Snarky, snarky me.
Feb. 4th, 2008 01:28 pmI am spending too much time on the WW boards, or the people are just getting dumber.
The good pain...
Oct. 4th, 2007 11:28 amOver the past week I've increased my resistance by 5 pounds on almost all of my exercises (chest press, row, lat pull, abs (where I'm working with almost half my body weight!), hip abductors & adductors). This means that my back & shoulders are deliciously sore today - not enough to actually bug me, but enough to remind me that I have been doing good work in the lifting department.
Here's a question for the weight-lifty folks out there... right now I'm doing my bicep curls with 15 pounds and my tricep extensions with 20 (3 sets of 15). I could PROBABLY go up to 25 on the extensions, but I don't think I could go up to 20 on the curls. But my biceps are also getting worked on the row and the lat pulls (at least according to how I feel and the diagrams on the machines). Would it be a bad idea to have a 10 pound differential between my biceps and my triceps? (I'm planning to ask Joseph the Excessively Cheerful Trainer this same question next time I see him.)
Oh, and my engagement ring is too big. Keeps spinning around and stabbing me in the pinky. Woe is me, I know. ;^)
Here's a question for the weight-lifty folks out there... right now I'm doing my bicep curls with 15 pounds and my tricep extensions with 20 (3 sets of 15). I could PROBABLY go up to 25 on the extensions, but I don't think I could go up to 20 on the curls. But my biceps are also getting worked on the row and the lat pulls (at least according to how I feel and the diagrams on the machines). Would it be a bad idea to have a 10 pound differential between my biceps and my triceps? (I'm planning to ask Joseph the Excessively Cheerful Trainer this same question next time I see him.)
Oh, and my engagement ring is too big. Keeps spinning around and stabbing me in the pinky. Woe is me, I know. ;^)
Stuff-n-things...
Sep. 20th, 2007 03:10 pmSpinning class continues to be very enjoyable. Joe tried to kick our asses today, and I kept up just fine. I definitely think my lagging a couple of weeks ago was due to illness. So yay and all that... no class next Thursday 'cause the center's closed for Sukkot, but apparently one of the other teachers is adding a Friday morning session that I may try to make, depending on worky stuff.
I tried a WW experiment this week... Whenever the subject comes up on the forums, I say that I can't eat my weekly points allowance (those 35 extra points we get every week to spend however we want) and still lose. But I thought about it and realized that I don't necessarily have good evidence for that - the last time I tried it, I had a lot of pizza. ;^) So this week I'm eating many more of them and we will see what happens. I expect that my theory will be borne out - I use the Google 15 gadget (yay data) and so far I haven't lost any this week. But who knows, maybe I'll get a surprise on Saturday morning.
The sun is shining and it is warm, and I am sitting on the porch in a nylon butt-sling with the computer on my lap. Hooray. Mark and I IM-conferenced about the paper and have found what I feel like will be good common ground to grow our paper out of. I am industriously looking at my data about blog audiences right now. (Well, ok, RIGHT NOW I'm blogging this here blog. But there are windows and tabs open, and I will be going back to it in just a moment.)
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relentlesstoil is insanely, nay, stunningly, nay, the VERY DEFINITION OF fabulousity. And I still think she should slough off work tomorrow and come and "evaluate" my class. Also: Hip, hip, hip-ahhhh!
Got a haircut & eyebrow wax today. Hooray! Also purchased TRex's birthday presents... she's so easy. She asked for a teddy bear (never mind that she already owns about a zillion of them), and we decided that she needs a football. That plus a cute outfit that I liked = 3rd birthday gifts for under thirty bucks. (OK, not counting the tickets to the Wiggles concert next month.) And a box that I know to contain a Thomas the Tank Engine Duplo set just arrived via UPS (from my parents).
I tried a WW experiment this week... Whenever the subject comes up on the forums, I say that I can't eat my weekly points allowance (those 35 extra points we get every week to spend however we want) and still lose. But I thought about it and realized that I don't necessarily have good evidence for that - the last time I tried it, I had a lot of pizza. ;^) So this week I'm eating many more of them and we will see what happens. I expect that my theory will be borne out - I use the Google 15 gadget (yay data) and so far I haven't lost any this week. But who knows, maybe I'll get a surprise on Saturday morning.
The sun is shining and it is warm, and I am sitting on the porch in a nylon butt-sling with the computer on my lap. Hooray. Mark and I IM-conferenced about the paper and have found what I feel like will be good common ground to grow our paper out of. I am industriously looking at my data about blog audiences right now. (Well, ok, RIGHT NOW I'm blogging this here blog. But there are windows and tabs open, and I will be going back to it in just a moment.)
The fabulous
relentlesstoil is insanely, nay, stunningly, nay, the VERY DEFINITION OF fabulousity. And I still think she should slough off work tomorrow and come and "evaluate" my class. Also: Hip, hip, hip-ahhhh!Got a haircut & eyebrow wax today. Hooray! Also purchased TRex's birthday presents... she's so easy. She asked for a teddy bear (never mind that she already owns about a zillion of them), and we decided that she needs a football. That plus a cute outfit that I liked = 3rd birthday gifts for under thirty bucks. (OK, not counting the tickets to the Wiggles concert next month.) And a box that I know to contain a Thomas the Tank Engine Duplo set just arrived via UPS (from my parents).
I was standing in the kitchen thinking that I'm hungry and I want a snack. As we all know, this has the potential to end very, very badly. I look in the cabinets - nothing that will be both satisfying and low-points. I look in the fridge. AHA! I made salsa the other day. I have fresh, homemade, tasty salsa. And so, for my snack, I am having 10ish low-fat wheat thins (2 points) with salsa (0 points). Yay.
( Salsa )
Oh, yes. That was satisfying. Quite satisfying.Mmmm... tasty.
Jan. 10th, 2007 11:23 amLunch:
More points that I usually want for lunch, but very good, and hopefully substantial enough that I won't want a snack.
WW pita with tuna salad (with scallions, red peppers, and carrot shavings), dijon mustard and spinach leaves - 4 points
Pepsi One - 0 points
Orange Mango Yogurt - 1 point
Banana - 1 point
More points that I usually want for lunch, but very good, and hopefully substantial enough that I won't want a snack.
Argh, etc.
Apr. 23rd, 2006 07:20 pmI'm 388 words into a 1500-2000 word book review that was due on the 6th. :^/ I've promised to have it done "early this week" which I'm interpreting as Tuesday evening. I have lots of things to say but I'm having trouble making them into lots of coherent things to say. Meh.
Am resolvedly back on the WWagon this week after about 5 weeks off of it.
Tomorrow we're taking TRex to see the Stanley Cup (the physical object, not the hockey championship series... though how much fun would it be to actually go to a Stanley Cup game? I expect that if the Sabres make it that far, tickets will be insanely hard to come by and viciously expensive - regular-season Sabres tix are already pretty outrageous).
Am resolvedly back on the WWagon this week after about 5 weeks off of it.
Tomorrow we're taking TRex to see the Stanley Cup (the physical object, not the hockey championship series... though how much fun would it be to actually go to a Stanley Cup game? I expect that if the Sabres make it that far, tickets will be insanely hard to come by and viciously expensive - regular-season Sabres tix are already pretty outrageous).
