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my diet I'm tracking automatically on MyFitnessPal
My life is tied up in a series of things I can't tell anyone about
I am, however, not dead.
Mostly on the twitters as nopking or on goodandevo.net as me
Saw a blimp floating around work today... I want a movie, black and white, dystopian past-future with globalists flaring down Tesla death rays to helpless populace below. Grand blind to blimp battles, as though they were ships, secret fortresses hidden in mountains, a stereotypical hero with plucky sidekicks, the hero ending up biting it and the sidekicks save the day. Yup, it's a daydreaming kind of day.
Have spent some time this month figuring out what I want to do. I've decided for stress's sake, I'm selling one of my houses. It's not a bad house, it's I'm overextended and it's not really making bank... it makes enough, but - meh, if I could be 100K less in debt, I'd jump at it. So I decided that's that - would rather have one less potential disaster going on. House renters seem to be significantly different than apartment renters anyway. So if anyone wants to buy a reasonably priced house with lots of newness about it, drop me a line.
I had a dream that me and Chris Foggin went on a motorcycle ride to Wisconsin to see the Grand Canyon... yes, I know it's not there, part of the dream was that we were going to see the Grand Canon from Robotech and it was there, don't ask... I don't claim my dreams make much sense. Woke up determined to locate all info about motorcycle rental.
Rode the bike in today, glad once again that I look through cars to what is in front of them as opposed to looking at the car in front of me. They didn't see that traffic went from 75 to stopped. The car in front of them didn't, nor the car in front of them. Lots of screeching and perhaps an impact, but nothing that stopped them from moving (perhaps to stop, perhaps I just heard a load shift, who knows).
Had a week in which a friend did something really stupid that I'm not going into. Should any of my friends be about to do anything stupid, please let me know so I can slap you.
Something from the remnants of the juice diet - I dig most juices now. Except turnip greens... I hate those.. BLARGH... hoping spinich has similar nutrients. Also decided I do not care if I'm losing 20% of juice potential by storing it 2-3 days - I'm gaining an hour of juicing and cleanup by doing it only twice a week. Rawr!
(disabling comments for this as only spammers seem to comment on this entry.. 30 or so now)
So, Chrome does not not recognize dreamt, but does dreamed. I feel like a fogey now. Google Chrome also does not know what a fogey is... what the hell... Anyhow, had a dream that Australia got bigger, they added land mass and became the largest continent on the planet because someone accused them of having size issues so they decided to run with it. For some reason they got a section shaped like Tennessee and I was living there working at a comic book store / game room / soda establishment trying to figure out how to make the river glow neon blue as soon from above (no idea) I take that to mean it's time to do something interesting...
Tue, Sep. 6th, 2011, 10:09 am
Juice fast end
had to stop on day 6. I was getting dizzy walking. Lost 10 pounds, half of it water weight. Going to try moderately doing it - juice or two a day with a meal - seems to be making me quite a bit less hungry.
Fri, Aug. 19th, 2011, 03:40 pm
Juicing day 5
Weighing in at 223, 8 pound loss in 5 days, I have a feeling it will be somewhere around 10 by the end of the day but not going into details on that one. Tomorrow I have to break the juice fast, which is annoying as I'm finally able to operate on it. Got a bike ride 20-30 miles and will not have the energy even if I had double the energy I do now... it's short, bursts of energy, can't maintain on the juice yet. Looks like people who are at day 10+ generally have a leveled out energy, but I'm going to eat some in the morning so I don't pass out while biking. I think for purposes of what I set into this to do I'm not going to kick myself over eating some peanut butter or something. I am weak, but luckily I do not have to do a lot of physical activity at the moment, so the fast has been going well. Amazed at how 10 pounds difference feels on the knees. Brain's at about 66%, physical at ~30% - I honestly think I might faint if I did my normal workout at the moment. However, might try it in a couple of hours as I think I could stand a little exercise and the gym is a fairly safe rubberized place.
Got the scale to work for a bit, it claims I'm 223 pounds now and may be correct as things have gotten a bit more on track. That puts me at 8 pounds in 4 days. Current goal is to get down closer to 200 as last time I was there after years of hard work it got pulled out from under me by a broken back... arrrr! As a note, today was very bad for me thinking - quite cloudy, definately off my game during the day. I'd say I went from the 70something percent down to about a 55% brainpower. It kicked back on and I feel great after laying down for a little bit though Going to meet an old friend for a bit in a restaurant, have some water... le sigh..
