Diets and Turkish Delight

[nonionay]

I've been on a diet for exactly three weeks now, and doing well. Way back when, I topped out at nearly 200 pounds, but through exercise and generally watching what I ate, I dropped to 181 and hit a plateau. So now I'm tracking exactly what I eat, and making sure my calorie intake is different each day. I've been paying attention to what the package says a serving size is, and actually eating that. To my surprise, it's usually a substantial amount.
As a result, when I stepped on the scale this morning, I was under 175. In high school, I was 148(according to my ID.)

I've also been sick lately, but I'm hoping that's not a direct result of my diet. I figure it's equal parts: stress at work (co-worker gone to Turkey for two weeks, just got back), new kitten (KITTEN!) driving my allergies crazy, something nasty going around work, and yes, the diet.

So losing weight, but low energy.

But hey, I jut got some turkish delight from my co-worker! He also (at my request) got me a cd of turkish music, with songs whose titles translate into such fun as: "I Ate Your Meal", "You, Stand Wave So I May See Your Stature", "Man With Camel (Camels)", and "Grasshooper". And everyone's favorite, "You're a Flower, I'm a Bee."

Comments

[magycmyste]

KITTEN!!! Yep, definitely seeing those allergies adding to stress. Plus the stress of keeping her out of places she shouldn't be. I'm still paranoid about Patra accidentally electrocuting herself.

You know, I just realized I don't have any Turkish music, and probably haven't heard it before.

[smallbearcub.livejournal.com]

I cannot stop laughing at "You, Stand So I May See Your Stature." BEST. TITLE. EVER.

[criada.livejournal.com]

Actually, I'm mistaken, it's You, wave so that I can see your stature." And having gotten home and actually looked at the cd, I can say that the best one is, "You're a Flower, I'm a Bee."

[criada.livejournal.com]

I love world music, especially eastern European stuff, which often has irregular, middle eastern-inspired beats. I haven't listened to too much Turkish stuff, but I've liked what I hear. There's some here (http://cdbaby.com/cd/okbari) that you can listen to online. This site (http://www.turkishmusic.org/index.html) has a lot of streaming music, if you don't mind crappy sound quality.