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Wellness Wednesday for January 1, 2025

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New year's resolutions, motteizeans?

I intend to eat more vegetables. I intend to do this by ensuring I have vegetables in the house and including a vegetable portion in meal planning.

I try to do themes vs resolutions. 2025 is the year of movement. More physical movement, more mental movement, more doing the small things; less talking & planning & procrastinating.

I intend to paint more, and especially figure out how to paint while the children are awake. I've been looking into cold wax and oil painting, and have bought supplies to make some. It's especially good for abstracted landscapes, and has a nice smooth body to it, that's good for scratching through layers and spreading with pallet knives. It is more child friendly than hot wax painting (encaustic), which I like a bit more, but haven't done in years, since I need an actual studio space and several consecutive hours, but has a similar wax finish that refracts light nicely, and allows similar carving techniques.

Keep adding entries to my log of things that I did each day that mark material progress.

17% body fat. Might have to resort to cryolipolysis, since I am a hard gainer and all my lifting gains have resulted in very little additional meat on my bones.

Isn’t that the procedure which basically destroyed a famous model? I would tread lightly

What's that?

It's a procedure that destroys your subcutaneous fat by chilling your skin. Adipose tissue tolerates cold less than other tissues and its cells die. The patented trick is finding the right length and intensity of chilling to both kill fat cells and not end up with a frostbite.

Is that safe? What happens to the dead cells?

It's 99% safe. The dead cells are reclaimed by the same processes that reclaim other dead cells.

In 1% of the cases there's a paradoxical growth of adipose tissue. This is what happened to Evangelista, as mentioned by @Corvos

I'm going to be more kind to my friends and knit a hat that looks like a frog.

Why frog

I like frogs.

Stick to my routine daily, that is pretty much it. Vegetables are great, you can blend them up to increase consumption, we consume far more spinach by just adding it to curries.

Stop smoking weed. It's not that I'm a big stoner or have ever been, but I dabbled in weed vapes a bit because they're by far the cheapest way to get intoxicated and it's just a waste of time. Aside from being high being kind of fun I can't think of any real positive. I tend to wind up staying up too late/sleeping poorly and get nothing done around the house/at all. I also really need to get a better job soon and pissing hot on a drug test isn't a restriction I can afford right now.

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