At my last job, I worked in the Receiving department of a major retail store. It was a pretty physical job. I was on my feet all day unloading trucks, lifting boxes, driving the forklift, etc. My eating habits at the time were shitty. I didn’t know how to cook anything and I had no desire to learn. I only wanted what was convenient. I consumed a lot of Taco Bell, Alberto’s, and Pho. It didn’t affect me all that much physically because I stayed active at my job.

Last February, I was blessed with a new career opportunity. I was finally going to be doing something in the field I wanted to be in – computers. Unfortunately, this meant that I would be sitting down at a desk for 9 hours at work. And because I like to mess around with CSS and Photoshop and all that good stuff in my free time, this was 9 hours on top of the time I already spent plopped on my ass.

Trust me, I wasn’t complaining. It was great. It IS great. But the problem is the lack of any physical activity. Sure, I’ve become more conscience about my food consumption. I don’t eat a lot of sugar. Even though I love pasta, I try to stay away from it. I often choose vodka over beer. But none of that matters unless you’re doing something besides sitting on your ass for the majority of your life.

Here I am, almost a year later, and I think it’s finally catching up to me. I feel the unhealthiest I’ve ever felt my entire life. And it’s making me feel . . . old.

Hell naw. I’m not having that.

So I’m trying to work the gym into my daily routine. This is hard as fuck considering work keeps me away from home from 8am to 8pm. This is also difficult when you’re part of a large group of friends who have birthdays and birthday dinners and all that.

I have two choices:

1. Work out early before work
2. Work out late after work, or even later after all social obligations

I’m not a morning person, so I tried gymmin‘ it at 11pm one night.

Yeah, that happened ONE night. It’s hard to be motivated to go the gym when you’ve had a long day and knowing your comfy bed is in your room, calling you.

Morning it is!

I’m not the best at keeping commitments. I have a hard time remembering to take my daily vitamin. I thank God every day for online bill pay and scheduled payments. Without it I’d pay all my shit late because I forget to mail off checks on time.

My plan – accountability.

Within the next few weeks I’m hoping to have a new design up for raych.com. In it, I think I’ll have a section called “last time raych went to the gym” (or something along those lines). It’s a small thing and I’m sure no one gives a flying fuck when was the last time I went to the gym. But I think if I have it posted somewhere that is public like this, it’ll motivate me to keep it current.

[Feel free to harass me via email (raych@raych.com), AIM (raych34), or gchat(raych3481) if it's been too many days since I visited the gym]