I figured I would let wordpress do the work for me…
I started at the begining of Aug. with a new diet. I knew I was getting more and more overweight, but I didn’t know what to do about it (much). The desire to eat well isn’t something strange to me and I loved going to Chinese buffet places.
AHHHHHH! I had a great post here but thanks to the network, I lost it! AHHHHHH!
Working on this one still, needs a little better lighting as to what’s going on outside.
Space Girl lounging with her rifle and coffee
Keeping track of what I eat for my diet. This is the back-log of things I haven’t entered before now.
Fri (8/13)
1 hard boiled egg
1 cheese stick
2 slices roast beef, 1/2 cup yellow pepper, mound (~3cups) celery
2 slices roast beef
Thurs. (8/12)
1 whole hard boiled egg
2oz lean pork, 1/2 – 1 cup cucumber, 4 frozen strawberries
2oz lean steak, 4 frozen strawberries
2oz lean steak, salad greens, 1/2 cup yellow pepper, all covered w/ hot sauce for salad dressing
Wed. (8/11)
1 egg
salad (lettuce, yellow pepper, onions) 3oz steak
4oz lean pork, 2oz cucumber, 1 scallion chopped, 1/2 cup yellow pepper
Tues. (8/10)
Chicken 10oz (starving hungry by this day, keytonic)
Mon. (8/9)
Chicken 10oz
Sunday (8/8)
1 Clif Bar
Chicken 10oz
After delaying for a while, I finally got a full check up to see how I was doing physically. I knew I was overweight, but was having lots of other little issues. Turns out all the little issues are related to the weight. So the Dr’s have me on a very strict diet for a while. It’s interesting, lots of vitamins, to make sure I stay healthy while reducing my caloric intake. Its a lot like Atkins Diet, where it’s pretty much all protein, but I get a little more choice in the veggies I get to eat.
Part of the diet is taking phentermine for dealing with the hunger pangs. It certainly does that. I ate the equivalent of 2 chicken breasts all yesterday and got hungry just once. As a side effect though, I don’t sleep as well, and … well it makes me feel funny. Ultra focused in a way, that’s not necessarily a bad thing though lol.
I spent most of the past week down with a cold, which didn’t help anything. I felt weak and couldn’t do anything, and just wanted to stay in bed. My head was congested and I was constantly sniffling. By yesterday I was mostly over it and spent the day finishing some re-arranging started on Fri. That was due to Maggie’s new bed coming in and so we had to make space for it. Nothing sucks like moving with a cold. Even though itwas just between two rooms it was pretty rough.
So through diets and colds, I have a new office in Maggie’s old room. It’s a nice bigger space and I have more windows! We’re not 100% done with the moving, I still have some things to move out of her room and she’s still got stuff in here. I put out a call on facebook for people to suggest new posters for my walls. I’m happy with the layout for the most part, but with a little more moving that can be fixed.
Nothing like fixing computer problems at 3:45 in the morning!
I got the rest of the Bone series by Jeff Smith today, and a camel bone:
Bone and Bone
In an effort to learn to carve, I got the camel bone so that once I’ve gotten in enough practice, Here using soap bars:
a small alligator and fish
So I’m working on being creative… driving myself to be more than just work & home life.
After working the yard yesterday and a good amount of running around, I decided to stay home from church this morning. I’m going to listen to loud music and play video games.
What’s nice is that after the yard work yesterday, I got out of the house on my own for a while. I hit he 5-guys burger place and st and read and ate and read some more. I’m reading “World War Z” by Max Brooks. Told as a series of post zombie invasion interviews, it comes across with a lot of heart, adventure and horror. I am really enjoying reading it.
Taking breaks from reading, I made notes on things I wanted to do over the next 6 months and various goals and what not. It was a good time to step back and evaluate what things I think are important and how I want to approach them. I really needed it and I’m glad I was able to take the time.
I had a great time yesterday swimming in Helen’s parents pool. At first she and I were out there tooling around making plans for the future and thinking about what we would need to get done what we wanted. It was very relaxing and gave us a much needed chance to relax and make some longer term plans. After a great dinner it was back out to the pool this time with Maggie. We splashed and played and talked for a while.
I enjoyed the chance to stop and make a few plans while not pressed with the emergency of the day. As a first step, I’ve ordered some new computer parts, which should come in this week. I hope to make a good linux box for learning & testing new things. My old one is ok… but hard to work with. I’ll update more as time goes on, but I think this is a much needed first step.
I’m stupidly happy about my new chair! It’s probably the first piece of furniture that I have purchased in about 10 years. My old one was getting uncomfortable to sit in and was just difficult to sit in for long periods of time. So with my last OT stint at work in this paycheck I splurged on myself and got this great chair. It’s big & comfortable to sit in.
My New Office Chair!
For those wondering, I got it from Amazon.com and it’s a Tiffany Industries Big & Tall Executive Chair (Although by all accounts it’s a re-branded Mayline Chair but I don’t care about that.)
Just a little bit of playing around…
I was actually going to upload this a while ago, but life got in the way and new settings on the server had to be fixed first.
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