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Today I blogged quite a bit about good health. Moreso than on previous days, though admittedly the main reason was because I was behind from other workloads. Blogging is one of those things that’s easy if you do a little blogging every day, but becomes very difficult very quickly if you get a few days behind.

Originally, this was my pat on the back health blog, and I suppose it still is. Today I’m patting myself on the back for catching up with my workload, and I still have two hours to spare! This means I can use the spare time to fine tune my paleo diet and exercise plan. Later today I’m going to do wind sprints for the first time since I started living the primal way. My anearobic exercise usually involved running up stairs, but I need to vary it up or else I’ll only develop one particular set of muscles. I did a test sprint over at lunch…oh man…this is going to be a whole new kind of sore. Energy equals mass times speed squared (yep, e=mc2, the only physics formula known by the common man), and I’ve got a great amount of mass, so any speed at all is going to take a considerable amount of energy. But, that’s what getting in shape is all about!

In other news, I broke the paleo diet last night. I indulged. I didn’t fall off the wagon by any means, I actually still came out ahead for the day, but there wasn’t really any reason for me to add the extra carbs to my meal at the end of the day. I’m not going to lie, it tasted great, but I didn’t feel guilty, and today I’m back on the low-carb routine as usual. I’d call it a successful indulgence.

It’s Thursday, but it feels like Friday. The boss is gone again, so I’m in charge again. Same old same old. Got all my business taken care of early and had a chicken lunch. Can’t wait for the weekend. I have to work on Memorial Day, but on Sunday the friends and I are going to a Dodgers game. Should be fun, I haven’t been to a baseball game in probably a decade.

The only problem with the baseball game, is my favorite memories of baseball games always included food. The peanuts and hot dogs (to be cliche), but more importantly, those wonderful Ice Cream cones, the giant waffle ones with the classic whip cream and cherry and all the goodies mixed in. I get hungry just thinking about that stuff, I loved the food more than the game. When I was in high school we used to go to minor league ball games in Memphis, the Memphis “Red Birds.” The team was awful, but the Memphis barbecue was grand. One of the vendors especially made barbecue nachos. Impossible to beat, sloppy as hell, and pretty damn cheap too.

But right now I’m on a diet, so all that flies right out the window. I’m on a low carb diet which specifically rules out the ice cream sundae, and any sort of nachos. I guess I could do the peanuts, or possibly the hot dog without the bun. But that’s no fun at all. I’m trying to get washboard abs, and baseball just doesn’t help with that goal (at least the way I do baseball). Ah, well, I’ll probably go anyway, this time I’ll have to enjoy the game instead.

And the health links for this week are primal nutrition. At primal nutrition you can learn how to deal with stress. See you at the game!

So, I believe I’m going to try something new with my next round of posting. I’ve got a list of 100 blog concepts I pull from. Many of them are health related, talking about diets, or exercise plans or orthorexia. Others are more specific or quirky, a cowboy blog, a robot science fiction blog, a blog with haikus or lymricks, even a blog with fake resumes. There are several blogs which are just rants, opened ended forums for me to say whatever comes to mind, though each one usually has a particular style (angsty teen, ditsy house wife, william s. burroughs). Finally some of my blogs are short stories, and I just continue the story where I left off each week.

Well, I’ve decided to take a break from that (search people, aha!). For the next round I’ve decided to write a whole book. I realize I’ve probably logged close to a thousand pages blogging, maybe even more. It’s all basically nonsense (though some very well written nonsense), and its read by less than a handful of people. Probably less than 100 people have visited all my blogs total, though I did get a few comments on my “awful moral lessons” blog. So, I’m going to start a novel with my next round. I’m thinking of making it an epistillary novel, but it might just be a simple children’s book.

Ideally I’d like to link from one post to the next, so someone could theoretically follow all the posts in order to read the story, but that’s a bit ambitious. Here the template though.

This is part of the (FILL IN THE BLANK) saga. To begin the saga, start here(hyperlinked). The saga continues here(hyperlinked).

The only tricky thing is, it’s the same sentence spread throughout all my blog posts which might be a little risky for the whole google thing, but what the hey, it may be worth it.     

I’ve been taking up an interest in this new primal blueprint lifestyle I’ve been hearing so much about. It is based off the primal nutrition method of using man’s genetic blueprint as a guide to health, diet, and exercise choices.  Some of the guidelines for primal nutrition are simple, like eating meats and vegetables in plentiful amounts (fuck you, vegetarians!). Other principles are a little more involving, like the idea of walking bare foot, and utilizing a 0 carb diet. 0 carbs is hard for a man who includes Starbucks among his social necessities.

Anyway, there’s not too much research out there about this primal lifestyle, but I feel opportunistic. I tried the southbeach diet, I tried the muscle-man workout routine, now I’m ready to try something that just might be a little more natural.

I should also mention that the primal blueprint stresses the benefits of vitamins as integral to a part of healthy living. Getting good supplementation is key, and regulating a micronutrient balance is essential to fulfilling a primal lifestyle. I’ve been trying different vitamin supplements recently, looking for one that is ideal for me. I’ll update this blog as I research further and discover the true path of the primal man.

Cheerio.

So, obviously I can’t use a whole blog just to congratulate myself on completing 100 blogs (Though it’s still a mighty fine achievement if you ask me). Thus, I’ve decided to use this blog to talk a little bit more about health.

This week’s topics are the best multivitamin and omega 3 capsules.

There are an infinite number of multivitamins on the market today, which is odd because there really aren’t that many nutrients going into all these vitamins (less than 100 different nutrients make up 99% of the vitamin market). Therefore the best multivitamin is usually judged by the process by which it is made, and the quantity of the selected nutrients included. If the multivitamin has upwards of 50 nutrients on its ingredients list, chances are there isn’t much quantity of any particular ingredient. The best multivitamins usually come in several daiy doses just because the sheer mass of so many supplements can take up many pills (i.e. if you’re only swallowing one pill per day, you’re probably not getting enough).

Now let’s talk about omega 3 capsules. These usually aren’t included in multivitamin supplements because they almost always come as oils (fish oils or flax seed oil). The omega 3 fish oils don’t mix readily with vitamin powders, heat processed pills, or even liquid forms of many nutrients. But, other than the essentials, this is probably one of the best supplements to take.

This is my last blog. I’ve created 100 blogs in this never-ending blog writing project. I had 40 before, each solidly written, with 6 or 7 posts. Some were damn near publish-worthy. Others were just funny characters I’d made up or advice on topics I knew nothing about.

Then came the next 60. Usually the process would go something like this:

Goal: Write 5-7 new blogs per day (i.e. Totally new ideas per day).

Reality: The first two blogs I’d put effort into. I’d possibly write a short story, or create a really unique character (POV) to write a blog from. After these 2 I’d write a movie blog. I know a good deal about movies, so I’d just write up a critique of one I’d seen recently. After that I’d usually write the token health blog. This whole project is supposed to infiltrate the blogosphere with loaded health words, so a few true health blogs are in order. After the health blog was finished, my creativiy/energy would be done for the day and I’d just spew out thoughts or write general nonsense for the last few blogs. I never really bothered to distinguish on my blog tracking page which blogs were decent and which were trash. This is a bit frustrating as a handful of my 100 blogs (perhaps 20) is really good writing material.

Anyway, this is it. The last post. Until I start on the next project, which is to write more posts for all the blogs I’ve created. I’m sure I’ll pull some more enthusiasm, but right now my mind is just spent. I don’t know if anyone in the world has enough useful/fun/different information to write 100 blogs, but I sure don’t.