Another day, singular focus.

Well here I am again. I have no plans or illusions to have a post every day, or only one post a day, or even one post a week. I'm just doing.

Day two at my standing desk, yesterday went well but I tried to mix it up and sit/stand a lot to rest and give myself time to adjust. I ordered an ergonomic mat to stand on, however with the mat I think my monitor will be too low. So I need to tweak things a bit.

I sure got some funny looks/laughs/ridicule from others at work for making such a ghetto standing desk, but I don't care. If I like this and can tolerate it and prefer it, I will get a 'real' standing desk.

So my focus right now is just standing desk. What I've learned in the past is that I can only fous on few things at a time. There are a zillion healthy things I know I need to be doing, exercise, sunlight, walking regiment, eating properly, etc, etc. I can't do it all at once, I'm not perfect. So, I've picked one. Standing desk. I'll focus just on this for the next month, with the goal to be standing at my desk at least 4 hours a day by the end of January. If I can do that, it will probably be a habit and just another 'thing I do' that I don't have to think about. Once that is complete, I can pick something new to focus and internalize into a 'thing I do'. Even now, writing this post standing, it's only been 30 minutes and I'm shifting around a lot. My feet and legs aren't used to it yet. They will. Frequent breaks, slow and steady.

Standing Desk Part 2

I can't even figure out how to post all this, and it is all scatter shot and out of order. But...

I just finished setting up my standing desk at work. Part of my goal to transform everything is to not fall victim to constant sitting. My new job has me at a computer in a cubicle even more than my old one! Sitting around all day is horrible for us, it weakens important muscles that hurt activities, makes us higher risk for many injuries and diseases, and just generally sucks.

So, I'm standing.

I'm going to have to take it slowly, as it is a major adjustment. But there is so much sitting in our day already, TV, driving, meetings, waiting at offices, etc. If I can just get standing 4-5 hours a day at work that would have been sitting, I'll have a much better balance of how humans should be behaving.

Getting started again.

So,

I'm not much of a writer.  I'm certainly not much of a fitness success.  I can count at least 19 attempts to get in awesome shape like John Stone of JohnStoneFitness.com or ChickenTuna of Bunklers.com, both major inspirations for me, but I always get about 4 months in with massive progress then get off track.  I've tried everything, but I never quite.

So I'm trying again.

I'm documenting my progress as I go, stuff going on, wins, failures, new attempts, etc.  I've never been particularly good at keeping up with my documentation either, but I'm not making any promises about how often I'll update this or not.  This is for me not for anyone else.  

Hopefully along the way I'll not only succeed but be able to show you what I've done so it might guide you too.  Or maybe my daughter will read it and find it interesting.  I don't know.  Today is Tuesday, December 25th (aka Christmas) 2012.  I've been planning re-launching this site for a long time since my old one was swept away with MobileMe closing down.