Category: Phase 12

[et_pb_section admin_label=”section”] [et_pb_row admin_label=”row”] [et_pb_column type=”4_4″][et_pb_text admin_label=”Text”] I am picking the Defenders today. We need them. Of democracy. Of Climate. Of Indigenous rights in near Burns Lake in Northern BC. Mutant Diet Phase 12 Day 26 Today is officially a cake day because it’s my wife’s birthday. In the meantime, I am waiting for the insurance nurse to come over to weigh me and take some blood. Then I wait for the insurance company to…

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Last of my X-Men series. Moose in New Brunswick are dying from ticks due to climate change. Mutant Diet Phase 12 Day 25 Here’s why weight loss is a bitch. That 3.4 pounds over three weeks? I could gain that back in a weekend. Moving on, I did a yoga class that gave me insight into how my “newer” muscles can influence my clenched-in-one-place-since-the-80s hip. I was working at both stretching past its normal boundary…

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More X-Men. A moron on a Toronto – Jamaica flight joked about the new virus. Schmuck of the Year. Mutant Diet Phase 12 Day 24 I was upset yesterday because I feel like I lost more weight than I did. 3.4 pounds over a 23 day period. I started heavier than I thought, but the pants are looser than they were when I weighed lighter in a previous phase. So much lovely stigma with weight.…

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More X-Men and Wolverine. So much rain there was a mudslide in Victoria. Mutant Diet Phase 12 Day 23 The more I read about diet/fitness, the more confused I become. I stumbled across a BBC article raking vegan junk food – e.g. the Beyond burger stuff – over the coals for not being as good as real meat. It was all about the absorption of stuff like fish oils and what not. I stopped reading…

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This is the X-Men shortly after Wolverine introduction. A landslide near Agassiz has blocked people in at the ominously named Sasquatch Mountain Resort. Mutant Diet Phase 12 Day 22 Today started with a chiropractic appointment. It was a good adjustment. I should have thought of doing that the morning following a yoga class ages ago. Yesterday I suspect I was still recovering from the Saturday platelets donation. The yoga class was tough to complete and…

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The cool thing with the X-Men is that they have many different variations. 256.6 mm of precipitation at the Vancouver Airport in January. Mutant Diet Phase 12 Day 21Good grief. Three weeks in. I am trying to get back on it today but doing so with some self-care. In the form of calories. Yesterday had mishaps from parking tickets to misapplication of bleach in laundry and my mood took a bad turn. It was not…

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Onto the X-Men. I am curious how the future with Disney/Marvel will work. Vancouver and the South Coast took an absurd amount of rain yesterday.  Now it’s sunny. Mutant Diet Phase 12 Day 20 I’m about an hour away from donating platelets. Or that’s the plan. If my initial platelet count isn’t high enough, they won’t do it. The uncertainty is no fun because it’s a 2-hour donation process and you kind of have to…

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Harley Quinn and Black Canary. Richmond school district is showing signs of germ-o-phobia. Mutant Diet Phase 12 Day 19 My diet was affected by someone who I learned had taken his own life. It was shocking. It was not a person close to me, but close enough. 11 people per day die of suicide and the rest of us seem obsessed with surgical masks that make no difference. Take care of yourself and the people…

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Harley Quinn and Poison Ivy. Apparently in Ottawa, CSIS is in trouble for discrimination. Let that one sink in. Mutant Diet Phase 12 Day 18 I have a couple of concerns. I was in yoga class and I was feeling almost lightheaded. It wasn’t normal.  Yesterday’s conditions compared to previous weeks weren’t substantially different. I have also made some mental errors like asking for coffee to stay at a Starbucks that not only does not…

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Harley Quinn getting clobbered by Wonder Woman. In Guelph, they built an epic-sized snowman. Mutant Diet Phase 12 Day 17 Yesterday was the personal trainer day and the deadlift session had me speaking in groans for the rest of the day. I also weighed in with the numbers written on the secret paper. My trainer could not suppress, despite my previous instructions, an utterance of “well done.” I still didn’t look at the numbers. But I…

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