Well some friends of Buffy played a funny joke and they took her stuff and now she wants us to help get it back from her friends who sleep all day and have no tans.

Xander ,'Lessons'


Natter 55: It's the 55th Natter  

Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.


tommyrot - Dec 31, 2007 8:19:17 am PST #9951 of 10001
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.

Cool sterling silver dog tags: [link]

They have a secret compartment that can hold a tiny 2GB USB drive....


Scrappy - Dec 31, 2007 8:29:26 am PST #9952 of 10001
Life moves pretty fast. You don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.

I think "smaller portions" + "more exercise" - "snacking" = "slightly more feasible for me".

I lost 30 lbs a couple of years ago on a severe version of this. Tiny meals. I could eat what I wanted to, but the each meal had to be limited to five bites. It was basically fasting with snacks--and it was given to me by my crazy doctor. It worked, though, and once I got to my goal weight, keeping portions small (since I had been used to eating basically nothing for a couple of months) was simple. I gained back 20 lbs since my surgery, so I am going on a modified version of the diet. Very small breakfast and lunch (like a cup of fruit salad), and a normal but healthy dinner. I wants to be back into my size eight jeans by Spring.


Kristen - Dec 31, 2007 8:32:56 am PST #9953 of 10001

She tells me the whole thing about how you stop craving things and you feel full with less food and you have more energy, but I think it's a myth, like those endorphins you supposedly get from exercising.

Cravings sort of go away. Or maybe you just learn to manage them.

Week Two (?) of my diet I was craving pizza. It was the craving that would not stop. I dreamed of pizza. I went online to figure out the least caloric way I could indulge my pizza craving. (A single pizza roll would have been 35 calories. Of course, I would have to have bought a box, taken out the single pizza roll and then thrown the rest of the box away before I even got into my car.)

It took at least a week for the craving to pass as Monique can attest. Since then, I still think, "Oh, pizza sounds good," but I'm not consumed with thoughts of cheesy, saucy goodness anymore.

In fact, my first day on K-Ville, as I was leaving the office, one of the assistants was unpacking dinner (pizza) and he held up a slice -- INCHES AWAY FROM MY FACE -- and offered it to me. Somehow, I managed to back away from it and leave. Perhaps, flee would be more accurate.

This is not to say I'm always good. I've seriously cheated half a dozen times now and unseriously cheated a lot more than that. The serious ones came when I was out in the real world.

I dream of a life in Maintenance.

As for the exercise thing, I think it varies from person to person. Personally, I do have more energy and feel better now that I'm working out. But it's not a "high." In fact, I read a thing the other day that talked about the myth of the high and that most people will never experience that.

ETA:

Very small breakfast and lunch (like a cup of fruit salad), and a normal but healthy dinner.

HA! See, you illustrate the differences between people! I've learned that I need the opposite. I need to front load my calories to have more in the morning and early afternoon and then taper off as the day progresses.


Sue - Dec 31, 2007 8:37:01 am PST #9954 of 10001
hip deep in pie

Happy New Year to everyone! I am off soon for my "country home." (Okay, my friend's home.)

I have had the endorphin high, but only after hours of hiking at a fairly brisk pace. But I am always inevitably in the endorphin high place when I am also in the so tired that you can twist your ankle by tripping on a blade of grass place. So it sort of balances out.


Trudy Booth - Dec 31, 2007 8:40:10 am PST #9955 of 10001
Greece's financial crisis threatens to take down all of Western civilization - a civilization they themselves founded. A rather tragic irony - which is something they also invented. - Jon Stewart

The first few weeks I go off sugar I'll have anxiety dreams that I'm drinking kool-ade and can't stop and am fucking up my diet.

After that I still want it (and all its simple carby friends) but not nearly as much as I want them when they are part of my diet.

I love my MMA classes and will crave them and will get cranky when I miss them, but a really hard workout doesn't give me a rush so much as relax every muscle in my body and leave me completely limp. Which I really really love.


bon bon - Dec 31, 2007 8:40:59 am PST #9956 of 10001
It's five thousand for kissing, ten thousand for snuggling... End of list.

Where's bon? FotC are on Terri Gross right now! And yes, IFG!

Ha! I assume that's a rerun, because I totally bought that from iTunes. The story about the threesome makes me laugh and laugh.


Vortex - Dec 31, 2007 8:41:35 am PST #9957 of 10001
"Cry havoc and let slip the boobs of war!" -- Miracleman

The performer was mud ugly and all the hookers by the door were glaring at us.

yeah, they don't like it when the patrons are prettier than they are.

I have actually experienced the mythic endorphin rush. But it's a rare thing.

I had it one time. I got to the end of my route, and didn't want to stop, so I made another loop. It was nice.


Kristen - Dec 31, 2007 8:42:18 am PST #9958 of 10001

The first few weeks I go off sugar I'll have anxiety dreams that I'm drinking kool-ade and can't stop and am fucking up my diet.

Oh god. I thought this was just me. Shortly after the pizza thing, I started having dreams where I would eat something, by mistake, and then remember I was on a diet and freak out. It was like, "I can't even cheat in my DREAMS."


msbelle - Dec 31, 2007 8:46:09 am PST #9959 of 10001
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb

you crazy people with your different things work for different people stuff.

I am starting on a smaller portions of everything except veggies habit and will also start exercising (haven't dedicated time to that in a good 4 years) in about a week. I hoping for some weight and size loss, but mostly for feeling better.


sarameg - Dec 31, 2007 8:46:54 am PST #9960 of 10001

I will have very elaborate dreams about food when I get hungry when I'm asleep. Sadly, I cannot eat when I first wake up. I'll also have mega-frustrating dreams in which my attempts to get up, showered and dressed are all kinds of thwarted right before I wake up.

No wonder I hate waking up. Everything in my head is gearing me up for frustration.