Author: Robert Ford

This Supergirl cover creeped me out when I was a kid. Vancouver’s Kitsilano neighbourhood is facing some significant changes.

Mutant Diet Phase 11 Day 58
Despite the obvious problems, I forced myself to write down my food choices and suck it up to keep going on this thing. Despite the plan to go home and make birthday cake.

I see the personal trainer in about 20 minutes to see if we can move the needle on strength. I’m feeling stronger in the back despite last week being kind of a feeling-sick week.

The real challenge is compassion. I need to use it as a motivation rather than anger.

Wonder Woman makes a sword in case Superman goes bad. Vancouver is dealing with a slow burn transit strike.

Mutant Diet Phase 11 Day 57
It’s Day 57. Do I know where my diet is?

Last week was rough. Feeling sick and it being Halloween. Good grief, what a combination.

Today – just after lunch – seems to better. I still have lingering scratchy throat but I did the gym on Saturday, yoga on Sunday and the gym today. I feel heavier though. I see the Trainer tomorrow. I am not weighing. This phase is going very not according to plan and now I have a mental health challenge were I have to not beat up on myself. I need to focus on corrective action.

Oh, further challenge. My eldest turns 18 this week. There will be cake.

Daredevil and Punisher. Apparently in Toronto someone managed to pull a gun while handcuffed in a cruiser.

Mutant Diet Phase 11 Day 51
The diet/fitness program has called in sick. Sore throat and low energy. And an urge to binge watch Netflix Marvel shows.

Soon, bed. Then a bunch of kids come over for Halloween pizza and a movie.

Send healing thoughts.

A cool Avengers cover. CBC was running a piece on the non reporting of school violence. It starts in Windsor.

Mutant Diet Phase 11 Day 46
Do you old people remember the famous poster from way back where there was a kitten hanging from a line with the phase “Hanging in there.” I think that’s me. Except it would need a much sturdier rope.

The odd exercises to amp up the smaller muscles (i.e. rhomboids and lats) seem to have taken. I can access these. They were tired at yoga yesterday, but I intend to put them to use at the gym today.

Focus and chill. They don’t always go together.

Green Lanterns. Maybe on TV one day. Newfoundland will likely have influential cabinet ministers, unlike Alberta. You get what you vote for folks.

Mutant Diet Phase 11 Day 45
Well, this is going poorly. I’m just not focused on this. I did a workout with the trainer that involved trying to boost up the smaller muscles in the back and legs. Ouch.

But the eating is not good. I weakened last night after getting home. Work and other items in day-to-day life were frustrating. What I should have done is have a nap, not eat. But responsibilities forbade it.

At this stage I have to try to keep the documenting, even if incomplete, going so I don’t derail fully.

I wonder if Storm could fix climate change. Whining from Saskatchewan and Alberta today.

Mutant Diet Phase 11 Day 44
Shoot. I’ve not been documenting or blogging. I have a trainer appointment in a few minutes. I have spent a lot of the day being incredibly relieved that we don’t have a conservative government in Canada. I just don’t think we can afford going backwards on climate change. We have enough trouble going forward.

I am trying to restrain my eating but I keep getting bummed out and then I flail or fail or eff up.

Breath, breath, breath.

Wonder Woman is releasing her 750th issue. Greta Thunberg is in Edmonton. I await Alberta government comedy.

Mutant Diet Phase 11 Day 40
It took all I had to fill in my diet log from yesterday. Shame. Fatigue. I struggle to keep moving.

The distraction factor is maddening. This morning as I’m on the bus on a rain soaked day, I am informed by text message that someone gained access to the building, rifled through the laundry room and stole some clothes that were hanging. That’s just one of the many things including a disturbing federal election that clouds the mind and weakens the will.

On the technology front, my laptop misbehaved again, and my phone stopped synchronizing with my Fitbit.

It’s time to breath, focus on posture, plan the day and enjoy the distractions as they come.

Spider-man and Ghost Rider. I have this one.

Mutant Diet Phase 11 Day 39
The eating spree continues unchecked. Maybe today will be luckier. I lost a vital 15 minutes due to the police have a both car and human body pile up at the corner of Burrard and Alberni in Vancouver. My view from my bus seat was obstructed by much more curious people. I tried to keep my mindset compassionate. E.g. I hope no one was hurt. I couldn’t imagine what strain the adrenal glands of the police must be like. Of course, there was also, “I really hope we’re not all stuck here as witnesses to a crime or something.”

Impact on diet? Well, I had weakened considerably by then and with the delay, I ate a smoked meat sandwich while I waiting for coffee for a meeting to be brewed. Then pizza. I mean, shit, can my whole body please cooperate with this diet/fitness process?

Looks like the Infinite Crisis is heating up on TV. Someone was campaigning in Southwestern Ontario.

Mutant Diet Phase 11 Day 38
I just ate a muffin and it was really good. I’m not filling in yesterday’s chart. Just too depressing. I did see the trainer and we restarted the engine that had been idle since Friday’s aborted workout.

I am hoping to do better, but today’s schedule is terrible.

Soon I go to yoga to see what creaks are happening.

They picked Zoë Kravitz for Catwoman. Apparently some 13-year-olds crashed a car in Toronto.

Mutant Diet Phase 11 Day 37
I ask you. Did I need on the day after Thanksgiving a Windows Update that took my work laptop from Windows 7 to Windows 10?

Today I try to right the dietary ship. This morning I was still full from Thanksgiving dinner. The Sunday yoga class was cancelled and we didn’t figure this out in time to plan a substitute. And today I see the Personal Trainer. I am so not weighing in.

Part of what I realized on the weekend was that I want to put a more positive spin on my thinking. For example, I’m waiting and waiting for my laptop to shut down. I could fear for what happens next or I could write this blog post and have this small task done.