Went for my chest x-ray today (should be called X-rays, they took 5)
My doctor said its precautionary "just encase there is something more sinister at work here"
The worst part is he will only call me if something bad shows up.
So I can sit here and wonder how long it takes him to receive my film and determine if anything is "Sinister" and then to find the time to call me. 1 day, 2 days, Next Tuesday???
This weekend will suck...
Carved 3 pumpkins today
Exercise
2+ Miles @ 4.3MPH (new walking speed record) for 30 minutes
30 Min swim. (I was the only one in the whole pool area today, except the lifeguard)
Have you ever had the feeling your being watched...and silently critiqued on your technique?
Diet
breakfast
Corn Flakes and Banana, 2 coffees
Snack
V8
Lunch
Salad with 1/2 can of tuna & V8
Snack
V8
Dinner
Pasta, Salad with other 1/2 can of tuna
Snack
500 pumpkin seeds, Pop corn 1/2 bag, 8 mini chocolate bars (trick or treat), 500 more pumpkin seeds, yogurt, Ice cream with chocolate sauce (just a little cause that’s all there was)

Killer day today - Went to see my Dr. cause of a chronic pain in my side, have had it for over 6 months thought it was from smoking. I stopped and it didn’t. He gave me a slip for a chest X-ray.
Exercise

60 min on the tread mill 4.5 miles (ran for 5 minutes, I hate running)
Weights (increase the load so I could achieve failure on my 3rd set on every exercise)
Nothing more un-enjoyable than the feeling of failing muscles. NOT (not to mention you look like a dork)
1 Km swim Mostly breast stroke, when I do the crawl my goggles leak. I did the 1 k in 30 minutes which means I swim at 2Kph. (That’s not very fast)

Diet
Breakfast
Corn flakes with banana on top. Coffee
Snack
V8
Lunch
1/2 ham sandwich, banana, yogurt, V8
Dinner
Pasta, cookie, coffee

I have not lost any weight yet but all my pants are falling down.

One of the side effects of my quitting smoking is I have started to exercise.
I started to do this for several reasons:

It"s good for you (even though it feels really, really, really bad for you when your doing it)
To loose weight (even though after 10 weeks I haven't)
It strengthens my resolve and my will power.

I remember taking my son to his YMCA programs, drinking large double, double coffees and having a couple of dum-air-ier Lights while I sat around waiting for him to finish.
This continued for over 6 months (6 months of going to the YMCA 3X a week to drink coffee and smoke....duh)
I now go to the Y 6 times a week to join the sweat soaked poorly dressed masses.
I started off by walking for 30 minutes on the tread mill at a "I gotta piss really bad and the nearest can is 2 miles away" kinda pace. I did this for 2 weeks expecting to see some weight loss...nope.
Week #3 I added 30 minutes of swimming laps after the walk.
I really like the swim cause it seems to cool you down and you can work up a sweat but not have to keep wiping it our of your eyes.
I continued this for another 2 weeks, every day, day in, day out
The beginning of week 5 thinking I should have shed some poundage I jumped on the scales and low and behold...
NOTHING not 1 f@%&#*g pound.
Now I'm pissed off so I do some reading on the web and decide to start weight training. So 3 X a week I'm pumping iron (I have to admit I.....really hate lifting weights)
At the end of week 7 I jump on the scales again and it says...you are still a fat overweight pig. No weight loss.
Next I add a 10K nightly bike ride ( OK, not on rainy nights, or nights that don't start with T)
and after 2 weeks of this, bam I am a weight loosing machine...2 LBS...for 1 day and then it came back :(
Then I figured it out, my scale is either broken or lying.
After this epiphany I went to the in-laws for Thanksgiving dinner and my mother-in-law said "you have lost some weight"..gotta take that at face value as this is the same woman that said "you are getting fat" 6 months earlier.
(cause I was :)
Then last night I hooked up with an old "use to be fat" friend (how times change) and he said "you working out? You look like you lost some weight."
In conclusion :

I think there is a secret affiliation between the "loose 60 lbs in 4 weeks" type of companies and bathroom scale manufacture’s.
The best way to experience the fruits of your labors is to meet with someone that doesn’t see you all the time.
Stick with it. Even when it seems that nothing is happening...something is happening.

I started smoking in grade 5 (1974, I was 10 years old)
My first smoke was a MORE (oh the irony) behind a pizza joint with a friend names Joe Black (go figure)
Does anyone remember DUDES? smokes in a denim cigarette pack? (wonder who the target market there was?) or the 15 pack cause kids couldn't afford 25's.
I've smoked like Andy Cap for over a quarter of a century
On Thanksgiving of 2000 my mother passed away from lung cancer
She battled the big "C" for over 7 years and smoked all the way through it.
After she died I decided that enough is enough. Tobacco companies have taken too much of whats important to me.
I have tried to quit numerous times over the years with all attempts eventually leading to falure.
But with falure comes wisdom. I found that having just one smoke would lead to starting again and again and again.
I now have mastered the "slip" and if I f**k up and have a smoke I do not beat my self up about it and run to the store to spend my $7.25 I just get back on track.
These things helped me quit

I haven't smoked in over 2 months now (other that a couple of slips :)
I can breath normally again, I have a super hero sense of smell, I can breath again, I've saved over 500 bucks, I can breath again, I have tons more energy and oh yea did I mention that I can breath again.
>(breathing is only important when you can't do it)
Did you know that the big 3 Tobacco companies in Canada don't have web sites. (at least I couldn't find one that resolved) I wonder why....