Totally blasted my pecs today …

7 February 2009

(The title is taken from this T-shirt.  Some of this company’s shirts are funny, some I don’t understand, and at least half I wouldn’t wear at gunpoint.  This is one of the funny ones.)

About a month ago, I discussed my plans for the new year and mentioned that one of my goals was “find a diet plan that works for me”.  This has been going fairly slowly, largely because I haven’t been doing much to apply myself to it.  I’m really not sure what foods to cut out, or which ones to increase — should I go toward more protein?  More carbs?  As many vegetables as I can stand without leaning toward the sunlight?  Overall volume will probably have to stay the same for the time being, as I know that when I don’t fill up I start getting cravings and then everything will fall apart.  But I’m not sure what to fill up on, and different sources give me different ideas.  So that area is still a work in … I wouldn’t even call it a work in progress, more of a work in theory.

But I did take a major step toward better health today — my first honest-to-goodness workout in a long time.

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