Published on Monday October 13, 2008 .
I am developing a kind of nasty “ex-smoker” attitude towards people eating sweets. Everyone’s got giant slices of cake for dessert and I’m thinking “I guess if you think you really need that to be happy, go ahead.” Giving them guilt trips and stuff. I make jokes about wanting it but I really don’t. I especially don’t want any healthy “fake” desserts; if I am going to eat ice cream I want real fucking ice cream (I’ll settle for frozen yogurt) not some phony, low-carb, Shemp cream. Same goes for Whole Wheat Chips Ahoy: I’d rather just not have any cookies, or just make it really count when I do have a cookie– like once a year I eat one of those marshmallow Pinwheel things… those things kick ass.
Looks like getting healthy is just another way for me to ruin everyone’s fun!
Published on Saturday October 11, 2008 .
Probably less since I just weighed myself with my jeans on (which I normally don’t do).
One weird thing I’ve been catching myself doing is looking at my weight loss as a kind of time machine. I find myself thinking, “when was the last time I weighed this much?” quite often. 243lbs probably would put me towards the later part of my college career. I walked a great deal all over Boston but my eating habits were atrocious. but My ultimate goal of 215lbs would take me back to my second semester of college, I think. I never weighed myself so it’s all guesswork. Before college I went through a phase where I was actually too thin (and unaware of it, mind you, I still thought of myself as fat).
I spent a lot of time during the year I took off between high school and college eating at diners with Joe and I probably gradually gained some weight back during that period. It seemed an awful lot like I was suddenly 200lbs in the middle of my first semester, but it was probably more gradual than I remember. I think Chris and I making midnight trips to Supreme’s and Cappy’s for steak subs and greasy pizza probably had more of a negative effect on my weight than the bacon and eggs I was eating with Joe. Plus, I was still 18 years old and my metabolism was higher.
I think the kinds of food and the portion control have been a big factor in losing weight, but the biggest change has been the more regimented eating habits. Kim and I eat almost nothing after dinner. We eat smaller meals throughout the day and there’s little desire for me anymore to eat anything after dinner. I think I have also taken greater care to observe that when I am in the mood to snack on something it is usually because of some other thing that is completely unrelated to food. I want to eat when I am stressed out, when I am bored and (most often) when I am trying to solve a problem. The latter is a big thing, and a cup of coffee usually satisfies the urge. But if I am working on a project of some sort, it’s easier to do with something to munch on. Imagine Sherlock Holmes but without his pipe and instead a bag of barbecue Ruffles.
I know, it’s lame.
Published on Friday October 3, 2008 .
http://www.physorg.com/news142185056.html
“Musicians may be particularly good at efficiently accessing and integrating competing information from both hemispheres,” Folley said. “Instrumental musicians often integrate different melodic lines with both hands into a single musical piece, and they have to be very good at simultaneously reading the musical symbols, which are like left-hemisphere-based language, and integrating the written music with their own interpretation, which has been linked to the right hemisphere.”
So tip your pizza delivery guy accordingly.
