Final weekly weigh-in of 2013

Today I weighed in 291.8 lbs. @ 34.5% bodyfat

Down 33.4 lbs. since June 21 (@ a high of 325.2 lbs. & 36.7% bodyfat

My secret: a low-carb/high-fat diet and lots of shoveling exercise.

That's about 1.24 lbs./wk, the first 8 weeks I focused on eliminating the junk food (again, I had relapsed back into eating candy and donuts the past year) though I was still eating bananas, oranges, and oatmeal with raisins, it wasn't until August 16 that I stopped eating the bananas, oranges, and oatmeal. I weighed in at 314.4 lbs. @ 36.3% bodyfat then. The weight remained stable for a couple weeks, then I cut out the cheese and ever since September I've been seeing steady weight loss.

Yesterday I saw my chiropractor, he noted my weight loss and was impressed at how little adjusting I needed (despite all the shoveling I've been doing, I've been shoveling my house, plus 3 other houses of older neighbors), he pushed my next appointment out to 7 weeks.

No, I'm not losing 30 lbs. in 30 days, but that's just crazy talk anyways, losing a pound a week is a good pace. At this rate I'll be close to my goal weight around my 50th b-day next year (will I eat cake or steak to celebrate? Probably steak, or maybe Brazilian all-you can eat meat? :o)

O Solstice Star!

O Solstice Star! O Solstice Star!
Thy angles are so unchanging;
O Solstice Star! O Solstice Star!
Thy angles are so unchanging;
Not only geometric when summer's here,
But also when 'tis cold and drear.
O Solstice Star! O Solstice Star!
Thy angles are so unchanging!

O Solstice Star! O Solstice Star!
Much pleasure thou can give me;
O Solstice Star! O Solstice Star!
Much pleasure thou can give me;
How often has the Solstice Star
Afforded me the greatest glee!
O Solstice Star! O Solstice Star!
Much pleasure thou can give me.

O Solstice Star! O Solstice Star!
Thy lights shine so brightly!
O Solstice Star! O Solstice Star!
Thy lights shine so brightly!
From base to summit, gay and bright,
There's only splendor for the sight.
O Solstice Star! O Solstice Star!
Thy lights shine so brightly!

O Solstice Star! O Solstice Star!
How richly I have decked thee!
O Solstice Star! O Solstice Star!
How richly I have decked thee!
I made thee true and faithfully,
And admire you unchangingly.
O Solstice Star! O Solstice Star!
How richly I have decked thee! :o)

Diet, Health and the Wisdom of Crowds

A new speech given by Fat Head's Tom Naughton.

Happy Phi Week's Eve

Tomorrow is the first day of my own personal holiday I call Phi Week, a 12 day period that starts on August 3rd, the Golden Section of the Solstice Calendar (which starts on the Winter Solstice),  which marks .6180339 of the way through the Solar Year. It ends on August 14th, the Julian calendar’s Golden Section point. August 8 is Phi Day, the midpoint between Aug 3 and 14th. August 8th also written as 8/8 which represents the double infinite nature of Phi (1.6180339...) and it’s inverse 1/Phi (0.6180339...).

This website explains the Golden Section: http://www.goldennumber.net/golden-section/

I haven’t developed any sort of rituals surrounding my holiday yet, I just make a note of it when it arrives.

It’s a geometry geek thing for me. √5 x .5 ± .5 = Phi or 1/Phi  it is also a fundamental aspect of the pentagon and the Dodecahedron.

Not a religion, just something I like to have fun with. :o)  That golden number website can be religious though, oh well.

Happy Phi Week!

Virtural Graffiti

Things in Robbinsdale inspire odd thoughts.

I'm opposed to defacing property, but photoshopping graffiti is another thing. :o)

 I guess he's hanging from an invisible cross, but looks as eternally perplexed as the rest of us.

Crystal's new sign on 81 "Welcomes" you. But for some reason Robbinsdale decided against welcoming folks. Perhaps the message they're sending is this one?

Lines of Construction

Poly Knots

I came across a VIking Triangle Knot design. This inspired me to make one of squares (boring, ho hum) and Pentagons. It took me a while to figure out the correct ratio of strip width to pentagon size to make the tightest knot possible.

Oddly enough the solution to the Pentagon Strip thickness was in front of me the whole time. All I needed was to use the projected width from a top view of a dodecahedron. This shape continues to surprise me. :o)