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May. 31st, 2012 08:44 amThe pair of trousers I'm wearing now has been hanging at the back of my closet for months, nearly new. It's one of two pairs I bought last time I lost weight, and I only got to wear it a couple of times before it didn't fit me any more.
I've started an entry like that before; this is the other pair. That means I've achieved most of my getting-slimmer goals, and now just need to work on not letting things slip to the point of having to achieve them all again.
My getting-up-earlier turned out to be more fragile than I thought, and disappeared, taking the morning exercise with it, when winter rolled in. But I am eating more sensibly than I used to, if still not as sensibly as I might like.
One of the interesting effects of eating sensibly is that it seems to make it easier to eat sensibly. The frequency with which I impulsively add a chocolate bar or packet of crisps to my groceries is way down, and it's not just because I'm keeping myself on a tighter rein; I'm actually not feeling the impulse in the first place. (And one of the items in the Swancon report I still haven't finished is an observation on the urge to splurge in the context of hotel breakfast buffets, and specifically the fact that it didn't manifest this year.)
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While I'm providing updates on old posts: When I moved into this office, I mentioned that it had an old and stupid air conditioner that didn't really do anything between "sweltering" and "penguin weather". I said at the time that I thought I was getting the hang of it, but in the end I mostly just left it off except when the weather was extreme enough to balance it.
Well, last week the office building replaced the last of its old and stupid air conditioners with newer and smarter ones. It's a considerable improvement.
One thing that's worrying me, though, is that once it's heated the room up to the required temperature, the air conditioner sometimes seems to be actually switching to cool air, as if to say "Too hot, now I'm going to cool it down a bit". I may be misinterpreting, though - another possibility is that it's maintaining the temperature with a stream of air that seems cool because it's only warm instead of full-bore hot (it's definitely not as cold as the air outside, anyway).
I've started an entry like that before; this is the other pair. That means I've achieved most of my getting-slimmer goals, and now just need to work on not letting things slip to the point of having to achieve them all again.
My getting-up-earlier turned out to be more fragile than I thought, and disappeared, taking the morning exercise with it, when winter rolled in. But I am eating more sensibly than I used to, if still not as sensibly as I might like.
One of the interesting effects of eating sensibly is that it seems to make it easier to eat sensibly. The frequency with which I impulsively add a chocolate bar or packet of crisps to my groceries is way down, and it's not just because I'm keeping myself on a tighter rein; I'm actually not feeling the impulse in the first place. (And one of the items in the Swancon report I still haven't finished is an observation on the urge to splurge in the context of hotel breakfast buffets, and specifically the fact that it didn't manifest this year.)
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While I'm providing updates on old posts: When I moved into this office, I mentioned that it had an old and stupid air conditioner that didn't really do anything between "sweltering" and "penguin weather". I said at the time that I thought I was getting the hang of it, but in the end I mostly just left it off except when the weather was extreme enough to balance it.
Well, last week the office building replaced the last of its old and stupid air conditioners with newer and smarter ones. It's a considerable improvement.
One thing that's worrying me, though, is that once it's heated the room up to the required temperature, the air conditioner sometimes seems to be actually switching to cool air, as if to say "Too hot, now I'm going to cool it down a bit". I may be misinterpreting, though - another possibility is that it's maintaining the temperature with a stream of air that seems cool because it's only warm instead of full-bore hot (it's definitely not as cold as the air outside, anyway).
