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To see the “Me” I want to see

I've been trying to lose these extra pounds for a long while now and quite frankly, I've been yo-yoing from high to low and then back for better part a decade. The only reason i couldn’t do it before is because i lacked the right information and knowledge of how to actually do it. Over the last 3 months, I've been reading up as much as i can about nutrition and the role of food in my body and how exercises work for your body. So far it’s been helping me out big time. This year, so far, it’s been hard for me, with a few ups and downs and some mistakes here and there. And after a major learning curve and lots of corrections in my weight loss plan, I’ve managed to lose 30 pounds!!! My goal is to reduce my weight by another 40 pounds by mid November.

I've actually never considered some of the things that I'm doing right to lose the extra weight. I never considered what I was eating could be harming my body. I just kept eating whatever tasted good and that result in a pretty high blood pressure and high cholesterol levels and a gain in bad weight by 75 pounds. but it seems like “motivation” is the key to success in my case. My fiancé has been a great help when it comes to keeping myself motivated. i don’t know how i would have done this without her. So a special thanks goes to my girl Benish for keeping me on the track and motivating me when I need it the most.

My goal is to lose another 40 pounds in the next 6 months. I know that it’s not really an impossible task and many people have lost a lot more than that in a lot less time but I'm keeping myself realistic. I know my body and I know what i can do with it. The only thing i really have to focus on is eating the right things. Healthy diet and exercise is the key to losing the unwanted fat and gaining the desired muscle mass. And that’s exactly what I'm doing. I’m not entirely sure what I'm going to look like by November but the goal is to look better than ever before. After all… my wedding is in November and I intend on looking good for the pictures… To each his own.

Just in case you’re wondering, guys DO want to look good in their wedding pictures. You marry a beautiful woman and you want to look like you deserve to be by her side. That’s how I see it. It’s a couples thing I guess.

Anyway… I was feeling great about finally losing 30 pounds so I thought i drop a little something here. Hours and Hours of research and determination to live healthy has finally paid off in a big way. I’ll post before and after pictures once I lose another 20 pounds and that, most likely, will be in August. For now, I'm going to keep myself motivated and continue to see the “Me” i want to see in our wedding pictures.

Cost of the Social Networking Privilege

Is it weird that most people think of today's world as a global village and yet are choosing to distance ourselves from people who are not as tech savvy as they are? Isn't it a privilege on its own that today we can be part of this global village and a network that consists of billions of people?

It has started to feel like there is a separate world for the tweeters and face-bookers than for those who only use networked computers(with restrictions and limitations) for work.  It's starting to look like twitter and Facebook are the only medium for communications now a days (maybe texting too) I consider the fact that someone actually posted about getting burglarized while it was happening. Real-time face-booking paid out too because they knew that it takes longer to get through to 911 than to let people know on FaceBook that you're in trouble. Although, they couldn't find any intruders, the cops showed up just before any harm came to the family.

It seems to me that the trend and usage of these social media sites are not going to die down if we only considered the value it's adding to people's lives and pace at which things get done. You might not know this but Shawn of the Dead actor Simon Pegg has actually manage to crash a few websites a couple of times by simply tweeting about them to his million plus followers who immediately decided to check it out. Of course, it hasn't been Mr Pegg's intention to overload the website but people with access to 3G and possibly 4G mobile internet services on their quick messaging devices have definitely changed how fast things get done on the internet. The same goes for news media. The details that were coming out of Libya and Egypt and the rest of the Arab world owe a great deal of gratitude to these social networking sites. If it wasn't for people tweeting and face-booking about what was happening in in these countries, the world would have believed people like Gaddafi that everything is under control and is fairly dealt with.

But... like all things, there is a cost for this privilege... I'm just wondering what you and I are going to pay, later on, to be part of this world. The answers have yet to reveal themselves because this trend of global interaction is fairly new. But are those who choose not to be part of these social networks aware of something we aren't? When the time comes, are we ready for the answers?

New Year and some New Tears

I’m happy for the last year that has passed. I didn’t screw things up and I didn’t hurt anyone. Made some new friends and lost some old ones. It was fun. But I’m kind of getting tired of people always feeling down at the very beginning of the year. I mean comon man… it’s a new opportunity to make good on some things that didn’t work out the past year… Why waste it?

I don’t blame those who just can’t really get over the fact that holiday seasons brings pain and old memories back but hey… you can only blame the world for too long till you get your ass up and do something about it. So… I’ll just leave it that.

 

HAPPY NEW YEAR TO EVERYONE AND MAY THIS BE THE BEST YOU’VE EVER HAD!

December 15th, It’s her Birthday

I guess some of you know her and some of you don’t. Majority of you haven’t heard about her because I don’t really talk about her as much as I like talking to her. It’s just one of those things..

It’s her birthday today and she looks so excited. Too bad I’m not really around her right now to do some proper celebrations but I guess she knows that if I could I definitely would be there.

I kind of hate the fact that I’m not there on Benish’s birthday… Benish, YES… That’s her name My Fiancé. I don’t know the exact wedding date so stop asking me that over and over again. Now everyone knows her and the fact that I don’t have a wedding date yet. Soon that will not be the case but for now that’s all I’m going to say. I’m kind of getting tired of repeating this to friends. Next time, I’ll just tell you guys to read the blog. Anyway.

it’s a sure fact that I will be with her for the next one but for now the only thing i can do is let her know that I miss her.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY BENISH. I WISH YOU ALL THAT IS GOOD IN THE WORLD AND MANY YEARS TO ENJOY THEM. LOVE YOU SWEET HEART.