Okay, maybe not IT is shit, but ME.
So you know, I've attempted to do the Slow Carb-Diet the last week. It's in Tim Ferriss's book 'The 4-Hour Body' and it's supposed to make you lose fat fast and I think it might definitely work if you've got the heart to go through with it. You're allowed to eat a lot except for 'white' carbs, fruit and sweets, of course. For six days, you must eat one hour from waking, approximately four hours apart and compose each meal from proteins (meat, eggs, etc..), legumes and vegetables. On the seventh day, it's cheat-time and you can - and have to - go crazy with eating WHATEVER you like.
Sounds pretty easy, right? Would be, except for the fact that I don't like going through with things. Halfway along, I start to get bored or annoyed and just decide to quit.
I started and Monday and actually enjoyed the meals I had, felt good and enthusiastic to start and was generally well. Then came Tuesday, which was rather okay, too, but I found myself lusting for today, Saturday, my designated cheat day. Wednesday I was starting to get really cranky, but after having delicious chicken with carrots and faux-mashed potatoes (which are sadly prohibited), I was in high spirits again.
The fateful Thursday knocked me out, in the end. So my breakfast was spoiled by insect spray after about 10000 vicious wasps attacked me (in fact it were about 7, but that's still to much for my wasp-o-phobia/bee-o-phobia/anything-that-fucking-flies-o-phobia self). I then decided to screw it all and ate a little pudding and an Oreo - fuckers have 234562178123546 calories per cookie. Later J and D surprise-visited me and I spent the day until about 6 p.m. when I made myself the long-anticipated chili con carne with fajitas. The chili is pretty much fine, as I've found out since then, but the fajitas are a type of bread (which is prohibited, too). I still ate three of them and afterwards some chocolate and nimm2, basically bonbons.
Yesterday I got going normally again, then I missed two meals and in the end just ravaged my last Bonne Maman Tartelettes. After working out some and taking an ice-bath - which I'm gonna do today again because it is so much fun to spend time in a state of COMPLETE IMMOBILITY BECAUSE EVERY LITTLE MOVEMENT HURTS LIKE FUCK. Nah, but maybe it'll be of some use!
And today.. I got up at ten, didn't have breakfast, now went shopping with my mum and decided to quit it. And work out more than usual, because maybe it'll help. My 'breakfast' then consisted of Pringles with Smokin' Ribs flavour (hey, I was unable NOT to immediately try them, finally the cool tastes are coming to Austria, too!) and Manner Karamellen - I love solid caramel bonbons which almost tear your teeth out.
The new mantra for my blog is now: Watch me as I get fat woohoo
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Saturday, August 13, 2011
Wednesday, July 20, 2011
Family matters!
So, I just had a very very long talk over the phone with my cousin S, whom I've always really adored since I was a little child. The backstory is that my grandpa's celebrating his 60th birthday this Saturday and they've invited me to come, even though I haven't seen them in half a year. So today she phoned me and asked me about it and of course I gladly said that I'd come and then we talked on. It actually went on for an hour and it was just like it always used to be.
You know, I've been kind of separated from the paternal part of the family since he died, so it's like all the times I've spent there have been forgotten. I also think it's really hard to repair the relationship with my grandparents, simply because I feel it's so hard for them to see me. Of course, I'm just assuming things here, but somehow I think I remind them of my father a lot, at least in a visual sense, so it might make them uncomfortable.
I'm drifting off though, so while talking to my cousin, I realized how much I miss all of them. They're my family after all and up until I was two years old, I used to stay at my grandparents' house almost every day! And - I told her that, too - I enjoy being with them so much that coming back to my 'normal' family is actually making me almost depressed. Since, you know, there's not much of a family. It's dysfunctional, really. The love there feels so superficial, although that sounds exaggerated. Of course, we still have a lot of fun and I'm so grateful for the good relationship with my ma! With my grandma, it's a whole different story though, because she won't accept me growing older. And my grandpa - while being a super-cool and really funny guy - doesn't really love me as much as my little cousin. Just to clarify things - I'm not jealous of him, god forbade I think bad of him, I couldn't love this little angel more as you know, but the way my grandparents leave me in the shadows after I've been there for 15 years is not very nice of them. And going so far as to call me calamity jane or deeming me a spoiled, rotten spawn of hell is just too much. That's not what you should be treated like in a fully functional, normal family, am I right?
Anyways, let's leave the self-pity trail and end it here; I'm just looking forward to seeing all of them again and I'm way more than just thankful for them being there for me, even though nothing more than blood links me to them.
