A Weighty Matter

Just wanted to share… My little cousin was on the X-Factor...

Fri, 28 Sep 2012 22:23:18 -0400

Just wanted to share… My little cousin was on the X-Factor yesterday! Even Britney came out of her ostensibly medicated stupor to say she loved her. Woot!

GPOY

Wed, 26 Sep 2012 00:29:08 -0400

GPOY

I’m still alive! :) Just been living life instead of...

Tue, 25 Sep 2012 22:31:00 -0400

I’m still alive! :) Just been living life instead of blogging. More on that later…

But I had to come back to post this fuckery, which I just caught on TV while watching the last of the Crossfit Games on cable.

So glad I don’t spend money on Crossfit any more —HQ has turned the whole thing into fitspo cheese with borderline porno angles. Yay, complex lifts are just so I can go up a couple points in the hotness scale. So glad to know!

They could have just left the “Strength=beauty” part (AWESOME MESSAGE), used a few different angles to shoot, and left out the part about “sevens.” But then, I guess that wouldn’t jibe with HQ’s attempts at a racy new image to go with that Reebok money.

I found a huge bag of Bob’s Red Mill gluten-free flour in...

Sun, 16 Sep 2012 12:58:02 -0400

I found a huge bag of Bob’s Red Mill gluten-free flour in my pantry, and I have a bunch of overripe bananas in my freezer, so I decided to experiment and make a banana bread recipe from Clean Eating mag, subbing the GF flour for regular flour, 1:1. I added 3/4 tsp xantham gum per cup of GF flour as the bag suggested, but the end result still turned out very dense and baked somewhat unevenly. Anyone worked with this flour mix before, and if so, any tips? The taste is fine, but the texture is definitely identifiably gluten-free (i.e., spongey without a nice rise).

It’s still good with natural peanut butter, though.

Dinner, because my sashimi meter was running dangerously low

Sat, 15 Sep 2012 19:57:20 -0400

Dinner, because my sashimi meter was running dangerously low

This diner served me a straight-up tray of Cobb salad.

Sat, 15 Sep 2012 13:27:54 -0400

This diner served me a straight-up tray of Cobb salad.

Another busy day of writing deadlines, another no-effort...

Fri, 14 Sep 2012 20:00:37 -0400

Another busy day of writing deadlines, another no-effort stir-fry dinner (protein TBD).

Logging today's workout... leg day and a short run

Fri, 14 Sep 2012 19:28:22 -0400

For once, it didn’t rain in the evening, and it was actually a decent enough temperature to run without dying. FINALLY — signs Florida summer is ENDING.

Squat: 100# 6 X 3

Deadlift: 110# 6 X 3

Leg extensions: 100# 6 X 3

Leg curls: 55# 6 X 3

BB standing calf raises: 60# 20 X 3

Cardio: 30 min moderate pace run (avg. HR ~160-165)

I just finished a huge work project so I gave myself a half hour...

Wed, 12 Sep 2012 16:05:00 -0400

I just finished a huge work project so I gave myself a half hour to putter around. I decided to try a recipe in one of the Eat Clean Diet books for a green smoothie involving kale, parsley, fresh pineapple, ginger, wheatgrass (which I skipped because I don’t have any), lime, avocado, almond milk, and protein powder.

You’re supposed to juice the leafy stuff and fruit and then blend it with the rest afterwards. I don’t have a juicer so I just went the food processor/blender route and it was super labor intensive. The end result tastes like grass…. Virtuous grass, but still grass. I guess I’ll attempt this again one day if I ever get an actual juicer.

Extra workout today: peeling/chopping a fresh pineapple.

Wed, 12 Sep 2012 15:33:38 -0400

I’m actually ashamed I kind of found that tiring. Haha.

a list of things bulimia will not do for you:

Wed, 12 Sep 2012 14:43:13 -0400

closer-each-day:

make you skinny

make you pretty

make you happy

make you popular

Oh god reblogging because seriously, anyone who thinks bulimia is a great/easy diet plan or even a way to necessarily lose weight: hahahahaha

Just random breakfast porn. :)

Wed, 12 Sep 2012 13:15:48 -0400

Just random breakfast porn. :)

I’m really enjoying circuit workouts instead of straight...

Wed, 12 Sep 2012 12:40:22 -0400

I’m really enjoying circuit workouts instead of straight cardio right now.

Dinner: a bone-in ribeye (about 4 or 5 oz of actual edible meat...

