It was Friday.
Apr. 16th, 2010 09:50 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
serynI don't want to be one of those annoying people who posts constant fitness updates, because it irritated me to be on the receiving end of it. It is, however, one of the biggest changes in my life and something that's a huge part of my focus because it's new.
I am liking my gym membership. I feel like it helps me. But I fucking gained weight from it so far. Good thing I wasn't looking to be losing weight from this. I figure if I'm healthy and more muscular, the weight will take care of itself and I will feel more energetic and more interested in doing active-ish things which will also keep me on a better path.
It does, however, suck down an enormous amount of time. I ended up at the grocery store at 4pm... It's a small store and when it gets crowded, it's logistically difficult to move around.
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I have been craving crunchy food. However, apples are very crunchy. I bought a bag of apples and have been eating all the apples I want. It's totally fine to have a second apple. (Especially compared to a second bowl of chips.)
I really need a cucumber now though. Or homemade pickles. I should make pickles. Mostly I want a normal size cucumber and the ones at the store are almost 2 feet long for the English kind and about 3-4" thick for the local ones. (I've often wondered about those "erotic" guides that suggest one use a peeled cucumber as a penis substitute... some of these cucumbers would emasculate a blue whale.)
I bought avocados, tomatoes, strawberries, grapes, tangerines, red leaf lettuce... and a box of frozen waffles made out of food (seriously, they've just got the kinds of ingredients I'd use if I owned a waffle iron.)
I had all these food ideas and I bought stuff to make everything that came to mind. Except curry... I bought the lamb but forgot to buy the curry sauce and fancy potatoes. I'll freeze the lamb and we'll do it some other time. Lamb was on sale... and I just spaced the curry sauce.
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Been seeing a lot of people gearing up for 3 weeks for Dreamwidth. I'd say I'm participating... but it's nothing new. Zero entries from here have been crossposted to other sites. Therefore all my content here is DW exclusive.
But I hope it means a lot of the groups become more active. I feel like an idiot if I'm the only one posting in a group. Doubly so when the group doesn't have a lot of previous posts already because who knows if that's what's intended?
I would like to say that I am going to use this as a creative push where I will write and share something every day. But ha! like that's going to happen now that I'm not writing any fic. It's all original work and it's hard. There are very few snippet level things I can do unless you have familiarity with the characters and you can't because I haven't written anything else starring them yet. It's also hard to share because there's more of me in this. It isn't hard to share because I worry that my work will not be publishable if I put it up here... My work won't be publishable because I'm not an extroverted person who can schmooze well enough to get an agent, let alone all the social-networking stuff that makes books sell. I'm not going to be a financial success as a writer anyway, so there's no loss potential.
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Recently the show In Plain Sight introduced a new character, an over-Marshal played by Allison Janney. The character's name is "Allison". The main character is played by Mary McCormack and the character's name is "Mary". I'm really disturbed by that. It seems so MarySue that they're importing people from The West Wing in bits and drabs and having them play self-named characters. It's only those two, but it's not actually funny to me.
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That's it for tonight.
I am liking my gym membership. I feel like it helps me. But I fucking gained weight from it so far. Good thing I wasn't looking to be losing weight from this. I figure if I'm healthy and more muscular, the weight will take care of itself and I will feel more energetic and more interested in doing active-ish things which will also keep me on a better path.
It does, however, suck down an enormous amount of time. I ended up at the grocery store at 4pm... It's a small store and when it gets crowded, it's logistically difficult to move around.
____
I have been craving crunchy food. However, apples are very crunchy. I bought a bag of apples and have been eating all the apples I want. It's totally fine to have a second apple. (Especially compared to a second bowl of chips.)
I really need a cucumber now though. Or homemade pickles. I should make pickles. Mostly I want a normal size cucumber and the ones at the store are almost 2 feet long for the English kind and about 3-4" thick for the local ones. (I've often wondered about those "erotic" guides that suggest one use a peeled cucumber as a penis substitute... some of these cucumbers would emasculate a blue whale.)
I bought avocados, tomatoes, strawberries, grapes, tangerines, red leaf lettuce... and a box of frozen waffles made out of food (seriously, they've just got the kinds of ingredients I'd use if I owned a waffle iron.)
I had all these food ideas and I bought stuff to make everything that came to mind. Except curry... I bought the lamb but forgot to buy the curry sauce and fancy potatoes. I'll freeze the lamb and we'll do it some other time. Lamb was on sale... and I just spaced the curry sauce.
___
Been seeing a lot of people gearing up for 3 weeks for Dreamwidth. I'd say I'm participating... but it's nothing new. Zero entries from here have been crossposted to other sites. Therefore all my content here is DW exclusive.
But I hope it means a lot of the groups become more active. I feel like an idiot if I'm the only one posting in a group. Doubly so when the group doesn't have a lot of previous posts already because who knows if that's what's intended?
