Some of us like to laugh at websites like thisiswhyyourefat.com, or watch programmes like Britain's Fattest Man (yes, that's a show. Look for an American knock off coming soon, I'd wager) but this is also the time of year many people make resolutions to "lose weight". Cheap 1980's style infomercials or glitzy advertisements featuring B list yo-yo dieting celebs stalk the land like two giant...
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It;s now a little more than 3 months since I halted my starvation project. I've regained 30 lbs, some from bulging thigh muscles from all the cycling I'm doing and some from other not-so-firm bulges, the result of my body panicking and storing fat in case I decide to be an idiot and starve myself again. A bike store near me called Bike Doctor equipped me to speed my recovery and help me...
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Going to the gym can be a chore, but once you've done an hour or so the thrill of having burned off 1000 calories and feeling toned and in good shape feels wonderful. But for an anorexic it's dangerous. Getting inside the mind of an anorexic is hard to describe, but the combination of an excercise machine - with its fancy buttons and programmes, its timer and its calories burned tool is a...
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Disclosure: I've been on low carb diets. For the most part I did well on them, going into what's called "ketosis" fairly easily, and dropping weight. The problem I have with Atkins and other low carb diets is that without careful planning, they can get boring. In my case I ended up eating mainly meat, cheese, and green vegetables. As I've said before, any diet that narrowly restricts the foods...
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I feel like a teenager again. That is to say, my body mass has changed so rapidly my co-ordination is struggling to keep up. I've become an uberklutz. It was to be expected, I suppose - I lost 1/4 of my mass in 100 days, then put 1/3 of that back again in about a week. Of the weight I regained so rapidly it went from water weight to replenished fat stores to muscle in a month,...
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This morning I brought home a new set of wheels. Not a car - taking months off from my day job to do the starvation phase of this project has left me just squeaking by, financially. The title of this article is a bit of a clue though. For the second time in my life I'm the proud owner of a bicycle. I first walked into the Bike Doctor, a shop a few blocks from my house, on June 12th. I...
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War on drugs, war on terror... war on food? Okay, your struggle with food. If I called it 'the food fight' some would misunderstand and we'd be scrubbing tomato and yogurt splatter off the walls for weeks. 1. It's not about weight. We've made weight into such a bogeyman, many people who have read this blog all the way through my stupid "This is why extreme diets are bad for you" 100 days of...
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"English: A language that lurks in dark alleys, beats up other languages, and rifles through their pockets for spare vocabulary" Our language is a bastard. In fact, of 80,000 English words, roughly 28% originate from Latin, 28% from French, and 25% from Germanic languages, so more than 3/4ths of English kinda... isn't. What's worse is we use this language to tell each other things that...
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If you're reading this long after i wrote it, the title won't make much sense. But as I type, Angelina Jolie has a movie in theatres called "Salt". Here's a mother of six in her late 30's who is a UN Goodwill Ambassador and a busy actor (the highest paid female actor in the world, currently) who had to bulk up to play a CIA agent whose shining service record is matched only by the gloss on her...
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