{"id":9587,"date":"2015-01-02T15:24:07","date_gmt":"2015-01-02T23:24:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/?p=9587"},"modified":"2019-12-24T07:20:37","modified_gmt":"2019-12-24T15:20:37","slug":"this-years-health-efforts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2015\/01\/02\/this-years-health-efforts\/","title":{"rendered":"This Year&#8217;s Health Efforts"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:2826,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.loseit.com\\\/#Community:Profile!id=9653555&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20260302212108\\\/https:\\\/\\\/www.loseit.com\\\/&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-05 18:17:11&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-12 08:58:24&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-12 08:58:24&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:2827,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/runkeeper.com\\\/user\\\/djwudi\\\/profile&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/runkeeper.com:443\\\/user\\\/djwudi\\\/profile&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:2828,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.gorillaworkoutapp.com&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20250207075750\\\/http:\\\/\\\/gorillaworkoutapp.com\\\/&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-05 18:17:13&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:500},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-12 08:58:28&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:500}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-12 08:58:28&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:500},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<p>Over the past couple of years,\u00a0I&#8217;ve started trying to pay more attention to my general health. Part of that process last year was starting to track my exercise and eating habits&#8211;and in the case of exercise, forming some habits to be tracked. Historically, I tended to think of myself as someone who didn&#8217;t really exercise much, but when I think back on how I used to spend my time&#8211;clubbing around three nights a week (which, for me, involves much more actual dancing than sitting\/standing around and drinking), walking a lot (I didn&#8217;t have a car while living in Seattle, and walked up and down hill between downtown and Capitol Hill daily), and working for print shops (which, while not strictly &#8220;physical labor&#8221; jobs, did involve a lot of moving cases of paper around and being on my feet most of my time)&#8211;it&#8217;s pretty obvious that I was getting a fair amount of regular exercise just through my normal routine. Certainly much more than I tend to now, when my daily routine involves driving back and forth to work and spending my day sitting at a desk.<\/p>\n<p>While tracking my eating habits didn&#8217;t carry on terribly long, I was better about keeping up a semi-regular mild exercise routine for most of the year. Unfortunately, that ended up falling apart mid-November, right about midway through my first quarter pulling double duty as a full-time employee <em>and<\/em> full-time master&#8217;s student.<\/p>\n<p>Last January, I weighed a little above 170 lbs., and set an arbitrary goal of just dropping down to 165. This was more to just have something to put into the app I was using than an actual goal, as I didn&#8217;t really feel I needed to lose weight, I just wanted to start paying more attention to actively exercising and taking care of myself (and hey, if I ended up toning up a bit in the process, so much the better). Over the course of the year, I actually ended up dropping down to 158 before starting to come back up again (which I believe is a combination of putting on some muscle mass and having to switch to a new scale which seems to read a bit higher than the last one did&#8230;too bad the last one broke when I got on it one morning).<\/p>\n<p>Right now, I&#8217;m right about back where I was at the beginning of last year, sitting at 172.2. So as I get the process going again, I&#8217;m keeping that &#8220;goal&#8221; of 165, but once again, that&#8217;s more just to have a value in that field in the app. My only real plan is to get back into the habit of exercising regularly.<\/p>\n<p>To that end, I&#8217;m using three apps to help track my stats\u00a0(and as is pretty normal in these days of social everything, two of them allow me to connect with friends, so I suppose, if I know you\u00a0and you want to be a long-distance, social-media pseudo-exercise buddy, feel free to add me as a friend). I&#8217;m set up with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.loseit.com\/#Community:Profile!id=9653555\" title=\"djwudi on LoseIt!\">LoseIt!<\/a> to track food and weight, <a href=\"http:\/\/runkeeper.com\/user\/djwudi\/profile\" title=\"djwudi on RunKeeper\">RunKeeper<\/a> to track my exercise (walking, riding, elliptical, etc.&#8211;in the words of Chris Knight, I only run when chased), and I&#8217;m using the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gorillaworkoutapp.com\" title=\"Gorilla Workout App\">Gorilla Workout<\/a> app as a simple home-based exercise regimen. I actually started the Gorilla workouts in October, but didn&#8217;t quite make it through all of Level 1 before my mid-November slump hit, so I&#8217;ve just started that over from the beginning again.<\/p>\n<p>So, that&#8217;s it for now. Just tossing this out there to give myself a little more accountability as I get going on this project again. As I&#8217;m about to start another quarter of school, I&#8217;m hoping I&#8217;ll be able to get through to spring break without letting the exercise fall by the wayside again.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After letting my exercise regimen fall apart in November, it&#8217;s time to get going again. For my own accountability, this is some rambling about my current status and what goals I have moving into the new year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2043],"tags":[13],"class_list":["post-9587","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal","tag-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9587","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9587"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9587\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9587"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9587"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9587"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}