2021 Resolutions & Accountability

Will be hopefully be recording audio for my first YouTube video tonight. I've decided to start by retrofitting my review of the original Godzilla into a video. I those write-ups are right fucking there, so I might as well push them into the public and see how many people I make angry.

Now I just need to fumble around with a video editor. My ex says she might be able to help me with that, so we'll see how it turns out.

This week's weigh in is 161.5 lbs.  That's a loss of 1.9 lbs since last week.  

Exercise continues to not be an issue, but that may be about to change.  The weather here just isn't cooperating.  It's too cold to go for a walk this weekend, and it looks like I'm probably not going into work on Monday, and possibly Tuesday as well.  That means I'll be stuck with the fan bike, and I really prefer walking.  What I'd really like to do is take up swimming, but that's impossible for a few months at least.

I only watched two movies this week.  It's YouTube that's throwing me off my goal of one movie per day.  

This week's weigh in is 159.2 lbs.  That's a loss of 0.4 lbs since last week.  Not much of a drop, but I've been expecting this.  As I've previously mentioned, I actually began my weight loss in August of 2020, and I steadily dropped weight for three months.  Then in November I stopped losing weight, even though I was keeping to a healthy diet.  I kept at it, and throughout November I noticed that while I wasn't losing any pounds, I was losing inches around my waist and my face was looking less puffy.  In December I began steadily losing weight again, and that was about three months ago.  I may be in for another month with little to no weight loss, but as long as the fat continues to melt away, I'm fine with that.

Still getting exercise.

Not making my one movie per day goal.  I think I watched three this week.

This week's weigh in is 156.4 lbs.  That's a loss of 1.7 lbs. since last week.

I managed to get some exercise in every day this week except yesterday, which is especially annoying since I didn't even go to work yesterday.  I took a day off and decided to spend it getting a project I started years ago finally completed.  I was expecting it to take about half the day.  I didn't go to bed until midnight, and it's still not done.  Anyway, I was too busy on the project to exercise.

I watched a couple of MST3K movies while I worked on a different project this week, but that's about it on the movie front.

I can't even imagine what I would look like if I were in the 150s. Nice work!

This week's weigh in is 152.1 lbs, a loss of 0.3 lbs.  Certainly not as much as I'd prefer, but what's important is that it continues to go down.  I have more energy these days than I've felt in decades.  I have a hard time just sitting still when I'm at work.  As soon as I'm done with whatever I've been tasked with that keeps me tied to a desk, I take a walk at the park a few blocks away.

This week's weigh in is 148.8 lbs, a loss of 0.6 lbs since last week.  Things are definitely slowing down, but I'm fine with that.  To be frank, I'd be perfectly happy being a the weight I'm at right now, if it weren't for the fact that quite a bit of that weight is fat rather than muscle.  Unfortunately, I'm just not genetically predisposed towards having much in the way of muscle mass.  The only way for me to be at my current weight without being fat is to dedicate what little free time I have towards working out, and I'm not prepared to do that.  I've got things to do, and body building simply doesn't interest me.  I'm just going to go back to being thin, and for the most part I'm already there.  All the fat I've got left is on my belly at this point, and modern clothing does a fine job of masking the fact.

I do continue to get plenty of exercise, even if it's not particularly strenuous.  I generally get between 15,000 and 25,000 steps in per day.

Bloody pulse rifle STILL hasn't arrived.  They say it will be in my hands by next Saturday.  I hope so, for their sake.  

Just curious, how tall are you Wyldstaar?

I'm revving up to get back into workout mode, I know that once I go back into the office whenever that is I'll be kicking myself for not getting in shape when I was at my house full time. Granted I work long hours even from home and having kids absolutely changes your entire lifestyle from head to toe but I know I need to start putting the time in, I'll regret it otherwise.

I do know how to work out however, I actually did a lot of it for most of my life. I swam/played water polo in high school but we never lifted weights at all so I was always very lean when I was younger, 140s-150s as a kid who was 5'9 (current height). In college I started hitting the weights and I went to the low to mid 160s. One day during the summer one of my workout buddies bought creatine and was impressed by it. I tried it out too for a while and I jumped from the 160s to the mid-180s. Granted I was lifting more, a lot more actually but I didn't feel comfortable taking supplements. The problem was that after I stopped taking creatine my weight didn't drop, I stayed in the 180s and that became my new cruising weight which kinda frightened me. After college I decided to pursue a career that required high levels of physical fitness (that's another story) and whipped myself back into pretty great shape. I'm not super tall and I know my body wasn't meant for running but I trained enough to run 4 to 5 miles at a 7 minute pace. I slimmed down to around 170 and was in the best shape of my life (and will probably ever be) at 27 from working out every day, sometimes twice a day. That career path didn't work out though, life happened and I stopped pushing myself as hard. Enter my current career which has delicious food on hand at all hours of the day, being sat at a desk for 12-14 hours at a pop and a couple of kids nipping at your heels and the weight jumps back on pretty quick. I'm confident that I could slim down and get myself back into shape, maybe not 150s but I know I could lose a good 20-25 pounds without killing myself. If you know how to do it and know what exercises suit your goals that often makes all the difference. I also amassed a pretty decent weight set with 10-50 lbs sets of dumbbells, a pull up bar and a few odds and ends so paying for a gym is unnecessary, I have pretty much everything I would want to use. So I have the knowledge and the equipment, I just need the time and determination. I know being in good shape in my 20s has absolutely benefitted me in my 30s especially since I've been pretty lax at exercising the past 5 years or so. I have plenty of friends my age who hardly did any exercise in their twenties and now they're the ones with the sore knees, the backs that are starting to bother them, etc. It sounds overly simplistic but being in just decent shape and frequently exercising, even if it's just walking for 30 minutes, can help and prevent so many health problems and will pay dividends down the road health-wise. Reading this thread though is motivating me, no joke. Thanks Wyldstaar and keep up the good work!

I'm 5'10".  Until my metabolism changed, I was always rail thin to the point where I was very self-conscious about it.  Think Steve Rogers before the Super Soldier Syrum level of thin.  At least I don't have to worry about that anymore.

Since I was a teenager I was always more stocky than anything, I was never a skinny build unlike others in my family who are rail thin no matter how much they eat or how little they exercise..  On the plus side it helps hide any extra pounds I may put on but it's really noticeable when I lose any.

Decided to dive in yesterday and see what happens/how sore I get. Small set of pushups, situps, squats and plank. 4.4 km run. Not feeling much so I think will start to transion into a run every other day with alternating upper and lower body workouts. Aiming for multiple small sets throughout the day instead of 1 big workout time that just doesn't seem be possible right now.