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Hidden Calories

lolindrath — Fri, 27 Jan 2006 15:12:29 +0000

Are you having trouble losing weight even though you’ve cut your calories? Watch out for hidden calories, I mean foods you wouldn’t normally think of when? you log your food for the day:

Gum – Go for low sugar alcohols, manufacturers don’t have to list them under sugar but they are still converted into calories
Altoids
Barbeque sauce
Half and half or creamer in coffee
Diet drinks (they still have some calories)

Climbing Hills

lolindrath — Tue, 24 Jan 2006 18:19:28 +0000

I’ve done several 100 mile bike trips (a century for all they cyclists out there). The course we did had a 1 mile uphill. Obviously this sucked.

Here comes the metaphor of the day. Sometimes all you could do was stare at your front tire and watch it move! Staring at the top of the hill was too discouraging. In other words, measure your small accomplishments day by day and don’t worry about that lofty goal just yet.

The reward was a 2 mile downhill waiting on the other side where you could easily hit 45 miles per hour (I really thought my bike was going to fly apart, another guy in front of me said he hit 55mph).

Dumping an interest

lolindrath — Thu, 12 Jan 2006 18:57:18 +0000

A while back I was mildly interesting in investing. I subscribed to all the RSS feeds I could find and read all kinds of tips about how I can get rich quick and maximize my 401(k). After reading Merlin Mann’s Cancel Something on 43Folders I definitely figured out I needed to ditch this.

I decided I need to focus on my eight goals for this year, investing isn’t one of them. I’m sure I’m missing out because I won’t be budgeting with Quicken and tracking each penny like miser but the over-arching goal is to get healthy.

This also really cleaned out my RSS feeds. The dude at Free Money Finance posts a million times a day which means that’s a million more times I’m distracted a day so I might see a slight improvement in productivity.

I could definitely use a few more of these sessions with some of my other occasional obsessions…

[tags]resolutions, goals, merlin mann, 43folders, gtd[/tags]