Category: Phase 9

I have no idea what’s going on but it looks cool. Regina is showing -22°

Mutant Diet Phase 9 Day 19
Madness. I gave blood which justified muffins. I felt exhausted all day and then had yet another parent meeting.

Read all about it here:
www.straight.com/news/1192591/patti-bacchus-parents-are-upset-vsb-again

Today I have another meeting during work hours on the subject.

The strain is visible. My left eye randomly twitches. There is a lot of other work that is being bumped by this.

All I can hear when I think about diet experts is unnamed voices blaming me for this mess.

These guys just look cool. Wow, it’s only -2 in St. John’s.

Mutant Diet Phase 9 Day 18
This is a record-breaking sideways week.

You can’t diet when multiple messes at your kid’s school derails your schedule. One thing I don’t think that diet programs allow for is the sheer prep time to make food to the dietary standard you’re looking for and do it cost-effectively.

If you think, “oh another guy with an excuse,” you come and do my volunteer work for me.

This is how I remember Thor. If you are looking for snow try Haliburton.

Mutant Diet Phase 9 Day 17
Today is going to be a crazy day so I can say that I did better yesterday. But it’s far from being totally on track. The cold is still masking how I’m feeling. It’s also led to unpredictable workouts. I was feeling off with the personal trainer, but a chest press machine let me go up a plate. Huh? It was at the end of the workout after a struggle with bench press and deadlifts.

This so doesn’t make sense.

The battle continues. Victoria BC has a scandal.

Mutant Diet Phase 9 Day 16
I ask you. What next? Oh shit I should never write that. I went out last night and had pizza, beer, mushroom caps, dessert. Why? I was on CBC Radio arguing for the obvious with the Vancouver School Board. www.cbc.ca/player/play/1429642307909

I am stressed about a sick brother, a dead uncle and a freaked-out sister.

Oh yeah, and the school board is making me mental.

This pretty much sums up how the parents are feeling at my kid’s school. -16 in Toronto Sounds like January to me.

Mutant Diet Phase 9 Day 15
I’m not sure how this week is going to go, but I’m pleased I managed to prepare my supplies for the week. It was a dumb weekend dealing with this mess at my kid’s school. Important safety tip: don’t piss of French Immersion parents, particularly the Moms.

I still have this cold, but I think it’s improving because now it’s really pissing me off.

I have to run. Problems to handle.

This pretty much sums up my mood. -14 in Niagara Falls.

Mutant Diet Phase 9 Day 14
I am so not in the right frame of mind for a diet. The Vancouver School Board is threatening to move my son’s French Immersion program to another school that’s a 35-minute bus ride away which passes through Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside.

What does this have to do with diet? Stress = stress eating. Asking me to condone such a stupid-ass move is stressful.

I won’t give up but I am not going to deny the stress I feel.

What I like about Spider-man was his cheekiness. Gasp. -13 in New Brunswick.

Mutant Diet Phase 9 Day 13
Well, this sucks. I still feel like hell. This bug fools you into thinking you’re OK and then the next morning says, “Ha ha, fooled you; you’re still sick.” I forced myself to the gym where it’s too busy and there’s a selection of odd characters. What’s with white old fart guys (who are only a bit more older and fart-ier than me) talking loudly about shit I don’t want to know about? Please someone smack me if I get like that.

Anyway. I should call this Diet Fail 101. I don’t even want to talk about it.

The good news is that parts of me – like my nose and thigs – feel smaller. My brand new pants are baggy. Which I think might be more a problem of my product selection.

The workouts, which are truncated due to the cold, are the only things keeping me from giving up.

Until I feel less sick, I won’t know what the Naturopath’s potions are doing. If anything.

She-Hulk would make a good movie. Apparently Moose Jaw is no longer the home to the tallest Moose statue, apparently.

Mutant Diet Phase 9 Day 12
Argh. I’m a mental midget. I still feel like a sloth in living in my airways and I’m trying to stay on track with the diet but, I’m feeling so weird that I don’t know what’s what.

Coffee. That’s an idea.

I’ve been working on the premise that a light workout is better than no workout, but a heavy workout would make me sicker. We shall see. Today I’ve been feeling mixed and varied so my decisions are now made closer to the time.

Please let this go away.

Mysterio is in the upcoming Spider-man movie. A hot spring bath at Harrison Hot Springs might work.

Mutant Diet Phase 9 Day 11
Oh come on! I just had my breakfast; I ate homemade cookies last night with reckless abandon; I slept horribly; and now I’m hungry again – 10 minutes after breakfast. WTF?

To say this is frustrating to do with a cold and constant interruptions in my schedule is an understatement.

My issue here is not diet/fitness, it’s getting enough rest to clear this cold, which will clear my head, which will give me more time to focus. It’s the only plan I have and I’m sticking with it.

Nick Fury is in the upcoming Spider-man movie. I am excited. I would like to recover from my cold here Tofino.

Mutant Diet Phase 9 Day 10
Day 10 of Phase 9. Oi. I’m so not on track, it’s not funny. I feel weird from the cold and, I suspect, the Harry Potter potions. My thinking from a stress management perspective is to continue to refine the process, get rid of the cold and carry on.

The reality is that you don’t always have time to make dinner because you are lying on the couch convalescing. That’s where Sushi comes in.

What biochemical process decides if a piece of rice is converted to fat, something else, or sent down the drain?