{"id":9463,"date":"2021-12-10T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-12-10T14:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/?p=9463"},"modified":"2021-12-08T10:44:45","modified_gmt":"2021-12-08T16:44:45","slug":"24-days-of-desire-10-abs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/?p=9463","title":{"rendered":"24 Days of Desire (10): Abs"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>No, you didn&#8217;t read that wrong. Today&#8217;s topic is abs. As in &#8220;visibly tight abdominal muscles that women want to rub their faces up against.&#8221; Nobody ever said that this list was going to be exclusively for material objects what must be purchased.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Okay, to be fair, I don&#8217;t really want abs so much as I want for the <em>abs-sence<\/em> of my gut. It&#8217;s not even really that much of a gut, but it has re-inflated a little bit over the last year. I&#8217;ve been trying in vain to get it back down to 2020 levels, but I&#8217;ve developed some fairly bad eating habits this year that have been proving difficult to undo.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"450\" height=\"503\" src=\"https:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/helpy-1.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-9465\"\/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Most notably, I celebrate the end of the work week every Friday by treating myself to junk food. Usually a burger and fries or a donair and fries, but also sometimes most of an extra large pizza. This wouldn&#8217;t be so bad, but I also usually eat out on Thursdays and quite often am filled to the brim with junk food when I go to my parents&#8217; house for dinner on Saturdays. So it&#8217;s a bit much!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The first step I&#8217;m trying to take is to omit the fries. They are where a gigantic portion of the empty calories lie, especially since I usually opt for the large serving. There was a long stretch of time where I would rarely order fries, and suddenly in 2021 I&#8217;m basically addicted to them. I&#8217;m also going to scale back my Friday junk food to once a month, but the weekly order has become a routine that&#8217;s proving hard to wean myself off of.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I&#8217;ve also gone through a few phases of somewhat heavy beer drinking this year. This isn&#8217;t necessarily new, but it&#8217;s certainly not helping. I&#8217;m in an &#8220;off the beer&#8221; phase right now, and the intent is to keep it that way. I do quite enjoy a nice beer, but man, it really needs to go the way of soda pop and just not be a regular part of my life.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The last thing I want to mention is that I&#8217;ve not been entirely consistent with exercise this year. I went running almost every weekend during the warmer months. Almost. <strong>Fitness Boxing<\/strong> on Switch is still a constant in my life, but I&#8217;ll drop off for weeks at a time. <strong>Ring Fit Adventure<\/strong> has gone from a weekly workout to monthly at best. I know exercise is secondary to a proper diet, but it sure wouldn&#8217;t hurt to be able to keep doing it consistently.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>While I don&#8217;t expect that I&#8217;ll have a six-pack anytime soon -or <em>ever<\/em>, to be honest- I sure would like to get my eating habits under control and see my belly shrink a bit. And that&#8217;s something that I am totally capable of! I was in fairly good shape throughout 2020! But I fell off the wagon and got incredibly lazy this year. I wonder if it has anything to do with working from home???<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>No, you didn&#8217;t read that wrong. Today&#8217;s topic is abs. As in &#8220;visibly tight abdominal muscles that women want to rub their faces up against.&#8221; Nobody ever said that this list was going to be exclusively for material objects what must be purchased. Okay, to be fair, I don&#8217;t really want abs so much as &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/?p=9463\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">24 Days of Desire (10): Abs<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[55,26,22,21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9463","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fitness","category-foodstuffs","category-holidays","category-irl"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9463","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9463"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9463\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9466,"href":"https:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9463\/revisions\/9466"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9463"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9463"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9463"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}