“Your dick is your visit card, so make it big and make it hard.”
I’ll give that one creativity points, if nothing else.
Life Is What Happens…
Original plans for the evening: 1.) Eat dinner. 2.) Go to Toledo Area Genealogical Society meeting. 3.) Edit and post podcast.
Revised chronology for the evening: 1.) Eat dinner. 2.) Go to two-and-a-half hour Toledo Area Genealogical Society meeting. 3.) Talk to Mom on the phone for half an hour.
Don’t think the podcast is getting edited and posted tonight. Good thing I put tomorrow’s date on it when I recorded it this weekend.
Diet & Fitness Update, Week Ending 9/9/06
Good news! I finally broke through my two-week plateau at 206.5 and 206lbs respectively, and have managed to stay below 205 for the last five days or so. My official week-end weight is 203.5, although I weighed in this morning back at 204. I’m fairly confident that I’ll stay below 205 now. w00t!
My major dip in weight happened the day after my resistance-training PUSH workout, and stayed there despite pizza and cheesecake on Friday, and two Pollyeyes stuffed breadsticks on Saturday. You would think that a weight dip after exercise would incite me to exercise more often… but no. I ended up not following up with my kickboxing cardio.
Even so, I still plan to order some clothes for myself this week. Maybe I’ll even treat myself to a trip to Levis Commons and take a turn around Lane Bryant.
This week, I plan to *really* do two days of exercise. One day of strength training, one day of cardio. I know, it’s way less than the nice PUSH people want me to do, but I’m easing myself back into it. Making habits. Losing the weight slowly, so I’ll keep it off.
As much as I’d like to hit my goal weight by Thanksgiving, the statistics are against me. Overall, I’m averaging a loss of just under one pound a week, although my consistency has improved over time. If I were to stick with this program, with these results, I’d hit my goal of 190 just before Christmas. I’m not giving up, though. We’ll see how it turns out.
Au Naturale
When I was in middle school, I had the hardest time finding a deodorant that would keep me smelling fresh. Mom’s deodorant didn’t cut it for me, and it wasn’t until I saw an advertisement for a deodorant that was “So effective you could even skip a day™” that I finally found my brand. Over the years, my Lady Mitchum has served me well, though the products have changed from normal solid antiperspirant to a roll-on to a “hydrosolid” to a gel.
Recently, I got razorburn on my left armpit. Around the same time, I switched from my normal gel back to the “hydrosolid” that was on clearance. The hydrosolid ended up giving me a nasty rash where the razorburn was, so I had to forego the use of deodorant on my left pit for a few days, so it could heal. Eww.
Actually, it could have been worse. I put baby powder on my freshly-washed pit every morning, and it was fine until well after I got home in the evening. And, strangely enough, I enjoyed the feeling of letting my armpit breathe. That, plus a well-timed article in a health magazine, made me wonder if maybe I shouldn’t switch to a more natural deodorant.
Early this week, I received a shipment from Kiss My Face: natural deodorant, with no aluminum salts to clog the pores and possibly cause a host of medical problems. I’ve been using it all week, and it seems to work OK. Honestly, I’m not positive how much more effective this stuff is than the baby powder method, but it does smell nice. Like lavender. (I haven’t tried the patchouli yet, but it smells pretty strong. I’m gonna smell like a hippie.)
Right now, at almost midnight, my deodorant has long since worn off. That’s OK, though. I don’t mind the smell of me as much as I once did, especially since I’m all by my lonesome. I might reapply in the evenings if Aaron were here to smell my naturalness. 🙂
Again, as I said once before, mentioning that one has BO is probably not the best thing to do on one’s blog. But I’m feeling liberated from the evils of aluminum, and wanted to share. And the point of the natural deodorant is not to have BO in social situations, which I don’t.
It really does make you think about what our deodorant-deprived ancestors smelled like on a daily basis, or about people in other cultures or other countries — like the Mennonite I shared a Greyhound bus seat with, once upon a time. I don’t smell *that* strong, but it does make you wonder. Doesn’t it?
To-Do List
To Do Tonight:
- Write report to LSM Board of Directors
- Record podcast
- Eat dinner
- Start new game of Civ IV
Guess what’s getting done first?
Yeah. I’m gonna go kick some Incan butt.
Update, Post-Civ IV: Oh, yeah. I forgot I was going to do some kickboxing cardio to offset the two pieces of pizza and one piece of cheesecake I had for lunch. Oops.
Really don’t want to write my report or record my podcast, but I need to do both. Gonna go stall traipse around the house for a minute and collect my thoughts (and grab my iPod so it can charge), then come back down here and start on my Webmaster Report / Suggestions to the New Board of Directors.