RickkciR

This past week we were in Galveston for Mardi Gras.   Between good eats, bars and parades, we made it to the gym.  My plan was to hit it several times, every other day .. but..... We have one over near Pirates Beach (West End Gym) and Jamaica Beach (Gymaica Gym).  Pricing them out reminded me of the old days when I did a lot of business travel and hit the local gyms.  Short version and to the point, $10 a person, per day.  Now you can do $40 for the week, $80 for the month or sign up for a year at $40/mo but .. are you kidding me?   Planet Fitness has $10/mo option with no contracts or $20/mo ($275 a year approx total) and you can use them nationwide.  Except, we don't have one on the Island.  I've got a full blown commercial quality gym in my garage here at home .. but .. that's not on the Island.  So.... we did one workout ( that was over $22 for one hour , in and out , for the two of us).  Sorry .. that's just fucking thef...

Guessing it was around 15 months ago we were in Cozumel on a big dive trip with family and friends.   We kicked it up big time.   As usual hundreds and hundreds of pics were taken and archived off.  I went through the mix deleting redundant / duplicate pics and stumbled across one of what appeared to be me.  I was in complete shock.   Getting out of the pool, my belly was yanked further down by gravity showing me what I really looked like, when not sucking it in.   It was ugly. Buddy of mine, Steve Foster was on that trip smiling and relaxing, leaner than I'd seen him in well... forever.   Turns out he was on a KETO diet and down about 40 lbs that trip (more since).  In my mind I was thinking I'd heard of this before and it wasn't good. But his quick overview of it sent me to the 'net when I got home.  And most if not everything I read was good.  My biggest concern was the potential of losing muscle over fat, b...