So I may have mentioned (or not, but anyway) how I go through life in phases. Each phase is distinctive and often involves a whole bunch of different areas of my life. For example: the last one started when we got back from London, and its key characteristics were that I basically just wanted to stay in bed and hide from the world. I was shirking all responsibility and I lacked motivation in everything. Music of this era was Apocalyptica (probably because it's intensely familiar and hails from a long-past time of less responsibility, if less happiness). Food was sweet things, mostly vanilla rooibos and dried pineapple. Internet obsession was a ridiculously sickly-sweet fairy kei lolita blog that was totally over the top with pastels freaking EVERYWHERE. No disrespect to the blogger, but this mild obsession with her porcelain-doll clothes was weird and out of character for me. Luckily, I eventually got out of this funk, though I'm not quite sure how, and landed myself a new obsession: health and fitness!
I guess it started with me rediscovering pop pilates youtube workouts due to my inability to get regular classes. This lead to me reading her blog, Blogilates, and it all went downhill (or uphill, haha) from there. I suspect the other motivating factor is that I have somehow contrived to own only crop tops in the way of summer wear, and as I mentioned before, I'd like to look good on the photos from WGT because I intend on blasting the people of the internet with them :)
And so I began on my fitness kick, which morphed into a healthy eating kick too This, after reading Cassey's blog and others on how much nutrition determines your physique. I had never realised how much of an impact WHAT you ate had on you, despite any exercise you may do. I always sort of assumed that as long as you worked it off, it's all water under the bridge. Not so, apparently. Although I think I usually eat fairly healthily, I have been enjoying eating better, especially since I have actually been (wait for it) COOKING ACTUAL FOOD. You know, the type that people can eat; nay, even enjoy! Which has been very satisfying to me as I now feel less of a total failure as a girl. AND it gives me more stuff to plan, like shopping lists and menus. I may be slightly obsessed with planning things...
So myself and the Nameless Wonderboy are doing pilates together every day (he secretly enjoys it, no matter how much he complains), and I really love the fact that I can see a difference already. So far there is no particular music associated with this phase, but the food is boiled eggs and lemon infused water (which sounds very poncy but is really just presqueezed lemon juice in tap water). Hopefully this phase will last a long time, so that I look decent for the next onslaught of auditions :p
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