Thu, Aug. 18th, 2011, 09:29 am
Juicing day 4
Went out for a little run yesterday - bad idea... energy is coming in waves... would run, be exhausted for 5 minutes, have energy again, be exhausted, repeat. I don't think I'm processing stuff correctly yet, and according to juicers I shouldn't until day 7-9 I think when the enhanced energy supposedly kicks in. I can probably make it to see. Thus far the hardest part about this is being told I'm not wanted as a meal companion and the non-stop talking about how people couldn't do this. It's freaking simple - take the headache, drink the juice. No idea on weight today - I'm feeling a bit dehydrated today so my bet is if my scale worked it would say a couple of pounds lost, but I gotta get some batteries for it. Have not pooped since day 1 - think that's entirely due to not eating since day one (ok, I nibbled a bit on the core of an apple I was juicing but that was from wanting to not waste any apple) Kim says I look thinner today, I'm thinking even if I lost 5 pounds that shouldn't make that big of a difference - around 217 is when I can go from an XL to an L - which is where I want to be as I like loose shirts and I have a bunch of L shirts I want to wear LJ is being a POS and lost my entry - rrrr... can't use backspace. Ayyway, 3 years ago I was nearing my target weight of 187 - I got to 198 and then my back basically said "f it, you can lay down for 5 months" and I went from 198 right back up to 232. I was doing good in the low 200s, I hope to get there quickly using this method. I know that most of dieting is you can lose weight fast but gain it back, but if I could get my ass down to ~200 I would be prime shape for running I think. Eh, not much of an update... brain I would say is at ~76% - little lower than I reported before, but it's also morning.
Wed, Aug. 17th, 2011, 04:26 pm
Juicing day 3
I may have voided the diet as I had a beer last night, but day 2 went lethargically day 3 has been lethergic too because I had to fast on the juice fast as I had a doc's appointment and was not supposed to eat or drink anything but water for 6 hours before, as a result I had some juice in the morning and then nothing till now which has made me tired. Lat night, stomach going like crazy growling at me, but I did not feel all that hungry. Today I am hungry, but feeling more upbeat... beat down, but upbeat if that makes any sense. Talked to the doctor for a while about the diet, he wanted to know the exact particulars and was quite interested in seeing what my results were - evidently he doesn't have a bunch of people who try diets that theoretically are extremely good for you. I'm 228 pounds today, so down 3 pounds in 3 days which is not a biggie as I've had nothing solid, however this is after chugging a mass of juice as I was starving due to the fast fast... I find it odd after day 1's hunger to be this hungry but for nutrition as opposed to chewing... odd feeling. Not quite here in the brain today, think that's mostly due to the not drinking juice earlier... Current cost per day including a meal and a half for Kim is running at about $10. Still feeling more of my body reporting in for some reason, I think that may have more to do with hunger than with the juice... colors are a bit more vivid, I feel coiled to strike... eh, probably just hunter instinct saying go out and eat something you dumbass. Doc was actually interested in seeing how long I could comfortably go on the diet. So am I... I'm working on what my exit will be... as right now I want to see what this does and how I handle it. One thing, while researching why they say no caffeine and no booze, it appears they just are diuretics and will f you up if you get dehydrated. Learned this from some weightlifting forums that suggested b6 and weed as replacements if you start pruning... So much odd stuff.
Tue, Aug. 16th, 2011, 12:38 pm
Juicing day 2
Most of day 1 went fine till about 9pm when I was so hungry I was eyeing the cat. I drank some more juice, this seemed to just give me energy to be more hungry. I had way too much energy when trying to go to sleep last night, was tossing and turning till 4am, didn't feel sleepy. Had a mild headache. Day 1 passed, according to the scale I dropped 2 pounds - which is probably true - you drop a lot of weight for the first few days as your colon cleans out, you drop a lot the next few as you start burning fat. That's the point I am struggling to get to - at that point I should resume feeling like a normal human.. that should be day 3 or 4. Right now I am kind of lethargic - brain is probably running about 80%, it still is in the mood to propel me toward food... "hey, why don't we take a nice walk down to Taco Bell" but I am not hungry at the moment. I am deviating from the diet slightly by having a caffeinated beverage - the reasoning behind not drinking them seems to be dehydration and I feel like I am at no risk for that at the moment... I am at risk of falling asleep. I feel like every bit of my body is... not tingling, just very aware of it. Not sure if that's the sleep deprivation, me trying hard to feel something, or that perhaps caffeine hits with a brass knuckle when you're juicing. Will know later I assume. I also seem to be aware of exactly how many teeth I have and how they would like to chew on something that crunches. Things I have noted that are also listed as effects: nasal passage cleared (could be coincidence as weather changed a bit also) coated tongue (I hope this one goes away, it's not easy having a green tongue) oily hair (no biggie, it was looking actually pretty good) Fat, Sick and Nearly Dead put the juice diet at $14 a day, which is roughly $8 more than the average American american spends on food (2004 data) http://answers.google.com/answers/threadview?id=787129. My cost for 3 days worth of juice supplies was $17 which puts my daily cost less than that... actually surprises me that cost is so low. Thinking there may be a mixup in the data somewhere... ah well, I'm cruising along below what I think is average, unless you count the juicer as part of the thing. So anyway, day 2 - I am ok, just a bit tired. Coffee helps, but not going to drink much of it
