The Further Adventures of Deluzy: For all those (non-existent) spare moments I have ...

Health and Wellness

The Google 15
An excellent weight-tracking tool that keeps track of your moving weight average over time so that no single weigh-in is a cause for ecstacy or despair.
Understanding Your Tests
A good preliminary resource for understanding your lab work (though of course it's no substitution for discussing results with your doctor)
FitDay - Free Weight Loss and Diet Journal
An essential tool for me during my first 6 post-op months -- and a good reality check for anyone keeping track of daily food intake (e.g., calories, fats, carbohydrates, etc.) and activity levels
Gmaps Pedometer
A wonderful tool that allows one to map exercise routes and calculate miles covered and calories burned

Products I Like

Spanx
A line of comfortable foundation garments (and even easy-to-pack clothing) that comes in handy post-op to corrale that wayward, formerly obese flesh and make you feel comfortable. Available online, at Lane Bryant in larger sizes, at Nordstrom in smaller sizes, and sometimes at outlets for less.
Pure Protein RTD shakes
At an average of 35 grams of protein, 3 grams of carbs, and 160 calories, these ready-to-drink shakes work for me because I can chill them, grab them, pack them, and go. Available from a variety of online sources or at GNC stores.
Perfectly Sweet
Expensive but excellent source for sugar-free and no-sugar-added bakery and candy items.
Low Carb Corner
As near as I can tell, this site sells nothing but two kinds of breakfast cereal -- but as one who's avoided cereal since my DS surgery because it contains virtually no protein and far too many carbs, Protein Crunch is a wonderful option (i.e., 27 grams protein, 2 net grams carbs). It's horrifyingly expensive but for WLS cereal lovers, it's worth the occasional splurge.

Tuesday, October 23, 2007

For all those (non-existent) spare moments I have ...

Thornfield_hall_2 there's this, which I believe I first read about on Brontë Blog a couple of months ago and which just arrived on my doorstep yesterday as part of an Amazon order I had placed a while back. The book was formerly published as Adèle, and I have no idea if it's any good -- but given that its subtitle is Jane Eyre's Hidden Story, I don't much care.

As my friends and former grad student pals know, I'm fascinated by alternative narratives suggested by the main thread of a tale, narratives that exist either literally or metaphorically like a palimpsest beneath the surface of the primary narrative but that are "lost" narratives, haunting the main tale.

That concept is one that I explored in relation to the 1940s American woman's film in my Ph.D. dissertation, and I suppose it's always informing my research choices now, albeit in slightly different fashion.

And as everyone knows who was reading my blog this past summer, I also have an obsession of sorts with all things Jane Eyre-related.

So I'm putting this book on the table next to my comfy chair in the living room and vowing to give myself the treat of a good read in the not-too-distant future. A well-earned break sometime soon will keep me from becoming too savage about my work load -- I hope.

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