kingkeld's Journal, 07 March 2013

Holy Weightloss, Batman!

So, after the shock of gaining a full ELEVEN POUNDS over the last week, today's weigh-in was a lot more comfortable. :)

I am down FIVE POUNDS since yesterday. As muchs as this is a LOT better, it still probably won't make me reach a new low by Saturday morning. Oh, well. Still, I feel a lot better about the whole thing.

Thank you everyone for your supporting comments yesterday. Seeing such a gain CAN truly be disheartening, even if I know it's not a fat gain.

Yesterday, I did really good. Obviously, the weigh-in made me tighten up EVERYWHERE, and it wasn't hard to do at all.

I had my planned meals, had everything counted, and enjoyed it.

Workouts were good. I was hoping to do a measurement check thingy yesterday, but I was asking the guy there mid-workout, and I can't have neither eaten or worked out three hours prior to doing it.

So I will instead just skip breakfast tomorrow and then do it first thing. That'll work.

Work was great too! I had a fairly busy day, got caught up on a few things along the way too, and generally enjoyed myself.

It was the evening that was the most fun though.

My Burnin' Live drummer Jack took us a few towns over - there is a monthly jam session thing, and we came to participate. It was a lot of fun, not just playing, but also hearing others, get inspired, talk to "colleagues" etc.

Most of them were kids, around 20 or so, from the local colleges. They played amazingly well, though if you ask me they were WAY too serious about their music. Don't get me wrong - if you want to make it anywhere, you'll HAVE to be serious about it (just like with weight loss, by the way!), but they were serious in a way where they many times didn't seem to have fun. It was all about technique, it was all about this and that nerdy musician, and never really about feel.

I'm a COMPLETELY different school from that. For me, it's all about vibe. It's about making music fun to play, and fun to listen to.

It was so much fun - we borrowed a guitar player to do a few rock songs. He knew Smoke On The Water (as every other guitarist does), and we also jammed a little Led Zeppelin (Dazed And Confused). Jack and I kept telling him to turn it up, go nuts, and you could tell that he was almost terrified of this in the beginning, but slowly let go and just went with it. He loved it!

I found it so much fun that amongst all these kids, it's still the old folks that has to teach them how to rock. LOL.

Speaking of music - I'm finally getting my 2nd speaker cabinet for my bass gear! I'm really excited about this.

It's not what I originally wanted. I have an amp and a speaker cabinet from a company called Line6. I really like it. I just needed a 2nd cabinet. However, just as I am about to order my 2nd cabinet, Line6 decide to discontinue those here in Europe. Boo. I was so disappointed. I will now never get to buy a full stack of these.

So I had to go look for an alternative.

I found a little Danish company (that isn't all that little any more) called TC Electronic. They do music gear, computer gear and a few other things. All is known for really high quality, at a very good price. The speakers are very clean sounding, which I need for what I'm doing. I like a lot of dirt in my sound, but all this is generated by my amplifier, so the speaker needs to faithfully reproduce that. I hope this makes sense.

So, I found these cabinets. I'm bought one yesterday, and it should arrive at Drummer Jack's house today. He'll bring it for our Sunday practice. I can't wait to hear it.

Now, these are a little more costly, so I have to save up even further for my 2nd cabinet of THESE. I still want two identical cabinets. That's the goal. I'm still debating whether I should sell the discontinued one, or if I should put it in the basement for rehearsing with The Black Peanut. The cabinet there is pretty poor quality, and I think I could improve my sound with them vastly by doing so. Also, my sound on the Line6 cab might knock 'em all out of the room. LOL.

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Today will be a busy day, I think. I have a couple of interviews, and then an off-site meeting that the whole work place is doing once a month. It'll be a nice walk out there, if I can find the time. And an equally nice walk back. I think I might go in an hour early, to be able to spend time walking. The weather in Denmark is awesome right now, and this could really be good for me to do. Get some steps in throughout the day.

Wife is doing her devilishly good cakes for out there, but there'll also be fruit aplenty. This is what I'll be having, if anything at all. We'll see.

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I forgot to mention... I went on the bus going to Jack's house yesterday. When I was at the bus station waiting for the bus, I stopped by the little 7/11 there for some gum. Wow. They had these HUGE cinnamon bun, at a ridiculously low price. They were freshly baked and you could smell them a mile away. It was such a great offer, and it was really pulling at me. lol.

How did they taste? I have no idea. I was busy chewing gum. LOL. I was so tempted to get them and deal with it later, but I kept reminding myself of the morning weigh-in, and about how much I would be kicking myself all evening, and how much weigh-in today would suck AGAIN, and I simply passed. I was so happy I was able to do this. Another great little experience yesterday, and honestly a pretty proud moment.

Today, I'm thankful for:
- Half of that bothering extra weight gone IN ONE DAY! Now, if only the other half could be gone tomorrow, and I could reach a new low Saturday morning. Hey, one can wish, right?
- Focus. Completely. Such a great feeling.
- Morning coffee. Being out (reasonably) late, and still getting up early is a b**ch.
- The fact that we have NO plans tonight. First night this week to actually just come home from work and not have anything else going on.

Life is good!

199.3 lb Lost so far: 142.4 lb.    Still to go: 11.9 lb.    Diet followed 100%.