hair & nose / China! / biker chick / cartoon dick on offer

[oiran]

vanity post: I think my hair is better than average. No news to anyone, right? I find it glorious. I had it done today, and even though the new orange streaks don't show, just know they are there. I realized after I put the photos together that it looks like it's barely below shoulder length, but that's just the front layers. It's actually down to the middle of my back.



And, you know, my nose does look a lot bigger than it is in photos, so maybe Mr. Glove is half-right. But I like big noses, so I guess I'm okay with that.

So, while I was taking photos, I had the Olympics on and I was distracted from my vanity efforts by the Chinese tae kwon do featherweight guy. Tiny, scrawny guy (with a big nose!), who kicked ass on the Mexican guy, all the while making scary, high-pitched shrieks like a sort of white-clad, heavily-padded bat. I thought he was oddly hot. The gold-medal female diver on the 3m springboard was gorgeous and Chinese. And I am rooting for the Cute Chinese Guy in the 110M hurdles. I also thought the Chinese female gymnasts were the most graceful. Now, it's not as though I'm not finding athletes of all nations extra-hot, but the list seems to be heavy on the Chinese.

This means nothing, I know. But, yay! China anyway.

go, me! Did a 10-mile ride this evening with an average speed of 15 mph, which is really great considering where I am with getting in regular rides. I hadn't ridden in over a week, so I was expecting to struggle through this one, but instead I was willful and pushed hard and worked on cadence and breathing and relaxing my shoulders and felt very accomplished at the end of it. When I last rode frequently, I could do a 20-mile ride in just barely over an hour with this bike, but I had plateaued at that speed. Mr. Glove agrees that I need a lighter, more appropriate bike instead of the heavy mountain bike I ride, though actually the extra weight is good for me to have to haul along at this point anway. Now that I'm riding again, I need to do yoga again, too. And with the weight loss, it's easier to achieve many yoga positions because my flesh isn't in my way.

Ai no Kusabi: If you're interested in downloading the vids, let me know and I'll add you to a filter. I've had them uploaded for months, apparently, and forgot all about it.

Comments

[suzycat.livejournal.com]

Fucky McFuckerson! You look so very good! *pouts* I want to get sick and lose lots of weight too!

Wow, the weight loss is really noticable. Bitch.

[velvetglove.livejournal.com]

South Beach Diet. Seriously. And it actually works better the more you eat. And even though I've lost a LOT of weight in the last year and a half (about 60 lb.) I'm still wanting to lose another 20-25 lb. That still puts me about 20 lb. over my "smoking weight," which was pretty much skeletal, so I think that I can be reasonably content if I can just get rid of the next 20 or so...

[suzycat.livejournal.com]

South Beach, eh? Does that involve a lot of meat? Because I don't eat that shit.

Fish, yes. They're not pretty enough for me to have pangs of guilt.

[velvetglove.livejournal.com]

Lots of protein. Which, of course, could be meat, but also tofu/soy, nut butters and loads of nuts, eggs, CHEESE, various other dairy, etc. And also fish, though I don't eat fish.

I've never looked into the Atkins diet, which is low-carb, too, but apparently that's completely wack and puts people into ketosis. You eat basically no carbs/no sugar/no alcohol/no (or minimal) caffeine for two weeks, all the while eating tons of protein, "good" fats and greens to the point that you really don't want to think about food any more.

Inadvertently, due to the carb (bread) restriction, I discovered that I am wheat/gluten-sensitive and the never-flat stomach I've always had is...now flat, since I'm not trying to digest things I apparently don't really want to digest.

So, besides the weight loss, I'm feeling better overall and have more energy (after the first two weeks of near-constant sleep, which seems to be specific to me and my former all-sugar diet). My biggest problem now is trying to remember to eat and stay in the regular-meals habit, because the weight loss picks up again if I eat more food.

Oh, and after the first two weeks, you are still supposed to watch carbs and sugars, but you are encouraged to drink red wine and you can have chocolate and...

yeah, I'm a goddamn zealot.

[velvetglove.livejournal.com]

Oh, and just to be clear. The ketosis thing is Atkins. The diet plan I then describe is South Beach. Without ketosis.

yep, still a zealot.

[sparktastic.livejournal.com]

I'm trying the South Beach Way Of Life (tm) and I too have found total exhaustion in this first two weeks. And also, the added (not) bonus of no creativity. I'm actually cutting it short, and moving on to phase 2, not because of getting to where I want to be weight wise, but because I need my brain to be willing to string words together in non-choppy sentences.

*clutches porridge to chest*

Any words of advice for the novice not-supposed-to-be-out-of-phase-1?

[velvetglove.livejournal.com]

Well, frankly, any advice I might have is just vague cheerleading, since I'm not too clear on the actual nutritive theories. I just eat what Mr. Glove tells me to because I'm lazy ;)

I have discovered, though, that I don't need much carbs or fruit to feel more energetic. Like, tiny amounts. So, I guess I'd say that trying to see how small an amount of carbs and "good" sugars you can add back in order to relieve the exhaustion might be the best bet.