home yesterday in an attempt to get some more sleep and not fighting traffic.  I was able to get plenty of things done.  Since I had a working session starting at 6PM, I decided to go to the gym early and get that workout done before committing myself to the long and very boring call.

While on the elliptical machine, I first set for a 20 minutes cardio workout.  After 5 minutes, I thought better of it and decided to just do my usual 15 minutes.  Still a good workout, but I'm not quit ready to ramp up just yet.

112/78/56 165.2lb 87 mg/DL

Day 665 - Gym Night Wednesday

I really need to get a small lock for the locker in the gym.  Not that it'll deter serious thief, but just give me a small piece of mind.

I did a full 15 minutes of cardio elliptical exercise today, which means I did 17.5 minutes of it.  I think I'm getting ready to step up to 20 minutes.  My goal of course eventually is to do this more than 3 nights a week, and 30 minutes at a time.  But I must build myself up first before I can attempt that.  Thus far, not wearing knee bracer haven't affect me at all.  I can't say the same thing about my treadmill walk.  I cannot do that without the bracer.

After that exercise, I treat myself to a simple salt and pepper grill pork for dinner.

It's delicious.

110/73/62 167.4lb 91 mg/DL

Day 646 - Back To Exercise, Again

After one day of rest, I went back on the treadmill this morning. Even now, 7 hours after the fact, my knees are still burning. I would like to go to the gym tonight, but I wonder whether my knees can hold up.

116/73/54 170lb 83 mg/DL

Day 645 - Over Exertion

Just yesterday I mention how I tried out a full exercise routine on the elliptical machine. Well this morning when I woke up, I knew there's no way I can actually hit the treadmill. My muscle simple haven't recovered enough for me to do the exercise. So now that I've figure out my limit, lets just tune it so this won't happen again.

116/76/52 170lb 89 mg/DL

Day 644 - Another Day at the Gym

Today, after my failed attempt at getting Collector Edition of Diablo III, I went to the gym to continue my exercise routine. For a change, instead of just doing quick exercise, I selected cardio exercise routine, setting my goal heart rate of 145 at 15 minutes. Even now, 3 hours after the exercise, I'm still feeling the burn in my legs. Lets hope that I've recovered enough to do my round tomorrow morning.

127/75/55 170.6lb 90 mg/DL

Day 643 - Back to the Gym

After missing the gym last week due to on-call, I'm went back to the gym today. Also, ever since I had the recurrence of knee pain and have to reduce my morning exercise down from 50 minutes to 30 minutes, I've gradually increase the speed of the walk. For a while, I was doing 15 minutes of 4.5 MPH, and increases them as much as I can handle. Today, I finally went the whole 30 minutes walking at 4.5 MPH. I'm not sure whether it's the weather or that I've gone to the next level of exercise, but I finally work up a sweat today. When I got home, I went back to the gym for another round of exercise. While I would've preferred to do the exercise at home, the gym does offer me two things not available at home. The exercise room in my house is an uninsulated shack of boards. In the winter, it's cold, in the summer time, it's highly unhealthy to be in the room, so exercise is strictly a morning deal. The gym have air condition (yes, we also don't use air condition at my house) and elliptical machine. I can do 15 minutes of elliptical machine exercise at moderate pace, and get a good work out. I'll try to do this all over again tomorrow (tomorrow is also Diablo II day).

112/73/53 170.4lb 86 mg/DL