Cat update: Rosie ate at normal speed and is back to wanting snuggles immediately after eating, but ... there was a tooth in the water bowl. I guess that means I don't have to take her today, but I should have her mouth looked at soon.
Everybody plays each other. That's all anybody ever does. We play parts.
Saffron ,'Our Mrs. Reynolds'
Natter 73: Chuck Norris only wishes he could Natter
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, butt kicking, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
aurelia - Jan 23, 2015 4:58:11 am PST #16730 of 30000
All sorrows can be borne if you put them into a story. Tell me a story.
-t - Jan 23, 2015 5:11:19 am PST #16731 of 30000
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
Well, I'm glad she's feeling better.
Dana - Jan 23, 2015 5:18:15 am PST #16732 of 30000
I haven't trusted science since I saw the film "Flubber."
I am in such a bad frame of mind about my job. I resent having to be here to listen to some guy spew business speak.
Kat - Jan 23, 2015 5:56:03 am PST #16733 of 30000
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo
Laura, I only eat between 7:00 AM and 6:00 PM (The Dolly Parton diet!) -- based on research around time restricted eating. I would like to get to 7-3, but it makes dinner tricky. I'm also doing severe calorie restriction 5 days out of 7 with a meal of splurging on days 6 and 7.
Essentially everything I enjoy eating is actually bad for me so I need to stop. I need to stop eating stuff with refined sugar and, frankly, cheese, while delicious, is going to kill me. So I am just not buying it anymore (I have one slice of cheddar left that I'm saving for popcorn).
I am eating more eggs and more protein shakes (barf).
-t - Jan 23, 2015 6:04:57 am PST #16734 of 30000
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
Interesting, Kat.
That does not sound fun, Dana.
Kat - Jan 23, 2015 6:07:57 am PST #16735 of 30000
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo
-t, you're kind. It's more pedestrian and annoying and stupid. I wish I could adopt that zen only eat as much as you need to survive perspective. And yet, NSM.
Steph L. - Jan 23, 2015 6:08:01 am PST #16736 of 30000
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine
I need to stop eating stuff with refined sugar
You know, I'm really proud of how I've increased my veggie intake over the past year, but I really need to cut the sugar out. (I say that as someone who just last night bought gluten-free animal crackers. But there's an actual point to buying those: when I bought GF chocolate-chip cookies or GF Joe-Joe's [Trader Joe's, I love you and hate you], I would eat the whole box at the speed of light. But I can eat just a couple of animal crackers when I have a sweet tooth, because they just aren't as HOLY CRAP YUM as the cookies I used to buy. The best I can say is that I'm trying to phase out refined sugar.)
askye - Jan 23, 2015 6:09:18 am PST #16737 of 30000
Thrive to spite them
aurelia glad your kitty is doing better.
I use different user names for most boards. I was trying to keep things really sepreate but the lines have blurred on some of them (for awhile I had 2 livejournals, but the original one got deleted).
Kat - Jan 23, 2015 6:11:52 am PST #16738 of 30000
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo
Steph, I don't know that I can really cut them out completely (I doubt it!) but I think I can stop picking them when I really want something else. I think what I really need to do is cut mindlessly eating. Tomorrow I will have delicious fish tacos and chips and salsa, but I know I am choosing that. I need to choose instead of being mindless.
For me bread, crackers and cheese are the big problem. Also, to sayI have a time restricted eating sounds fancy, but let's be clear, I rarely am up late so to stop eating at 6 when I go to sleep 9 is not really that hard.
Kiba Rika - Jan 23, 2015 6:18:48 am PST #16739 of 30000
I may have to seize the cat.
I need to choose instead of being mindless.I think if we could all do this, we'd probably all be in much better shape. For me, the stumbling block is always prep time/energy (especially energy).