Alex @ April 26, 2008 | | Health | Comments (2)
Save for November of last year when I purchased a beat-up car, this month has got to be my most expensive month in cumulative expenses. Not that I’m complaining, it’s so just not me to spend close to not saving a single centavo of my earnings.
Anyway, I’ve been hankering about getting back into shape this year. I started the year out with a 1400-calorie-a-day-diet and 30 minutes of basketball everyday. That made me lose 10 lbs in 10 weeks. Since I’ve been going about it on my own with no supervision from a dietitian, I was diagnosed with iron deficiency anemia, apparently, due to my lack of meat. Ever since then, I started to up my calorie intake - the side-effect of which was that I started to balloon again.
That worried me since I’m trying to be really conscious about my health nowadays. Having feasted on pure fat and cholesterol (those sisig feasts at Mang Jimmy’s back in college and the greasy Teriyaki Boy food I get to chow down every week) could surely have clogged some of my arteries). Not to mention a gut that sticks out.
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Tags: Fitness, Health
Alex @ March 15, 2008 | | Education, Health, Personal | Comments (1)
I hate it when I don’t get the time to write on my precious blog for more than a week! Anyway, as it has always been when I don’t get to write something on my blog, things have been f*cked up. I’m perpetually busy with work and since it’s the end of the semester again, time to turn in final requirements for my graduate classes. And since I was in the mood last week, I finished it last weekend two weeks before the deadline. That’s what obsessive-compulsion does to you.
Too bad, I’m assigned to be part of the defense panel for a few undergraduate students so I have to pore over a couple of hundred pages of preposterous twaddle-cock (hehehe) and see what can be “improved” on them before we start recommending those people for graduation.
Well, aside from those…
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Tags: Cyst, Education, Health, Hypochondria, Personal, UP
Alex @ August 6, 2007 | | Health, Personal | Comments (3)
I’ve been to two doctors this afternoon to check what’s wrong with me. What I failed to mention in my previous post is that, apart from having that weird sensation at the back of my head, I’ve also been through bouts of allergies for the past few days. So I decided to visit and ophthalmologist and an ENT. It was a good thing that the University Health Service now boasts a more or less complete staff of specialists that I didn’t have a hard time deciding where to bring my case. So armed with my ID and my first sweldo, I decided to shed some light on my medical conundrum.
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Tags: Allergies, Health, Personal, Sinusitis
Alex @ August 5, 2007 | | Health, Personal | Comments (4)
My eyes are hurting a lot these past few days. I’m having a weird throbbing sensation that the top of my head and I’ve also been experiencing a weird pressure at the back of my head. It’s not really a headache but it feels weird enough to make you paranoid. I also have been waking up with both of my eyes feeling like they want to pop out of their sockets.
I’m suspecting the long hours I sit in front of the computer to be the cause of all this. Taking breaks every hour just doesn’t seem to compensate the long hours I spend staring at the screen.
But being the hypochondriac, I am not thinking of other things. Right now, I’m just praying that it’s just my vision. I think that after a year, my vision has gone worse. As soon as my money clears, I will be visiting an eye doctor just to find out whether I need a new pair.
However, what concerns me is the area where I feel the pressure. My headaches from eye strain are usually concentrated just above the eyes. I’m feeling something weird at the top and back of my head. My right eyelid somehow feels lazy.
In any case, I’m really trying not to spend time in front of the computer today but I had to catch up on my posts on LifeSpy this weekend and I just took time to write something new here.
But please just let this be eyestrain.
Tags: Health, Personal
Alex @ March 18, 2007 | | Health | Comments (2)
Aside from my raves on 300, I could otherwise summarize it to one compound word - beefcake. Those sea of ripped muscles and eight-packs surely is a sight to behold. I bet eight packs are the primary considerations for the movie. I am overweight as of now. And I honestly felt really bad about my out-of-shape self watching the movie.
While there are get-the-fat-out-quick methods, (visit a place like this San Jose liposuction clinic) I’m no fan of surgery done to myself. So I’d rather stick to good old diet and exercise. I did it back in college and I’m willing myself to do it now.
So far, my exercise regimen consists of running laps around our village’s basketball court, some drills, and shooting a minimum of 200 jump shots. It’s enough to make me sweat like hell. Then I realized, no part of it really targets my abs (I’m lazy to get flat on my back and do crunches). And all those food trips really took a toll on my gut. Hehehe.
Come to think of it, ab exercises are the last thing that’d put more stress on my bad knee. Yeah, ab exercises starting tomorrow! Harhar.
Tags: Blog-to-Profit, Fitness, Health
