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Have celebrated officially losing FIFTY POUNDS* by buying a heart rate monitor. Discovered that yes, I am indeed within my target heart rate range when on the bike - I was vaguely worried I was too low, as I don't bother to kill myself on it - and that I have a tendency to go over the range when I'm doing weights/calisthenics, which probably explains why I have a hard time convincing myself to do that. I should pull back a bit and take it easier - that's what got me to do the bike on a regular basis.

And I feel vaguely cyborgy, as you wear a strap around your chest that sends signals to a device on your wrist with your heart rate, and it beeps at you if you're over or under it.

On the linkblogging front, those of you who work in libraries can rest assured that crazy patrons have been around for a long time, as this excerpt from the September, 1887 issue of Book-Lore shows. (Via bookshelves of doom)

* Technically 49.2. I'm allowed to round, dammit.

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Congratulations on your loss.

Thank you! :D I've got a lot to go, but at least I'm now below the weight I was when I hurt my back in 2003.

Congratulations! That's quite an accomplishment.

Rounding up is highly approved of.

Nice to know libraries crazies aren't a recent development(not, I'm sure, that anyone thought the were...)

Fifty pounds?! Holy cow! Congratulations! That's quite an achievement! :D

Congratulations on the new poundage and good progress in other health goals. \O/

I can see me becoming a library crazy someday. Libraries are a nice refuge from the real world, and you can stay there all day if you're reasonably well behaved. A community problem we have here is homeless folks and vagrants hanging around in the library. The librarians worry that these visitors will bother other patrons. So far, I've heard of only a couple of instances where there was harrassment or anything really bad happening. Unfortunately, our shelters are small and are not equipped to keep clients on site all day. Plus, who would find much solace hanging out in a homeless shelter?

:) Thanks.

I suspect the first library crazy was impatiently waiting at the door of the first library fifteen minutes before it opened. XD

:DD

Thanks!

Yes, waiting to demand information of why the latest transcription of a speech by *insert earliest philosopher known to man* isn't available yet.

And saying "What? You have to have a degree to work here? Isn't it all just shelving scrolls?"

Indeed.

And then they wanted to know why they couldn't bring in their wineskin.

Whoa! I just got one myself. I was choosing between a strapless one vs the one with. Which brand and model did you get? :D

Congrats! :D

And was probably somehow responsible for the great fire at the library of Alexandria.

I got the Polar F4. The consensus over on the forums at CalorieKing was that the Polar and the Nike+ ones worked well, and I vaguely remember hearing that the chest-strap ones tend to be more accurate than the wrist-only ones.

It was expensive (around $95ish), but it was the only one there with the strap. I figured if I was going to drop a lot of money on a HRM, I'd want to be sure it was accurate. XD

Thanks!

"But why can't I take my torch into the stacks? It's dark back there! Oooo...they went on lunch break..." *grabs and runs*

Wow, 50 lbs!!!

Hee, cyborg ... that's what the Young Lady complains that the Mr. looks like when he's wearing the hands-free earpiece from his new work Blackberry ... you could get one of those too, for double the cyborgality!

Congratulations! And also, I believe you have gained some muscle, though that's harder to measure.

Hee! :D And I, too, could wander around the streets raving like a lunatic and nobody would know that I was actually insane, because they'd see the earpiece and assume I was talking to someone. XD

Yup, 50. And I've got a bunch to go, but am attempting to focus on the positive side and not the long slog ahead. XD

Thank you! And yeah, I think so, but primarily in my legs, since I've been using the bike. That's why I need to start focusing more on my arms. ~~Plus, every little bit of muscle gained means my metabolism is that much higher. ;)~~

I spent most of the past month since Japan following the "eat everything you want and don't exercise" plan, but did not gain any weight, which I take to mean that I have both adjusted my normal eating amount down and my metabolism slightly up.

Congrats! Yay newfound cyborgness!

wow, congratulations! :)

Thanks! (I think I have to loosen the strap a bit, as my ribs feel vaguely sore now. XD)

Thanks!

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