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[argylerockstar]

It's only 1:15 and I have already been up for ten hours. Surprisingly enough, I am still alive and kicking. It was kind of nice to be at the gym this morning. We were there by 4:30 and remained there until six. When we arrived, we were two of four gym patrons. By six, you were lucky if you could get the piece of lifting equipment that you

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[marchenland]

If you eat 1200 calories and work out 3 hours a day, you're gonna look very nice in a hospital robe! Jeez! Good luck, but PLEASE be careful!

[argylerockstar]

Hahahahah! Mary Chapin Carpenter here I come! Ah, that was terrible of me. There is absolutely no way that I could actually consume only 1200 calories and exercise 3 hours a day. One thing that I will never have to deal with is an eating disorder. I enjoy food and life too much to let my weight consume me

[marchenland]

Ok, whew. I thought you were joking, but...

Hey, I lost 10 pounds!

[argylerockstar]

You did?!!!!!!!!!! That is marvelous! I wondered how you were doing and hadn't recently seen you voice frustration about not losing anything. How did you finally manage?

How exciting!

[divamanda23]

Carter Beats The Devil by Glenn David Gold. It is an outstanding book.

[aodl]

"Will stop eating crap tomorrow."

I say that every day. "That bacon egg and cheese sandwich from next door is so good and I know it will fill me all day. So what if it's killing me? Today's the last day anyways. Tomorrow I'll find time to make my own breakfast..." {Repeat}

"I'll make dinner tonight.. {... night comes ...} I'm tired, where's fast/junk food? It's easier. Tomorrow, I'll make time and energy to really make a decent dinner..."

It's scary, because only this summer did I notice that these were signs of addiction - I know it's bad for me (weight's gone up again close to its high from the beginning of the year), but I come back to it day after day after day. I've never had so bad of an addiction - not smoking, not drinking, not anything. Ugh. This beast does not like.

[aodl]

Oh, books:

Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides

Devil in the White City by Erik Larson - excellent and interesting story about the 1893 Worlds Fair in Chicago, it's architects; and of mass murderer Henry H Holmes.

And I really want to read The Outlaw Sea by William Langewiesche, my favorite correspondent for The Atlantic. More nonfiction, this time about the sea, pirates (real pirates), smuggling, etc. One of my first issues of The Atlantic had an article by him that I think is in this book, and it was extremely fascinating.

[argylerockstar]

OMG! You just totally identified what I have been feeling. Last week, I came to the conclusion that I am actually addicted to eating terribly and giving into the "I'm tired and grumpy. What's fast?" mindset. I have never, ever been unable to overcome something before now. There is much difficultly in doing so. I have never had a problem with drinking or smoking but I have a problem with breaking these junk food habits.

[vedhead]

mmhmm. right on brotha. now that we know what our problem is, what are we doing about it? anything besides whining? (we know nat is getting her ass to a gym.)

[mskitty23]

I am currently reading a book called Slave. I can't remember the author's name. It's about a girl from the Nuba tribe in Sudan and what happens to her befire during and after she is kidnapped and sold into slavery by the Arabs.
I am really enjoying it thus far.

[dantree]

I really like Jonathan Carroll, they usually have his books at the Downtown library, so far I have liked everything he has written. Also The Pilgrim of Tinker Creek by Annie Dillard. My Name is asher Lev by Chaim Potok.