Will Write For Chocolate, LJ icons, and a fitness follow-up

Will Write For Chocolate has been updated. In addition to the strip, the blog has also been updated. Topic: "Miss Snark, bookmarks and revision." I'm sending out a free Will Write For Chocolate bookmark to everyone who posted a writer's resolution for the New Year in an earlier WWFC blog entry.

I've been gradually working my way through the list of people who signed up for for free LJ user icons from three years ago. Feel free to add your name to the end of the list if you'd like one and haven't had one drawn for you yet, but be warned there's no guarantee when or IF I'll ever get to your icon. I'm doing this for FREE, eh? See the linked LJ post at the beginning of this paragraph for rules and other disclaimers.

Here are a few I've drawn recently:





Thanks for all the fitness resource advice! I strongly agree with those of you who said they found that aiming for weight loss wasn't nearly as a good motivation as fitness and health reasons.




As a result of your posts, I've joined the Healthy Fen Livejournal Community (thanks for the link, mdlbear, and to Mew for starting it!) and The President's Challenge (thanks, jwordsmith). I especially like the latter because it's very straightforward...log the type, length and intensity of the physical activity, and you see your "points" accumulate.

From jwordsmith:

"You can start of with really low expectations (do something active five days a week) like me, or you can log more strenuous activities. They assign a points value to each activity and you can challenge yourself to better your last week's number, or to reach assigned levels to win 'awards'. It's making me realise that I am NOT as active as I thought I was. And, since I like filling in the little stars, I'm more likely to pop out for a walk, or onto the treadmill, or heck, dance with the kids for 15 minutes here and there, just to rack up some more activity points! There are some odd categories of activity listed (and missing) and it may be possible to add them, but I haven't found that out yet. My motivation? For the first time it's not about losing weight. I'm 34 and had my cholesterol checked. It was on the high side of normal and I reckoned now was the time to do something about it. Exercising for the good of my heart (and the people it holds) is MUCH easier to do than exercising to try to lose a small lump of lard from my hips."

Mdlbear also showed me the Gmaps Pedometer, which looks like a very cool tool for figuring out how far my regular walking/running routes are. I tend to be a pedometer destroyer so have given up trying to use one.

In addition, I'm also making more of an effort to take the stairs instead of escalators and elevators. I've been to the gym twice this week and am more diligent about doing my stretches and crunches every day (hey, I can log the time on The President's Challenge!).

Links O' The Day

Stikkit: virtual Post-It notes. (Thanks to Jeff for the link!)

Australian man puts his life for sale on eBay: !!





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