Category: Mind/Body
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No jury duty, 1588 words, and am now over 20% through Book 3 of 5 (also… fasting…)
I’m grateful for writing, and for being well into a story that holds my attention and makes me need to know what happens next. Having been fasting since Sunday night, I’ve now had nothing but coffee, water, and vitamins for long enough that my hindbrain has started taking action against me. My legs keep picking…
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Fat’s Where It’s At – A quirky scene, and 1657 words. AWESOME writing Friday!
I have been beating the crap out of my main character on a regular basis — she has a dangerous and very weird job, and she’s pissed off some seriously WRONG folks. Over the last few writing days, I’ve been clobbering her. Today, while recovering, she started looking at herself through a different lens. And…
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Beat the headache. 1278 new words, and a good twist.
First, the headache, because it was the biggest obstacle I faced this morning. Over the holidays, we did an intentional, planned drift away from keto so that we could have some fun foods. Pies, you know, and cookies, and stuff like baked potatoes and stuffing. We hadn’t done this before, but we hadn’t dealt with…
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A good and angry Tuesday – the novel’s midpoint conflict comes to life
Was at work by nine (I slept in a little) and just finished my words. Goal is always 1250, and I got 1412 — so I came out a little ahead. If you look at my screen shot of the word counter, you can see that I could have quit at 1242 and still stayed…
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The Ghost Who’ll Be Coming to Ohio
The text message at the top of this post (which I sent to Matt at 3:34 AM on 12/6/20) includes the date and time because my half-sister, Julie, died in 2016, before her birthday, which was December 3rd. I got the news of her death from my older son, Mark, who called Matt while we…
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Streamlining During Chaos: Fiction? YES.
Nothing is yet cast in stone… but in about a week the full force of this particular Chaos Storm is going to hit. The Current ChaosTM is pretty close to becoming the Big Right On Top Of Me Chaos — a state that could last from a best case of one month to a worst…
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Fung Fasting Report #5: The Breakthrough Month
This was the month in which I broke through my 3-days fasting block. Went four days easily and comfortably on just water, coffee, and a daily multivitamin, and I think I could have done five, but we had a roast that needed to be cooked and eaten before it went bad. I fasted yesterday just…
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The Fung Fasting Report #4: More success
After the “Failed to drink enough water, felt like crap” fast last month, this month I decided to skip any extended fasting. I have held to: ONE ketogenic meal a day, NO snacks. We had a family holiday in the month over at my inlaws’ place (combined birthday and Father’s Day) so there one day…
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The Fung Fasting Report #3: Improvements noted
Fun stuff first. Here’s where I started. (And why I started.) Waistline: 42″ even (106.68 cm) Here’s where I am today. Waistline: 35″ even DOWN 7″ (88.9 cm) DOWN 17.78 cm As noted in a previous post, I’ve stopped checking blood sugars. My fingers were pincushions, and my blood glucose before and after meals is…
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The Fung Fasting Report #2: Four-Day Water Fast
Sunday Matt said, “So… you wanna go long on the fasting?” My response. “Yeah.” So I had a wonderful ribeye steak (ribeyes are fatty, and I ate the damn fat, and it was delicious) and a salad with lemon juice instead of dressing at our favorite restaurant last Sunday at 4 pm. Have not had a…