September 4th, 2010

2 years of life – work, marriage, ups and downs as you’ve seen throughout the past couple of years took its toll on me and one of the things thrown out was working out and fitness. Finally I got fed up with how I looked – particularly after seeing pictures of me from the Windchill BBQ – so I finally decided to honor that new year’s resolution to lose weight and get back into shape. So… though I had lost 4 pounds since the beginning of the year, that’s frustratingly slow ‘progress.’ I went out and bought an elliptical trainer the day after the BBQ weekend and started that day (August 21st) towards my goal of getting back into shape. Since that day I have carefully monitored my dietary intake and worked out as much as my body tolerated, stopping only because I know a body needs at least a day healing and recovery after several days of fairly intense workouts. The result? Since August 21st I have lost 6 pounds and dropped a pants size. I’m adding back in weight training so hopefully that will speed things up as well. The funny thing is as we get older – and slower – we also start to rationalize and explain it away and worse…accept that this is just how things are. It was that acceptance of mediocrity that caused something to snap inside me. I don’t accept mediocrity at work, I don’t accept it in the things I do – why should I accept it in me? So there. It was a private accountability to me – now I’ve aired it in public so you can harass me if I fall off the bandwagon as well. You won’t have to. I like being able to feel my muscles again, I like the energy boost and the feeling of strength returning. Here’s to seeing less of me.