September in Review
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My weight had crept up to 180 lbs, and I finally decided that I should Do Something About This.
My new plan is simply "eat slightly less". I started on September 20 by tracking food & exercise, and have been averaging a net negative of 250 calories. That works out to around half a pound a week. My ideal weight is probably somewhere in the 110-135* range, so it's gonna be a few years before I get back there. That's fine. I'm not trying to get in shape for the beach season or something; I'm trying to return to a healthier weight that will not cause me the long-term joint problems that run in my family.
This plan includes "eat when I'm hungry", which both means "do not eat to alleviate boredom and stress" and also "do not suffer in order to lose weight". I had a snack last night that put me over my calorie count for the day, for the first time since I started tracking, because I didn't want to go to bed hungry. Good call, me. So far, I do not feel like I am suffering on this plan, and that makes me a lot more likely to stick with it.
My scale now says I'm 177 pounds. My spreadsheet (I'm tracking on a spreadsheet because it's actually easier than using an app, sadly) says I should be not quite up to losing my first pound. I am curious to see how my projected vs actual weight loss goes. The first few pounds always seem to be the easiest.
* My lowest weight as an adult is something like 117 lbs. At that time, I thought "I look fine and it wouldn't hurt to lose a few more pounds". Honestly, I don't feel particularly fat even now. My desire to lose weight is mostly "I have a lot of pretty clothes I would like to fit in again" coupled with "and also gaining 5-10 pounds a year is not a healthy trend". One of my friends told me a few years ago "You are SMOKIN' HOT" and this is the self-image that has stuck with me. ♥
Writing
21,800 on The Sun Etherium for September. That was pretty much all my writing this month. I feel simultaneously as if this is Not Enough and also that I am being ridiculous and that's fine.
My 2016 YTD word counts by novel:
Birthright: 78,000
The Moon Etherium: 124.000
The Sun Etherium: 23,800
That's over 225,000 words and there's still three months left in the year. Brain, please chill out.
The Business of Writing
I published The Moon Etherium! *kermitflail* *collapse*
Art/Other
I did four different cover variants for The Moon Etherium, and a handful of sketches.
Socializing
I went to ProgPower with![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
alinsa! Wow, it seems so long ago I almost forgot that was in September.
Goals for coming month
alinsa and I plan to serialize The Moon Etherium, which means Alinsa has to worry about getting Wordpress set up again (I hope it's easier this time) and I have to figure out illustrations. There will be eighty installments of the serial. I am not drawing eighty pictures for it. But I do like having images to go with the posts. So I will go through the eighty parts and see if I can figure out some broad shared categories and come up with abstract illustrations along the lines of each category. Goal is 8-10 different illos. I will figure out what each will be before I do any of 'em. We'll see how that goes.
So I'm not really sure what my goal is for October. Probably one or more of the following:
I don't particularly plan to finish any of those in October, and I may not start all of them. I'll find out in November what I did!
My weight had crept up to 180 lbs, and I finally decided that I should Do Something About This.
My new plan is simply "eat slightly less". I started on September 20 by tracking food & exercise, and have been averaging a net negative of 250 calories. That works out to around half a pound a week. My ideal weight is probably somewhere in the 110-135* range, so it's gonna be a few years before I get back there. That's fine. I'm not trying to get in shape for the beach season or something; I'm trying to return to a healthier weight that will not cause me the long-term joint problems that run in my family.
This plan includes "eat when I'm hungry", which both means "do not eat to alleviate boredom and stress" and also "do not suffer in order to lose weight". I had a snack last night that put me over my calorie count for the day, for the first time since I started tracking, because I didn't want to go to bed hungry. Good call, me. So far, I do not feel like I am suffering on this plan, and that makes me a lot more likely to stick with it.
My scale now says I'm 177 pounds. My spreadsheet (I'm tracking on a spreadsheet because it's actually easier than using an app, sadly) says I should be not quite up to losing my first pound. I am curious to see how my projected vs actual weight loss goes. The first few pounds always seem to be the easiest.
* My lowest weight as an adult is something like 117 lbs. At that time, I thought "I look fine and it wouldn't hurt to lose a few more pounds". Honestly, I don't feel particularly fat even now. My desire to lose weight is mostly "I have a lot of pretty clothes I would like to fit in again" coupled with "and also gaining 5-10 pounds a year is not a healthy trend". One of my friends told me a few years ago "You are SMOKIN' HOT" and this is the self-image that has stuck with me. ♥
Writing
21,800 on The Sun Etherium for September. That was pretty much all my writing this month. I feel simultaneously as if this is Not Enough and also that I am being ridiculous and that's fine.
My 2016 YTD word counts by novel:
Birthright: 78,000
The Moon Etherium: 124.000
The Sun Etherium: 23,800
That's over 225,000 words and there's still three months left in the year. Brain, please chill out.
The Business of Writing
I published The Moon Etherium! *kermitflail* *collapse*
Art/Other
I did four different cover variants for The Moon Etherium, and a handful of sketches.
Socializing
I went to ProgPower with
alinsa! Wow, it seems so long ago I almost forgot that was in September.Goals for coming month
alinsa and I plan to serialize The Moon Etherium, which means Alinsa has to worry about getting Wordpress set up again (I hope it's easier this time) and I have to figure out illustrations. There will be eighty installments of the serial. I am not drawing eighty pictures for it. But I do like having images to go with the posts. So I will go through the eighty parts and see if I can figure out some broad shared categories and come up with abstract illustrations along the lines of each category. Goal is 8-10 different illos. I will figure out what each will be before I do any of 'em. We'll see how that goes.So I'm not really sure what my goal is for October. Probably one or more of the following:
- Write more of The Sun Etherium
- Illustrations for The Moon Etherium/begin serial
- Edit The Warlock, the Hare and the Dragon
I don't particularly plan to finish any of those in October, and I may not start all of them. I'll find out in November what I did!
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Date: 2016-10-02 07:12 am (UTC)Is 'The Warlock, The Hare and the Dragon' related to Silver Scales? Someone else's story?
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Date: 2016-10-03 02:45 am (UTC)I and my kinda wrecked metabolism shake a friendly fist at the weight listed. (Actually, I'm hovering around there and am trying to figure out how to get down even just 5 pounds; eating less might be possible, but frankly, with my hypothyroid nonsense, my metabolism would probably just slow down even more if I try that anymore. Exercising more is my plan, but the Weeks Of Everyone Sick... Well. Don't have everyone get sick if you go that route. -_- )
Good luck!