I would like to say that I am going to use this as a creative push where I will write and share something every day. But ha! like that's going to happen now that I'm not writing any fic. It's all original work and it's hard. There are very few snippet level things I can do unless you have familiarity with the characters and you can't because I haven't written anything else starring them yet. It's also hard to share because there's more of me in this. It isn't hard to share because I worry that my work will not be publishable if I put it up here... My work won't be publishable because I'm not an extroverted person who can schmooze well enough to get an agent, let alone all the social-networking stuff that makes books sell. I'm not going to be a financial success as a writer anyway, so there's no loss potential.
___
Recently the show In Plain Sight introduced a new character, an over-Marshal played by Allison Janney. The character's name is "Allison". The main character is played by Mary McCormack and the character's name is "Mary". I'm really disturbed by that. It seems so MarySue that they're importing people from The West Wing in bits and drabs and having them play self-named characters. It's only those two, but it's not actually funny to me.
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That's it for tonight.
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Date: 2010-04-17 06:10 am (UTC)If your exercising remains fairly mild (no two-hour stints, etc.), your regular diet + a bit of extra water/juice is probably fine, mind you. All this stuff about fueling one's burn is half meant for rigorous athletic training and half an invention of food/drink manufacturers. (Nobody needs Gatorade.)
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Date: 2010-04-17 08:29 pm (UTC)I have been drinking more water. And after exercising, I'm conscious of being thirsty. Normally unless there's water right there with a straw in it ready to go, I can go a whole day without drinking anything. By the time I get to the end of the second day I feel kind of ill, but it doesn't twang any internal sensors until that point. So that's already an improvement.
I have no worries about gaining weight from this exercising overall, I think it was a fluctuation based on water intake or retention and the three different scales. I mean, I lost 12 pounds from doing almost nothing but lifting 3 pound dumbbells for several months!
I'm not actually discouraged. I have a goal of losing another 10 pounds by July and that will feel like a success. Mostly though, I really love having somewhere to go. And everyone is incredibly welcoming and friendly. It's so unexpected.
Gatorade is kind of gross.. I did crave juice after my 90 minutes with the weights (lifting the min on pretty much every kind of machine they had. I deserved a reward after the torturous elliptical machine.) and I wanted something cold, so I pulled out a pint tub of frozen cran juice and microwaved it for a minute so it could be slushed with a spoon. (I can't usually finish a 2 quart jug of juice before it lames, so I freeze a couple pints and it was awesome as slush. I'm thinking I'll just do that to start with, like popsicles but made from real ingredients and way less dripping since it has a bowl.)
I don't want to do any "dieting" at all. I'm willing to eat a bit healthier, but I don't want to be hungry, ever. That means I'm going to eat as much salad and fruit as I want. I do find, interestingly, that the more I exercise, the more I crave foods that are better for me. But I have to have that crunchy food and what I eat has to ring the bells I want to "hear" or I'm going to be dissatisfied. What I'm really looking for is for activity to add to my life, but if what it adds is woe...
Today I went out to the farmers' market to buy the flowery freak lettuce that's so good with mustard dressing and chopped apples in it. I'm looking forward to that for lunch, next to a ham or turkey sandwich with lots of cheese and tomato. I don't normally buy the freak lettuce because my SO hates it. But the way I've been eating, I'll finish the whole pound before the week's up anyway, and I know I don't have to share. It's all for me. Mine mine mine mine.
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Date: 2010-04-17 07:46 am (UTC)[self-righteous] But it worked! [/self-righteous]
101 Cookbooks posted a whole-wheat waffle recipe.
"I've often wondered about those "erotic" guides that suggest one use a peeled cucumber as a penis substitute..."
I can't even cut one up for salad without seeds getting everywhere. And washing my hands is *easy*.
Also, this really defies logic: so you're using a cheap disposable item because it's less embarrassing, or less permanent, than buying a legitimate phallic toy. But if you get something stuck, smooshed, or whatever, do you: go to the ER? (more expensive by far than any toy) get proper and safe extraction tools that won't hurt you while you get it out? (more expensive and less safe than simply buying a real toy to start with) or do you just fumble around with whatever you can find and hope you get it out somehow? (Stupid...)
Anyway, back on topic, if you gained less than 3 pounds, it's probably just from actually being hydrated, and I wouldn't worry about it. I have to remind myself every night that a liter is a kilogram is 2.2 pounds, and drinking an entire liter of water puts me at 2 pounds heavier until I go pee.
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Date: 2010-04-17 08:36 pm (UTC)It wasn't your updates that were annoying though.
Lots of places have waffle recipes, but all of them require one thing I don't have... a waffle iron. It's really difficult to make waffles without the right tools.
I think using fruit or vegetables as a phallic item is fine for outside uses. Condom application demonstrations/practice. Or if someone was, for whatever reason, wanting to mime fellatio. It's been a while since I've seen that recommended. Maybe it's because proper toys are readily available like they really weren't 20 years ago. And certainly not 40 years ago.
I gained about a pound. So I'm sure it's either a water variance or a scale variance. It made me amused though, so I figured I should share.