Photos, Mirrors, Clothes
What am I on about?
Basically, I’ve lost a lot of weight recently more specifically muscle (180lbs vs 155lbs in scale weight)
& it’s had a significant impact on how I look and here’s the odd thing
People who have seen the old bigger me, just look at me with astonishment like the heck happened to you? Go on a hunger strike or something? Someone steal your roids?
There are those who have only known skinny-T and when I show them my older pics are like, wait .. what that’s you? Because they find it inconceivable I was like that and the funny thing is I’m getting like that too.
I am finding it really hard to visualise and imagine how I used to look and it is quite difficult because my point on camera’s being deceiving especially in terms of bigness, they never quite capture it fully.
Mirrors are hard too as when you lose size, you lose it all over and sine you are still in proportion it all really looks likes the same and since it’s gradual change you wouldn’t have noticed it anyway.
Clothes though there is a visible difference since a lot of the older stuff I am are very loose fitting and you’re like.. how did I ever fill this up
Well, the plan is to revert back to my former bigger self over summer.
Bring it on
Teenage Mutant Ninja Taleb
I'm pretty bitchin' with play-doh !!
Labels: Mutant, Ninja, play doh, taleb, Teenage, Teenage Mutant Ninja
Hot Rox Rocks My Socks
but Fucks up My Body ClockIf you are wondering, the heck?!!Hot Rox is a supplement I am taking which basically makes you mega-hot and mega-buzzed which in turn makes you mega-lean (least that’s the plan)It does have the small effect of being a heavy stimulant, hence why I am up at 4am killing some time and thought may as well update this thing with some insight of how it is to diet down hardcore (you know the score)I had semi-sleep (still conscious but not very) last night, and today came home at 5pm and just crashed into bed but not forgetting to pop 2 caps before napping. Come 7pm woke up with a hugeee headache, I couldn’t stand anything, the tiniest noise was enough to send me mad but I preserved and proceeded to do my biceps and cardio, it’s 4:05am as I write this so probably take another 2 at 7am, cardio at 8, then the joys of training Saturday and again cardio on SundayLeast there is some joy about the whole process, since I am pretty gung-ho about everything the results come fast, literally everyday you are like ohh I can see more definition i.e. today I noticed my forearms have less fat on them and more vascular i.e. more veinyVisible veins are a funny ol’ thing, most people are WTF??!!! about it, I don’t really wear t-shirts (blame shitty Merry Ol’ England weather) but when I do and the veins are hanging I do get some odd looks. Here’s a pic I snapped of my arms to give you an idea bearing in mind it’s more sticky-out in realzWhat I do find interesting about dieting is how full-on I get.Example;Today I purchased some Dark Chocolate as a fat source for one of my meals.I chose Green & Black’s 85% Cocoa Chocolate in favour of othersWhy?The 85% part is simple, less sugar but the brand?Have I become a Chocolate Connoisseur alongside Coffee? Have I become more aware of my responsibilities?In a word – noIt just comes in 100g block in 10 rows and the maths of the fats is easier.True to my Clark Kent/Chic Geek intermixed with Superman/Adonis Alter-ego form.- Taleb (munching on his choccies, feeling merry with himself the farmers are getting a fair deal) Labels: adonis, clark kent, hot rox, rocks my socks, superman, taleb, veins
Carbs, Cardio, Corpulence
Another trio of C’s and I was careful not to repeat them what with my love-affair for caffeine
This particular trio kinda go hand in hand, the corpulence lead to the need for cardio and reduction in the yummy carbs
Basically I let myself go and what happens with me is I don’t end up being a fat lil dumpling but I just end up being the dreaded ‘skinnyfat’ where if you aren’t similar with terms refers to the dreaded ‘not much muscle, but sadly too much fat’ so you can chose to either diet down and have people think you are engaging in a hunger strike or become the aforementioned dumpling and justify your fat self as being ‘bulking’
Thankfully however I am at a stage now where even in my skinner moments I am more branch than twig re:biceps department.
Also those who know me, know I despise cardio so much so I have been known to call people cardio freaks and keep them away from me, but I must admit it does have its place and the odd bit of skipping is good (plus I can pretend I’m Rocky what with the combo of running up a hill and fancy skipwork)
I have decided to ‘diet’ for 6 weeks til end of avril and get ripped and then add some muscle all ready for the summer.
I hate using the dreaded D word in front of non-BB’ers (BodyBuild’ers) because it brings all sorts of connotations from people some which I must admit aren’t too far from the given notion of being a lil’ little girl who thinks she’s too fat
It seems when I go into ‘diet mode’ a switch goes off into my brain and I become the kinda douchebag I’d normally smack with a 45’er for obessing over abs and crying he's going to lose his packs
Saying things not dissimilar from a teen valley girl like today –
“OMG, do you know how many carbs are in that?”
I am ashamed of myself.
Labels: Carbs, Cardio, Corpulence, Valley Girl
Happy Birthday
to me.
bless Starbucks for deciding to host their free fairtrade coffee day on my birthday
I went to 3 different ones and had a free coffee and chunk of chocolate at each =]Labels: 27th february, coffee, free fairtrade coffee, starbucks, taleb
You spin me right round, baby right round
I’m currently at the Laundromat (we call it laundrette in England, but I prefer the American term as is my way) and I’m not going to spend half hour of my life watching it spin round, baby right round and sing the song endlessly til the cycle is complete
What always amuses me is the seriousness exhibited by this fine establishments patrons.
Firstly, I’ll admit I’m very uncaring about the whole affair.
I only ever go there to use the driers as it’s the fastest and cleanest as frankly the thought of the bugs and dust in the air drying my clothes – no thanx
Before I start about drying, in regards to washing again to me I’m a wild one. I’ve even committed the cardinal sin of brights and whites together, yup I just don’t care me.
Then I walk down to Laundromat and I just bung my clothes in as they came out from the washing machine, put £2 in and let the baby dry away for 30 mins and by the end it’s all dry.
What really bugs me, is (now I generalise but it seems to be the trend) slightly ‘mature’ women who persist in taking clothes out mid-cycle, checking to see if it’s dry, folding it up neatly if it is otherwise leave it in. Then what REALLY bugs me, is they have 1 minute remaining but they insist on still sorting clothes out, and leaving the remaining there – why ? surely a minute ain’t going to make a blind bit of diff
ALSO, it’s a false sense of security as the heat from the dryers may lead you to believe your clothes are drier than they actually are.
Also, I get told I shouldn’t leave clothes in there – why??
It’s a dryer, I put clothes in to dry and in the words of Jerry Seinfeld “you can't "overdry". So, just leave the clothes be.
& when it’s done, I just bung it in and take it home, no folding for me, no siree
Sure, this leaves a lot of my clothes looking like Gordon Ramsay’s face but life’s too short for folding mang !!
Labels: dead or alive, Gordon Ramsay, laundromat, stupid people, taleb
Post-It Note Art - Part II
Labels: post it note, post it note art, post-it
