Some wild creature has taken command. I gave him the keys and he's stomping through the house.

[lodessa]

1)Hi all. I am getting back on the workout and eating better path and will probably start talking about it again. I've added a number of new people since the last time I asked about this and some of you may have changed your feelings on the subject. So I'm polling to see who wants to be on the filter. If you are on the current one and don't

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[girlupnorth]

1) Good luck and yes, I want to be on the filter

3) UB had some really good moments this season.

4) Brennan.

[lodessa]

1) Thanks. Basically I am trying to counteract the negative health effects of sitting in an office all day and never having an reason to be active.

3) I totally adore UB and I love the surreal turn the bits I've seen seem to have taken.

4) The T.A. for her freshman year philosophy course (she needed it for her general ed). She used to come to office hours all the time because the course materials drove her sort of insane trying to make sense of them. He started off finding her annoying but then became totally infatuated. She wasn't interested in pursuing the relationship and possibly never even realized that he was, but she did completely gave him the idea which was the basis for his dissertation.

[juushika]

2. I take breaks like that often, but rarely consciously. The fact that I am so addicted to books helps—I find them more interesting than most games and TV shows, so it's easy to opt for that stimulation instead. Having the guinea pigs also helps, and I imagine the same might be true for cats or dogs—I take the pigs out about once a day in good weather so that the can eat fresh grass, and that pulls me away from all electronics.

The easiest step, though, is getting rid of your TV. So many networks have online episodes now, so I watch TV that way, on demand with limited commercials, and I never get sucked in to "just one more episode" of something I normally wouldn't care about. So much time is lost to TV, and sometimes I understand why, sometimes I enjoy just going partially brain-dead and taking in information, but I think it's healthier to do that when I have the whim to do so, rather than all the time—because TVs stay on all the time.

[lodessa]

2. The cat doesn't really like me to go outside with her. She seems to think it is embarrassing.

I don't so much get sucked into watching actual TV as watching episode upon episode on DVD. It's so easy when they are all there and you want to find out what happens. I also think I have been using it as a diversion tactic to avoid dealing with stuff. If it weren't for the boyfriend's desire to have it we wouldn't have cable. I never had it when I lived alone.

I also think sometimes I end up watching things instead of reading because I can feel like I am doing it WITH Jeremy instead of reading where we are reading out separate things (I tried reading to him but he falls asleep).

[juushika]

Well, with cats I was thinking something more like cuddling. Dogs will let you take the outside.

I do have a hard time turning reading into a with the boyfriend sort of thing. We try to read a book together every now and then—short story compilations work really well because then there are clear and distinct stopping places. He doesn't read on his own, and I always find that disappointing—cuddling up with a book each is a dream of mine. But I'm used to reading while he games and sometimes he draws while I read.

Spending all day home alone helps, though. There's plenty of time there to read without feeling like I'm isolating myself from Devon.

[lodessa]

Yeah. Unfortunately Cat's favorite time to cuddle with you is when you are immobilized sitting at the computer.

We sometimes do read side by side. It's just that since he gets up at 3:30Am for work and I get off at 5PM and our days off only overlap half the time we don't really have much time to hang out and it's hard to really read and cuddle even, let alone interact.

[nentari]

1) Good luck!

4) Angela! (this should be fun *grins*)

[lodessa]

1) Thanks.

4) When they were in Junior High, Angela and her best friend used to experiment. Her first time with a boy was in her Junior year of high school. He was sort of a bad boy, and was the drummer for a local band.

[nentari]

And I guess when Billy Gibbons found out he beat the crap out of him :P

LOVE the icon!

[lodessa]

:)

Thanks. I've been trying to prune them down (I'm thinking about not renewing the userpic ad-on) but I keep finding more I love.

[hella_em]

oh my god, i need some inspiration - i'm retarded and registered for another half marathon this morning! though it's a waiting game to see if i'm actually randomly selected this year as they're doing a lottery 'cause everyone wants in. stupid me! yay for someone else doing stuff at the same time that can serve as some motivation/inspiration!

[lodessa]

I could never ever do that. I cannot run for the life of me.

[countouttheday]

1) I think at this point I'd rather be off it. I am starting to think that following my body's cues is far more important than eating a certain way and it's impossible to do that once you start thinking about calories of this or grams of that. Same with exercising. I love it until I think of it in terms of calories burned

[lodessa]

1) Totally understand. Mainly for me it's about being aware of what I'm eating... because when I don't I eat so much crap.

2) I never turn mine off either. What if something important happened?

4) One of his mother's chambermaids. He was about 12. She was easy to persuade, he let her think she was the one doing the seducing.

[countouttheday]

1) I eat pretty healthy when I'm not aware (sometimes I forget how unusual my taste in food is cf tomato paste and hated of sugar), but when I am aware, it's a disaster. I'm constantly wracked with guilt and can't concentrate on anything but what I ate and how much. I mean, it's not a textbook eating disorder, but it's obsessive and mildly physically self-destructive (seriously mentally so). I did succeed in getting my physical without finding out my weight, though, so my New Years' Resolution is still on track.

2) I never think of the good important things, though. Only the bad ones. I left work yesterday and went to the gym by work to do yoga, realizing on my way I'd forgotten my phone. I just HAD to go back to get it (especially as boy is away and there would have been no phones at all here). Though apparently my boss had seen that I left it and became worried that I'd rushed out because something was wrong. She is so nice (if very disorganized).

[lodessa]

1) I totally get that from having read your journal and such. Part of my problem is the people around me are always encouraging bad eating. So it's hard not to go with the flow.