Saturday, March 01, 2014

Sad Turd Day doings

1. Meet a colleague in a few minutes to talk over a course we're both teaching (same course, but teaching it separately).

2. Tromp over to my campus office to drop off my load of textbooks. Maybe stick around a few hours and write up some icebreaker activities for this coming week. (Or just do this at home.)

3. Go shop for some shtuff to eat.

4. Take a walk around town...?

Starting next week, I won't be buying any more carbs. I'll use up the carbs I currently have in storage, then concentrate, over the next few months, on buying fresh meat and fresh veggies. Once pay day rolls around, I plan to go and finally get a Korean Costco membership (about W35,000, from what I hear), at which point I ought to have access to real cheese for cheaper than can be found at the typical Korean grocery. Once I'm Costco-ified, I'll be doing meat-and-cheese runs, stocking my fridge with delectable edibles.

Not that I won't cheat every once in a while. I plan to reserve two or three "naughty" days per month. Just to give my insulin something to do.

And—no promises—but I want to start waking up very early, like around 6AM or 6:30, to do morning walks. Time to follow Ben Franklin's wisdom about being early.


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4 comments:

Sperwer said...

Let's not call them cheat days; promotes the wrong attitude. Carb cycling is a well-established and very effective means of weight/fat reduction. The essentials are: (i) beginning Sunday night and continuing through Friday night, eat no more than ~ 30 grams of carbs a day; (ii) Friday night, Saturday and Sunday daytime, eat sufficient crabs to replenish muscle stocks of glycogen - depends on amount and intensity of exercise, but say 300-400 grams a day, if you're not going to be doing a lot of intense exercise; (iii) only eat the right kinds of carbs - slow, low glycemic, e.g., sweet potatoes - no/minimum amt of grains, NO sugar-laden shit.

Scott said...


I've been on and off diets myself for nearly 15 years. No easy answers, obviously. I thought the information in this article on The Diet Fix book was interesting.

http://www.sciencebasedmedicine.org/the-diet-fix/#more-30405

Unknown said...

Your US Costco membership should work here in Korea.
They'll try to scan it and when it doesn't work they'll look at it and see that it's a US card. Then they'll key something in to register and bypass the regular system.
(at least that is what they did for me a decade ago--and what they've done for me in the US with my Korean membership card).

Depending on when it expires, that could postpone a 30 or 40 dollar expense for a while.

Kevin Kim said...

Thanks, Joe. Alas, my US Costco membership lapsed back around July or August of last year, so I have no choice but to start fresh.