Muke's growing journey

Trying to decide whether this is a good idea.

What do y’all think? More or no?

Have you studied yourself as a gainer?  Have you learned your habits, your needs? Have you learned what helps you put on weight and what doesn’t—in regards to both calorie intake levels and all the little metabolism ‘cheats’ you read about?

I’ve been working on gaining for about a decade now; I’ve tried just about everything, and I’ve learned a lot about myself.  I notice that trying to talk about gaining with others can be a bit depressing for me, and I’ve found it isn’t just the lack of recent progress—it’s also that people tend to talk to me as though I were a beginner.  While I haven’t been able to extend my progress shot in quite a long time, I have made a lot of progress over the years.  I know how to do what I need to do. Trouble is, that’s never been my problem—but I guess y’all that’ve been reading me for a while already know that.

Love to you all.

Last week y’all didn’t get an update from me ’cause I was on vacation. I got the opportunity to meet my gainer buddy John and went out to eat a time or two. :9

Anyway. For the past while I’ve been sort of trying to save on food, since I’ve been short on roommates in the house and having to fork over more than usual on rent and bills.  But now we’re up to a full house and if things keep up at this rate I should be able to start spending money on proper cooking again, instead of living on nachos and pierogies.

Actually I was thinking (as I’m sure I’ve mentioned here before) of starting a separate blog for posting recipes and such.  Maybe next weekend I might put some time into setting that up.

People say I mostly eat healthy. I’ve never been very good at junk food.

Even though this is supposed to be a relatively simple game of calories in versus calories out, it’d be easier if I could manage a lot of that high-calorie stuff. In the long run though, I suppose it’s better I don’t.

The rice cooker is a great thing—at least for now, while I’m still in a rice-eating mood. In addition to other stuff I went through a two-pound bag of rice last week and then some, mostly in hand rolls. I’m hopin’ that’s part of why even though it isn’t much, my average daily weight’s risen for the first time in a month.

Every little bit helps, eh? Let’s turn this (interminable) slump around.

Hopin’ to turn around this downward trend—last week was another one of those meh weeks; I don’t think I managed to make it all the way through any of the meals I’d planned. Frf.

Bought a rice cooker, it came in the mail this weekend. Gave it a shot and it gave me much better results than I’d been getting trying to make it on my own lately. Made myself a bunch of sushi rice over the past couple of days. Stuff came out really well.

So: This week we’re going to be strong and accomplish everything we want to accomplish, right?

It’d be nice if my body made gaining easier. 

Lately, the whole bottom half of my stomach has just felt empty… small… overall, it just feels awful.  And yet I still don’t have any decent desire to eat. 

It’s not good for me to continue to be alone in this.

This is the point where I go up to the blackboard and write

I NEED TO EAT ON WEEKENDS

a hundred times. This week is not shaping up to be much better, I’m afraid, and for the same reason. Nevertheless, we don’t give up, we keep trying…

Y’all don’t need words from me.