It's been forever, I think what I have time for these days is simply to write about my diet. Twitter, Google+, Facebook, Goodandevo, etc have been consuming more and more of my time and... eh I'm not feeling incredibly creative. A few months ago Kim got interested in juicing (that is taking a fruit or vegetable and squishing all the juice out of it) - I was vaguely interested also and we got a Jack LaLane juicer from CostCo. We used it 3 times and returned it. Cleanup was terrible, it was not producing much juice... I've come to realize since then we may have just been doing it wrong (except the cleanup) so thus ended experiment 1 in juicing. The premise is this - Joe Average who has a skin problem he's treating with meds that are making him fat decides it's time to do something anyone can do - go on a juice diet and see if that does not help. The problem is he's not Joe Average - he's a fairly successful Australian businessman who can afford to take 2 months off to do nothing but juicefast and travel the USA telling people about how great juicing is. As movies went, his 2 months was meh, I would have probably left watching that with the feeling that if I were an overweight rich Australian with a couple of months to kill I might manage to get myself into the shape he managed to do - in his case he dropped a shitton of weight in the 60 days, went from flab to really pretty healthy looking. Stopped taking the meds he was on, all sorts of greatness. But still... Australian millionaire (probably, he certainly must be now) I figured results were atypical Movie changed a bit into it with another guy coming on the scene with worse issues, and although his results were sponsored by the first guy, man... it was epic. I nearly cried... I didn't mind you... but if I could feel human emotion I might have So I decided I wanted to try it. I'm not sure I want to try it completely yet - last night was my first attempt with a different juicer (masticating, 6 minute clean up) and I made 3.25 glasses of juices - apple, carrot, spinach, collard greens. I realized shortly after I did this (internet hindsight) that juice has a very limited lifespan and since I was not going to be drinking it last night, I was losing a lot of the good in it. I did what I could to preserve the awesome - getting it as close to freezing as possible, drinking it early in the morning, and think I have a decent start to my probably modified Reboot diet.
I say probably modified because I can't get the freaking page to load at the moment. Works as follows - I will drink juice as opposed to food for at least 2 meals a day to start (pretty sure the Reboot is total juice-fast) and if I eat it will be reasonable. Today's breakfast and lunch were sponsored by Collard Greens (think I am allergic to), carrots, apples, and spinach (which is a joy to juice as a note) - roughly 32 ounces. Starting this out at 232 pounds, the weight my body always wants to return to (I'm more muscle than before, but still want to lose weight as I'd like to be lighter / able to run better). Will see if this works. I'm classified by BMI as obese (32.4), but I sort of think I'm just chunky - I mean, I'm too chunky yes, but I'm the kind of chunky who can bike ride 20 miles (complaining) run on an elliptical for an hour, bench 180 (supposedly, I don't trust those machines) - I calculate my chunk by squishing my belly and seeing that there's too much squishable. Other than weight being too high, my last blood test said my triglyceride count was fairly high but still in the normal range (a year ago it was way high - did meds for a bit and then slacked of to just doing exercise and afterward the number was higher than medicated but not terrible) - so elevated triglycerides, sleeplessness and a twitchy leg when I try to sleep (which sometimes causes the sleeplessness) no medications. Day 1 - breakfast / lunch - spinach (glass full of juice), 2x apples, carrots (most of a bag) one thing of collard greens (which I think I am allergic to in that concentration) - cup I'm using looks like it's about 32 oz, drank a bit more than that and spilled some. Day 1 notes - stomach *not* ready for this, not horrible though. Started at about 8am, drank on the drive in to work, finished by 10am, almost noon and am hungry. I need to drink less at a sitting so I have juice left for later. Need to invest in some sort of liquid transportation thingie as I drove into work with a big ol' open plastic cup. Had too much for one sitting, left none for another. Juice fills you up for a meal, but does not keep you feeling full.
Well frak, looks like I'm pretty much planning on following one of the variations of the diet.... rassafrassa
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