Thursday,
May 1, 2008
Oh dear sweet bleeding Deity Of Your Choice
I'm sweating like a horse. And it's good.
Allow
me to explain. For some women, good solid aerobics is all they need to
peel off weight. I envy them, I truly do, because I can do aerobics until
the cows come home, and while it give me nice tone in my legs and strengthens
my heart, it does bubkes for weight loss. I'm 3/4 Eastern European --
I come from a people where they bred women who could pull a plow after
a bad winter when they had to eat the ox. I'm genetically designed to
be well-muscled, and when all that wonderful energy-soaking tissue isn't
available my body looks at the available energy in the system, figures, "Well,
might as well store it against a bad winter -- you never know when the
Tsar's men will burn the crops," and suddenly I'm wearing fat jeans again.
So
I have returned to the weights, and dear Glory but I can tell the difference.
For one thing, I could probably rehydrate the Sahara with my sweat after
a weight session -- I'm gulping water like it's going out of style, and
minutes later it bubbles up out of my pores.
Yeah, I know, lovely image there, but it's true.
It also tells me that la bod is actually doing real work for a change, and work uses energy, and energy comes from stored fat and carbs in my system, and that leads to a Mellie who will be able to shop in the regular women's section one day soon.
And I'm serious about that -- when I get all of this padding off, I intend to turn into SF Writer Barbie. I will be hitting every damn store in the mall and trying clothes on left, right and central, even if I don't intend on buying a single thing. And it will be fun.
And in honor of it being the First of May
This is most definitely NSFW. But it's funnier than hell.
