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Let me just be clear, this is a joke, don’t do it!

In last week, I have lost almost 6 pounds, doing nothing but sitting in front my computer at least 12 hours a day. I haven’t even been to gym which I used to do everyday.

Plan is simple, don’t eat until you have headache due to hunger. And when you do, eat anything you want,  just make sure you can finish it in less than five minutes.

I am pretty sure this is the most unhealthy way to lose weight. I have been working so much that I just keep missing my meals everyday and pretty sad about losing weight.

Some math that I love:

1 week ago

• Weight: 167lb
• Fat %: 13%
• Fat weight: 21.71lb

Now:

• Weight: 161lb
• Fat %: 12.4%
• Fat weight: 19.96

Fat lost: 21.71 – 19.96 = 1.75lb

Muscle/water lost: 6 – 1.75 = 4.25lb

Yep, pretty unhealthy way to lose weight.

I think sun, rotation of earth, evolution, solar system, everything got it wrong. Not all humans need 24 hours day. I remember reading somewhere that if any clue of time is taken away from humans, like lock them in a windowless room, they will stay awake for 24 hours and sleep for 12.

Anyways since I don’t have any obligations to get up at any particular time, I am pretty much living 36 hour days. However, every once in a while I have an appointment when I should be sleeping. And it is really tough to stay awake after 24 hours. So I discovered Melatonin.

Melatonin resets your sleep cycle. I take it well in advance. I can fall sleep when I am not sleepy and be fully alert during appointment or meeting later on. I think it should be prescription only drug, but for now it is available over the counter. What so great about this drug is that you need to take it only once. You will likely get sleepy at same time next night. I am able to change my sleep cycle at will. And I haven’t noticed side effects at all.

Well one of the side effects, is that you will dream vivid dreams. But I love vivid dreams. In fact, lately I am taking Melatonin to experience vivid dreams. Just be careful, don’t take it after watching a scary movie cause nightmares can get really scary too.

Let me tell you the greatest & simplest fitness plan without any delay:

1. Get your body moving on a regular basis; and
2. Eat a moderate amount of real, whole foods (with occasional indulgences). Eat healthy.

Leo Babauta from Zen Habits came up with it. I know it is so simple and probably a nightmare of all those fitness guru on late night commercials. #2 was slightly too long, I simplified it.

Rock Climbing near Austin TX

In past, I tried various fitness plans. You can go on web and find all kind of plans for getting in shape. Some complex plans require keeping detailed journal of exercises you did or real good memory. Other simpler plans are so simple that they are repetitive and get boring. I gave up on any structured plans long time ago.

Earlier this year when I started working out with Karl, I came up with a simpler plan. It was to imitate someone who looks like they know what they are doing. No need to keep journal or anything. It didn’t work out so well. In the morning when we went to gym, there were not many people. And with smaller crowd, it would be too obvious if I was copying someone.

One of the great workout advice, my friend, Brian gave, was to workout until you see stars. That’s how you know you have pushed your limits. Please remember when you are pushing yourself like that you really need to eat right and a lot. I remember when first I started intense working out, I would eat 2 meals at a time. Brian told me that I needed to take several supplements like several different types of protein, and vitamins. It was too complex.

Lately, I had become interested in running mostly, because it is so simple. But I love gadgets and simplicity is sometimes scary. I wanted to buy Garmin Forerunner 305 to keep track of my runs. But again I was making it too complex. I should instead get some nice running shoes and run as far as I can go. Above link is affiliate link, just in case, if you still decide to buy it. For me no gadgets, no journals, no strict routines. I do as I feel.

So I wrote such a long post for such a simple plan. Just wanted to say I have found the perfect fitness plan, thanks to Leo.

It’s that time of month again, when I evaluate my monthly goals. May goals were:

• Maintain running at 7mph for 15 minutes.

I have been slacking going to gym. But I was able to run once more at 7mph for 15 minute. Again I had to push myself a lot.

• 3 sets of 10 pull ups.

I completely failed here. I wish I could do pull ups at home. Due to work, I missed gym so many times & yesterday I could not even do as many pull up as last month.

• Finish iGree.nu for launch on June 1st.

Unlikely, this is going to happen. Still working on it but work is sucking all my free time. Also I am using a lot of free evenings to network.

• Convert my old sites to modern standards.

I did clean up & updated almost all of my old sites. Some need more work but I will do that later.

All in all, this month has been as productive as I hoped for. June is about to start. It is amazing to think that half of the year is already over, almost in a blink of an eye. My June goals are:

• Run/swim or bike 3 times a week. I don’t care but stats so much. The weather is getting nicer, I rather run or bike outside now. Also I love to run with Kazadi, Patrick, Anthony or cohabitat crew. So in June, I will just relax do these activities without worrying about how I am running or biking or swimming.
• Do random health/exercise challenges like, 100 pushups or 300 crunches.
• Spanish. It is easier to learn 2 languages at same time, or I guess I just get  bored with one language quickly. But this month, I will focus on Spanish. I will be happy if I finish Level 1 of Rosetta Stone.
• Continue working on iGree.nu. This is not the top priority project anymore.
• Patrick & mine secret project
  • Create corporation
  • Design a website
  • Write a business plan

That’s all!

Previous goals:

• Goals 2009.1
• Goals 2009.2
• Goals 2009.3
• Goals 2009.4
• Goals 2009.5

Being an engineer, I love numbers. Numbers motivate me. Numbers are just cold hard facts.

So I was using Playstation 2 game, Yourself! Fitness for working out. It was great. It got some cool feature like it displays charts of your progress. Also it customize workout for you, so that you work on things you need to work on. As time goes on, it makes workouts more challenging.  During every workout routine it asks you if this routine was too easy, just right or too hard for you.

Initially when I started, I would say workout was really good. However, lately, its been too easy for me. I keep telling it that workout is too easy but I hardly notice any difference during next workout. I guess this game increase level of difficulty in very minor increments.

So lately, I am doing my own workouts, mostly push ups and crunches. But there was no way for me to track my progress, so I made this Google sheet to track my workouts. It should be fun to look at progress chart.

Then I enjoy running and biking but I normally have no idea how much I am running or if I am making progress or not. This new G1 app, let me track my runs. It, in fact, maps those runs and upload to web. Its amazing!

Ah I love technology.