Another Year, Another Resolution
I didn’t think I’d make it in one piece, but here I am, 2008.
I won’t attempt to recount the year that’s passed, only to say that it’s been another year of learning, growing and hopefully remembering all that information now I’m done with it. More changed in 2007 than many of the recent years preceding it, but somehow I made it through—especially given my extreme distaste for change.
It wasn’t difficult electing a resolution for this year, either. (Sadly, I think this one’s been repeated more than once before, but clearly it’s back up for a reason.)
I need to lose weight. I mean, seriously. Not in the vague, hazy sense-of-body way my lamenting usually takes form. I mean it in the way that this last week has repeated reminders of the blimp I’ve inflated into so many times that I’m all but short of declaring a Code Red.
But out of all the dog-awful photos I took this week, clothes I squeezed into, weighing scales I threw out of windows, it is never ever necessary for some random ugly troglodyte to saunter up to you and notify you of your weight gain.
I know I’ve put on weight, you drainscum. Amid my own surprise at my expressed annoyance, I can only hope you enjoyed getting bitchslapped as much as I relished the look on your face as I dished it out.
Happy 2008!
oOMG WHO I WANT TO BITCHSLAP TOO
i could have written this entry. it’s like you read my mind. haha!
heh heh, bitchslap ‘em!!
OK, so yr fat. i’m fat too.
BUT, yr funny and lovable and that is more important. That whole body-image thing (which the media mainlines every god-damned second and blasts it in yr face every other second: LOOK AT SHAKIRA’S MIDRIFF OMG CAN U BELIEVE IT NOW LOOK AT BRITNEY HILTON SHE’S SO SKINNY OMG IF YR NOT LIKE HER U MUST BE SUBHUMAN…
all that said, i started hitting the gym a coupla months ago (as u know from reading my blog). met with some pals today and they said i looked slimmer than ever. whee. guess what. i’m still fat! but, i do feel better, i move better, the quadriceps are stronger, and while the gym requires commitment and effort, i am a huge fan of cardio-workouts. duration/intensity/frequency are individual: see yr doc first. but what works for me is 3-4 visits weekly, 40 mins cardio in certain heart-rate zones. it varies. some days are more successful than others. but u DO get this endorphin buzz that lasts for awhile and is sublime.
note: i HATE gyms. the whole routine, the dorks in spandex obssessed with lifting weights or whatever their thing is…plus u get yr friends going oh wow, must be a lotta SEXY ppl at the gym. no, there’s not. i’m ugly and sweaty and blasting crazy-ass musik in the headphones and then i’m OUTTA there. just give me a locker, stretching room, machines that let me fight against them, a playlist with a lot of good aggro-music (Slipknot, Static-X, Veruca Salt, The Hives, New Bomb Turks, BLAST IT), then i’m walking to the MTR sweaty and feeling good. great end to the workday.
i’m working up to some new routines but i love to eat and in order to really lose weight, will have to make some modifications: winter is not ideal for that. in a few months it’ll be hot and humid, that helps. fortunately, I’m not in Sing!! the food there is so good…
u can do a lot with regular workouts. but Vic, remember that the core is what’s important: what we like about you is YOU.
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fat is fat lah