by Dissolution » Fri Jul 26, 2013 7:18 am
Chile I did come across some mentions of Far-infared saunas in my research. Looks like you can buy fairly inexpensive home versions, I'm not sure where commercial ones would be available to use. There's not a lot of gym choices around here.
I've been stealthily not using the aluminum pots or pans this past month. I'm using the coated ones.
didi I'll try that.
m rock and Tabasco Thanks so much for those links.
fulenn I was very pleased she liked it, but she's not coming around. She's resigned herself to having lost her "eating buddy", but shows no indication that she is even remotely interested in eating this way.
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The last steroid shot wore off a couple of weeks ago and the skin on my palms started peeling off. But the skin underneath was not red and irritated. I did not have any blisters. Then last friday we went out to eat at a big chain restaurant. No baked potatoes on the menu. I opted for a spinach salad (spinach is the green leafy highest in nickle). Then on Sunday night we (9 of us) went to our favorite new vegan friendly restaurant. A couple of the dishes I had contained nuts and one had dates (both items on the high nickle list). I had a couple of blisters on Monday and my hands we red and itchy for most of the week. They seem to be healing up though.
I'm lucky enough to have a job where I don't really need to leave the house on most days before 10 or 11. I had tried going to the gym, showering at the gym and then leaving from there to go to work. The wife game me fits about that.
Then we tried where she joined a gym where she could swim, and I would drop her off and then go to my gym. Thankfully they sold memberships by the month, cause after going 3 times she has no desire to every go back.
I don't wake up at a set time, or by alarm clock. I typically wake up 6am - 7:30am. Then I do my morning routine until the wife wakes up 9am - 11am. I decided a couple of months ago that I would start waking her at 9am. So here I am, sitting around waiting for her to wake up, and I thought, I could be at the gym.
So I tried that. I told her I was going to start going early int he morning and then coming back home to have coffee with her. She didn't like that cause it "felt like I was sneaking out". Which I kinda was, because I was trying not to wake her up or get the dogs started.
Next we tried having me wake her up to tell her I was going. Two Saturdays ago this was met with "Are you f**king kidding me?!" Then we fought for two hours about how selfish and self absorbed I was.
Her new strategy is to try and wake up when I do, so I feel guilty about leaving her alone and awake to go to the gym. Of course she'll have take a 4 hour nap while I'm at work.
That's the other thing that's strange. If I get sleepy or go to bed before midnight, it makes her furious. Last Friday I went to the gym at 6am, did 40 minutes of cardio. Took #3 son with me and shot 9 holes of golf before noon, then met up with two of the other kids and shot another 18 holes that afternoon. Met her and her niece for dinner. I started getting sleepy around 11:30 pm and she got all pissed off at me, for trying to change her lifestyle and make her go to bed early.
All in all things are pretty good. I'm mostly sticking to the elliptical at the gym and I've been tracking my times and distances. It's amazing the improvements I've seen. My first goal was to hit 3.2 (5k) in 30 minutes. My first attempt was 3.2 miles in 30:28 at the easiest resistance. Yesterday I hit 4.08 miles in 30 minutes doing hill intervals. I just wish I could actually run that fast.
My weight is down to 201. Crossing over will be a pretty big milestone for me. I'm not sure the last time I was under 200. I know at the beginning or 8th grade I was over 200, and I'm sure I was never below that afterwards.
Sometimes it feels like I haven't changed, and the rest of the world has just gotten much fatter. Friends, family, public places. I think I could do a research study of the demographics of grocery stores. For example, 30% of the people shopping in the produce section are fat. 60% of the people shopping the meat department are fat. 70% of the people buying dairy are fat.
The wife was having a lot of digestive area pain Monday night. Thought I was going to have to take her to the emergency room. I pointed out that she had eaten steak 3 nights in a row, which is rare for her nowadays. She was better in a couple of days.
Sorry, I know I'm rambling. I've been meaning to post, but just haven't found the time.
#2 son is still gaining weight, he's about 10 pounds heavier than me now. He's sometimes the toughest to figure out. When my niece visited last weekend. She's close to 300lbs. The wife actually suggested she try my "diet". Her response was the typical "Oh no, I've GOT to have MY meat and MY cheese." I don't even bat an eye to those kind of statements anymore. But #2 son is different. He knows. He lost 30 lbs doing this as has put 35 back on since quitting it a year ago. He claims it's mostly muscle, but that's just a sad delusion.
I hope everyone has a good weekend.
