Day 37 - Jack Black

Had a late night last night watching Tenacious D with my friend Alister. We ended up having a Jack Black Marathon night as Alister bought along Nacho Libre, which is one of my favourite movies, and School of Rock.

We sat on the sofa sipping our lattes and watching the movies and laughing uncontrollably. I lost it at one point and had to grab my port site as I laughing so hard. I think if I ever met Jack Black I think I would just piss myself laughing at him. I imagine him as “Ignacio” The Friar in Nacho Libre and wet myself from laughter. If only you could see me right this second I have tears streaming down my face from sheer laughter. Hahahahahahaha. If you are unfamiliar with this actor and his movies I suggest you watch the above-mentioned movies and sit back and enjoy a night of laughter. Someone hand me a Kleenex I can’t stop crying. Hahahahaaaaa. Oh Crap I think I’m about to choke on my tongue from laughing so hard.

I woke up revved and ready to destroy the footpath!!! I threw my trainers on and took Elvis for a run. I pushed myself so hard I thought I was going to collapse I think the only other time I felt this knackered was back in 2000 when I went trekking all over Gallipoli (Chanakkale). Funnily enough even though I was exhausted beyond belief I actually felt exhilarated at the same time. If only I knew about this running thing years ago! I’m becoming addicted to running. Could I be substituting my food addiction for another addiction? Okay we will discuss that later in another blog entry.

I got back from my run and sat on my front doorstep gasping for air, my whole body was trembling and I had the shakes and then Mr Endorphin came visiting and I’m not talking about the electronica music group either. For 15 minutes I sat on my front doorstep, panting and gasp, gasp, gasping trying to catch my next breath. Then as soon as Mr Endorphin introduced himself to me I was ready to go for another round. I am now up to 25 minutes with my running.

I showered and dressed and opened my email account and I had a really interesting email from a lady called Rachel. Rachel’s question was:

Dear Reney,
Do you know whether the lap band speeds up your metabolism?

My initial reaction to this question was hot damn that would be ace. Imagine how good that would be. That would be like waving a magic wand and changing your genetic makeup. I’ll have me one of those please and I don’t need a bag thanks just give it to me!!!

I thought it was a great question and one that I should discuss as I think some people around me think that the band somehow speeds the metabolism up. So now researcher investigative reporter Reney has something new to investigate.

So I researched this interesting topic and found a lot of information that indicated that the lap band COULD affect your metabolism. Pre-surgery a lot of us (me included) claim to have “stuffed up” metabolisms due to the excessive yo-yo dieting. Which in turn has compromised our metabolisms therefore, no matter what we eat, how little we eat, how much exercise we do. No matter what we do we can’t lose the weight.

So we have the lap band surgery and weight starts to shift. So now, even now as I am researching this, I can understand why people would think that the lap band speeds up your metabolism because now we are starting to shed the weight. How is that? How is it that we are losing weight now that the band is placed and the weight is staying off, when pre-surgery some of us probably ate a lot less food and exercised a lot more? Could this be a placebo affect?

But the more I researched the more it was indicated to me that we are losing weight as our intake of food is reduced; its reduced to the point where the body responds and the weight drops off. You have got to remember that we aren’t going into starvation mode as a lot of us used to. So maybe then we never really had a metabolism problem to begin with. Right? Maybe our metabolisms had slowed down a little but not completely like I thought.

Man what a brain drain! But a thoroughly enjoyable topic to research.

What do you all think?


Inspector Researcher Reney

P.S – Today’s running song that was on high rotation on my ipod was a song called Burn My Shadow by the band Unkle. It’s an awesome song to run to (download it if you can)