weight

I feel that I am getting to know precisely what Maslov had in mind with his pyramid of need. Primary needs, like food and sex, have to be satisfied first before someone can proceed towards other goals such as intellectual enlightenment. I’m busy trying to get into a well balanced eating schedule. In an effort to gain weight and to increase my appetite I am exercising more (in the form of walking a lot, not to be confused with running, which I don’t like). I also bought dumbbells, which can be used for upper body and for exercise when it is raining. Next to all this I even bought a scale and I will know what I weigh tomorrow. I expect it will say I’m underweight. Many months ago when I weight myself at my parents’ it was somewhere in the region of 57 kilos. I’m 1.84 tall, which means that I should weigh at least 71 kilos according to BMI. We will see. 

I went online to find information about gaining weight. One good idea is more exercise, another to eat many small meals a day, and yet another to eat something before going to bed. You really have to escape from the things you learn in childhood. It is good, in this situation, to eat muesli bars in between meals. The product Ensure also seems worth trying, but, unfortunately, it isn’t available in The Netherlands. I am trying to eat 2 eggs a day and/or pancakes and I’m having cereal/ muesli with yoghurt for breakfast. Another tip I found was eating sandwich filling with a sandwich, instead of the other way around. It is fine to put on a lot of cheese etc. so that you are eating more cheese than bread.
 
Intellectual advances are put on a hold for the moment. I haven’t worked on my thesis at all and I don’t seem to care. Health is more important.
 
Now some random fun things I did:
I went to the musical Sunset Boulevard with Simone Kleinsma. She was brilliant and we had very good seats. When the supervisor handed these free tickets out see could see that I was happy. This is because if it had been gallery tickets, up high above the balcony, I wouldn’t have gone. Both my father, with whom I went, and I are afraid of heights.
I went to the Gothic/Phantasy Fair ‘Nox Obscura’ in Amersfoort. Great location in an old hangar for trains. You get a real industrial gothic feeling there. And Omnia alone is reason enough to go.
 
Our draughts club is slowly disintegrating. Yesterday we only had four players coming to our weekly game. And this Saturday we, again, are playing with an incomplete team. Two players cancelled on me and we don’t have any possible substitutions anymore.   
 
That’s it for now.