A New Resolution - DDP Yoga

I've decided to change my regular post with a new resolution I've taken on, DDP Yoga. I've actually started DDP Yoga's fitness routines a couple times in the past. I was first inspired by this video.

[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qX9FSZJu448&w=640&h=360]

Inspiring indeed. So I watched it again. Teared up again. And resolved to make a difference in my own life. This time though I was inspired to focus on building habits first. Rather than pushing hard I was going to kick my ego to the curb and just follow the beginner plan. Along with the fitness plan I am following the nutrition plan as well.

Following the beginner plan for fitness was very simple because it was only 3 days of fitness routines. Because I think waking up early is the better plan for me I decided to make the habit of waking early be the most important part. So even on my 2 weekdays with no exercise I wanted to wake up early as well. This worked fine on one but I didn't make it on the other. It is still the first week so I'm not going to make it mean anything. I'm going to see how next week goes.

As for the nutrition I lucked out last Sunday night in that I doubled a recipe for 2 servings so that I could make dinner for the family and ended up with leftovers that lasted me through Wednesday lunches. This and the eggs I was already making every morning made it easy to follow the plan. I had a couple of cheat days and I wrote about in my Team DDP Yoga blog. Even with these light cheat days, things still went better than I used to do. In fact my first week has already brought fast results. Last Sunday when I weighed myself I was at 250 pounds. This Sunday when I weighed myself I was at 244 pounds.

I'm going to keep posting as I keep up with the program to share what has come up for me. I hope that whatever I find out can help someone else who might come across this post. If you want to follow my daily updates you can go to my Team DDP Yoga page and follow my blog posts.

Geek Fruit Salads

A friend of mine at work and I were talking about healthy geek foods and of course we started talking about apples. When I came in the next day he had made a few salad recipes that I thought I would share with you. He said these recipes are open source - completely. So without further ado, here are the open source geek fruit salads created by Devon Scott. ...

The Java Applet
Cubed Juicy Red Delicious Apples Mixed with Chocolate covered Coffee Beans

The Web Server Serving
Sweet Apache Corn Mixed with diced PHP Pears

The Mac Classic
Sliced Mandarin Oranges mixed with Sweet Blueberries and Sliced Cinnamon Coated Macintosh Apples

The Variabowl
String Steamed Noodles Mixed with Honey Nut 0's and topped with Soft Dates

The Firewall
Sweet Steamed Honey rice and Walnuts covered by Spicy Sauteed Peppers, Mushrooms and Onions drizzled in Hot Sauce

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What's next? We need some pictures to go along with this post.