Good Friday morning!!

Hope everyone is ready for an awesome weekend!

Ken

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Good morning!

The strip is chugging along – I’ve started advertising on some other sites and it’s working out swimmingly! Traffic to the site is up exponentially and it’s not really costing me a ton of money. Woohooo! So if you happen to see other people happening around the site – let’s be cordial. Share the mediocrity!

Hope you had a chance to check out yesterday’s blog post regarding the Rick the Stick Diet. It’s just one ingredient that’s gone into my magical weight loss.

Thanks for dropping by today!!
Ken

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Good morning!

Happy humpday! Hope your week is going well – and I mean that sincerely. Not that you’d hit me up and be all like “you know what! it’s not going good? i’m not having a good week;” and I’d be like “Hey friend, I noticed you didn’t capitalize some of your letters there and your punctuation is a mess – having a good week starts with making sure your sentences are buttoned up. Think about that and get back to me.”

Riiiiiiight. Anywho, I’m continuing on the Rick the Stick diet (I’m down 34 pounds in three and a half months*) and here’s the key to it: water.

Water.

I was feeling listless, tired and unmotivated to do some of the things I wanted to do when I started another weight loss contest in the beginning of March with a coworker. I saw that trainer on the Biggest Loser with a tip during the show that said drinking water increases your metabolism. I used to have a high metabolism and was tall and skinny. Age pretty much took care of that and now I was tall, dumpy and my weight was topping out at 276 (when I started the contest I weighed in at 274 so I use that weight as my official starting weight).

I also wanted to live a longer life now that I had a child – I want to watch him grow up and I wasn’t convinced on my current path that I’d have that opportunity. Something needed to change. Starting with consuming more water seemed like a good start.

What I’ve read is that if you’re dehydrated your body can mistake that for hunger. STUPID BODY!!! I AM THIRSTY!!! The problem for most of my adult life was that I hated drinking boring old water. So I downed Diet Cokes like they were my life’s source. STUPID DIET COKE!

I now drink two 1.5 liter bottles of water per day. I usually will have a cup of coffee (I still need caffeine!) and a liter of seltzer – ALL BEFORE I LEAVE WORK! Drinking a lot of water in the evening usually makes for a lot of trips to the bathroom. For some great tips on water consumption check out this article.

Back to Diet Coke or other diet sodas. Aside from the fact that they aren’t part of a healthy “DIET”, the chemicals in them actually hurt your metabolism. So while you may not be adding calories from your beverage, you’re killing your metabolism which helps your body burn more calories. If you’re drinking a diet beverage or anything with ASPARTAME or any other artificial sweetener in it, slowly put it down and back away from it.

Want more information for yourself? Fine. Click here (NY Times) Keep in mind that I was addicted to Diet Coke – sometimes drinking 4-5 20 oz. bottles per day. Ugh. I’m proud to say I have not “BOUGHT” a Diet Coke in 2009 – I’ve had a few (my wife sometimes brings one home) but despite the intense cravings on occasion, I don’t drink it anymore.

Added benefit: when you’re feeling hungry, drinking more water helps those little hunger pangs go away.

So there it is. Water. Lots of it. Quench the thirst you probably didn’t know you had, increase your metabolism and lose weight. Simple right? Yes. But you need to do more. Start today. Even if you drink just one more glass than you normally would – do it – and keep doing it.

Thanks for dropping by!
Ken

*I’ve averaged losing 2.5 pounds per week without going hungry (all the time). You can check in every Monday for my results from every Friday’s weigh-in. I’ll also be including more of the things that I’ve done to get there.

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Good morning!

First off, I’m glad at least 2 people were able to find the poll [poll id="18"] . Second, while I did get up to play hoops yesterday morning, I didn’t get to post anything, so this will be short. Tomorrow will be the first installment of the Rick the Stick Diet!! WOOHOO!

Thanks for dropping by!
Ken

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Good morning

This week is experiment week. I’m going to try something completely new. Well at least since last July. I’m going back to my early morning routine. What does this mean to you? Not much, but this blog part is about me. The comment section and the polls are about you. If you want the inner scoop on how mediocrity in real life generates mediocrity in a webcomic – please read on. If not, please read on. The choice is yours and I’m glad to make it for you.

ENOUGH about you – getting back to me. I’ll be getting up around 4-4:30am so I can work on the comic. I’ve been only getting 4-5 hours of sleep a night and that tank is getting low, so it’s time to switch it up. Besides, I can’t let my wife go to bed alone EVERY night!! So ideally, I’ll be sawing ZZZZZZZs from 10pm on. This means the posts you read here – normally done the night before – will be a day old. Why should you care? Because despite the born on date of these blog posts being a day earlier than their posted, you’ll get a refreshed post. Not the end of the day post.

