When I was ten, I decided to become a vegetarian. I never really stuck with it too well, but I tried for about nine years. As a result, I am normally a veggie fiend.
But when my depression was worst, all three lows turned me into a carbotarian. Starch and sugar. Yuck.
Even with the anti-depressants I still have cravings for crap foods, I’m just better prepared to resist them.
Anyway, I have found that the best way to mindgame myself into eating more produce is to keep the compost bucket in plain sight in the kitchen. If I don’t eat plants, there are no stems or cores or anything to fill the compost bucket, so there’s nothing to add to the compost, so there’s nothing to feed next year’s garden.
Seriously. I never even thought about this because I grew up in a pro-compost house, and then kind of lost it going to college and then moving to a no-compost house. I started a box up this spring and I do not regret it.
P.S. - gardening is an awesome functional workout and as restorative as yoga. You know you wanna.
June 2012
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“Cellulite is a result of the body’s natural fat storage structure. It is not a disorder, or ‘toxins’ trapped in the fat, or the result of not eating ‘cleanly’ enough, or not doing the right exercises. It is simply the way our bodies are made. Plenty of people will tell you that it IS those things, and that if you buy their product you can rid yourself of this ‘unsightly blemish’, but the REALITY is that 90% of women have cellulite, and it is normal, and that the only way to get ‘rid’ of it is to lose all your body fat. And that would kill you.”
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Via Go Kaleo
I’d originally planned to go for a jog and work out on the playground up the hill, but it started raining literally as I left the front door, so instead I did a modified version of the kettlebell workout from last month’s Muscle & Fitness Hers, plus a little playing around on a stability ball I picked up at a yard sale.
- 10 single-leg deadlifts (10 lbs)
- 10 Turkish sit-ups (3 lbs because I’m a wimp)
- 10 high pulls with standing calf raise (10 lbs)
- 10 reverse lunges with pass through (10 lbs. Really challenging, but in a good way.)
- 10 goblet squats to shoulder press (10 lbs)
- 10 kettlebell swings (10 lbs)
- 10 stability ball crunches
- 10 stability ball oblique crunches
- 10 prone leg lifts (with the stability ball held between my calves - HARD!)
- 10 “genies” (kneel with stability ball held overhead and lean back. Not doing these again, it made my IT band unhappy.)
So I know M&FH is a weird reading choice, but I just wanted a fitness mag without all the fluffy crap in Women’s Health, Fitness, Shape, etc. I don’t need to waste money on information about This Season’s Hot Nail Polish or Twenty Ways To Make Your Man Moan or anything at all to do with conceiving/pregnancy/”lose the baby weight”/working out when the kiddies are at school. Yeah, M&FH has some of that going on, but not nearly as much.
So at my awful old job (remember my big rant last spring?) I had to send out tons of mass emails, but I had to do it from my own non-company email and now I think I’m getting auto-binned into spamland as a result. How do I fix this? Please don’t tell me I need a new email address, I just got a couple hundred business cards.
Fuck you, panic attack. I had three months without you, I don’t want you back.
It was an amazing experience, especially since it was my first time there as an agent instead of a nonprofit. I learned a lot - I haven’t absorbed such a massive quantity of information all at once since I was taking a course overload in college. I go home tomorrow and then it’s back to my life, richer about a zillion new contacts.
Heading down to visit my folks for a day before heading up to Book Expo where I will try to convince people that I am an adult, and, based on baffling current data, succeed.
