Through Another Threshold and Man- Dates

This morning I stepped on the bathroom scale after not having looked at my weight for a few days and received the good news that I now weigh 226.5 pounds.  Woo-hoo, I was ecstatic.  I had been impatient with the fact that I had been stuck at 230 for a while and now it seems I have finally made it down through to the next level.  As I started at 249 pounds, that's a total of 22.5 pounds lost since I began this program a couple of months ago.  Because of the weight-lifting, I'm feeling stronger everyday as well and quite pleased with my progress.  I now have to use this as an incentive to work harder rather than rest on my laurels.  It is the hard work that has paid off and left me feeling better and with so much more energy.  Now, I have to think there are more good things to come.

One of the adjustments I made that I think helped me get to this level is added exercise at night and refusal to eat anymore after about five 'o' clock.  On certain occasions I will eat at night but only something light and in small quantities.   I feel like I'm really on a roll now and I don't mean a jelly roll.  Last night, I played basketball with AV and fared better than our last game.  Although I lost 52-46, I played well and my skills are returning.  I shot the bell sharply but still have a hard time posting up against him, although I am taller than him.  On offense, he has a great burst with a low center of gravity.  I keep telling him he missed his calling and should have been a running back.

School has restarted its engines and I'm now in for the kick-run of my Santa Fe life.  I'd like to improve in all six classes in the weeks that remain and hope that I'm admitted to UF Journalism College for the fall semester.  I would be wise to buckle down and study the subjects gradually and as they are taught to me instead of waiting until the end to cram for the exams.  That is my challenge now.  I hope I am up to the task.  I have the ability but time will tell whether I follow through on what I know I have to do.  I have this incredible wait-to-the last-minute-because-I think-I'm-smart-enough tendency. The problem is when I get home after so many classes, I don't want to study anymore.  I guess I believe in the adage that all work and no play makes Gargs a dull boy. 

I stopped at Fresh Market after school today.  Radha stayed in the car while I went in.  The classical music and specialty foods puts me in a pretty good mood almost every time I go in there.  I picked up some veggie sushi and a loaf of freshly baked bread.  

Okay, I think it's hilarious that some women feel it so necessary to take the initiative to cohort with their female friends in order to get their men together on what I call man-dates.  What the hell is that? Boring, that's what it is.  Groveling to get along with someone you barely know and have not much inclination to know either.  And these women are standing around peering in as if you're behind the glass and expecting you to bond like you're different breeds of canines or something.  I say, if a grown man can't make friends on their own then they're probably anti-social and not so interesting to be around anyway.  A little free advice to women: let your man be on this one. No self-respecting man wants to feel coerced to have more of his already dwindling time taken up in some extra-curricular activity you consider "nice,"  "healthy" or "cute."