Mostly health stuff

[flexagon]

1) My bug has flown away to San Diego again and won't be back until Friday. I'll miss him, but psychologically it's okay, because this time it's not like he wanted to go. Quite the opposite--the poor thing has to be away from home on his birthday. :( I will try to enjoy my usual tiny rebellions of eating store-bought bread and playing music in the morning.

2) I'm so tired (so. flipping. tired.) of just barely hanging on to my upper-body strength. I've already made concessions on some of the weights I lift, and still every Saturday it gets harder and doesn't feel like fun, and every Sunday and Monday I'm really sore. Time to face what I was afraid of... I'm really not maintaining, I'm on a slow downward slide toward losing my favorite moves. And it will be that way, for pecs and lats at least, unless I can get back to working them 2x/week. Options seem to be a) skipping a session of yoga per week to fix the problem, b) accepting all this and seeing where my current routine lets me stabilize, or c) getting one of those doorway pullup bars so I can do a set of pullups (as well as pushups, which don't require equipment) midweek, thus hitting just the muscles that need it. I'm kind of leaning toward c).

3) I found a really neat cookbook this weekend called, and try not to barf at the title, called Living the G.I. Diet. That's glycemic index, not G.I. as in G.I. Joe. I ended up buying it instead of SuperFoods Rx because, though I'm a lot more interested in micronutrients than macronutrients right now, a lot of the recipes in the former looked really good* and are right in line with how I already try to eat. I have about half a zillion recipes marked with sticky notes and will probably make the almond-crusted fish for apfelsingail and RC tomorrow. I did read all the stuff about glycemic index and weight loss too, just out of curiosity, and ended up thinking that Insulin Spike would be a pretty good band name. Coming right up on YOWL 104... the runaway punk success, Insulin Spike, live from London! Stay tuned.

4) Basically, all is well, and as usual it's the small things that seem to matter. I suddenly remembered how much I enjoy juggling, and had a fun practice session. I slept 11 hours last night having crazy-ass dreams. I got to see bluechromis this weekend and discuss life, which never fails to leave me with one or two interesting things to think about. And I bought myself another plantain. Sure, there are other things I wish I'd gotten done, but with HLM gone maybe I can worm in some midweek productivity for once. Here's hoping.

* with the exception of the brownie recipe that calls for a can of beans. That one just scares me.

Comments

[bluechromis.livejournal.com]

1) Perhaps a chance for another outing? Have you seen hitchhikers guide? If so, wanna see it again? I haven't seen it yet, and seem to be the only one left who hasn't. :P

2) I like the idea of c for a variety of reasons, not the least of which is the fact that it always makes me think someone's badass when they have a pullup bar.

3) If there are any good sounding veggie recipes, feel free to pass them along.

4) I am going to try the fried plantain thing - I do love them and it never occurred to me either that they'd be easy.

[hiddenbear.livejournal.com]

Ha! I have a pullup bar.

Currently it's on the floor of my closet, waiting to find a doorway to be put up in. At which point it will sit in the doorway, quietly decreasing the head room by a few inches, and doing very little else.

[bluechromis.livejournal.com]

Yes, I realize that many of them don't get much use...but I'm easily fooled. :-D

[jg26.livejournal.com]

I may have a pullup bar around. I used to have it up in my watertown place.

[bluechromis.livejournal.com]

Schweet! Then I can pretend to be a badass, even though I couldn't do a pullup with your help!

[flexagon]

Hey, we have ours installed now... you can come over and pretend to be a badass any time!