Wellsphere Reminder

Quite a while ago, I set a goal for myself on this cool site called Wellsphere to lose a set amount of weight by a certain time. Unfortunately, I didn’t make this goal due to quite a lot of illness but I’m not giving up.

A few stumbling blocks in my goal have been a lack of good health and a lack of a positive support network. The health, I cannot really help. I’ve been working with my physician to find out just WTF is going on with me and, hopefully, it will be found out so I can get on the road to a proper recovery. In the meantime, I keep a standard routine of at least stretching and light exercises with a walk afterwards.

The social support..*grumble*…bunch of lazy…*grumble*expletive*expletive*….*sigh*

Quite frankly, most of the people I know who’d be up for a supportive exercise and weight loss group are not close enough to this area for us to effectively meet on a regular basis. In all honesty, they’re actually quite spread out on the map and from what I understand from reading about these things is that, in order for them to really work, you’d have to be in close proximity to the other people you’re working with as some form of encouragement.

The people who are close enough are a bunch of lazy…anyway.

I’m not discouraged though. I will continue in my efforts of forming a local group, while hopefully making friends in the process. I’m also hoping to continue with the much screwed up ACE Exercise study as a Peer Leader. Ha ha. I missed so much time from that thing due mainly to that dastardly ill health, that I’m surprised they didn’t drop me weeks ago. I’m keeping my fingers crossed though on both counts.

After that, it’s a continuation of what I’ve been doing all along. Exercising, eating properly (if I can find the food), and keep my stress levels down (ha ha HAHAHA).

By this time in 2009, I will have lost that 23 kilos. This is a dedication. My current weight 109kg which is up from my previous weight due to fluid retention. That will probably go back down to 104kg or lower within the next two days as lately, I’ve fluctuated between 102 and 109kg within a space of days. Jealous?

Now, it’s 4:30am and time for the workout to begin.

One Night In Iceland

Wow, Bobby Fischer died.

How does one even begin to approach the complexity of that issue and not come away even more of a headcase than one already is?

Should he be remembered as the virulent anti-Semite or the maverick Chess genius he was? Is it really even a decision? Both were parts of him and, as much as others might like to whitewash, its the truth. I won’t even pretend I can sit here and separate his good points from his bad.

I guess, at the end of the day, he’s going to be one of those interesting footnotes in history. Over time, his views will lose teeth and he’ll become a semi-mythical character with no point of reference for the as yet to come era. I hope he finds the peace where he is now that obviously escaped him in life.

For the record, it was Kasparov who most directly inspired my interest in and love of Chess.