Dog FOOD and Exercise

How would you feel if you carried around four 20-pound bags of dog food all day? DOG TIRED! 2 years ago, I used to weigh 80 pounds more and that’s how I felt. Run down. Exhausted.

Now I feel marvelous. Did I take a quick-fix pill or follow a fad diet? No, I just ate less and exercised more. That’s the only thing that really works.

Now that Beth is off to England, I’m getting back to business. I have 30 more pounds to go. It’s time to get busy.

I’m tweaking my exercise routine.

-- Monday and Wednesday, I’m on the treadmill.
-- Tuesday and Thursday, I take Pilate’s. It’s not as tough as last fall. I’m improving … slowly. When we’re on the mats, I can even touch my feet to the floor above my head. Not bad for 55.
-- Then (weather permitting), I’m walking 4 miles a day on Saturday and Sunday.
-- I get Fridays off. (I LOVE FRIDAYS!)

I want to push myself further on the treadmill.
First 5 minutes … 15% incline … 3.7 mph
Second 5 minutes … 15% incline … 3.8 mph
Third 5 minutes … 14% incline … 3.9 mph
Fourth 5 minutes … 14% incline … 4 mph
Fifth minutes … 13% incline … 4.1 mph
Last 5 minutes … 13% incline … 4.2 mph

Not bad for someone who used to be ready to die at 3 mph on the flat.


Monday, November 9, 2009

Quote for 11/9/09: The Fall of the Wall




All free men, wherever they may live, are citizens of Berlin. And therefore, as a free man, I take pride in the words "Ich bin ein Berliner!" John Fitzgerald Kennedy

"Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall." -- US President Ronald Reagan at the Brandenburg Gate, Berlin, June 12, 1987.

"The Soviet Union has no moral or political right to interfere in the affairs of its East European neighbours. They have the right to decide their own fate." -- Soviet president Mikhail Gorbachev in Finland, October 1989.


"East Germans are free to travel where they like. With immediate effect." -- Guenter Schabowski, East German politburo spokesman at a press conference, November 9, 1989.

"I've just arrived from Berlin. It's like witnessing an enormous fair." -- West German chancellor Helmut Kohl, November 10, 1989.

"What belongs together is now growing together," former West German chancellor Willy Brandt, November 10, 1989.
 
Many small people who in many small places do many small things can alter the face of the world" - Quote painted on the Berlin wall

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