Doing Things Differently

So, it has been about a month and a half since I started dieting, and everyone keeps coming up to me and saying how good I look and that I must have lost a ton of weight by now…

The truth?  Although I have lost about 6 inches around my waist, I have not shed a single pound.  One problem is the amount of water I retain due to the amount of fibre I eat and the amount of water I drink.

I am continuing with the diet though, and hope that I shed some weight soon, and maybe even a little before my workation to Jamaica.  It would be nice to just go out and have a nice swim while I’m there, since I haven’t been in a pool for almost 2 years now.

This week I am preparing my body to be used to getting up early so that I can go for an hour jog in the morning before work, and then do something physical at night such as Tennis, Squash, etc.

I hope to finally join a gym somewhere when I get back from Jamaica, so that I can tone up a little and possibly help my body get into a more natural shape.

I’ll keep you posted as time goes on; I’m in this for the long haul.

Well, apparently there is already someone out there that is working with this idea, but it seems as if their approach may doom the project: they are trying to patent it. Check out their site: http://www.myreceiptcard.com/

This idea would more easily work in an open environment that could be easily extended instead of a closed environment as it looks like they propose.

As you could tell, although the idea could make money by making people pay to join the service, I was looking at the side of giving the service away to only take in what was needed to keep and slightly improve the service, not for profit.

Oh well, it would have been a good idea.  Thank you, Corporate America*, for always trying to make an easy buck.  Without you, many good ideas would have never been born, nor would many of them have ever been needed.

*Note: I have nothing against commercialism, nor many corporations.  I have a problem with the Patent system and how it is designed to make people who do NOTHING make money, and how it stops innovation.