The Scales O Doom!
Thursday, 24. January 2008, 11:11:41
"A Blog Post in which the Hero relates his week, welcomes an old friend to the blog, and explores some of the eccentricites of his behaviour, both in general and using some recent examples..."
Another week, another date with the Scales o' DOOM.
This hasn't been a good week on the slimming front. For some reason it all fell apart - I stopped following the Fast Fix book but didn't quite manage to make it to the new book and just kind of ambled along vaguely doing what I did last week. My trip to my mother's didn't help, as it was a step back toward my old eating habits; lovely as her cooking is I really should have shown more self control!
I didn't do as much exercise as I did last week either, which wasn't that much to begin with. Add this to the fact that now that the easy weight has been lost - fluid retention etc - and actual fat is much harder to lose I'm not optimistic I've lost much, if anything, this week. I know I said that last week but that was just nerves talking, nerves and a fair amount of disbelief. God forbid I've put anything back on...that dreaded 16 might not have let me go without a fight!
So I'll go, I'll have myself weighed once more, but realistically...I have to brace myself for bad news and prepare for a better week starting, well, starting as soon as the meeting tonight is over!
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In other news, my good friend (and one-time GF) Kirsty, has only just found her way to Blue Chamber! She phoned me this morning to berate me for holding out on her - she'd been checking The This Room for my latest gossip and I can only imagine the wretched, forlorn expression on her disappointed face as my old blog sat silent and unloved for all those months. For my part, I simply thought she already knew about it! Now she's got some reading to do to catch up! Welcome to Blue Chamber, Kirsty!
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In terms of my PC, it has also been a weird week. I got Linux into a state of grace late last week (I fixed the ability of Linux to read the windows formatted drive - yay!) and then wisely decided to stop tinkering and enjoy my beautifully set-up system. Sounds like lesson learned, huh? Not a bit of it, dear reader. With one OS purring like a kitten and out-of-bounds to tinkering, Granty turned his attention to the other one! Time for Windows to get a thorough M.O.T!
New Drivers, the location and deletion of tens of Gigabytes of wasted files (with more planned), new functionality for dull old Explorer (using software which might shortly make its way into a new The This Room blog post), the added ability for XP to read Linux formatted drives (now I can swap files between the two systems at will - amazingly useful!)...soon I was sitting pretty with my Windows system resting in the same sweet spot of speed and functionality as Linux was (Although Linux is the better OS by a long margin). For a congenital perfectionist such as myself this made me very happy.
But only for a moment because no sooner than my pride had blossomed, than a desire arose to start playing some new games on my shiny optimised gaming OS! (Feel free to roll whatever eyes you possess - I would in your position) So, I spent a couple of quid on one on eBay, simply because I liked the pretty pictures (a space game, natch). I then went to my local Gamestation and bought four titles of various levels of interest to me, across a couple of popular genres. Don't panic - they were all pre-owned titles and part of Gamestation's fab Buy One Get One Free (BOGOF) deal so all four cost me £6 in total: I sensibly learned early on in life that if you feel a splurge coming on, at least try to make it a cheap one!
That's pretty much why the blogging has been sparse of late. I've been playing lots of Dawn of War (sparked by news of a third expansion pack on the way with two new races/factions to take into battle) and as of yesterday F.E.A.R, Perimeter, Civ III, and the original Call of Duty have also been getting lots of my attention.
It's a strange feature of my personality that I get like this from time to time. I fall into these little obsessive periods that I like to call 'Gaming Coma', where I drop just about everything and immerse myself in my own little worlds. Last year I tried hard to change this very disruptive pattern of behaviour, and made some serious headway too. But I'm coming to believe is rooted in my Introverted nature so rather than being able to defeat it I may have to try and live with it as best I can. I did notice that this latest one started practically the instant I returned from my mother's, where I had been chatty and extremely social for two solid days, although this particular Coma may have received the initial spark from the gaming magazine I bought to keep me amused while I was away. Note to self - no more magazines!
Anyhoo, things seem to be settling down. My headache of Sunday/Monday has gone - oh yeah, forgot to mention, I was off work Monday with a blinding headache - and the Gaming Coma of the last few days seems to be lessening it's grip at last. Hopefully now I can get back on track. As usual, I'll let you know how the Weighing session goes. Yes, even if it's bad news!
Ciao for now.
WIDGETIZE
kirstycat # 24. January 2008, 11:26
Good to hear that you have emerged blinking into the light after your recent computer game playing session, I had wondered what had happened to you lately! Have you returned to the wonderful world of reality again for a while then?
With this weight loss program you are on...do they get everyone together once a week and make you weigh yourself in front of everyone?! eek! I think I prefer the privacy of my bathroom, or just avoiding the scales altogether
Your weekend of decadence won't have ruined your diet though, a couple of days here and there can only do good things
Maybe you should just throw those scales away, measure yourself by kilt buttons instead! (do kilts have buttons?)
GrantTLC # 24. January 2008, 11:42
We get weighed all in one room, yes, but it's still done very discreetly. Your actual weight is kept between the Group Leader and you. She just reads out how much you've gained or lost in that week, which is acceptable to most. And thankfully we only have to remove our shoes - I had visions of lots of semi/practically-naked people queuing, I have no idea where that image came from!
I'll be around for bit, yes, although I'd just reached a very good point in the story FEAR was telling so I may carry on with that for the next few days. Just not to the same extent as Mid-Coma!
Oh, and I don't actually own scales myself. I decided to not to buy any to stop me from being on them all the time and possibly demoralising myself. Best to keep it a weekly progress report performed by professionals, methinks.
kirstycat # 24. January 2008, 11:49
hehe, that's what I imagined too! Because of course, clothes always add on at least an extra stone...even socks can be very heavy.
Good plan not to own scales
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GrantTLC # 24. January 2008, 18:52
I think I'll celebrate this by making myself a delicious Vege-mince pasta!
kirstycat # 24. January 2008, 20:04
well done Grant!
GrantTLC # 24. January 2008, 20:30