February 2012
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I just found out what my tax refund will be.
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Fatigue, being a woman, running, veganism, and a...
I feel like a long, sprawl-y post, so…
I decided to cut one run out completely for this week. That’s still giving me three days of running, one of which was the new route (four miles and more hills than I’m used to). For the rest, I’m doing one two-miler and one three-miler. Part of the reason I skipped this morning is that I felt wiped out the second I woke up this...
And I tried to weigh in for a Weigh In Wednesday but my scale would not settle on a number in a three pound range. So, looks like I’ll be putting my tax return to work for a new scale in the near future. Yay.
Rescheduling the run, and reorganizing the rest of the week as a result. STOMACH. Y U NO COOPERATE WITH MY PLANS?
runswithpoodles replied to your post: So if women wait until the second trimester, they don’t have to deal with the ultrasound?
Second trimester abortions in Virginia have to be performed at a hospital. Good luck finding a hospital that will do one…
Anonymous asked: So if women wait until the second trimester, they don't have to deal with the ultrasound?
“Now because the majority of abortions are performed in the first trimester, if...”
– JON STEWART, on Virginia’s inhumane, inhuman and shameful “personhood” law that requires women wanting to get an abortion to, in essence, be subject to rape, on The Daily Show (via inothernews)
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Tumblr Accountability: 2012: Day Fifty-Two
Breakfast:
Oatmeal w/ soy milk and jam (and a dash of sugar-free chocolate Torani syrup)
Coffee w/ soy
Snack:
Rest of my coffee w/ soy
Lunch:
Leftover pasta from last night w/ 1 serving of extra firm tofu (super reasonable/responsible portion of pasta, too. you guise I’m learning portion control)
Snack:
A bunch of grape tomatoes
Lara Bar (Cinnamon Roll)
Lentil Mushroom Soup...
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Fancy scientists may have devised a totally complex formula for losing weight, but our own bloodlesscoup has done them one better: Here’s my formula for weight loss, which has led me to lose 85 pounds in about two years.
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I got Comment of the Day again you guise!
Anonymous asked: re: nazis - sins of the (grand)father and such.
therealycats asked: S/he's asking about NSV. I had to Google it to figure it out, lol.
Anonymous asked: Nationalsozialistische Volkswohlfahrt?
melanieisdoinglife replied to your post: melanieisdoinglife replied to your post: Oh yeah…
I would buy stuff that didn’t fit because “I was going to get into it.” I don’t do that anymore.
I passed up on a GORGEOUS Isaac Mizrahi for Target dress at Value Village because I vowed to never “let clothes languish in my closet while I took my sweetass time getting small enough for...
melanieisdoinglife replied to your post: Oh yeah NSV
If it didn’t fit 5 years ago and it fits now that is definitely an NSV.
Oh, no doubt. The thing is, it should have fit when I bought it, because all of the other stuff I bought with it did (except one other suit jacket that I haven’t tried yet).
TORRID! Y U NO LABEL CLOTHES RIGHT?
So another reason to not trust the size of your...
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Oh yeah NSV
A suit jacket I bought maybe five years ago finally fits.
We can be happy about this progress, or we can be pissed that Torrid’s sizing is inconsistent between garments.
Anonymous asked: My ex-gf swore by extra strength midol. It helped with cramps and bloating and probably fever if she had that symptom. She said it was better than getting the shot or on the pill because they made her feel fat and tired. Guess midol wouldn't help with your fatigue and poo problems tho.
Actually I will probably write a post that I will need to put behind a cut at some point about how much better being a female is in the menstrual sense now that I’ve cut out diary (no RBGH for this lady) and exercise as much as I do. Like, it all still sucks, but compared to how it used to suck, there’s no question everything’s so much better now.
Anonymous asked: Your period is disruptive that you feel uncomfortable exercising during it? I used to get a lot of pain and blood flow for 4-5 days, so I talked to a doctor and got my cycle regulated with hormones. If your cycle is average, the endorphins from exercise are supposed to make cramps feel better, except not in my experience until I went on hormones.
healthywhit replied to your post: My formula for weight loss:
Hahaha love it! You’re hilarious.
I’ve done math-based jokes on Jezebel a few times before, and the really hilarious thing is that I almost flunked math at least twice in high school because my brain doesn’t like to work that way.
Anyway. Yay! I’m glad people like mah’ stuff.
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My formula for weight loss:
According to a post right now on Jezebel:
Scientists Unveil Incredibly Complicated New Weight-Loss Formula
It may not surprise you to learn that the old formula of cutting 500 calories a day to lose a pound a week does not work for every person. Now scientists have come up with a new formula — all you have to do is convert your BMI into furlongs per fortnight, divide it by the circumference...
Woke up to an e-mail from @westcoastrunner with a blended half marathon training schedule. ZOMG.
2012:
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Also I think you should get bonus points for life if you go running on the first day of your period.
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Tumblr Accountability: 2012: Day Fifty-One
I feel like a champ today.
Breakfast:
Oatmeal w/ soy milk and jam
Coffee w/ soy (lots yum)
Snack:
The rest of the coffee.
