Down the gutter!

It's been around three weeks since my last post, and I am happy to post that I've made some progress in what is surely going to be a long journey.

As far as fitness is concerned I'm down to about 190lbs from around about 205lbs. I am not sure of my body fat percentage but I am pretty sure that its hovering somewhere between 25-28%, which is BAD. The healthiest and fittest I've been was in the summer and fall of 2006. I was at 167lbs and 10-14% of it was fat. My current plan is to cut down to 10% or possibly even 8% if I don't look like a walking skeleton. I'm not doing any lifting for now; just running and body-weight exercises like pushups and body-weight squats. I'll be getting back into the gym and hitting the weights hard. In the meanwhile I have my fingers crossed in the hopes that I do not loose too much lean mass. My goal for the year is to hit sub 15% body-fat while keeping a decent amount of muscle on me.

I finished reading "Contact" by Carl Sagan; who is one of my heroes and I also finished reading a very interesting book called "The Anti-Cancer Life" by Servan-schreiber David. I'll be posting the reviews up for these shortly. I recently bought an amazing book on differential equations and have started learning the material by doing the exercises in the book. My plan is to finish it within the next four to five months. I've also started doing some tutorials on Adobe Photoshop in the hopes of putting up some nice graphics on the blog (e.g. banner, side banners etc...).

There is a 50-50 chance of my going back to university this fall, I'm in the process of gathering a whole bunch of documentation and submitting it to a committee, who will then vote on wether I can return to my engineering major or must continue with my current program. I will be flabberghastingly happy if I can return to engineering. Making the decision to switch was a MAJOR mistake and if the decision is not made in my favor I will have to take the long way around; which will put further delays in my plans.

I'm also dealing with a whole bunch of personal and family related problems. Man the pressure just keeps on piling and piling. But I have to persevere and flush the pressure and anxiety down the gutter because it's situations like these which test you to see if you have the right stuff.