I’m in.
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Sign me up!
I’m weighing over 30lbs less than I was at the end of the last transformation and just getting through my first 531 cycle after a crazy past few months.
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That’s awesome!
I dunno if I am up for this one.
We’ll see.
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I enjoyed the challenge last year. Anything to reiterate commitment and dedication to a healthy habit sounds like a good thing. I’m in.
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I really enjoyed the challenge, mostly for the support.
I said it before, but last year it felt like this:
I’m the yellow one.
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in that case, I’m in
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Hmm, I may be in. I need to think about it.
My goal would be self-improvement, not competition against others. I just would like to stop the slide that started with Covid. Maybe even reverse it.
On the other hand, I question that I may be at an age where competing even against myself feels unnecessary and vain at a level that is self-defeating rather than enhancing.
But I may be in. It’s been helpful in the past.
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Don’t sweat the age thing: you can overcome any amount of years on this earth with an equally applied amount of immaturity!
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Yes! But to which of the many possible pursuits should I apply my immaturity? That’s really the question.
Which is not to say I won’t be trying to transform in the new year. It’s only to say that I’m not sure I want to do it in an accountable, public manner. I’ve posted a lot of pics here over the years, but at this point discretion may be the better part of valor.
But we’ll see. I have to really sit down with myself and my goals. I start vacation next Friday. I’ll have time to think about it then, maybe. After I eat with Friday’s company without working out, then send them away and greet Saturday’s company (maybe work out) and eat with them through Sunday, then greet Monday’s company (Christmas!) and eat with them until…well, after “2nd Christmas” on Tuesday, when more company moves in for however long, maybe Wednesday maybe Thursday, but we’ll be eating until they leave and maybe drinking mudslides but almost certainly not working out.
It’s just hard to think.
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This may be enough? I don’t think it’s vain or silly to do something that helps you.
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So this is probably for another topic, but it’s the age. I’ll be sixty next year. Two things:
- The photos. Again, I’ve posted a lot of pics, given “here’s 46!” as a testament to what we do, and I was in the challenge in ‘21 looking seriously doughy. But right now I just feel miserable at the thought.
Partly because:
- And this is a big question for me, when do I relax and stop chasing so hard? Covid and working from home produced a big change in me, and I suspect many others. I was in a low case count state, but because of my job was exposed to a lot of loss, and I always work with medically fragile people. On my caseload currently is an adult victim of shaken baby syndrome; she is blind and a paraplegic. Anyway, my interest in working out came back eventually, but my ability to focus and willingness to suffer at the level it would take to drop the 25 lbs I gained have not.
I’m struggling with: at 60, am I ready to not be exceptional? And at 60, how exceptional can I really be? I look like an average healthy American woman currently. Why isn’t it enough?
Like, what the fuck am I doing?
(Were you ready for this response, @TrainForPain? lol)
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This a role reversal for which I am unqualified, but absolutely happy to be here.
It all makes a ton of sense. I hear you on the pics and totally get it. I hate that’s a barrier, because it’s a very understandable one, but I think dropping them would change the challenge enough that it loses its way.
Now the question of “why push it so hard?” I’ll be the annoying rhetorical that answers a question with a question: does the grind make you happy? If not, I don’t think you should do it. If yes, then you certainly don’t owe not doing it to satisfy a preconceived notion on trips around the sun. You certainly don’t owe anyone looking a certain way; it should just be what makes you happier?
I think either answer is equally valid and neither is perfect. I tend to ask myself which manure I want to shovel, because I’m going to be in one field or another.
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Exactly. Which manure is the question. I’m active either way, but to what degree?
I also agree that the pics are needed for the challenge to function optimally, and I’m very well aware that this is a supportive community. But as a female working a job that expects a level of decorum, there’s an added element of concern.
So back to: we’ll see!
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@EmilyQ : Flat out: the average american is NOT healthy. Not at age 18, not at age 30, and absolutely not at age 60. You are, by definition, exceptional if you are healthy. To be so at 60 makes you superb.
It’s too easy to hang out on Tnation, AMONG the exceptions, and consider yourself average, but perspective needs to be maintained here. The weakest link in our chain here is stronger than the mightest average person. And you’re far from our weakest link.
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I don’t know if I am in or out yet. I think I got a bit to obsessed with it last year and ended up in a crappy place mentally. I am more capable of handling that aspect now (having spent most of the last year working on my body dismorphia).
I’ll definitely be here for support/encouragement either way.
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This is why i live on 5 hours of sleep.
Or maybe more accurately, I’m not happy when I’m not chasing something.
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Aww, now I’m all verklempt. 
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You get the heart for saying “verklempt” and making me feel good for knowing what it means.
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I’d love to “compete” against others, but honestly, I’ll be glad to make at least some progress… Anyway, I’m definitely in!
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