Hello. It's been a long time since I posted here. Not sure how long, but, I know it's been a weird, wild time. Mostly, I was busy having my house robbed, again; babysitting my grand-nephew, being unwillingly wooed by a Vietnam Vet; and, of course, being lightly victimized by (probably) transgenered witches.
You know, same old, same old.
Part of the reason I haven't been posting, besides my computer getting stolen again (repeatedly) is that I simply had nothing interesting to report. I would lose a pound here, gain a pound there, but, nothing much really changed since I posted about it last.
Until, possibly, now. It's still early days, but, as you probably know, I both do a lot of research and a lot of praying, as regards my health issues, and, sometimes, as a result, I find another piece of the puzzle.
There are two things I have really started working on, which, from what I can tell, are finally taking me past my long-lived plateu.
To be fair, if I had been under less stress, if less people had stolen my groceries so that I had to rely less on things I was given for free from people who visited food banks and such fare as can be gotten for free from convenience stores clearing out their older foods, if I had been eating fresh fruit and vegetables as much as I would have liked (cooked or raw), then, I might have still been losing weight. So, let us not growl at the plateau. It is a form of progress. Because, I was having a bad, bad time, and, yet, by doing the best I could with what I had, at least some of the time, I have not gained the weight back! That's something!
When I weighed last, the scaled said I was 249.5 lbs. That is all it said, because, it was out of order. Maybe, by the time I get paid again, it will be working. I do like to have my informational tickets from the GNC scale!
Anyway, I started doing squats, just every now and again, and, even though that has been mostly all the exercise I get (beyond just walking about to get a few things done around the house, or, going swimming once), I have gained muscle from it and, apparently, even in my chest and shoulders and all sorts of other places.
So, I looked up some information and found that some people claim squats cause an anabolic reaction for the whole body. Apparently, it's something to do with how things shift around because of the position. I don't know ... but, I do know that one time when I weighed, it said I had only lost like 1 lbs or something silly, but, when I looked at the total of how many pounds of me is actually fat, I was pleasantly surprised to find that I had lost several pounds of fat. The rest was gaining muscle.
No, I am not just imagining it. I feel way stronger. Plus, I was watching my nephew's dogs and I got to playing around with his medicine ball. It disappointed me, just a little, because, he had a heavier one, before, and, I don't know why he had such a lightweight one. It didn't even feel half as heavy to me!
Then, later, I was looking up medicine balls, because, that was still fun. I had been doing squats while tossing it up in the air, so that I was catching it as I squatted. The dogs were amused, too. Anyway, no money, right now, but, I thought I could at least get an idea of how much a medicine ball would cost. Turns out they have a lot of different weights and prices. So, I wrote to my nephew's wife and asked her how much that medicine ball weighed, because, I wanted something at least a little heavier, but, I wasn't sure how much it weighed.
Turns out it is the same one he always had, the 25 lb'er. I'd just gotten stronger, so it felt lighter.
So, that's one thing that I found that is going to be very helpful to my cause. I am going to do the squats more purposefully, now. Though, I am going to try not to stress myself out whilst doing so.
Today, I did 20 squats, 10 at a time, hours aapart from each other.
Also, I am working out a schedule for myself, kind of for all aspects of life, but, with an emphasis on healthy activities, like grocery shopping, food prepartition, exercise of varying types at varying times, and reminders about when to eat. That's not what the other thing is, though. It's just related to it.
The other thing is that I read some information on food combining, more than one kind, actually, so, maybe there are three things. I haven't tried one of them, yet, though, so, two it is.
Anyway, I started out following one piece of advice on food combining, only, because, having read about the program outined in the book I was reading, and, finding reviews regarding it, I had reason to believe that certain aspects of the program might be the missing link in the chain to my good health. Because, even when I was losing weight and feeling so much better, that was not the same thing as actually feeling good.
Food combining is not about losing weight. It is about getting healthier. Which means, probably, losing weight. That's what I want, though, most: to be healthier.
So, first I tried one thing and my stomach hurt less. I found there was some truth to what the program said about body cycles. So, I tried, yesterday and today, to be more thorough in proper food combining. I felt way better today than I have in a long time -though, I woke up feeling goopy and I was sweating a strong odor out of me all morning. Not a horrible odor, just a strong one. But, that's good. That's called detoxing.
I had most of my fingers and one thumb popping or cracking, more than once, today. Just a little bit ago, my beleaguered knee, which had been hurting for days, just popped and began to feel much better.
I've had more regular bathroom activities. I won't go into detail, but, trust me, it's a good thing and I am definitely detoxing!
So, I think I am going to continue with the food combining, possibly work in the other food combining technique, tighten up my schedule and my plan ...
Which means, I don't know how much I'll be around here, as I'll be doing stuff out there in the real world. But, I do intend to keep some progress notes here, if I can. Hey! I have to write them somewhere, for the book, so it may as well be here. Right?
