The Walrus

"The time has come, The Walrus said, to talk of many things..."

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I will never not reblog this.

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Yes, the scale lies sometimes, and the number it shows depends on many factors. No you haven’t gained a pound in a day, that’s impossible. By weighing yourself everyday you can become obsessed, apart from that, the fact of seing how the number doesn’t go down or how it goes up a little bit can make you want to quit. You’re not going to lose weight overnight.

WHEN AND HOW TO WEIGHT YOURSELF

Set a day a week to weigh yourself.

Do it in the first time in the morning, before eating or drinking anything.

Do never weigh yourself the day/days after a binge, it will take time to your body to dygest and process that food.

Make sure you drank enough water the day before the weigh-in, most of the times if you see the number going up, it is only water retention.

Remember that the muscle weighs more than the fat.

Don’t weigh yourself during your period or the days around it, it may vary because of your hormones.

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True

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Somday

I will wear shorts damn it.

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I think everyone has that one issue in their life that plagues them.

It's something that takes a lot of heartache to overcome.

Maybe it's alcoholism, drug abuse, cigarettes, financial troubles, family troubles...

For me it's food. I've pushed through the alcoholism, drugs and cigarettes. Now the biggest source of sadness and stress in my life is that I'm overweight.

As much as I try to 'own it' and feel attractive I am wearing an eighty pound fat suit. I'm not just a little pudgy or anything. I am obese.

I was going through a period the last couple weeks where I was frantically looking for an easier way. Not a 'magic bullet' but something better than counting calories. I have made some headway in realizing that I like my exercise to be fun. People tell you to do fun exercise but until you find exercise you enjoy it doesn't really click all the way. I told myself I liked going to the gym but what I really like is walking, biking and skating.

I also enjoy at home workouts significantly more than gym work outs.

I guess my point is that I'm still fighting myself and it sucks. Everything is going great in my life except that I am obese. And it's not isolated. It leaks into other things that make me happy and it ruins those. Most of my sentences end it "...but I'm fat."

So I know what I've got to do. Only one thing in life has ever helped me lose weight in a relatively painless manner and it was counting calories and walking for exercise. It's so simple.

I think my goal is to lose 15 lbs before the next semester and walk for an hour at least 3 times per week. Also, add in a hefty side of veggies to dinner and avoid sugar and processed junk.

I think I put too much stress on myself obsessing over food so the next week it doesn't matter what I eat, it just needs to be within calories. In fact, for the next month I'm not going to work about what I'm eating, just how much.

I put too much anxiety into my own life. I need to take it easy. If I can lose twenty pounds eating junk food then cool. Eventually, somewhere down the road, I'll have to straighten up and add in other exercise and healthier food but right now I just need a calorie deficit. I need to drop, I don't know, 40 lbs before I even try to change anything else. Why fix what's working? I know there will be a plateau so I need to save my energy for that instead of try to attack my diet all at once.

I get into this mood where I can't stop thinking about how unfair it is to have a metabolism like mine but I need to realize it's not going to change anything. Just like I have to work for money and a college degree I'm going to have to work for weight loss.

I dunno. I feel like I've failed so many times already that I hardly trust myself.

I guess I'm either going to try again or quit forever. I know I'll never quit. Eventually it has to work.

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My first week of college

was a success.

<3

Tired now.

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this. 

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Trufax. The tears of the homosexuals are what empower heterosexual marriages to positions of strength and prosperity. The homosexuals MUST weap. They MUST.

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I have an idea....

for a book and it's a great fucking idea.

Going to start now.

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frozach submitted

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Polite cat 

That little headbutt in the second one gave me diabetes.

Oh my god give me

DAMMIT.

“Excuse me, human. I would like a petting, please. Yes, thank you.”

“Um, excuse me, human? Human? Ah yes, I’d like another petting please. Ah, thank you.”

KITTEH

OMG THIS IS THE CUTEST EFFING THING EVER FOREVER REBLOG

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AHAHAAHAHA THE HEADBUTT JHBDSFGHFD

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Reading the Beck Diet Solution.

I'm going to follow it to a T.

I don't have anything left to lose and every time I try to do something like this for myself I pick up good habits, coping skills and information. So every try is worth something in the long run, even if I haven't lost the weight I've gained a lot of wonderful habits that before never existed.

So onward I go! Always trying to fix my broken brain.

<3

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I think I need to get really simple with my diet.

Veggies

Fruits

Nuts

Beans

That's about all I'm going to let myself eat. I don't even want anything with added junk in it.

I figure my days will be something like this;

Breakfast: Fruit, quinoa, peanut butter or a larabar.

Lunch: Hummus and veggies. I am never really creative with lunch. If I get too bored I'll start making homemade soup and packing it along or something. I figure I can do this until I find some delicious lunches.

Dinner: Taco salad(beans, lettuce and olives), quinoa, grilled veggies, soup, sweet potato fries, stuffed mushrooms... again, I don't really have a lot of recipes.

Snacks: Fruit smoothies, dried fruit, nuts or seeds.

I know it seems like a small selection. I'm trying to dumb it down for awhile. I just need to cut out the junk and feed my body what I know is good for it. I'll eat a ton of veggies, get some healthy oils and fruits in there along with some tasty treats like peanut butter, larabars and dried fruits.

I feel like I can't count calories long enough to lose a significant amount of weight but if I'm not counting calories I eat too much. If I just count out some of the more calorie dense foods that I eat too much of and replace them with lower calories fruits and veggies then I think, at least for a while, I can see some weight loss sans calorie counting.

Beyond that I do like to work out just for the sake of working out so I'm going to continue trying to exercise 30 minutes 3 times a week. It's bare minimum so I know I can do it.

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Breaking News of the Day: Obama Backs Gay Marriage: [UPDATED] President Obama has publicly announced his support for gay marriage in an interview today with Robin Roberts. (Watch the video here.)

I have to tell you that over the course of several years as I have talked to friends and family and neighbors when I think about members of my own staff who are in incredibly committed monogamous relationships, same-sex relationships, who are raising kids together, when I think about those soldiers or airmen or Marines or sailors who are out there fighting on my behalf and yet feel constrained, even now that “Don’t Ask Don’t Tell” is gone, because they are not able to commit themselves in a marriage, at a certain point I’ve just concluded that for me personally it is important for me to go ahead and affirm that I think same sex couples should be able to get married.

Obama, who is the first U.S. president to openly back gay marriage, had come under fire this week for remaining mum on the subject after Joe Biden and Arne Duncan publicly declared their support. The president’s announcement comes a day after North Carolina voted in favor of a constitutional amendment that bans marriage equality.

Obama’s interview will appear on ABC’s Good Morning America on Thursday. Excerpts will air tonight on ABC’s World News with Diane Sawyer.