State of me
Jul. 17th, 2011 01:18 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
galadriel1010I had plans, I had all sorts of things I was going to do, and then things got in the way. But I'm still going!
So the first thing is, as you may be aware, I am on a diet. I am not going to tell you what I started at, but my goal is to lose 4 stone, and I have lost 8 pounds in a week through not being an idiot. I'd been ignoring my weight for quite a long time, even though I known I'd piled it on, and I think I put on quite a lot very suddenly recently which might be due to something medical but is more likely due to the fact that I bought and used a large amount of silicone bakeware recently. I have been eating all the cake in the world. But I'm in an at-risk group for diabetes and have a history of heart disease on both sides of the family, so when I disovered just how far over my estimations I was I decided it was time to do something about it.
Kicked the cola - that's not hurting as much as I expected - and started drinking fruit juice and squash instead and eating fruit instead of cake and eating at sensible mealtimes instead of when I feel like it. I'm a really terrible impulse eater - I eat when I'm bored, I eat when I'm embarassed, and I am, as my mum pointed out in front of GDL, always hungry. Not 'I need to eat right now or I'll die' hungry, just 'I really feel like having something to eat' hungry. It was unkind to point it out that loudly right then, but she was right. So that's stopping.
I've also been walking more, and I was supposed to walk into town today or yesterday, but it's been raining and I really don't want to walk in the rain. If it brightens up in time for me to make the market I'll go in this afternoon, but I don't think it will. Tomorrow I might go swimming, and I'll go again later in the week, because I have a new swmsuit with a skirt.
I'm at that horrible time in a student's life between the end of term and my next loan, and so I'm having to be sensible with money :( But this has meant about £10 on fruit and veg and £10 on meat for two people this week, which isn't bad. I'm still spending too much, but it's getting better. Part of me really wants to get a job at Wetherspoons, but most of me thinks that would be a really stupid idea in my third year.
My mum wants me to get a job, of course, but she's playing a really annoying double-standard. I've told her many times that my third year worlkload is going to be mental, but she's sure Ican get a job and balance the two. Rick, on the other hand, is going to be starting his first year, but she's equally convinced that a first year chemistry workload is going to be too much for him to juggle a job as well. He's not organised enough? He's 19 and it's about time he was bloody organised enough. Grr.
On the fic front, which is much nicer (isn't it always?) I've not been writing as much as I'd like, but enough. Timelord!Ianto is chuntering along happily and I'm going to sit down and plan out everything on my schedule for the next three months once I finish that, so I know exactly what I'm working on. I need to set aside a day to sort out my LJ, so that might be Wednesday.
I'm not watching Miracle Day becasue it sounds ridiculous and not my thing at all, but I am watching Top Gear (yay!) and James May's Things You Need To Know, which is very much my things and very interesting - it's sort of Brian Cox meets Monty Python, and altogether awesome. For grate yays!
And now I am going to go and wash up and heat my lunch up whilst I finish plotting out this next chapter, then I will write it and hopefully get it up tonight. Yay!
So the first thing is, as you may be aware, I am on a diet. I am not going to tell you what I started at, but my goal is to lose 4 stone, and I have lost 8 pounds in a week through not being an idiot. I'd been ignoring my weight for quite a long time, even though I known I'd piled it on, and I think I put on quite a lot very suddenly recently which might be due to something medical but is more likely due to the fact that I bought and used a large amount of silicone bakeware recently. I have been eating all the cake in the world. But I'm in an at-risk group for diabetes and have a history of heart disease on both sides of the family, so when I disovered just how far over my estimations I was I decided it was time to do something about it.
Kicked the cola - that's not hurting as much as I expected - and started drinking fruit juice and squash instead and eating fruit instead of cake and eating at sensible mealtimes instead of when I feel like it. I'm a really terrible impulse eater - I eat when I'm bored, I eat when I'm embarassed, and I am, as my mum pointed out in front of GDL, always hungry. Not 'I need to eat right now or I'll die' hungry, just 'I really feel like having something to eat' hungry. It was unkind to point it out that loudly right then, but she was right. So that's stopping.
I've also been walking more, and I was supposed to walk into town today or yesterday, but it's been raining and I really don't want to walk in the rain. If it brightens up in time for me to make the market I'll go in this afternoon, but I don't think it will. Tomorrow I might go swimming, and I'll go again later in the week, because I have a new swmsuit with a skirt.
I'm at that horrible time in a student's life between the end of term and my next loan, and so I'm having to be sensible with money :( But this has meant about £10 on fruit and veg and £10 on meat for two people this week, which isn't bad. I'm still spending too much, but it's getting better. Part of me really wants to get a job at Wetherspoons, but most of me thinks that would be a really stupid idea in my third year.
My mum wants me to get a job, of course, but she's playing a really annoying double-standard. I've told her many times that my third year worlkload is going to be mental, but she's sure Ican get a job and balance the two. Rick, on the other hand, is going to be starting his first year, but she's equally convinced that a first year chemistry workload is going to be too much for him to juggle a job as well. He's not organised enough? He's 19 and it's about time he was bloody organised enough. Grr.
On the fic front, which is much nicer (isn't it always?) I've not been writing as much as I'd like, but enough. Timelord!Ianto is chuntering along happily and I'm going to sit down and plan out everything on my schedule for the next three months once I finish that, so I know exactly what I'm working on. I need to set aside a day to sort out my LJ, so that might be Wednesday.
I'm not watching Miracle Day becasue it sounds ridiculous and not my thing at all, but I am watching Top Gear (yay!) and James May's Things You Need To Know, which is very much my things and very interesting - it's sort of Brian Cox meets Monty Python, and altogether awesome. For grate yays!
And now I am going to go and wash up and heat my lunch up whilst I finish plotting out this next chapter, then I will write it and hopefully get it up tonight. Yay!