Dah – who am I kidding. No matter how you brew it, it’s still just watered down hodge-podge. I also noticed this past week that I’ve burned through my entire buffer, so I need to get my act together.

On the flip side, since the beginning of March, I am down 34 pounds. I need to get down 19 more to get to my ideal weight of 222. Oh and I have to do it in 45 days. That’s another benefit of going into the morning routine. Other than playing basketball at 5:30am three days a week, I’ll be out jogging (and it took me two years to get over the HATE of jogging) getting my sweat on shedding more pounds. Now, I’m no fitness guru, but I’m no slouch either. I’ll divulge the Rick the Stick Diet* over the coming weeks. I will start off by sharing my current weight (in case you don’t want to do the math above) and other info which I’ll post every Monday. Root me on, heckle me do whatever you want with it.

After all, this blog is about me, me and me. Fortunately, there’s less of me than there was in February!

As of Friday June 12, 2009
Starting weight: 274 (March 6th)
Current weight: 240.2 (week 13)
Total Loss: 33.8
Goal weight: 222
Remaining to lose: 18.8 (45 days from today)
Goal date: 7/31/09

Ken

* The patented Rick the Stick Diet simply what has worked for me – no results are guaranteed and duh – you should consult your doctor before beginning any exercise routine.

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Good morning!

Hope you enjoy today’s strip. What do you think of the “effects”? I’m always experimenting with elements, and I’m usually not satisfied with the result. Although I am interested in your perception of it. If you’re reading this and have an opinion, let me have it! I’m ASKING for it! Lemme have it!!

Have a great day -
Ken

You know what makes a great day better? Knowing that you’ve spread mediocrity one email at a time. How do you do that? Easy peezy – just sign someone you know up for the strip. It should be someone you talk to because you’ll have to tell them to validate the email that asks them if they really want to get America’s most something or other webcomic. Don’t believe me? Fill in an email address and see for yourself. Get on it! CLICK HERE NOW and fill in your email address – SPAM FREE!!! And thank you!

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Good morning

Wow, what a great weekend! Hope you had an awesome one as well and are ready to attack the week!! Looks like something bad is about to happen to Joy and/or Rick!! Hint: don’t look up!

Ken

You know what you can look up? Your friends and family’s email address and subscribe them for America’s most mediocre webcomic! That’s right!! For the low, low effort of simply confirming the email that conveniently comes after signing up to verify they do indeed want the webcomic that’s published Monday through Friday, your friends and family will get the standard black and white with obligatory gray tones coupled with mostly head scratching humor, occassional lols and rarely rofls!! Sign them up today and get started tomorrow!! Get on it! CLICK HERE NOW and fill in your email address – SPAM FREE!!! And thank you!

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Good Monday morning! Introducing Rick The Stick In Color! That’s right. Shaking off the ole 256 shades of gray for the beauty of millions of colors. Adding the color has double the amount of time to do the strip on the computer (from scanned sketch). I’d be interested in hearing what you think – there’s a poll on the site now asking whether you think the color is good or whether you prefer the black and white. Those of you getting this in your email – click here to go to the site.

Speaking of the site – wow! There’s been a LOT of minor improvements. I had a friend (Phil of Frumph.net) help me out. He’s a wiz with PHP and saved me a month of work considering I would have had to a lot of it through trial and error. Thanks a million to him.

So what’s new already? Alright, alright!

Button navigation – now you can browse the strips on the site with handy back and forward buttons right below the strip.
Tagging – tagging is now also conveniently right below the strip – NICE!
Menu tabs – flipped over so they look like their tabs over the strip and not under the header – makes sense*!
New header – Rick as a carnival barker. C’mon, need I say more?
New header II – The header is integrated with the menu tabs giving them a look like they’re floating over the header. Subtle, but a nice design add*!

Coming soon – modifications to the blog post area. Threaded comments. Hey – start letting me know what you think!
More I can’t think of…I’m pretty beat and blah, blah, blah. Gotta catch a ride on the wahmbulance…

* Suggested by Phil

Vote in the poll!
Ken

You know what would be great? Getting someone a FREE subscription to Rick The Stick. Get on it! CLICK HERE NOW and fill in their email address – SPAM FREE!!!

Good night Florida, Missouri

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