little red monkeys

[emchy]

whew

mellow weekend and still i am the groggy that says in ominent spooky voice "stay home, sleep and watch movies, stay home" but I am at work

The Castro Street Fari was a lot of work to get people all silly and happy but it was pretty fun. My lingering tired made it more work to have the fun, but that's ok. Wonderful chicken noodle soup from Citrus Club, watching sunset blvd, drinking chocolate mint tea sweetened with fresh harvested honey - that was pretty amazing, and then heading off to K'vetch with

final_girl  and drinking much caffeine was a good good time

 

today I still feel muddy, but not quite as depressed as I have been which is good. The $$ worries are there, but when aren't they really. I am starting to wonder if my diet is affecting me in this bad bad way - am i becoming vitamin deficient and thus the tired tired tired.

For those who don't know - I do the atkins thing. Have been doing it for almost 2 years. and yes you are supposed to take vitamin supplements, and no I do not take them. sheer laziness. Adding insult to injury at this point is I have moved away from a plateau (which made me cramky) and while I have been so tried and lethargic, have gained a few pounds. Nothing to get all weird over, and yet, I get weird still. Weight has always been a thing for me - since mom had me diet along with her at age 7, yes folks, seven - my ideas about food and weight have just been out of whack. This atkins thing was the first to get me a bit sane about it, but now I am thinking that mutritionally I have to do some modifying because I feel too tired to even go for a walk, and no one loses any kind of weight without activity. I have 50lbs to go to hit my ideal. About 30 to hit my realistic goal. and I am not sure how to turn things around so that I can eat fruit and other vitamin necessary things, and still keep heading down on the scale. (a side note, I do eat veggies and am fairly balanced for the most part - I don't do the pound of bacon for breakfast version of atkins that the horror stories abound about)

Anyway - I feel like somethings got to give and I am not sure where to start fixing things... Is it as simple as vitamins? Will I go and get a shot of wheatgrass later and realize that that is the solution...AGAIN. sigh. I just cannot stand feeling this tired and lethargic

nope

me no likey

Comments

The Atkins is a short term diet

[bucky-sinister.livejournal.com]

You shouldn't stay on it for two years. Have you tried weight training or boxing? I'd recommend either for you. If you do weight training, please hire a personal trainer, it's worth it, at least for six sessions or so. If you're not a solo person like me, take a boxing class. It's hard as hell and will rack you into shape quickly. but you have to commit.

my two cents
bucky

Re: The Atkins is a short term diet

[cindymonkey.livejournal.com]

thanks!

the $$ for a gym is daunting
but a boxing class...
hmmmmm

now you have me thinking

funny thing with the atkins tho - a lower carb lifestyle has in some ways helped me deal with rollercoaster emotions that accompanied a diet that was too high in sugar - so the balance and how to transition out of atkins is part of the trouble too

i have lost about 60 - 65 lbs so far and don't want to lose ground before i figure out the activity side of it

tho i do know - walking, even walking up steep hills and four flights of stairs many times a day - it's not enough

Your resting metabolic rate is mostly determined by

[bucky-sinister.livejournal.com]

the amount of muscle tissue in your body. During puberty, our body adds a bunch of muscle, and if we don't maintain it, we lose muscle tissue, thereby dropping our metabolic daily burn. You need a strenuous exercise to maintain/build muscle tissue.

Carbs are not bad, too many of them are. Watch the kinds of fat you're getting in your Atkins diet. The Atkins diet plan also recommends getting 1800 calories a day. You can eat 1800 calories of Ding Dongs and lose weight. You'll be malnourished, but you'll lose weight. I've opted for the "work out like a bastard, eat like a motherfucker" diet. If I stick to my workout schedule, I can eat pretty much whatever I want. But once you start working out a lot, you crave things that are better for you. at least I do.