jedibuttercup: (balian becomes)
So, one of the things I got for Christmas in 2017 was a Fitbit Charge 2. My aunt has one; her two daughters both have one; some of their BFFs have one; my BFF has one; my mom bought one a couple months later. Natch, this results in my being challenged all the time.

NGL, that contributed on more than one occasion to last year's general exhaustion. OTOH, sometimes it was a boost to feel like I'd at least accomplished something in any given week? Anyway, I just got my Year in Review email for 2018:

Snapshot of Fitbit Stats for 2018

No wonder I've been destroying athletic shoes to the tune of three pair in the last year and a half. My arches are high enough I pretty much have to spend at least $70 to get a pair that don't kill my feet; but it still seemed a little excessive. But they do say you're supposed to get a new pair every five hundred miles or so.....
jedibuttercup: (ardeth bey)
I dined at the parents' last night, and a friend of ours brought the video entertainment for the evening. I should have imdb'ed Attack Force before I let them put it in; it truly deserves a one-out-of-five-stars rating. Damn, Seagal's getting old. The plot summary's more exciting than anything that happens in it, and the only female character who isn't a secretary, a whore, or a hyped-on-drugs adversary dies before the end credits roll. We had a lot of fun mocking it.

Nearly as terribly plotted, but considerably more enjoyable: The Mummy: Secrets of the Medjai. All twenty-six episodes were on sale for something like $9 at Wal-Mart, and animated half-hour shows translate to about twenty-one minutes each without commercials, which is perfect for watching two back-to-back while on the elliptical machine. (The show pretty much presents like a parallel AU of the movies: most of the same characters are there, but they act like they don't remember anything that happened in them, and Evie's Irish or something instead of half-Egyptian).

I went through the first season of "Real Ghostbusters" the same way earlier in the year (the quality drops half-way through, but makes more world-sense than the Mummy series), and after watching the laughably-written but drawn-on-intriguing-backdrop Shyamalan movie that just came out, I think I'll pick up some "Avatar: The Last Airbender" next.

Any more animated series worth picking up on DVD for idle entertainment? I really didn't watch anything but the Disney Afternoon as a kid-- oh, and sometimes a little Sailor Moon or Inspector Gadget-- so I'm pretty unenlightened.
jedibuttercup: (gonna live)
It's been fifty-four weeks today since I decided to lose weight last year. In that time, I lost more than seventy pounds (a full third of my bodyweight) and learned a lot about healthy eating, exercise, and their effects on my mood, energy levels, and motivation. I haven't been this happy in a decade.

More about what worked for me, and my successes, behind the cut: )

Keeping up the exercise schedule is going to be the real challenge for me, going forward. I mean, for more than a decade the most exercise I was getting was "get up and walk from the couch to the computer desk", or "walk around the grocery store". All that exercise eats up a lot of time! So, to that end, I've decided my 2010 NYR goal is going to be fitness-- and making sure my weight stays where it is, no swings either direction.

A measuring tool I've seen recommended along those lines is the President's Challenge; it looks do-able, I think. Also, running a 5K at some point during the year-- I'm not quite up to that distance yet on the elliptical, but I should be by my birthday in March. Anyone have any other recommendations?
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