i got through most of my asimov reading in the down time. there's 50 pages left...
i've decided i'm going to switch this up mildly, because i want to get back to the actual recording. i've been through this before and i know i don't multitask the best, but the machine seems to be running smoothly so i'm going to give it a go. that means rather than focus too much on days of the week, i should instead of focus on tasks and cycle through the three options. so, i'm going to finish the post (with baseball dream), then file the machine so it's ready for the next round, and then get back to the vlogging stuff. the flip will need to be that alter-realities have to be done every week...'cause i can't get much more behind on it....
i'm also toying with flipping my diet back to what it was before my cholesterol shot up, even if i don't think it's diet. i mean, it was awesome, right? let's retreat back to the awesome, first. i think that means going back to eggs every second day, even though that doesn't actually make sense, as eggs should boost the hdl. if it's diet, rather, i think there's two likely explanations: either i'm just eating too much, or perhaps it's the quinoa, as that's the only thing i really actually changed of any substance. so, did my hdl go down because i switched from pasta to quinoa? my protein might have gone up at the same time, but that actually doesn't seem to be totally inconsistent with evidence - i have come across studies tying quinoa to decreases in hdl, which is my primary concern.
what i'm going to do to start is pull my meals back. so, what i've been doing is having a a big breakfast and then a combined huge supper [salad/quinoa + eggs/yogurt/cheese]. i'm going to split that directly in half, and put a cup of coffee in between. now that the heat is on, i should be more thirsty, which should boost the amount of liquid i'm consuming. but that extra five-six hours in between the salad and eggs should give me more time to digest, and should lead to a total decrease in calories.
i need to also get out for bike rides when i can, and i need to investigate what's going on with my adrenal glands. but, the thing i changed about my diet was i combined the meals into one. i was previously having fruit then pasta salad then fruit then eggs. i decided it likely wasn't possible to totally salvage either of the second meals and crammed them together, but i'm now deciding that it's having negative effects on my cholesterol, one way or another. so, let's start by breaking them in half, first, instead of going back to alternating them.
if things don't correct by the time i've run out of quinoa, then maybe i'll need to switch back to pasta.
for now, i want to finish the asimov reading..
