RE: AF Biggest Loser/Fitness Challenge-May 3 to Whenever We're Not Fat Anymore
August 19, 2018 at 6:58 pm
I'm doing pretty good, up less than 3 pounds from my lowest, a bounce I expected - it was 5 lbs at one point.
In any case, I like the direction I'm headed. I crossed the line from morbidly obese to merely obese about two weeks ago.
My spouse and I are planning on signing up at the local community center and there's a place that does Zumba, nothing but Zumba, and it looks fun and exhausting, so I might join her doing that.
The community center offers swimming lessons which I am going to sign up for after talking to the instructor about which class I should be in. I'm at the "almost capable of keeping oneself from drowning" stage and I want to be able to swim laps. I was a pretty poor swimmer when I did my first scuba cert way back when but there's no way I could pass that today.
Not entirely unrelated nor completely tangental but completely subjective: I'm feeling pretty good about myself. I care about my appearance. I can stand to see myself in a mirror without self-loathing. I can dress down without looking like a slob, merely by giving fucks that are hard-won. I have more self-confidence. I'm on the right trajectory in the mental health department - it's a work in progress - but I know my wife would testify that I am not who I was when we first met. In a good way.
In any case, I like the direction I'm headed. I crossed the line from morbidly obese to merely obese about two weeks ago.
My spouse and I are planning on signing up at the local community center and there's a place that does Zumba, nothing but Zumba, and it looks fun and exhausting, so I might join her doing that.
The community center offers swimming lessons which I am going to sign up for after talking to the instructor about which class I should be in. I'm at the "almost capable of keeping oneself from drowning" stage and I want to be able to swim laps. I was a pretty poor swimmer when I did my first scuba cert way back when but there's no way I could pass that today.
Not entirely unrelated nor completely tangental but completely subjective: I'm feeling pretty good about myself. I care about my appearance. I can stand to see myself in a mirror without self-loathing. I can dress down without looking like a slob, merely by giving fucks that are hard-won. I have more self-confidence. I'm on the right trajectory in the mental health department - it's a work in progress - but I know my wife would testify that I am not who I was when we first met. In a good way.
