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04 July 2014
Date fizzled. I should go to the gym. I want to go to the gym. I'm just really really tired, so I also really really want a nap.
This is how the regimen usually dies for me. I'm too tired, and give myself a pass for one day. After rationalizing that one day, the next gets a little easier to excuse. Then more and more, until I'm back to my couch potato ways.
I don't want that life any more. It's unhealthy and boring and unappealing in every way. It leaves me feeling awful and looking awful. I want to feel happier and healthier.
I am going to go there, and I'm going to change, and if, at that point, all I feel like doing is 2 laps of the pool, fine. I'll do that then come home. The biggest hurdles, the hardest hurdles, are the mental ones keeping me from starting. Ones I've gotten past those, the physical challenges are exhilarating, not exhausting.
Off to the gym I go.
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04 July 2014
I've got what may end up being a date this afternoon (long story) so I may slack off a little. If I don't end up at the gym this afternoon, it will be because I'm getting some cardio of a different sort. *wink, wink, nudge, nudge*
On a more serious note, I'll still have time to walk, so here's my pledge to myself: I will either put some time in at the gym OR I will get my pedometer over 10K steps today. There are plenty of valid excuses to not go to the gym. There are no valid excuses to not be active.
Weigh-in:
188.0 lb
lost so far:
14.0 lb
still to go:
38.0 lb
Diet followed 100%
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steady weight
03 July 2014
Oooph. I can feel that swim this morning, muscles that thought they were on vacation are protesting being put back to work. I'll give them a day to get used to the idea before getting back in the pool.
For today, I think I'll do a stretching class at the gym, then put some more time in on the exercise bike. It's too hot for a long walk outside, but the gym has an indoor, air conditioned track and treadmills.
Just keep moving, that's the key. It doesn't have to be the perfect form, it doesn't have to be fast or hard, it just needs to be more effort than sitting in this chair all day.
Weigh-in:
188.0 lb
lost so far:
14.0 lb
still to go:
38.0 lb
Diet followed reasonably well
(1 comment)
steady weight
02 July 2014
Tonight I used the pool at the gym, and found just how out of shape I was. I used to be able to swim forever, fast, laps back and forth until they kicked me out. I loved it. Tonight I had to stop, panting, between each lap of the 25m pool. Came up with a mantra "It doesn't matter how slow I go. It doesn't matter how often I have to stop. All that matters is that I start again." It helped. I managed 20 laps before they closed.
The real challenge, however, was the change room. There they are lined up, all slender and athletic and gorgeous with graceful arms and powerful legs and six packs that go for days. And here I am, with my pot belly and my chicken arms and my double butt (think double chin but lower) and my love handles. I didn't want anyone to see me, especially not these bronzed greek goddesses with their perfect bodies. Just the thought of facing them in my plus-sized bathing suit was almost enough to keep me home.
But you know what? Even if I didn't go, I'd still be fat. Whether or not they see me, it doesn't change the underlying reality. The only way to change the reality is go to the gym. So I can stay home and still be fat, or even get fatter. Or I can try to fix the reality, face the gym, and someday soon have a body I can be proud of again.
I want to be comfortable in my skin again. I want my favourite clothes to fit again. I want the self-image I have in my head from the days before I got sick and put on all this weight to be what's here in reality again. I want these things a lot more than I want the junk food that put me here. And nothing worth having comes cheap.
I can do this. I'll be back at the gym tomorrow. And the next day. And the rest of my life, because it's part of who I want to be.
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02 July 2014
Joined the Y yesterday. Due to the holiday all classes were cancelled, but I still got on an exercise bike for most of an hour, and took a turn around the track to up my step count. The heat and humidity are just killing any desire to be outside right now, and I know my step count has suffered quite a bit because of it. I'm taking the bus and metro even for short distances when normally I'd just walk them.
Yesterday's step count: 8684 steps, 6.47km
Other exercise: 15km on an exercise bike
Weigh-in:
188.0 lb
lost so far:
14.0 lb
still to go:
38.0 lb
Diet followed reasonably well
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