Monday, October 16, 2006
Stupid Pills
I seriously think that very nearly everyone I had to deal with today, in and out of work, decided that it would be a phenomenal idea to overdose on their stupid pills. Usually if it's just one or two incidents I shrug them off as aberrations, but when it is this many people I really have to wonder if there's a newsletter circulating that I'm just not aware of. I'm definitely going to yoga tonight in an attempt to turn this energy into something productive.
In other bizarre news, I think my body has finally reached the point where it rejects virtually all fast food. Over the last two years or so the only drive through place I've visited with any regularity is Wendy's, and I think I could count the number of occurrences on one hand. Most days of the week that I go to lunch with coworkers we go to places that either prepare something right then and there or at the very least try and use something other than cuboidal vacuum-packed roast beef. Last week I made an evening trip to the mall to look at some stuff and made a break by the food court and opted for Panda Express. I think I got my usual white rice, orange chicken, and I think the eggplant. Wow, did that disagree with my system... as in my stomach was far from pleased the next day. I was just NOT digesting that stuff. It is kind of weird that after eliminating so much fast food from my diet, increasing exercise (I'm doing something physical probably at least 4 days a week), and decreasing my minor drinking to virtually no drinking that my body has almost completely rejected what many people subsist on. Crazy!
--- Written after physical exertion and in a much better mood ---
Lastly, I'm really starting to think that one of the principle reasons I enjoy yoga so much is because it makes me feel pretty damn sexy. I didn't have negative body image before, but it wasn't particularly positive either. I suppose the best possible term would be "body indifference". Now it's decidedly positive, because I sit in class in a meditative state like "yeah, I would totally do me." Also, I have to admit that I really, really like the positive energy that my yoga teacher brings to the class. I also particularly enjoy the sense that she's checking me out. She's made several comments since I've started about my changing body composition and how certain things are looking much more toned. After class I go to the Sunflower grocery store and walk around in board shorts and a tank top and get checked out there too. Maybe this is just the first time that I've really been keyed into the attention... who knows. One way or another, I'm really enjoying it. I'm totally signing up for a check-up with a traditional Chinese medicine doctor to investigate a possible blood deficiency. If Phil is right I might finally have found the barrier that prevents me from gaining any weight at all.
Toned body, more muscle, maybe a tan. Yeah, I'd totally do me.
In other bizarre news, I think my body has finally reached the point where it rejects virtually all fast food. Over the last two years or so the only drive through place I've visited with any regularity is Wendy's, and I think I could count the number of occurrences on one hand. Most days of the week that I go to lunch with coworkers we go to places that either prepare something right then and there or at the very least try and use something other than cuboidal vacuum-packed roast beef. Last week I made an evening trip to the mall to look at some stuff and made a break by the food court and opted for Panda Express. I think I got my usual white rice, orange chicken, and I think the eggplant. Wow, did that disagree with my system... as in my stomach was far from pleased the next day. I was just NOT digesting that stuff. It is kind of weird that after eliminating so much fast food from my diet, increasing exercise (I'm doing something physical probably at least 4 days a week), and decreasing my minor drinking to virtually no drinking that my body has almost completely rejected what many people subsist on. Crazy!
--- Written after physical exertion and in a much better mood ---
Lastly, I'm really starting to think that one of the principle reasons I enjoy yoga so much is because it makes me feel pretty damn sexy. I didn't have negative body image before, but it wasn't particularly positive either. I suppose the best possible term would be "body indifference". Now it's decidedly positive, because I sit in class in a meditative state like "yeah, I would totally do me." Also, I have to admit that I really, really like the positive energy that my yoga teacher brings to the class. I also particularly enjoy the sense that she's checking me out. She's made several comments since I've started about my changing body composition and how certain things are looking much more toned. After class I go to the Sunflower grocery store and walk around in board shorts and a tank top and get checked out there too. Maybe this is just the first time that I've really been keyed into the attention... who knows. One way or another, I'm really enjoying it. I'm totally signing up for a check-up with a traditional Chinese medicine doctor to investigate a possible blood deficiency. If Phil is right I might finally have found the barrier that prevents me from gaining any weight at all.
Toned body, more muscle, maybe a tan. Yeah, I'd totally do me.
# posted by Chris/Stewy @ Monday, October 16, 2006 
