I’ve not checked in for a while. I’ve been on a diet and I’ve been hiking 5-8 miles a day in the big hills next to our neighborhood. But I hit a plateau a few weeks and could not break out of it. So I joined a health club, something my wife has pushed for years. That’s been taking up all my free time.
I decided to try swimming but I didn’t want to join the water fitness class and jump up-and-down with a bunch of old ladies for an hour to disco music. Understand, I’ve got nothing against old ladies as I’m married to one. Haha!
So I took up lane swimming with the retired olympians instead. I grew up on lakes in Minnesota and learned to swim but I didn’t really learn how to swim, if you catch my meaning. So at 60 years old I hired a coach and started taking swim lessons. I felt like a third grader.
My first lesson was a complete disaster and I looked like I was purposely trying to drown myself for an hour. I almost gave up. But she gave me some homework drills and slowly I caught on.
Now, in addition to my daily hike I swim 2k yards most nights. I swim at night because most native Californians think 68 degrees is too cold. The Minnesotan in me laughs. Most nights I have all 6 lanes to myself.
Well, I’ve now broken through my weight loss plateau and have dropped 110 lbs with 90 of that total being since February. I still have another 20-30 to go to hit my college weight.
I’m eating mostly salads, just once a day. My protein is mainly chicken, sometimes shrimp. Every so often I indulge on some flap steak which is near impossible to screw up.
It all gets chopped up, vacuum-sealed, then thrown into the freezer until needed. It’s not real exciting food but it’s been working. Throwing it in the Yoder or on the grill is great because of the added flavor and no oil.
I’m hoping to hit my goal by the end of the year and start smoking like a normal person. Here it is. My monthly routine. Chicken, shrimp, flap steak.
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