I agree I’ll have to gain weight to accomplish it. I’ve had a long-term plan to see something just shy of triple digits on the scale. It’ll presumably take some time to get there unless I go for broke. While I’ve been home coupes up sick this week I’ve “gained” four kilograms of scale weight. Fortunately, this isn’t causing me any mental anguish which is unexpected but welcome. When I see 99+ is when I’ll re-assess.
I train to enhance my life, but more often than not its become my life. Whether or not I achieve these goals is secondary to me. But without some target I wouldn’t maintain a log.
Alan Watts wrote,
We thought of life by analogy with a journey with a pilgrimage which had a serious purpose at the end the thing was to get to that end success or whatever it is or maybe heaven after you’re there. But we missed the point the whole way along it was a musical thing and you were supposed to sing or dance while the music was being played.
And that’s more or less the philosophy that guides my life since even before coming in touch with the above quote.
I figured that if my actions are guided and informed by my morals and values moreso than attaching a sense of either success/failure to my aspirations that’ll be adequate in my own eyes. And thus, my aspirations become more fluid and may change over time.
I trust that in living life this way the path I’ll have walked at the end will have been well aligned with myself, and that alone will suffice to ensure I do not end up an old man, bitter, and filled with regrets and what-ifs.
Yeah this can be a narrow path to walk on. I’m the same way, I like to think that training enhances my life but my body isn’t always on the same page with me on that one.
I’m seeing tons of videos on Instagram and Facebook. Lee Boyce said go for a run and do some push ups while CT posted a video of himself doing an isometric biceps curl in his kitchen.
I trained Monday and did not do a good job logging it. I think it was Monday. I’ve stayed at home all week since with a bad chest cold. Still decked out on the couch mostly with the occasional cooking session that leaves me floored until hungry again.
I don’t like to subpost, but I hate to admit that no part of me went “no, that article does not exist”.
Will do chief. We don’t test here just to find out if someone has C19 until they need hospital care, but I’m hoping we’ll have test to determine if someone has had it soon. It would be nice to find out if this was it for me.
So, still under the weather but finally turning a leaf I think. It got worse from Tuesday last week til yesterday. I’ve stress-eaten myself about 4-5 kilos heavier now, heh. Today for dinner is the first time I actually stopped eating and put some food away rather than go grazing through the kitchen for more stuff to eat. Did have immense cravings for Ben & Jerry’s before the start of the meal but fortunately I had none in the house. If I had, I’d probably still be eating.
Hope you’re feeling better by the time you read this man.
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And if you do wake up with a craving for brains, I’d like to remind you that British brains are extremely small and tasteless. Far better to stay over there.
All “good”. For the lack of proper terminology the best way I can describe it is my lungs feel like frosted glass, especially outdoors, but otherwise feel quite “healthy”. How are you?
I’m fine, healthy as I need to be. Lots of extra work and extra chaos, so long term goals are going on the back burner really. Feeling more able to “not eat crap” and often do some form of exercise, but not enough to be moving towards any long term goals.
The short answer would be that overall I feel quite alright and well-centered, although somewhat lonely what with the social/physical-distancing. Even when things are “normal” I sometimes find the country I inhabit to not be as social as I’d like, and now it’s way worse.
As far as my “long answer” goes, I suppose that would be in reference to something along the same lines as you mention, namely:
During my stint of illness I was more or less entirely sedentary, and yet ate loaves of bread and pints of B&J and when you are my petite size that does a gnarly number on body composition. With the summer around the corner (planning to keep my shirt off plenty), I’m taking a stab at cleaning that up, which is antagonistic to my long-term goals. But the upside is that it normalized my relationship with food more than it was before.
Investing 28-42 days on leaning out and then back to focusing on the long-term goals if reality allows.
That doesn’t strike me as unusual in many countries to be honest. Maybe it’s a function of having kids recently but I’m increasingly feeling “lonely” even when surrounded by people.
If you feel the need to reach out, let me know how I can help.
I work in food retail. I tend to keep it a bit vague because people don’t generally care about the details. At the minute it’s fairly hands on, although calming down significantly. We’ve moved from crisis management to figuring out how to build systems and processes in this new world.
I can definitely sympathise with stress eating. I would estimate about 15lbs gained since this started, none of it good. I thrive in chaos, however my physique goals definitely don’t. The 10 miles I’m currently walking back are from a very stressful time around the birth of my boy so a return to some semblance of routine will do me good.
I appreciate that, it’s not that bad though. And likewise.
Here there are lots of social groups for new parents (ordinarily). Might be worth looking into eventually?
Hope you get to stay employed! <3
Do you have any weights at home? If you have a KB heavy enough to fatigue you with pressing anywhere near 6-12 you could maybe toss in three sets to muscular failure per day/every other day, and come out of this with wide shoulders.