Tue, 11 Sep 2012 20:20:48 -0400

Dinner: a bone-in ribeye (about 4 or 5 oz of actual edible meat once you trim it), cooked sous vide then seared really quick; half a baked sweet potato with cinnamon; and (overly, oops) roasted broccoli with sesame oil

Logging today's workout... upper body.

Tue, 11 Sep 2012 18:45:06 -0400

Meh, average-to-fair session today. (Typing that reminds me of the hippie-dippie private elementary school I went to where, for first through third grades, we got graded only as “Outstanding,” “Excellent,” “Positive,” or “Needs Improvement,” and the grades were on things like “sharing with others.”)

My awesome gym decided to close for renovations for a week, apparently (yay), so I’m stuck lifting at home in the garage, i.e. a dark cave that could double as a steam room since SURPRISE, it’s raining again today.

Still no cardio which I’m actually okay with right now since my appetite levels out anyways.

Log after the jump.

Bench press: 80# 6 X 3

Bent-over T-bar row with barbell: 95# 6 X 3

BB shoulder press: 65# 6 X 3

Triceps push-down (subbed for lying tricep extension, I don’t feel all that comfortable adding weight on that move any more and pushing to exhaustion with a weight over my skull): 35# x 6 (imminent fail approaching), 30# x 6 X 2

EZ-bar bicep curl: EZ-bar + 35# x 5 (DNF), + 30# 6 X 2

Totally unrelated to anything but I think the main reason I keep Facebook is to monitor the incredible delusions of my extended social circle.

Tue, 11 Sep 2012 17:39:00 -0400

I just logged in to find a long status update soliloquy from someone about gazing up that moment at the New York City skyline today and reflecting, etc., etc., insert borderline grammatically incorrect deep thought here.

Only problem is, the person left Facebook’s geolocation on…. And the update was posted from a neighborhood in the Miami suburbs. LOL.

That’s what it looks like on the inside. I’m going...

Tue, 11 Sep 2012 17:19:00 -0400

That’s what it looks like on the inside. I’m going to let these ribeyes cook to medium rare while I work out now.

mrs-spaghetti replied to your photo: This is probably the most esoteric/nerdy kitchen… Have...

Tue, 11 Sep 2012 16:56:05 -0400

mrs-spaghetti replied to your photo: This is probably the most esoteric/nerdy kitchen…

Have you checked out Nom Nom Paleo’s blog? She the sous vide queen.

YES I have! Actually it was while perusing her blog that I was reminded I should really get mine out again :)

ad-busting: This is a book cover, not an advertisement. (Yes,...

Tue, 11 Sep 2012 15:15:00 -0400

ad-busting:

This is a book cover, not an advertisement. (Yes, this book really exists. The message it sends is total bullshit so I decided to bust it). Way to perpetuate competition between women based soley on external appearance!

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HAD TO REBLOG because this book just boils my blood for this very reason — it is CLEARLY aimed at teenagers/college-age women, and promotes insane competition, jealousy, and self-hatred.

I had to open it and read it at the store a bit, and beyond just the title, the content is troubling. The book suggests unhealthy tactics like fasting long into the day (trust me, it is not framed in a more reasonable “intermittent fasting” approach), separating perfectly healthy foods into arbitrary “good” and “bad” groups, and so on. There’s an entire part at the beginning about how you should hide the book from your parents/friends/haters who just don’t understand.

Even worse: Venice A. Fulton is a man promoting this kind of insanity in young women — his real name is Paul Khanna. On top of that, though he’s a personal trainer in the UK, his main profession is acting — his biggest claim to fame is playing a Death Eater in Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows.

Only the most cynical, money-hungry of book editors and publishers would put this garbage out, and I hope their business flames out in the most embarrassing, liquidating bankruptcy ever.

mayz0rz replied to your photo: This is probably the most esoteric/nerdy kitchen… SO...

Tue, 11 Sep 2012 14:37:00 -0400

mayz0rz replied to your photo: This is probably the most esoteric/nerdy kitchen…

SO JEALOUS!!! This is on my xmas wishlist every year D; haha

Yeah I got it as a Christmas gift a couple years back from my parents, hah! Don’t know how I wrangled that in adulthood. They do get a little cheaper around Christmas when you can buy bundles that include the vacuum sealer — and in retrospect, I could have bought the mini size. That’s the only thing; the marketing language likes to talk about how it’s “great for working moms” but yeah right. It’s for kitchen nerds and yuppies with a few bucks to burn, haha. That said, it’s super fun to play with.