Water water everywhere...

[gemfyre]

2 litres or 8 glasses? Who knows. I figured 2 of the water bottles is 2 litres. I'm pretty sure I've drank (drunk) over that amount today, but the bottles may only be 750mL, not sure.

I decided I'd try for 8 glasses instead. But the glass I'm using is one of our really big cups. I think they hold around 400mL and I'm on my 5th or 6th one.

My kidneys saw the flood of water coming their way and I'm sure they screamed "HOLY SHIZNIT!!" and I've been dashing to the toilet every 10 minutes.

On the upside all I've eaten today was a bowl of Just Right for breakfast (with a glass of juice), a toasted foccacia with garlic mayo, ham, semi-dried tomato, mushroom and jarlsberg for lunch and a small Cadbury easter egg. Hopefully all I'll eat for the rest of the day is dinner (apricot chicken) and maybe another small bit of chocolate for dessert.

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Re: This is kinda long, but I've got some helpful stuff to say.

[morninglord.livejournal.com]

I haven't said that I think "this and that WILL happen to you as you get older" but more that I think 'this and that MIGHT happen' because of my own experiences and the what I've witnessed in my friends as they got older.
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Im not passing character judgement, Im passing information.
Your wording previously did not get this across sufficiently, not from my point of view anyway, which is why I felt obliged to bring it to your attention. I'm glad you weren't thinking that way.
I don't know if my interests will change as they get older or not, but I know that my obsession with body image will. In reality, I'm doing it because I know these things will change, and I want to be able to say to myself whenever I see a young sprightly lean fella on tv: Yep, I did that too.
I don't think that I'll allow myself to get overweight when I get older, because I am far too aware of the negative health impacts of too much weight, but I do think I'll relax my highly stringent standards a little. As it is, what I'm actually aiming for right now is just skirting the lower end of the the healthy body weight percentage. To make a six pack visible, you need 8-9% body weight. It sucks, but that's guys for ya, we put so much god damn weight around the abdomen so easily. Stupid body.
As for my martial arts. I don't know. I love them so much, I want to learn more that complement the one I've taken up, and the one I've taken up can never be truly mastered, because its not just thousands of years old, its constantly being revised by the masters in China and those changes are being conveyed to us. Its a living martial art, not a traditional one. Not all martial arts are like that.
I don't think I'll ever take up lawn bowls. Not unless my AADHD (first A stands for "adult") goes away, and I don't really think it will, not completely. Lawn bowls would be so boring! :P
I don't know about family life at 28, that's something I don't really think will happen, mainly because I don't really want it to happen. I mean, me, with a child? Wtf? Since when did the world get that fucked up that it'd let me breed? I certainly don't wanna do it to the world.
And I don't want to pass on my genetic fuckup to my kids. Not unless they come up with a really good way of treating adhd. It'd be best just not to have kids, and let at least one genetic breakdown not be passed on into future populations.
One of the reasons the human race is fucking up so badly nowadays is that all the genetic defects are not dying out as nature intended. This is good and bad, its good because they're still human and have a right to live, its bad because they often have children and pass on the bad gene. Even if it doesn't immediately show up in teh child, who could be a perfect, they will still have that bad gene that could show up in THEIR children, and so on.
They need to hurry up and learn to fix some of the worst genetic defects. I'm not advocating making perfect babies, because that's that will mark the end of human physical evolution (thats bad, things that don't evolve, go extinct), just stopping some of the nastier genetic diseases that do nothing but cause misery and suffering.
I certainly believe stupidity is a gene. It would explain so much. :)
Anyway, I'm glad this all got cleared up.

Re: This is kinda long, but I've got some helpful stuff to say.

[ant8472.livejournal.com]

Yup, all noted and acknowledged. I'm glad it's cleared up too.

As for ADHD, I don't think it's a genetic defect. One who has ADHD has many strengths and advantages over people who don't have it. It depends on what degree a person has it but its very common. For example, someone with ADHD can focus intensely on a matter and generally, people with ADHD are very intelligent and brilliant at absorbing new information.

I think ADHD is just another way of experiencing life rather than an inherently damaging condition. In fact, it isn't a clear cut condition as you probably know, it's just degrees of certain neurochemicals in the brain.

Re: This is kinda long, but I've got some helpful stuff to say.

[morninglord.livejournal.com]

Its an immaturity in the brain itself. Things haven't quite formed right. Not only is neurchemistry involved, but the blood vessels that feed the brain don't work so well either.
Drugs like dexamphetamines mainly work by increasing the blood flow to the areas of the brain which you need to concentrate.
Um. No, we can't focus. That's why its called Attention Deficiency Hyperactivity Disorder. Heh. If were all druggied up, suuure. We can focus fine. One, well, anything. At all. This includes the pattern of veins in leaves. For hours.
Its a blessing and a curse. But in children, its a curse.