Lunch:
Brown rice, lentils, broccoli, cauliflower, w/ soy sauce and Yumm Sauce (reasonable portions and ZOMG this was soooo good)
An orange
Snack:
Vegan chili
Small apple
Through the day:
WATER WATER WATER. And a mug of herbal tea.
Dinner:
(posted a...
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2012: Run Twenty-Two
Four miles. New Route.
SLOW.
But.
Good!
Eventually.
It started out kind of weak. I put an elastic bandage on my knee, and I thought it was going to cut off circulation (I wore it around the apartment for about 30 minutes beforehand to be sure), and would let myself loosen it if I needed, and it ended up feeling awesome.
The new route sucked. Flat, downhill (like whoa), uphill (like...
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melanieisdoinglife replied to your post: Going through these training guides, I think I’m…
That’s why I suggested Novice 1. You’re still pretty new to running and should build up your miles slowly. I’m not, so I’m not sure what my excuse for low miles is. I’m working on that. :)
Yeah so I’m going through and kind of melting together a 10k training (Shamrock Run) and then slowly...
Going through these training guides, I think I’m going to back off on how many miles I expect out of myself each week. One long-ish run per week, building up to one long run per week, I believe, will help prevent injury and this sense of futility I get when I look at what I schedule for myself.
okay anyway back to your normally scheduled programming
Omg why is it about running all day today?
Okay question.
Let’s say, for the sake of just hypotheticals and what have you, I’ll be doing my first half marathon on July 4th…
What level of Hal Higdon’s training guides should I use? Obviously not advanced, but I don’t know if I’m Novice 1, Novice 2, or Intermediate.
Novice 1 looks like it starts too slow for me (up to 11 miles the first week),
...
melanieisdoinglife replied to your post: Do Life Challenge: Week Eight: What I picked!
Yep, changing your route makes it more challenging. Your body can’t operate on muscle memory.
LOL as if the runs weren’t already challenging!
But it’s true. I ran a different route on Saturday, and it was bad. Part of it is that in Tigard, I notice it being VERY windy. Maybe Downtown...
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Do Life Challenge: Week Eight: What I picked!
I picked the challenge to change up my running route.
I do the same route, more or less, every time, regardless of the distance.
Leave my apartment, head down 17th, then Jefferson, then down 18th as far as I can before looping down and coming back on 20th. I sometimes turn up Raleigh all the way to 24th and around Trendy-third and the hospital before coming back down to 20th and coming home,...
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Do Life Challenge: Week Eight
From the Do Life Forums:
Welcome to week eight guys. And congratulations on making it this far; before we beat ourselves up on slipping up occasionally, think about how many people’s New Year’s Resolutions are distant memories. The fact that we’re still focusing time, effort, and energy on making ourselves better means we’re part of a small minority. Keep your head...
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Do Life Challenge: Week Seven: Food: Recap
For starters, next week I fully, fully intend to make my submission post on TIME and actually submit it.
Write a list of your trouble foods. What do you habitually struggle with? Write them down.
Done
Stay away from those foods this week. We will make this a long-term commitment, but for now, focus on making it through the next six days without those foods.
Avoided a lot of them except...
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Tumblr Accountability: 2012: Day Fifty
This was a big day for me in the Tumblr Accountability department because it was the 50th day of the year, and 50th day of me being transparent about how I’m eating, no matter how terribly.
There are some thing that can be noted about the last 50 days:
1) I never once purchased vegan ice cream (or consumed any that I can recall in any location), nor did I eat at my favorite vegan food...
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Now that I have refocused my schedule and home-life responsibilities and gotten back to my normal (wow I have done a lot of things), I think I want to do another Vegan Month Of Food, unofficially, back on my Blogger, and I’ll cross-post it here.
I want to work it a bit differently than I did for Vegan MoFo in October. For starters, I don’t feel obligated to post recipes every day. I...
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“No one could blame American women here if they all suddenly decided to leave the...”
– John Oliver on American contraception debates, The Bugle 183 (via sixpencesoulcake)
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Tumblr Accountability: 2012: Day Forty-Nine
Whooooo late late late.
Breakfast:
Last of the leftover pasta (see previous entries) and 1 serving of tofu.
2 regular sized mugs of coffee w/ soy milk.
Snack:
Nothing (mistake; see my running post)
Lunch:
Bowl of vegan chili
1 multigrain sandwich thin w/ peanut butter and jam
Snack:
Nothing
Through the day:
Hydrated pretty well. Til later.
Dinner:
Taco salad: seitan,...
thecommonraven replied to your post: Kind of taking a break from Doctor Who (still not…
WHAT WOULD DEVONBANKS SAY?!
She doesn’t follow me so I guess we just won’t tell her, WILL WE?
high-heels-soccer-shoes replied to your post: Kind of taking a break from Doctor Who (still not…
If you are starting the new Sherlock, welcome to your new obsession. I about tore John’s arm off at the end of episode 3 out of anticipation!
I’m on episode 2, and I’m forcing myself to turn it off after that so I can sleep tonight.
BUT ZOMG
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Kind of taking a break from Doctor Who (still not In Lurve with Ten. working on it), and I’m starting Sherlock.
ANYWAY.
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As the nation is deluged in an avalanche of bills restricting abortion access, Tea Party freshman state Rep. Kim Pearson has introduced an Iowa bill that some are calling the most radical of them…