Screenshot of my second month’s progress using Weightbot (for the iPhone & iPod touch).
It looks as though I’ve been steadily gaining weight, however slightly. It seems a bit odd given that it’s Summer, you’d think I would’ve sweated away to nothing. I’m guessing it has to do with stepping up my exercise routine, and by “stepping up” I mean to say even getting around to exercising at all. When I got sick at the turn of the new year I totally abandoned my workout routine. It wasn’t until last month that I made a conscious effort to pick up where I left off.
Lately a lot of things (more than usual) have been floating around in my head, mostly about the way things should be… and I know I should be living healthier, in every facet of my life: physically, mentally and spiritually. And since I’ve always had a pretty good handle on my physical body/being I thought wresting control in that area would be pretty easy. And it has been, I’ve fallen back into the routine of exercising quite easily. That said, I can’t truly say I’m all that concerned with exercise in and of itself. Even when I wasn’t exercising, I kind of was because I never stopped walking. But walking to me is almost like breathing, it’s just something I have to do, and in the doing don’t even think about. It’s never had anything to do with the act of maintaining physical health, it’s been about other things, and none of them involve challenging myself. There’s a thread here I could follow, but doing so would lead me astray and violate my notions of what a tumblelog should be. Should be.
Real exercise to me means sweating, or rather, pushing yourself; challenging yourself. I could always work up a sweat during one of my long walks, but again, I never found them challenging. Pushing myself is sort of what I’m chasing. That, along with maintaining a routine, and by extension becoming accustomed to committing to committing. There’s another one of those loose threads again.
All of this has been a roundabout way of saying that I think I gained some muscle in August, which would account for the slight weight gain. It’s probably imperceptible to most people, but I can see the way my body’s changed over the past month and it has me pretty jazzed. But probably not for the reasons most would think. There’s that first thread again, and a third, but again, I’ll skip over them for now.
Month High: 150.6 lbs.
Month Low: 146.8 lbs.