Happy New Year!

On this New Year's Day, my son Brian and I got to go to Healthtrax together, and enjoy a workout, albiet an easy one. I still felt a bit sore today, so another active day of rest is probably a good Idea. We then went to the Mall and bought a pair of sneakers for him that have the Nike+ system for his Ipod. I have written about the Nike+ for pelink4u.org before when I bought it some 3+ years ago. His girlfriend Stephanie also was able to get 3 pair of new shoes and Dieshmann's.

My New Year's resolution is to eat only non-processed foods and reduce the portion size especially with regard to protein in my diet. My overall goal remains the same until I reach it, but needed to make alterations to my diet to make this happen a bit quicker.

My dad is a vegan, and eats nothing with eyes or has a a mother. I am going going to go to that extreme, as I still enjoy the meat in my diet and don't want to loose muscle mass in the process of loosing body mass (FAT). Although it may take me twice to three times as long to loose the weight, I do have the time!

My dad gave me two books on the effect of the vegan diet on Heart Health: I am halfway through one of them, and some interesting data from various studies is used to justify the need for this extreme measure of those patients with heart disease. so far the book has provided no additional insights into heart disease other than what I knew already, and uses mainly empirical data to support the books premiss as of this point in the book.

On a less healthy note, I share a cigar after dinner last night with my brother, brother-In_Law Bobby and Frank (Bob's neighbor) . My bother and I smoke a CAIN by Oliva Robusto. this cigar is currently my new favortie smoke! It has a medium full body with plenty of flavors that show themselves throughout the cigars long smooth smoke. The almost creamy finish is wonderful and can be smoked all the way to the end without the harshness that ruins most other smokes. We were relegated to Bob's garage, and it was extremely brisk outside, but NICE! It may also have added to the extremely long white ash the cigars provided. The following pictures were taken via Frank's iPhone.



Am now going to take a week off of smoking Cigars, and only have one a week for a while. Although this is not my NY resolution, I think it wise.

Here hoping everyone has a healthy happy NEW YEAR!