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Discussion of weight issues. I'm trying to be positive, at least. Also there are numbers.
I haven't been thinking of my weight lately. I'd been lifting for a while, but I stopped because I was sick of being sore all the time; I haven't even touched Fitocracy for ages. I should probably just accept that it makes me too obsessive about things, and let it go.
I'm still not thinking of my weight, particularly, but I am attempting to think of my body fat percent. I have a scale that measures it, and I know that those are often inaccurate, but I'm sure that 44% is still way too high. (The particular mix of medication that I'm currently taking probably does not help.) So I'm lifting weights again - we'll see how well I can stick to the plan, which is basically make sure I work the major muscle groups at least twice a week for now, and see how I feel as I get used to the pain. And I have a (cheap, old but still working) exercise bike I ride while I'm playing games, which motivates me both to ride the bike and to finish some of my backlog of games. It's working so far. (I know that I'm prone to overexercising - I used to ride a very similar old exercise bike back in high school for four hours a day, at times - but I think I'll be okay. It's not like I have that much time to waste, anymore. ;p)
I'm sure I'd be making more progress if I wasn't currently so addicted to sweets, especially soda. Why is giving it up so hard? I can't go through half a day without craving something sweet, to the point that I have to fight myself to not go out and get sometimes. Most of the time, I lose. I can't afford it, I know it damages my health (I don't want to judge anyone else's soda consumption, but for me, it's just a bad idea.) It should be an easy choice for me, but it's not.
(I am seriously considering not having cash or credit/debit cards with me when I go out to work. I'm trying to decide whether or not that's too dangerous to try - but if I take money with me, I usually end up wasting it, and if I don't have the money with me, I won't. And I don't have any money I can afford to waste anymore. Maybe it's time to try it.)
I wish I could find out my exact basal metabolism. It'd be nice to know how many calories I'm burning a day, and whether or not I might be able to do something about it. If there is such a treatment, though, it's probably really expensive.
I haven't been thinking of my weight lately. I'd been lifting for a while, but I stopped because I was sick of being sore all the time; I haven't even touched Fitocracy for ages. I should probably just accept that it makes me too obsessive about things, and let it go.
I'm still not thinking of my weight, particularly, but I am attempting to think of my body fat percent. I have a scale that measures it, and I know that those are often inaccurate, but I'm sure that 44% is still way too high. (The particular mix of medication that I'm currently taking probably does not help.) So I'm lifting weights again - we'll see how well I can stick to the plan, which is basically make sure I work the major muscle groups at least twice a week for now, and see how I feel as I get used to the pain. And I have a (cheap, old but still working) exercise bike I ride while I'm playing games, which motivates me both to ride the bike and to finish some of my backlog of games. It's working so far. (I know that I'm prone to overexercising - I used to ride a very similar old exercise bike back in high school for four hours a day, at times - but I think I'll be okay. It's not like I have that much time to waste, anymore. ;p)
I'm sure I'd be making more progress if I wasn't currently so addicted to sweets, especially soda. Why is giving it up so hard? I can't go through half a day without craving something sweet, to the point that I have to fight myself to not go out and get sometimes. Most of the time, I lose. I can't afford it, I know it damages my health (I don't want to judge anyone else's soda consumption, but for me, it's just a bad idea.) It should be an easy choice for me, but it's not.
(I am seriously considering not having cash or credit/debit cards with me when I go out to work. I'm trying to decide whether or not that's too dangerous to try - but if I take money with me, I usually end up wasting it, and if I don't have the money with me, I won't. And I don't have any money I can afford to waste anymore. Maybe it's time to try it.)
I wish I could find out my exact basal metabolism. It'd be nice to know how many calories I'm burning a day, and whether or not I might be able to do something about it. If there is such a treatment, though, it's probably really expensive.
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Date: 2013-07-30 12:11 am (UTC)From:I have a lot of friends (on FB, mostly) that will go on and on about how both soda and bottled water is evil, if at least for different reasons. My attitude is, if having bottled water means that someone will actually drink water, then there is absolutely nothing evil about it. I've never had much luck with keeping up with reusable bottles, and I usually reuse bottled water bottles anyway, so I don't see the problem.
The point of that to this discussion, I suppose, is that I don't want to be one of those annoying people who go on and on about how evil soda is. But I can at least acknowledge that it's bad for me, and move on.
...the last time I got fresh fruit, half of it went bad because I forgot I had it. :/ It was grapes, too. I love grapes! I'm just no good at using produce in a timely manner.
I do think that maybe I should just make an effort to give up sweets entirely, except maybe for fruit. Maybe that would get me used to not having them. I get really cranky when I don't have them and want them, though. I would have to warn my SO.
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Date: 2013-07-30 12:41 am (UTC)From:Yeah, that. I am NOT a fan of bottled water, but one really has to take these things one step at a time and bottled water can be a huge step in the right direction.
Augh, I can't do fresh fruit all by myself for that reason - fortunately M eats it pretty voraciously, plus encourages me to include it in evening meals. I did pretty much quit sweets for a while last year, but what I got from that long-term was both how to moderate them, and that I could moderate them - if I had my house in order in other respects, sweet things didn't have to be a dietary sin, and there were equally calorific things I'd much sooner relegate to rarely-ever status (eg. alcohol and grains).