One Week In

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The exercise portion of my planamagig is going well-ish. I say "well-ish", not just because it sounds like "relish", but also because I seem to be getting that inflated look that some guys have. I have a theory about this, but we'll get to that in Part 2: Diet, or lack thereof. I'm now doing 8 sets per day, because I forgot my original goal on day 2 (that would be the day after I made the goal to begin with. Shut up.) and 8 sounded like a nice even number. Weekend workouts are surprisingly easy to get motivated for, when your wonderful, i-tune downloading husband buys "Very" by Moby for you. Granted, he might not want to listen to it 8 times a day, but he wasn't using his sanity anyway. If you don't know the song, come take the 7pm Wednesday Jazz class with me at Academy of Performing Arts (www.apastudios.com). It's awesome. Even better are the morning swims with the Bunny, which I could not, for several reasons, complete alone. Even better than that is that we've expanded into weekend swims, so we can swim for longer.
Part 2: Diet- In which I fail at even the seemingly simple goal of "Don't Eat Everything in Sight". I think this is why I'm getting that puffed look. I'm building muscle, which adds mass, and eating everything, which adds fat on top of the muscle. Building muscle helps your RMR, and aerobic exercise burns calories, but exercise, like Velma Kelly, simply cannot do it alone, especially if you're going for a svelte look. I try to eat regular amounts, regularly, but I always misjudge. Either my amount or my timing gets off, and then the next time I eat, it ain't pretty. Doesn't help that I don't know what the right amount is, for a single meal, or a daily basis. I've heard everywhere from 1,400 to 3,000 for dancin' boys. Further, if I start counting, 1,000 sounds like a lot. Maybe my goal for the week should just be to not gorge? I don't know what the right amount to eat is, but I definitely know when I'm in the middle of gorging. So, maybe the goal should be to not gorge, or if I do start to before I'm aware of it, to stop. Okay, that's it.
In other news, I have found myself with a weird "going back in time" sensation. I don't want to get too specific, largely because I don't really understand it, but for the past 2 weeks or so, I've been having feelings I haven't had in a long while, and not good ones. I think it's been at least a year, but I have no concept of time or space, so I might have had all of these last week for all I know. OooooOOOOooo. Mysterious.

Leaving today's post with good news, I now sit with correct posture, thanks to a presentation by exercise specialist Ryan Halvorson (www.thebiomechanics.com).

Squeak

Comments

[lizetta.livejournal.com]

I was thinking about this gorging thing last night, since I do it too.

I've heard that doing a sensible fast for a weekend, then maybe longer, like a week, can be helpful in this. It shrinks your stomach and teaches you how to ignore the hunger when it hits.

I've been thinking about doing this, but obviously only after I do some good research in it. If this sounded interesting to you, I could share my research and maybe we could do it together. I know I could use some encouragement!

[redefining-self.livejournal.com]

Interesting thought.

Sounds a little like a natural form of the gastric-bypass.

I'll be very interested to hear what your research in this turns up.

On a side note, I've found that my desire for food drops to almost zero after a good cardio workout. Biologically I understand why this but it seems to have had a lasting effect in that past 4-5 days. I've had very little of what I'd call an excessive desire to eat.

Self-sustaining? Dunno yet.

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I would love to do this with you! Let me know when you find out more about it. Really, I think fasting would be easy, and it would coming down off of it (without eating enough food in one sitting to feed a small village) that would be harder. I think that's the problem people have in general, just on a smaller scale. Keep me posted!

Squeak