You know, I've been kind of separated from the paternal part of the family since he died, so it's like all the times I've spent there have been forgotten. I also think it's really hard to repair the relationship with my grandparents, simply because I feel it's so hard for them to see me. Of course, I'm just assuming things here, but somehow I think I remind them of my father a lot, at least in a visual sense, so it might make them uncomfortable.
I'm drifting off though, so while talking to my cousin, I realized how much I miss all of them. They're my family after all and up until I was two years old, I used to stay at my grandparents' house almost every day! And - I told her that, too - I enjoy being with them so much that coming back to my 'normal' family is actually making me almost depressed. Since, you know, there's not much of a family. It's dysfunctional, really. The love there feels so superficial, although that sounds exaggerated. Of course, we still have a lot of fun and I'm so grateful for the good relationship with my ma! With my grandma, it's a whole different story though, because she won't accept me growing older. And my grandpa - while being a super-cool and really funny guy - doesn't really love me as much as my little cousin. Just to clarify things - I'm not jealous of him, god forbade I think bad of him, I couldn't love this little angel more as you know, but the way my grandparents leave me in the shadows after I've been there for 15 years is not very nice of them. And going so far as to call me calamity jane or deeming me a spoiled, rotten spawn of hell is just too much. That's not what you should be treated like in a fully functional, normal family, am I right?
Anyways, let's leave the self-pity trail and end it here; I'm just looking forward to seeing all of them again and I'm way more than just thankful for them being there for me, even though nothing more than blood links me to them.
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Sunday, July 17, 2011
Hmm..
So, after having spent quite some time reading Stephen King's 'The Shining' and being scared shitless until having finished it, I'm sitting here and still thinking about it some.
First I was really scared, rushing by my bathroom and always peeking in, afraid of the bloated corpse coming after me - I'd wrongly thought her to be a young, long-haired woman, quite the stereotypical image of a ghost/zombie, it's rather funny. I couldn't sleep until 4 AM and then just dozed off, but after finishing the book today I went online and looked at the Stephen King Wiki page of the book and saw that in reality it was old Mrs. Massey, a 60-year-old lady. So that brought up a kind of funny picture in my head, destroying the fear.
I can't even be afraid of any other parts because the book's finished and had a rather good ending.
In my opinion, Stephen King is a terrific writer and can conjure the most gruesome images with his words. Definitely gonna read more of his books, the holidays are long enough! :D
So, as a great track to listen to, here's what they've been playing on the radio during the last few days, since I was listening non-stop. I actually really really enjoy this song! And I hope you don't mind it being on vimeo, youTube's a BIT bitchy about embedding this these days <.<
MADS LANGER - YOU´RE NOT ALONE from ML on Vimeo.
First I was really scared, rushing by my bathroom and always peeking in, afraid of the bloated corpse coming after me - I'd wrongly thought her to be a young, long-haired woman, quite the stereotypical image of a ghost/zombie, it's rather funny. I couldn't sleep until 4 AM and then just dozed off, but after finishing the book today I went online and looked at the Stephen King Wiki page of the book and saw that in reality it was old Mrs. Massey, a 60-year-old lady. So that brought up a kind of funny picture in my head, destroying the fear.
I can't even be afraid of any other parts because the book's finished and had a rather good ending.
In my opinion, Stephen King is a terrific writer and can conjure the most gruesome images with his words. Definitely gonna read more of his books, the holidays are long enough! :D
So, as a great track to listen to, here's what they've been playing on the radio during the last few days, since I was listening non-stop. I actually really really enjoy this song! And I hope you don't mind it being on vimeo, youTube's a BIT bitchy about embedding this these days <.<
MADS LANGER - YOU´RE NOT ALONE from ML on Vimeo.
Thursday, July 7, 2011
TOMORROW.
Since, which you don't know, I'm going to Corsica for two weeks starting on the 25th. Whenever I'm on vacation, I tend to read a lot - usually up to a full book every day. Now, carrying 14 fat books with me would be..unfortunate, so I asked my gramma for money and now LO AND BEHOLD, I'm getting...
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| Amazon Kindle 3, in the more expensive 3G and WiFi version. |
Now, while I'm not saying that I'll give up good old books, but I think this little magical device is a great advantage when you're travelling. E-Books are a lot cheaper than hardcover books, so I think this is a bonus, too. Will review further when it arrives, ordered it today.
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