Advice for Atheists

Really good article. I know many will find it caustic, but if you consider what is being responded to...the tone is very appropriate.

I signed back up for Weight Watchers today, hooray! I'm going to be using it for weight loss, but also because I want to start eating *healthier*, and track what I eat, and exercise.

Anyway, I also find writing about it helpful. It will be under a special filter. If you'd like to be included under that filter let me know with a screened reply. I may include some of you ANYWAY ...and for those people just let me know if you want out! :)

And just for one basic open entry (and there will be some open entries anyway) ...the thing I always find most interesting about WW is with their point value system they assign 'points' to food, and you have a base number of points you can 'spend' per day. So obviously you want to get the most bang for your buck. Some things which I assume will be high...are not. (English muffin this morning? 2 points). Some things I assume will be lower...are not (French fries I wanted to have with dinner? 18 points. :( ). A single slice of pizza from a pizza joint is horrific.

For me WWs does two things. First it makes me actually EAT far more than I want to, more frequently than I want to. This is essentially for one's metabolism. I used to eat 1 meal a day that was it, which is really bad. So I've been trying to eat more often prior to this, and WWs pretty much makes me eat 3 a day, often with a snack or two so I can hit my min. points. I found it hard previously to maintain the base number of points.

Ironically I could easily blow past it with a lot less food...just by eating crap. I'm so lazy it's terrible. So I'm trying something different which is scheduling 'lunch' breaks with my work. I eat before I start work, even if it's just a piece of bread. Then I take a 'lunch' and I'm going to try to make that at a set time, like around 1pm.

Then dinner...I guess I'll try to schedule that too, though it will have to flex around my work.

So I plan to have breakfast, work. Plan to sign out with my one freelance job at/around 1pm. Eat. Then go to work with my own business, dinner when I can grab it (it will have to be flexible, so I'll have stuff I plan to make some days, and ready to eat other...I signed up for an LJ crockpot group...so that should work great!).

Shit when do I work out? I'll steal time somewhere. Maybe before breakfast, or when I take a break during the day.

Then try to wrap up my business work by around 8-9pm. Then spend evenings enjoying myself. :)

In a month I'm going to see where I'm at with this and just working out by biking (yay weather is great for it) and the Wii Fit, etc.

Then depending on where I'm at with weight loss, being healthy, and...most importantly my finances...I think I'll join a gym. I've been looking into them a lot, and I think initially I'm just going to look at a small community gym with equipment rotation, like a Curves. Then evaluate that again in a few months and perhaps step it up to one of the Fitness gyms with lots of classes. But we'll see.

I can always also motor up to my parents house, my Dad has a ton of exercise equipment, very nice stuff...and a pool. And I know I can use it any time I want. But I think if I'm paying for it, I can force myself to get up in the morning, throw on clothes, go there...work out...come home and shower then crap out a bit before work. :)

Okay! Speaking of which...back to the grind. Just post if you want in on the filter! And I'm screening replies so if you want to say you DON'T want in, no one else will see. And it's COMPLETELY cool with me obviously whether you want in or out. It's all good. And if I don't include you, don't be offended. You can ask me why and I'll tell you...but the reason would likely be that I'd simply feel a little self conscious, and anything under my filters I don't want to self censor.