04/27/2006 - 11:17 AM

A co-worker of mine has a wife who works at a hospital helping people with sleep disorders. I’m wondering if I’m not a good candidate for this program, because I’ve really had a hard time over the last year. I never used to have problems sleeping, but I’d say the last two years have been pretty tough. Seven hours is usually my minimum for sleeping, but a lot of times I don’t get more than six or so. It may just be the earlier wake-up time I have now, but I’ve always been a morning person. Maybe I’m just a morning person when I don’t HAVE to wake up that early. Or maybe 5 AM isn’t actually MORNING! There’s a concept…

Matt and I are heading up to the mountains this weekend. I’ve talked about Estes Park, where I visited on my first trip to Colorado, and how much I love it up there in past entries. Matt’s gone up with me a couple of times, and it’s always so relaxing. Bad omen for this trip, though…I got a room at a different place this trip, since my normal lodge doesn’t open until the first week of May. They sent me a confirmation this week, and in with the confirmation was an insert that has hiking trail suggestions on one side, and how the Bible is our “trail guide” on the other. I may have to smuggle Matt in to avoid any issues. I’ll leave some air holes, I promise.

Dre is re-measuring me on Friday during our next session. There have been some drastic improvements, but I like having the benchmarks as I go along. He took those traumatic “before” pictures back in February, but these new ones should be a definite improvement. I was actually trying on work slacks yesterday, and the 36 waist was too big. That’s a big deal to me. My waist size was 33-34 all through my 20s, but I’ve struggled with that since I turned 30. The key now is to try and keep it that way. I’m shooting for a 32 waist, and if I can get there, I’ll be a happy camper, but that’s a little ways off. I carry the bulk of my excess weight in my torso, so it will be a struggle. I’d love to get down to a body fat percentage somewhere in the area of 10-15%, though. It would be nice to actually see some of the muscle definition that I’m working toward, rather than just taking it on faith that it’s in there somewhere.

That’ll do it for now. Life’s just pressing on, work is busy, and the working out is going well. And on top of all that, I’m turning 37 this coming month. I have all of these issues with mortality that have been floating around in my head, but with everything going on in my life, I’ve been pushing it to the back. They’ll have to be dealt with at some point, though. Just not right now.

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