Your obsessive interest

[Graelwyn]

Well I guess going to the gym is pretty important to me. I used to think I would get suicidal if I got overweight, yet here I am 30kgs heavier and I am dealing with it. I am not happy, of course, but it isn't earth shatteringly bad. I am just trying to stay active. I think my antidepressants have a hand in not letting this become too much for me to handle.

Yeah, same here... I have an immense fear of losing control of my weight. I am certainly heavier than I have been in a long time, and hope to get back on track. I have issues with binge eating and bulimia so that is why. I am not overweight, however, just a higher BMI than I am comfortable with. I was 130Ibs at 5'10 last year and am now more like 145.

[renaeden]

Well I guess going to the gym is pretty important to me. I used to think I would get suicidal if I got overweight, yet here I am 30kgs heavier and I am dealing with it. I am not happy, of course, but it isn't earth shatteringly bad. I am just trying to stay active. I think my antidepressants have a hand in not letting this become too much for me to handle.

Yeah, same here... I have an immense fear of losing control of my weight. I am certainly heavier than I have been in a long time, and hope to get back on track. I have issues with binge eating and bulimia so that is why. I am not overweight, however, just a higher BMI than I am comfortable with. I was 130Ibs at 5'10 last year and am now more like 145.

I can definitely understand the fear of losing control. I have never had an eating disorder but do fear my weight getting any higher than it is. I weighed 55kgs since I was 17 and ate what I wanted. Which probably wasn't much. But then I had my medication changed and the weight piled on, 30kgs in a year. I looked in the mirror one day and came to the conclusion that I was fat. I had to buy new clothes that fit me. New bras too.

Last year I started going to the gym, then I changed gyms to one that is closer to me. I do a weights class and cardio in my own time. My BMI shows that I am obese!

[Graelwyn]

Well I guess going to the gym is pretty important to me. I used to think I would get suicidal if I got overweight, yet here I am 30kgs heavier and I am dealing with it. I am not happy, of course, but it isn't earth shatteringly bad. I am just trying to stay active. I think my antidepressants have a hand in not letting this become too much for me to handle.

Yeah, same here... I have an immense fear of losing control of my weight. I am certainly heavier than I have been in a long time, and hope to get back on track. I have issues with binge eating and bulimia so that is why. I am not overweight, however, just a higher BMI than I am comfortable with. I was 130Ibs at 5'10 last year and am now more like 145.

I can definitely understand the fear of losing control. I have never had an eating disorder but do fear my weight getting any higher than it is. I weighed 55kgs since I was 17 and ate what I wanted. Which probably wasn't much. But then I had my medication changed and the weight piled on, 30kgs in a year. I looked in the mirror one day and came to the conclusion that I was fat. I had to buy new clothes that fit me. New bras too.

Last year I started going to the gym, then I changed gyms to one that is closer to me. I do a weights class and cardio in my own time. My BMI shows that I am obese!

I was on a site called myfitnesspal for several years, where you can log your food daily, and it works it all out for you. Lot of very useful info on the forums there too. They are very into the balanced approach where you don't go to extremes. My best results came from a combination of cycling, boxing fitness and weights. I also did running sometimes and circuits. I really did have it as a special interest, I believe, as I read loads about nutrition and fitness during those years and my bodyfat was down at 12% which is very low for a female.

I also kept to a diet of basically fish, chicken, sweet potatoes, fruits, nuts, vegetables, eggs, dark chocolate, cottage cheese, Greek yoghurt and such things. But it was quite hard to sustain that level of activity. I was doing about 90 minutes, 5 times a week at least.

I am sure you can get the weight off if you want to.

[renaeden]

I wish I could run. The woman who did my appraisal at the gym asked if I would run on the treadmill but I said I would need to hold on to my chest as I did so. I am 14F! So I just walk as fast as I can on there.

I haven't been obsessed with food at all, I don't really think about it. Though I tried a milkshake diet which was expensive and left me feeling hungry all the time. So it didn't last long.

Anyway, I think I have lost a tiny bit of weight as some pants are feeling loose.

[Graelwyn]

I wish I could run. The woman who did my appraisal at the gym asked if I would run on the treadmill but I said I would need to hold on to my chest as I did so. I am 14F! So I just walk as fast as I can on there.

I haven't been obsessed with food at all, I don't really think about it. Though I tried a milkshake diet which was expensive and left me feeling hungry all the time. So it didn't last long.

Anyway, I think I have lost a tiny bit of weight as some pants are feeling loose.

I find running incredibly difficult. The most I managed was 80 minutes, broken up with a stop in a cafe. I also did my first and probably only 5k last Summer. But because I have mild emphysema it will always be more challenging for me to run. Cycling takes some of that strain off.

[renaeden]

I have asthma but that is nowhere near as bad as emphysema. Just have to take puffers every day. I think you are right, cycling is easier.

[odeon]

Telescopes and astronomy, lately.

[Pyraxis]

City architecture and traffic patterns.

[Walkie]

City architecture and traffic patterns.

Seriously?
I've never seen that reflected in your artwork. (Would be interested to see that.)

[Pyraxis]

It's recent, due to living in a big city for the first time and learning how the public transportation works. I'm having the unrelenting urge to play SimCity and seeing all these things I could do to improve the planning of the transportation in the network of cities I built last time I was on a SimCity binge. I can't because my computer hasn't been moved to the new place yet. 

I didn't used to pay much attention to the traffic flow, but the latest SimCity keeps track of all the pedestrians wandering around and maps them for you to use in planning. I have a tourist city going where all the hotels started along the main street at the side of the map, but the convention center and Shakespearean theater are on the other side. Every night people regularly walk from one end of the city to the other in the middle of the night, maybe a dozen blocks, and it's funny to see the big crowd going when the show lets out. Maybe it reflects their algorithms better than what would happen in real life, but it's still interesting. I installed a streetcar but most people don't take it and I think the route is slightly awkward. I could try putting in a subway.

But I've always loved architecture, especially modern residential architecture. I guess you've never seen all the house plans I used to design in class and then map out onto graph paper.

[Icequeen]

Van dwelling/rv living.
Photography of abandoned places/things...(a long time obsession, that has consumed a lot of hours ).

[Jack]

Photography of abandoned places/things...(a long time obsession, that has consumed a lot of hours ).

There's a lot of good stuff out there; easy to get lost in looking at it.

[Yuri Bezmenov]

[renaeden]

^Your interest is ships, a certain sort?

Starting to get interested in Excel and what can be done with it. Enjoyed learning about sparklines, for instance.

[Yuri Bezmenov]

I like WW II destroyers They don't get much attention because they weren't big and glamorous like the battleships and carriers but they were workhorses that did the majority of fighting and naval work.

They were used as: escorts, scouts, radar picket, shore bombardment, anti-submarine, anti-aircraft, mine sweeper, mine layer, torpedo boat and they even did cargo/personnel transport.

The top one pictured is a French Mogador class that was the heaviest gunned destroyer of WW II with 8 140mm guns.

The bottom one is a French Le Fantasque class. It was the fastest destroyer of all time with a trial speed of 45kts. (52mph)