Today I ran my first 5k ever. It was the “Quest for the Crest”, supporting Crest Disease and Scleroderma (Info link). To be honest, I barely trained, I maybe went out to run/walk 4 times in the past few weeks, but I still did it. My total time was 34:04. I got a burst of [...]

Last night I registered for a Bodyspace on bodybuilding.com. My page is http://bodyspace.bodybuilding.com/rjaynes/. I suck at keeping postings to regular internet based things (this blog, facebook, etc.), but hopefully I can turn that around and actually use this. They also offer a “Body Blog” with each account, but I think i’ll keep my postings to [...]

It seems all I make now are diet updates and posts. This past week I had abulged disc problem (old injury, flared up!). I had to stop going to the gym for the entirety of it, as I could barely walk. The anti-inflammatories I was prescribed did the trick, and today I went riding with [...]

So i’ve completely modified the diet. I eat 1-2 solid meals a day, but still 2-3 shakes a day. I’m trying to stay around 1500/1800 calories, and doing pretty good in those ranges. Also, on workout days I’m still using the Surge post workout drink. Last night I went nuts in the gym and it [...]

Whew, these days were rough. I actually had to eat a solid meal each day. I felt so sick, and the last protein shakes of the day were making me gag.  I just couldn’t force myself to drink it down, I tried! However, I feel fully renewed and am doing it complete again.
Part of this [...]

I’m towards the end of day 3 of the diet. I did choose to have my healthy solid meal today which included baked grouper, a sweet potato, lots of spinach and green beans mixed, and a little sauerkraut (Rob wanted it with his meal, I had just a small portion). Today is rough as far [...]

Day 2 has been exponentially harder than day 1. The cravings today are really horrible. Every thing food-related I smell drives me up the wall. Bonita also made rosemary cakes at Rob and Karen’s, so that didn’t help matters! I love her rosemary cakes!!!!
This morning the scaled showed 204.5. I also tried a vanilla shake [...]

So this morning the scale said 199 lbs. I broke free of the 200’s! Now all I have to do is keep it up and i’ll keep going down in no time. Huzzah clean eating. Huzzah size 34 pants now

Yesterday I purchased a new Schwinn hybrid/comfort bike. It has 28″/C700 wheels and is a 21 speed. I was initially going to rent a bike for our Longleaf Trace ride yesterday, but decided it’s time to get a bike anyway it’s actually a bit humorous… We went to Target to look at bikes, [...]

The car is still running well. There’s almost 100 miles on the engine, with 65ish of those on the second oil change. I’m down to half a tank of gas, so I think today i’m going to fill it up with 93. The mixture of 87 and 93 should put me somewhere around 90 octane. [...]