Category: Phase 11

The Birds of Prey did not start with Harley Quinn. Delta BC will find out soon what the recommendation for the Massey Tunnel is. Should be fun.

Mutant Diet Phase 11 Day 24
If you don’t get enough sleep, eat more.

This may not literally be a voice in your head, but if you were to review your own eating when you stay up too late and get up too early, you will (and definitely I will) notice the uptake of high carb and sugar foods. It’s often followed by the phrase “I don’t fucking care anymore.”

I conclude all the dramatic articles about sleep and rest are probably correct but are undercut by the dramatic headlines. Here’s one for you.  Here’s What Happens in the Brain When You Don’t Get Enough Sleep

On the trainer front, it was a good session and the conclusion is that I have to keep my shoulder blades slightly down and in so that I don’t over stretch them. No scar tissue, just the results of years of crap posture.

I feel like I’m trying to audition for Superman in a comedy review.

This is what my head felt like today. Meng Wanzhou hearing in Vancouver had a quote, “They were resplendent in their ordinariness.” See CBC.

Mutant Diet Phase 11 Day 23
Yesterday was so bad and I’ve had so much technology trouble today that I don’t have the diet chart filled in.

Today I saw a new trainer and he’s pretty good. The news from the RMT tells me that I should be making sure the shoulder blade muscles feel active pretty much during all waking hours. If the over stretched part of the back in held where it should be, there’s a chance it might heal up. The icky part of the muscle does not like it at all.

It was a day of frustration. We all know where that goes, dietary-ly speaking.

This version of Superman is to appear on TV this year. Political dust-up in Hamilton yesterday.

Mutant Diet Phase 11 Day 22
Massage therapy is not as pleasant as it sounds. My upper back is over stretched. Keyboard, mouse, weights are all pulling on it and giving it pain. But it’s not just the spot I notice on the right. When she dug into the left side, I thought I was going to die.

Posture … critical. Strengthening the middle of up the upper back, crucial. Release pectoral muscles, also crucial.

And, yes, the food situation is still sucking. No gym today. The back needs to remain where the good RMT put it.

Lots of speculation about Flash this year. Calgary. Snow.

Mutant Diet Phase 11 Day 21
According to this article, willpower isn’t the problem.

www.bbc.com/news/health-49795808

However, without willpower, I don’t think you stand a chance in making a correction.

Yesterday my willpower ran away into a crowd of thoughts and let impulses (and a late in the day invitation to karaoke) put yesterday’s efforts into a hole.

And so we start again. What temptations face me today?

She-Hulk. I’m trying to figure out what comics of hers are most collectible. Ed the Sock of Toronto is battling with the Conservative Party of Canada.

Mutant Diet Phase 11 Day 20
Well, I almost got Friday right. Ugh.

The high intensity workout yesterday was, well, intense. But, I got through the night without acetaminophen or anything so that’s a pulse.

Today is a kind of chores/rest day. Including taking a car in for three lights that had burned out. I need to try not to weaken in the next couple of hours in the chocolate department. Urgh.

I was looking for something else and found this cool X-Men image. Climate strikes all over today. Try St. John’s.

Mutant Diet Phase 11 Day 19
Yeah. Not so much in the snack control department.

My goal for today is to stick to plan. To react less aggressively to stress and other annoyances. And to hope that it doesn’t pour rain when I ride my bike home tonight.

I am glad for all the discussion going on with respect to the climate strike.

Proud of everyone. Except one federal leader who isn’t going because he has a pea for a brain.

Justice League versus Slade and Dr. Light. Climate strikes tomorrow in Vancouver and Victoria.

Mutant Diet Phase 11 Day 18
So hockey games are bad for the diet. Wow. Worse I was expecting only bad beer but they had some good craft brews.

Sigh.

I have a trainer lined up for next Tuesday. Let’s hope this focuses the mind better.

I did 200 pound deadlifts today. It’ll be interesting to see how far I can take it.

I was feeling like early Justice League. You can’t be too careful on the water in The Muskokas.

Mutant Diet Phase 11 Day 17
It’s 8 AM. Do you know where your chocolate is?

The mental weakness around diet continues. Most annoying. I do seem to have broken a weight lifting plateau. I suspect the new plateau will soon make itself known.

Today I have to meet my son’s teacher and go to a Canucks game. These are not really related.

I needed Wolverine today. With all the crazy sh*t in the news, I needed a stupid story. Prince George BC and a stolen mascot costume. 

Mutant Diet Phase 11 Day 16
As I write this I’m eating stuff not on the plan. It’s been an emotional week and the eating has been indicative of that. And yes, like any good white guy, I am not talking about it.

Not relevant to diet/fitness, I realized that old white men have had little training in how to deal with things like sadness and disappointment. Walk it off. Suck it up. Better luck next time. Perhaps listen to some death metal.

At least the weather cleared for riding and with the new brake pads, my bike sounds wonderful.

I needed a fight scene today. One party leader today is in Bathurst NB

Mutant Diet Phase 11 Day 15
I am trying to re-engage my diet/fitness program while sitting beside leftover donuts from a meeting I held. Fortunately I bought donuts that are insufficiently compelling.

What next? I have food supplies. I have time to go to the gym. I want to go home to bed.

When do we see results? What does that even mean? When does this end? How long is a piece of string? If I fuss enough do I get what I want?