Well, I’m still on the road to 180 lbs and still falling. I’m down about 28 lbs since I began my diet about 55 days ago. (yea, I know that’s too fast of a weight loss, but its my choice)
I thought I would take this opportunity to explain what it is I’m doing to answer family, friends, and coworkers who are stumped by my quick transformation.
Currently I am eating about 1700 calories a day and doing cardio for 1 hour a day, 6 days a week. I then take the stairs to my 40th floor apartment. That’s really all there is to my workout. No variations, no fun, just purely functional and effective. I am doing this until I hit 185 lbs, at which point I’m switching from weight loss to lifting. At my current pace I should be at 185 in late June.
Once I switch to lifting I will be eating at least 2800 calories a day and lifting 5 days a week, alternating different areas of my body of course. Again, no fun, just functional.
I don’t consider this a diet, I look at it as training. This is my training regimen to get me in shape again so I can start playing sports for the first time in 5+ years. I’m hoping to get into the best shape of my life by the end of the year.
Hopefully that shines light onto what I have been doing.
Categories: The Road to 180
Tagged: exercise, inspiration, weight, weight loss, working out
For some reason beyond me, people seem to ask my opinion of the economy a lot. The only reason I can possibly come up is that I work with sites like DebtSolutions.com and in the past DebtHelp.com.
While building these sites, yes its true that I have had to stick my nose in nearly every aspect of financial news. I also trade currencies on the Forex, so my life has revolved around intentional monetary policy decisions and reports for a couple years now. Between that and living on sites like Bloomberg, Forbes, FT.com, NYTimes business section, and Reddit.com’s economy section… I would say I have kept up on financial matters on an hourly basis for about 2.5 years now.
However, I think its critical before I go on that I give a disclaimer here. Just because I read other people’s opinions on global economics, doesn’t mean I have the slightest clue what I am talking about. I’m not the one writing the stories on Bloomberg, I simply read them. I’m discouraged to see so many “couch” economists spouting their theories on how this economic crisis is going to turn out, when they have no basis, no education, and no frame of reference to do so. So, unlike them I’m going to clearly state right now that you shouldn’t take anything I say seriously and I highly recommend going to sources like Krugman and others who are far more qualified. Think of everything I say as a lie until proven otherwise and certainly fact check anything you read here. Keep reading →
Categories: General Business
Tagged: bailouts, business, business news, consumers, credit cards, currency, deflation, economics, economy, federal government, forex, gas, homes, housing, inflation, oil, opinion, prediction, prices, realty, saving, spending, us economy
Running a small business is difficult enough as it is, without adding in tax strategy on top of every other list of worries. Needless to say a company like mine has limited resources to setup complex tax avoidance or evasion techniques like many Fortune 100 companies do.
So, my company pays its fair share and I enjoy the benefits of these taxes such as roads, bridges, public transportation, public schools, clean air, clean water, waste removal, sewage systems, police, fire departments, EMT’s, college financial aid, medicare, national defense, and 100’s of other services. Apparently Coca-Cola, Intel, Seagate, Oracle, Noble Oil, and tons of others don’t feel they need to contribute to any of these services that they love to enjoy.
The idea of companies, especially brands dear to tens of millions of Americans like Coca-Cola, avoiding taxes by moving their HQ to places like the Cayman Islands, its just disgusting. I can’t believe companies that try to tie their brands so closely to the American way of life and refer to themselves as great US companies, in the back room when no one is looking, move their HQ to other countries to avoid their share of business taxes.
I can understand tax strategy designed to save the company money. I can understand making sure you and your accountants optimize deductions, depreciation, etc.. to save money. I however, cannot understand switching your official HQ to the Ugland House in Grand Cayman to avoid paying US business taxes to the tune of as much as $190 billion a year in lost tax revenue for the government. That should be tax evasion and I’m glad this administration is moving to close this loophole that I know many of us can’t believe even exists in the first place.
Categories: General Business
Tagged: cayman islands, coca-cola, government, grand cayman, intel, obama, oracle, seagate, tax, tax avoidance, tax evasion, tax strategy, taxes, ugland house
I have been on a diet now for about 1.5 months and currently stand at 24 lbs lost. I’ll talk a little bit more later in this post about my diet, first I would like to address this blog.
Since I am feeling inspired to take care of myself once again, I will be taking care of this blog like it deserves as well.
My first post I ever wrote on SecondCityCEO.com received about 65,000 visitors in the first 24 hours (I think it was nearly 200,000 after a week). Not too bad! I am a domain name developer and had noticed that after every major disaster in the US, thousands of related domains would be registered within days afterward. Keep reading →
Categories: Life · The Road to 180
Tagged: blogging, business, ceo, domain, domain developer, Domain Development, domain names, small business, startup, weight, weight loss
Normally that would take at least a couple days.
The sad state of the domain squatting industry, and society in general, is that after a horrible shooting a bunch of “business people” sprint to grab up every VT shooting/massacre domain possible.
If your first thought upon seeing the news of this horrible shooting, is “Oh crap, how can I make money off of this?”, then you need to get off the computer because the internet has completely warped your ability to care for other people. Keep reading →
Categories: Life
