The Syndicate

I go to the gym.

Story concluded.

Also, I'll have the bacon, if G-Man wants the cheddar.

Started gymming after one month and a half.

i am in pain

My step count since last Friday was 1316, 417, 265, 1122, 245, 132, which is absurd, because I totally walked around my room for countless hours, trying to memorise stuff for my exam. Guess I forgot to carry the phone in my pocket.

Lookin' forward to my vacation trip next week, because I can average around 20k, maybe max it to 25k even, during the day, with how much I visit.

That's quite good, I can hit that during a normal busy routine day, otherwise it's around 6k when I just go out for stuff.

My vacation week stepchart reads 20981, 20845, 22507, 16981, 15862, 17586 and 25580.

By contrast, don't think I'll even go outside today.

I monitored my weight every day, for a couple of days, and it seems I'm stagnating, but during the day, it ebbs and flows, in a way that hints at sisyphic work. I'm currently gravitating around 86kg (I'm being told by Google that means 189.5 lbs), which, given my height, is technically still a bit overweight. If I have classes (going to school takes a 30-minute walk and another 30min back) or have busy activity in town and/or go to the gym, I shed 1/1.5kg easily (someone told me it's because I get dehydrated). But then during the evening, after drinking my liter of Pepsi and having dinner (which can sometimes be as simple as a salad or salmon), it's all back up.

G-Man wrote:

Ricochet wrote:I monitored my weight every day, for a couple of days, and it seems I'm stagnating, but during the day, it ebbs and flows, in a way that hints at sisyphic work. I'm currently gravitating around 86kg (I'm being told by Google that means 189.5 lbs), which, given my height, is technically still a bit overweight. If I have classes (going to school takes a 30-minute walk and another 30min back) or have busy activity in town and/or go to the gym, I shed 1/1.5kg easily (someone told me it's because I get dehydrated). But then during the evening, after drinking my liter of Pepsi and having dinner (which can sometimes be as simple as a salad or salmon), it's all back up.

Ditch the soda from your diet and you'll drop five pounds very quickly.

I can't. It's a vice.

Never argued I'm on a diet, either. I'm well aware that's the detracting part, because I don't seriously diet. The best I could do is find a better meal plan.

So a year ago to this day, after some events I won't touch upon that made me hit a fairly significant low, I've decided the very next day to go sign up at a gym and work out whenever I had two hours to spare during the afternoon (which, as it proved, was quite often). I'm very sedentary and lazy by nature, having indulged in the past only in a bit of jogging around the block. So I did it in order to not be inactive during the winter months and, at first, to go and run myself out of breath for 30 minutes. Then I gradually embraced workouts as much as doing my usual cardio bit.

I'm not writing this as a kudos to me, btw. Even after a year, I am still hardly balanced or inspired in what I eat and following no particular diet whatsoever. I'm surely not working out to the fullest and in the best way, either, and could have had better physical results by now, but I do the exercises I know and can handle. I even did a poor job monitoring my weight all the time, but it seems last December I had it written down at 89.something kg (sorry I don't do lbs) and now I'm slightly below 84.5, which at least finally places me out of the overweight zone, according to my BMI. What surprises me is that my gains and losses have been so up and down around the 86 mark during September-October, despite regular work out, while this past month I've lost one-one1/2, despite barely managing to go due to my schedule. Is it because of my daily walks and activities and stress at work and in town? Or is my body decaying on its own now? Who knows.

Anyway, that's my weird story at the 1 year mark, hopefully I'll perservere and manage to scrape the whole abdominal excess off in the next year and model my body a bit more.

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