Resolution flagging...

Resolution flagging... willpower fading... bad food tempting... weight returning....

Must... go... to... gym!

Women who look like themselves

OK, still planning on going to the gym, but I wanted to get this out of my head first.

I stumbled across minette’s journal today, seeing her user icon in a comment in someone else’s journal, and since it’s a photo of two women kissing and, hey, I’m a hetero guy, I’ve got that same widely-shared tropism, I went and looked. And I’m glad I did, because she linked to a Antonia Zerbisias column about weight loss which was just the right inspiration at the right time — I think I now know what I’m going to be doing with food (lots more fruit, veggies, and grains) and exercise (actually still need a bit more research) for the next few weeks. Part of this also comes out of a conversation with Beth yesterday.

Anyway, the user pics got me thinking about erotica. (Like I needed an excuse.) One thing that bothers me about a lot of erotic/pornographic art is how similar the women look. It’s like how many comics artists don’t actually draw women, they’re just drawing woman, an idealized image of what they think a pretty woman is supposed to look like, and so you get an endless stream of rubber-stamped women with different hair and costumes. Especially annoying to me, since visual diversity is one of the things I’m attracted to. I like women who, as I think of it, look like themselves.

I’ve been giving some thought to turning out small paintings and selling them on eBay. Maybe I should turn my hand to erotic art. There’s gotta be other people out there who are tired of the rubber stamps. Downside: Hardcore porn turns me off. I suspect the big market is in stuff I’d actually find distasteful to produce.

...or maybe not

<sigh> Didn’t go to the gym. Went grocery shopping instead. Fruit, veggies, Cheerios, lean ground beef, salmon patties, protein bars. Juice and seltzer. Some milk (2%), which I rarely buy, but I’ll try small servings of cereal with strawberries and bananas instead of my usual massive servings of cereal. I’m going to let the current supplies of bread, cheese, cold cuts, and hot dogs run out without replacing them. Oh, also multivitamins and St. John’s wort, the latter just to see if I can discern any effect now that I’m more sensitive to my moods.

Gym tomorrow! Full workout, weights and everything! Hours of grunting and sweating! Days of aches and twinges after! This time for sure! (Oh, gotta remember to replace the batteries in my Walkman.)