Well after a pretty good day, I woke up for a midnight snack of two cookies and milk. Oh well. At least it was light soymilk? Today I’ve been to martial arts already and now I have a test this afternoon. Hopefully I’ll do well. I think I’m going to ask Santa for a “Wavemaster” and a chin-up bar for Christmas.

So now until Dec 31st, I’m just trying to exercise right and eat right and I’m calling it “Plan A”. Hopefully I will get near 10 percent bodyfat. The week after that I’m going to start a round of P90X that goes from Jan 4-Apr4.  My goals will be to maintain or improve upon what I’ve done during “Plan A” and also to simply finish the program a better person.

I’ve done good today. healthy breakfast and lunch and exercise.

I want so badly to lose this weight before the new year starts. I am 148 pounds this morning and I want to be 132 by DEC 31st. I went out today and for new healthy groceries for meals and snacks. I’m going to get all my exercises done this week and not pig out late at night!!

So called because that’s what Tony Horton says in the Kenpo X DVD that I just completed. Tony Horton is only one year younger than my father. And if you saw my Dad, well… listen, he’s a fun guy and a smart and nice guy, too. But I doubt he could do one regular pushup much less a one-handed pushup.

I own several fitness DVDs. P90X is only one series that I have. I enjoy DVDs because I can work as hard or as light as I want to and nobody is around to worry about it. Just me. And Tony and the Gang.

There are so many things I would like to change in my life. Well. Maybe not CHANGE so much as Improve. The fact that I’d like to have a flatter stomach and bigger biceps is really just one minor thing. It’s important to me to be fit and healthy, but the appearance stuff is just icing on the cake. I started taking my vitamins again. One mens multiV, some flaxseed oil capsules and some MSM/Glucosamine stuff. For your bones and joints. They say it might work. I’ll be 30 next year but I think because I act very goofy sometimes and my appearance people usually think I’m about 24. So that’s a five year cheat. That’s good right?

I’m taking online classes and I keep putting off doing my homework in favor of surfing the internet, watching TV and… um… blogging??? But it’ll be okay.

For many years now I have been very “into” Bushido and martial arts. I’ve read several great books about it, from “Hagakure” to “Budoshoshinshu” and The Art of War and Five Rings. Finally in July for the first time in my life I started taking martial arts classes. I take a proprietary blended martial art that is mainly based on Karate, Ninjutsu and Judo. So far I am a yellow belt. I go twice a week and practice faithfully at home but I don’t think I’ve given the internal potential a chance in my life.

What I mean is, despite the classes and all the books about Zen and Tao and such… I still remain largely a very SNARKY person. I tend to be sarcastic and biting when confronted with opinions that differ from my own. I really don’t enjoy that about my personality and I am trying to change it. Even my poor wife has to put up with my stupid comments about her devotion to Twilight and her viewing of “House”. But she doesn’t do that to me, no matter what I am interested in.

I really need to learn some new characteristics and be silent and appreciative of everyone who is my friend and all my loved ones.

It’s been a little while since I posted and I’m still drinking coffee but I’ve gained about five pounds since we last spoke and not the good kind. So I want to drop about 14 pounds and be 132 and be thin and have abs like… well like never. My natural set point is right around 140-145 and I have too much belly fluff then to have abs. So I need to lose a few. I’m going to do 30 minutes of cardio 3x a week and 30 minutes of resistance training 3x a week and then once or twice a week try to do some yoga.

Also I need to eat better. Too much white stuff, too many carbs too much fat and also I eat too late at night. Saw Kathy Griffin doing “Balls of Steel” and it was hilarious and she said You Know What The Trick Is??? She’s ALWAYS hungry. And that’s probably the trick. Learn to be hungry. Thus HUNGRY JOE.

My Mother In Law is going to rehab finally. Hopefully it will work. She is a drunken overweight joke of a woman.

And on that note, I’m off… one of the things I actually DO is go to martial arts. I’ve been going for four months now. I stuck with it. I’m a yellow belt. It’s going to take forever to be a black belt. But the fun part is getting there.

for years now I have been drinking Splenda in my coffee. I hope it’s safe. It sure is delicious. I’m officially in at 141.5 pounds and 14% body fat. I don’t see how I could weight so little and still be 14% body fat. I suspect that my TANITA scale is joking with me. Scheming to get me to give up all the donuts altogether. Still… I don’t have abs so there must be something correct in the calibrations. Today is Mother’s Day. So congrats to all the mothers out there! Well deserved, I’d say. Bless you.

I woke up this morning to the sounds of cable TV. I fell asleep on the couch again. But I slept good and I’m up early. HI. I’m a guy. A guy they call “Joe”. They used to call me “Hungry Joe”. Several years ago I had a blog here on WordPress… but back then I was 30 pounds overweight and I couldn’t figure out how I couldn’t lose any weight. LO and BEHOLD, I had an endorcrine disorder. So you know all those excuses people make where they can’t lose any weight?! I actually had one. A real one that did more than make me fat. It threatened to end my existence. Buuuuuuutttt… I’m  A-okay now. I had surgery to fix all that. These days I’m pretty slim and strong. BUT here’s the thing, and the premise of this blog. I want to take it to the next level. I want to get actual ab definition, and maybe put on about 15 pounds of muscle. If I can’t… well, that’s okay. Because I really like who I am and how I look now. But I thought… hey why not?! Let’s give it a shot! I’ve made my first goal-point June 27th, which is about 7 weeks from now. I’ll be back with more details tomorrow.