From KT – July 30

Yo DaVitans!

It is a beautiful Saturday morning, I slept for 10 hours so I guess I needed a little catch-up after the week. 

One of the highlights of the week was I got to go to an Academy, I love doing that.  I got to talk about our Vision, Mission & Values in the context of the real world and stressful lives.  And how each person must decide if DaVita plays an important part in their life’s purpose.

Anyway, back to Match the Mayor.  Yesterday I did 61 minutes on the bike and 35 push-ups, and a 60 minute hike with some altitude gain with Denise, my wife.  So a total of 123 minutes.  I had the high fiber breakfast both yesterday and today.  Yesterday at lunch I only get credit for a half-serving, because the vegetable was corn, which does not have much nutritional value.  I had it with chicken, so that was pretty healthy.  I had an arugula salad, lightly dressed, at dinner, which I will count as a half – arugula supposedly has more nutritional value than iceberg lettuce, and there were some tomatoes with it.  In addition my dinner had half a tomato, so I will give myself credit for one veggie serving at dinner.

I did not have any dessert, breaking a terrible streak of having late night ice cream for about 6 nights in a row – as I said I had fallen into the rut of saying to myself that after 12-13 hours of work I deserved to have it.  How foolish to hurt my body and call it a deserved reward!

So as part of my new weight loss goal I will limit myself to one dessert a week.  Yesterday was day one, and it was a zero.

Back to yesterday, I remind you I was up in the mountains, because that is where the Board meeting was this week.  So I was working in our cabin.  I started the day with my bike ride, then did conference calls until noon.  At lunch time I got a very painful deep tissue massage, to try to loosen up a bunch of tight spots in my legs, to prepare for hopefully intense exercise this weekend.  After lunch I did conference calls until 5:30 pm, at which point my wife arrived and we headed out for our hike.

 I will head out for my Saturday am bike ride as soon as I am done typing this.

 I would not have set the 187 weight goal if it had not been for what you all are doing.  So I am most grateful for your examples and support.  While I am confident I will hit my exercise goal because it is a part of my multi-year normal routine and I schedule my life around it, not the other way around … I am not confident about the weight loss since I have been at this too high level for a few years.

 I hope you are all doing something different compared to before MTM  that is better for your life – remember there are 1950 others standing on the side of the road or kitchen applauding your daily efforts.  I love that picture in my head, the 2131 feet of vertical over 6.1 miles I will ride right now is pretty cool when I picture each side of the road having 950 DaVita citizens cheering me on!

One for All & All for One

KT

(Fear knocked at the door.  Faith answered.  No one was there.)