Mom’s BodyBlog

Working out for me IS my life now at least till I recover substantially from clinical depression.  The moment I stop working out, the dreaded feelings creep in even though I am under medication.  Today I am not afraid to admit that there were many times I almost killed myself.  Sure, I have attempted and landed in the emergency room  more than 2 decades ago.  As a matter of fact, many of you here have actually been giving me support when I was struggling late last year.  Encouragements, prayers, friendship….. Yeah, I have removed those blogs recently, there were more than 100.  You won’t wanna read all of them.

Contrary to what some think, taking photographs is an easy task for me cos I usually use my phone camera and the job is done in 5-10 minutes.  Some days I feel good so I take some pictures.  Other days I don’t even wanna look in the mirror.  I am grateful for Al’s & Bradl’s advice in one of my previous blogs.  It shows they are concerned when I said I was obsessive. 

OK I have to admit this.  I have gotten obsessive with my body.  And I simply love seeing progress in my body no matter how insignificant.  It is more obvious to me because mentally I feel so much better, happier….  and yeah…I do seem to have taken a lot of photographs , haven’t I???  :p

Let me get directly to the point.  To all the guys who are so intent on requesting to  "trade" "personal" in other words, naked/nude photographs, please STOP IT!!!  BS is a place for self improvement and it is all about making changes to our bodies.  If we are all covered up how are we supposed to see progress , if any??  I daresay I will be speaking for quite a number of girls here that we ARE NOT TRYING TO SEND THE WRONG MESSAGES when we upload pics of ourselves near-nude !!  If you guys have the need to, go visit a porn site.   Seriously, when I broach the subject, a male friend on bs said, "there are porn sites…"  So , there!! That came from a guy, not a girl, not me.

I know this has nothing to do with training.  But after weeks of pestering from my girls, I decided to cheat and made "Belgian" waffles from bread, butter & honey using the waffle iron.  Yup, not from the scratch.  I have been studying the recipe for Belgian Waffles and noted the similarity in making bread dough.  Today I tried it out, buttered the sandwich bread on the outsides, place one with the butter facing the iron and drizzled honey , placed an unbuttered piece of bread , drizzled some more honey and topped up with yet another slice of bread butter on the outside, close the wafer maker and…voila!!!  Tasty waffles!!!! 

Anyone knows how to use it?  I forgot I got one months ago and found it under my bed the other day…lol…Am I supposed to just use my arms’ strength to bend it?  The one I have is the Junior version but it is still a bit stiff for me…yeah I am probably a weakling… Can anyone direct me any website ?  I googled it but didn’t get anything….

help?