Who they? What do? And where?

This could easily be part of some global assassination plot, but I tend to doubt it.

I'm trying to get all my Livejournal friends' locations plotted on a map - please add your location starting with this form. Username: (Then get your friends to!)

Use http://www.streetmap.co.uk to get your latitude and longitude if you're a stickler for precision (like me) and in the UK. Otherwise just slap that map.

Belly's gonna get ya

arwel is noticeably slimmer now that he's going to the gym, all regularly, like a social pariah. (See that back-handed compliment there? That's what gets me through the day.) This has made me (more) self-conscious about the slight belly that appears to have developed on the front of me. It's not exactly surprising, given that I work in a sedentary profession, drive to work, and like my butter. But it's annoying. I can suck in the gut when I think about it but a lot of the time I don't, which led to a comment from samharber on Saturday that a coat I tried on would have looked good "before I put on a few pounds." Looking down I noticed that the belly was, in fact, protruding noticeably. Bad belly. Making me feel short and fat. Grr.

Annoyingly, my Body Mass Index is 23 or 24 - the perfect weight for my height. If only it wasn't all concentrated around the midriff.

So I'm going to try and lose a little weight. Health sites tell me that just doing a bunch of sit-ups will not help (it'll firm the muscles underneath without actually destroying the gut), which is a relief, since I am lazy. They also say simply eating less is a bad plan as it would slow the metabolism, making you lethargic and stopping you from processing food properly at all, thus turning you into a skinny person who still has a belly. The best advice seems to be to cut down on specifically fatty foods like mayonnaise and butter (probably peanut butter also - hello ham sandwiches), eat more vegetables, and do more exercise (possibly a run, or even a walk, around the estate at lunchtime). I will try this, since it actually involves very little effort. Well, the food thing anyway - it's as easy to buy lettuce as it is to buy a packet of pringles, if you're in the supermarket anyway. I will have to make an effort to stop buying McBurgers, though, and the exercise will be a big hurdle.

If only I worked somewhere that I could use public transport for, I'd be getting walking exercise... must find new job.