Category: Phase 11

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.

I was looking for Crisis on Infinite Earths images and found this. Snowstorms in Manitoba. Record cold in Vancouver

Mutant Diet Phase 11 Day 33
It’s Thanksgiving weekend and I’m thinking of taking a break from this as I keep screwing up the diet and stressing out. The key element I see at play here is a lack of rest.

So time to try to chill out. I see a movie. I need to clean around the apartment. Maybe I’ll have a nap.

I am very thankful for my family and for muffins at Urban Fare. Damn, damn, damn.

Supergirl and some Bat folk. People crossing to the US from places like Abbotsford are being detained by US Customs. A mystery.

Mutant Diet Phase 11 Day 32
I promised myself that today I would be focused and on it. Uh huh. I find myself trying to figure out why my Fitbit Versa is not synching with my phone. Sigh. It says there’s an update for the watch but it doesn’t seem to be connecting.

Meanwhile, I face a total fricking inability to control snack time.

I am trying to convince myself that being hungry is good. It’s manly. It’s power. It’s something other than a drive toward muffins.

On the strength front, I was so sore yesterday I really was Ommmmm in the yoga class. I will have to have a short weight workout. Too many meetings today.

I got my CW Superhero show fix last night. According to the CBC, Hamilton is struggling with hate.

Mutant Diet Phase 11 Day 31
Finally a day where I wasn’t too embarrassed to write down what I ate. There are compulsive eating issues here for sure. The trick is not to think about it too much while being mindful. Sort of like Han Solo telling Chewbacca to “fly casual.”

Meanwhile I have sore muscles from the self-paced workout. I did not ride today because 3 ° C is too cold for my riding capability.

Much to do. Time to focus.

A rare departure from comic book. Last night’s walk home on Granville Bridge (above Granville Island) looking at the Burrard Bridge where the Extinction Rebellion was happening.

Mutant Diet Phase 11 Day 30
So, my goal for yesterday was a bust. So bad I’m not documenting it. Except, I was walking home and decided to take the Granville Bridge instead of the Burrard Bridge because the Extinction Rebellion folks were, er, rebelling.

However, I ended up at Vera’s Burger Shack and somewhat involuntarily ended up in a discussion with a lady about the rebellion on the bridge. She was miffed that it was personally inconveniencing her. I decided to take the chill optimist/realist non-confrontational persona because I wasn’t interested in conflict. I did remind her that we were warned about the protest and had lots of opportunity to avoid it and I got a great walk out of it. I managed to say that protests like that are why we no longer have child labour in mines. She seemed very uniformed about woman’s rights and was resigned to it being a man’s world. Which is true only if you are a white older man and only then of a type that older white men find useful. I didn’t even get into what the Suffragettes went through to get women the vote. It wasn’t that mom’s experience from Mary Poppins, that’s for sure.

The railing against Capitalism I find kind of quaint. What’s the other option, Communism? The Chinese government seems to have perfected a free market communism which is like a humanist mass murderer. How about an efficiently regulated free market system in which the pursuit of wealth is not allowed to do so while harming others and the environment?

The diet was worse because wine was needed at home after that.

Obviously it’s not always good in the Bat Family.

Mutant Diet Phase 11 Day 29
It’s Monday. Do you know where your diet is? Well, my plan is to have a strict week until about dinner on Friday when I go out with a friend. This assumes neither of us have disasters like broken water tanks and other equipment in our respective homes.

But I’m starting the day with a full breakfast because I’m early downtown due to avoiding a threatened closure of the Burrard Bridge in Vancouver near my home by Extinction Rebellion. It’s really wet out so I’m wondering how effective they’ll be. But the climate is going to kill us all if we make significant change.

If the Americans can rid themselves of their hideous president, it might help.

Oh, by the way, if you donate platelets on Saturday, your Sunday evening yoga class will be more difficult.

I was looking for Flash and Batwoman, but found this instead. No Wonder Woman in the TV universe. First Sabre-tooth Cat fossil in Medicine Hat!

Mutant Diet Phase 11 Day 26
The ongoing disaster that is my diet plan is something I’d refer to a higher power, if I knew what that higher power was.

Tonight I go out with a friend and catch a movie. That’ll help.

And fitness. I had no trouble with the sled or the tire. I increased speed and weight respectively. The deadlifts were “meh.” Then, with the benchpress, I increased weight by 5 pounds. WTF.

As Dory said, “Just keep swimming; just keep swimming.”

Lots of Marvel folks. 55,000 education folks ready to strike in Ontario.

Mutant Diet Phase 11 Day 25
More diet hell. All from my brain. I wanted to simply give up this morning.

But the choices are limited. Eat, get fat, have a medical crisis, die. Keep at it, maintain training, become able to lift small cars, enjoy bulk pain killers from Costco.  Then, like everyone else, die.

And now … a day of to focus on all my work. Oh look, I got a like on Twitter.