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LIVING LIKE I BOX

Sometimes I wonder if, in making references to boxing and fighting, or sports in general, if people get the mistaken impression that I am a powder keg walking. I think that would be an assumption made by a person skimming the surface of my scribblings, and it would be wrong.

Somewhere, I heard this, and it stuck ... think out of the mind of what you do best. I took it to mean make things fit in a way that YOU understand it, in order to bring about the desired results. For me, it is boxing.

There are times where you 'stick and move', or you 'step out and circle' something. I know what those terms mean, and what I am hoping to accomplish. For you, it may be something different. It could be cooking, it could be auto repair ... but whatever it is, when I am faced with something difficult, I would retreat into that 'boxing mentality' (the execption to this is my Army experience ... THAT became its own coping mechanism!).

By doing this, you make something unfamiliar, familiar. And if it is something you know and recognize, I think you will handle the situation better. Now, if there was anything that I do think is universal, it is getting over your fears. If something big and intimidating is between you and where you want to go, then suck it up and get to it!

THIS JUST IN ...

It is cold outside! I hadn't ran in about a week, taking last weekend off, then getting sick from my trip to Mickey Dee's on Sunday. But I got out into it today ...

Haven't talked about fitness in quite a bit, but it is on my mind because I made a meal based on a recipe I snipped from Myra over at 'The Randomness Of It All'... and it sparked something that I used to think about winter training.

Hope see won't mind, but she set a reasonable weight loss goal for this month. Made me think how when I was a teen, I would work even HARDER in the cold weather than I did in the summer, though as for that, I prolly worked just as hard.

The thinking was, that evolution is a bear. No matter where you are at, your body has been 'set' to build fat during this time of year ... you can't help that. So when you do all the work, and you see only a minimal weight loss, do not be discouraged. Building the muscle that is going to burn the fat if you keep working, increasing your aerobic capacity to go longer and harder, is just as important as the number on the scale.

While I know how important diet is, doing the work is more important to me. I think you can eventually train your habits to eat better, but clearing your mental and personal schedule to do the work out portion of fitness, is harder. Trust me, I know how easy it is to lay in that warm bed, or when it is in the early evening, to stare at the television.

MOVIES TO WATCH

There are three. 1) 'Slumdog Millionaire; 2) Frost-Nixon and 3) The Day The Earth Stood Still.

Because 'Slumdog' has been out for awhile, I better go see it now. 'Frost-Nixon' has the cinema snob in me salivating, but the 'Hell Octoplex' mass market drone in me really can't wait to see '... Stood Still'. Maybe it is just me, but some of the best movies from the 50's stand up quite well on their own. I am hoping that this doesn't let me down like 'Manchurian Candidate' did. I mean, it was very okay, but paled in direct comparion to the original. Maybe not really having the malovence of the social times made a difference too. I don't think that sometimes 'we' get the message ... I do think that we are actually a less literate society, and that 'think tanks' and marketing is what has replaced discussion of real opinion and thought.

Okay ... starting to ramble. Y'all have the best day!