Sleepy.

[angelak]

I feel tired and under motivated. Help, help. I know I should have gotten up at 6 when I felt awake. Instead I turned over and went back to sleep until 6:30--- consequently, now I feel deadly tired and I can’t seem to get my ass moving.

Next week I am working 7AM-4PM. Sounds blissful. Tim is taking 9-6.

Maybe I can get back on my exercise schedule easier next week. I feel so crappy about it. The crowd [Cheryl, Vicki, whoever] mock their parents for counting calories. What does that say about me? I also have a pretty strict watch on my intake when possible. *shrugs*



It used to bug me when Steve tried to say I was anorexic. That’s just lame. He used it for a while because I was utterly OBSESSED with counting and tracking it. He altogether discouraged me when I was trying to get in shape better, a while back. He would constantly tell me I was doing too much and eating too little, when I had done all the research, and acquired the correct numbers [in estimate form] for my build/activity level. It was really difficult at the time, because he did provide a lot of discouragement. NEH. Whatever :D Course, I never thought I would be that way, ever, in highschool/junior high.

I really hate anorexic jokes anyway, just because one of my best friends ever, was anorexic, so unless used in proper context, I think it’s a poor choice of description for someone who is just insecure. [In other words, unless they truly ARE, then it’s actually not a good idea to use sarcastically.]



Neh. No REAL matter. Just a thought that bounced around in my head briefly.

Neh. I should go do work. I just feel so freaking tired. Even the coffee just isn’t cutting it.

-Angela

Comments

There's a difference

[dragonfaery93.livejournal.com]

There is a difference between counting calories to a healthy level, versus counting calories to an unhealthy level.
My mom counts them in an unhealthy way, she burns far more than she can afford and if you look at my mom-- does she need to lose weight? Bloody hell, she can't even afford to lose weight. The way my mom is built, and the way I am built mean that counting calories is a dangerous thing unless counting to make sure we're getting enough.
You have a different body, AND you're younger than my mom. So for you, counting calories to make sure you are getting the correct amount that you need, if healthy. My mom counts to make sure she takes in less than she burns. And at her age, weight, and body build that's not a smart idea.

So it's not the calorie counting, it's HOW it's done and WHO counts it!

Hugs,
Cheryl

Re: There's a difference

[ithisia.livejournal.com]

Total sense there that you're speaking. :)

Right on.

SLeep.

-Angela

[vixenesque93.livejournal.com]

I understand what you're talking about there...there's a difference between watching one's diet and obsessing over it. Nothing wrong with the former, but it's when it becomes a preoccupation that it becomes a problem. I mean, my mom counts calories (and she's tiny), but she also gets enough to eat-it's just that she has considerably more self-control than I do. Like, what comes naturally to her, the whole eating healthy thing and only eating what she really needs, I have to work on (and probably should work on...).

On a slightly related note, one of my friends from high school was naturally very thin (5'5" and barely 110 pounds) and would get crap from people on a regular basis about being anorexic/bulemic. Complete and utter B.S.-I knew this girl ate. She was a vegetarian and didn't eat junk food either, but she ate/exercised and was healthy. Just little.

Oh yeah

[(Anonymous)]

Yup, there's a major difference between being skinny and anorexic... You KNOW when someone's anorexic, cause you can see every bone in their body, and it looks as if their skin is being sucked inward. You wonder how they manage to even dress themself in the morning, cause it looks as if all of their muscle has deteriorated. It's scary.

People have given me crap before about looking anorexic when I was merely quite skinny. While it is true that I was not eating as much anymore, I was far from unhealthy. Problem is, I got so sick of the BS that I decided to prove them all wrong and started eating whatever I wanted whenever I felt like it... and then all my clothes stopped fitting.

Anyway... I think I just wanted to reply to something, cause I didn't really have a point to make there. Although I did want to mention that I don't think Steve meant to be discouraging when you were trying to get in shape. I think that generally, guys just don't understand, and your guy in particular tends to fear change. So, I think it would be another example of his tendency to be overprotective and worrisome. Silly boy.

~Lb

Re: Oh yeah

[ithisia.livejournal.com]

Yeay. LB posted!

-Angela

Re: Oh yeah

[ithisia.livejournal.com]

I do have to say it was one of the hardest things ever, to see *youknowwho* friend of ours, as bad as she was junior/senior year.... ugh.

It was heart wrenching.

-Angela

[elegant-angel.livejournal.com]

It is a health thing i mean, i could never do it, count calories, but i know i can work out to the point where hopefully they balance out or maybe i should eat right....anyway went off on a tangent there, i hope you wake up and all don't know what else to sya i had it then it left....