Man, this has been a long week - lots of working and thinking.
So this is week two of my hardcore working out and eating "clean". (If you don't know what that means, basically it means fruits, veggies, lean meats - that kind of thing. No white breads, only wheat and whole grain and only in a limited amount and never after 8pm. No sugar - ever - and no fast food. I get one "cheat" day to be bad - this week I had a few beers and Pizza!)
So I wanted to get this whole thing on track, lose weight for me, for Bree(I know she loves me like I am, but I'm sure I would be much nicer to look at and show off with a tight six-pack - and besides, she started this spin class and will soon be able to kick my ass, so I got keep up with her! I'm so proud of you love), for this cruise that Bree and I are going on March with her family, and just cause I want to feel like I can compete with other actors in my "group", so I started looking around the Men's Health Website and found their Body Fat Challenge - where you post about goals, weekly weigh-ins and a full blown, ever building work-out and eating plan. I tend to get bored quick and start messing with stuff and next thing I know, I'm heading back into Wendy's and not going back to the gym. So I downloaded the whole thing.
Well, this is a "body weight" work-out, supersets, all kinds of great advanced sh*t - and it is kicking my ass.
I wasn't so sure how I was doing - I felt a little better and couldn't see much difference - That was, till I hit the scale today. When I started last week - I was 220 lbs - this week, wearing the same stuff as last week - 213 lbs. Holy CRAP! 7 lbs in one week? Now I know this rate of loss isn't going to continue forever, but - wow! Nothing made me want to run upstairs in the gym and start breaking into week two! So I am moving in the right direction.
As for the other goals - this week I started working on my first new scene for class, which is from Rosencrantz & Guildenstern are Dead - I'm playing Guil with a buddy of mine from class, Jim - both he and I are big Shakespeare nuts, so it is really cool to be working with him - plus I am really getting back into the play of acting and he is great to try stuff with - nothing is to out there for him and I, which is wonderful.
I have given more thought to this Write/Produce/Direct my own short - I had talked to "S" sometime ago about doing a series of shorts called "Shake Shorts" doing mini versions of Shakespearian plays, and I am going back to this idea. I searched all over YouTube and found nothing like my idea. I figure use the best written stuff and what the hell is better than the Bard himself? So, I'm going to start with Macbeth and Much Ado - I have some cool ideas for them - I'm going to start by shooting one scene... see how that works...
What else? I had another CD workshop tonight with the CD of Burn Notice and The Shield - my two all time favortie shows! It went great - I got this fun scene from an indie movie where I get to play the asshole boss who in the first scene is just riding his lower co-worker, and in the second scene totally gets put in his place - and my partner was great, we lit the room on fire! It was a great feeling - two weeks in row. Last week (also Monday) was with the CD of Criminal Minds.
Hmm... I think that is all - Bree got her script today - which films on Wens - the episode airs on Feb 8th (Friday) So set those Tevo's for Days of our lives! (PS -If you didn't know, Bree Booked a one dau U/5 on Days' of Our Lives! Give her a shout out!)
Love and miss you guys - can never tell you enough.
J.
