As for resolutions, I've always resisted doing them because they are on a whole doomed to failure. However, I've reached a point where I cannot continue on my current path and still in good conscience call myself FitnessNerd. 2007 has been the year of no motivation for me, which can either be attributed to hitting a plateau in my workout/diet, depression because work sucked ass, or just overall malaise. Whatever is to blame, which basically all arrows back to me, I have allowed myself to slowly lose everything I gained over the past 3 years. It is a point of sadness for me, but it is also one of those things that I totally could have prevented. Indeed, I would wake up in the morning telling myself that I would hit the gym after work, but by the time I got home, I would get a horrible case of the "tomorrows". I would attribute a lot of this to the fact that I switched gyms this year, and now it is much more of a process to drive down there and find a parking place. Yes, my excuses were that lame.
So, as 2007 draws to a close, I am making the most threadbare resolution anyone can make. I am going to lose all the weight that I have gained this year. I have pretty much already gone back onto the high protein diet that worked so well for me, but now, my body has to put that energy somewhere, which means it is imperative for me to go to the gym at least 3 times a week to lift. I'm not going to do a lot of cardio because I really didn't do that much before, and I'm just going to plan on getting back into the swing of things with the gym. By the time I get done with my current 12 week program, the weather will hopefully be warm enough for me to do some furtive biking.
Another motivational factor is The Mean Girl's Biggest Loser, which will be documented on The Mean Girls Under the Stairs that is the collective blog amongst my friends. Right now, there are four us who will be competing for the title of Biggest Loser, and I will be adjudicating the process. Head on over there Wednesday for more details.
So, I just got off the phone with Tyler, and he accused me of obsessing about my body. Well, I certainly am. However, even though he is certainly okay with my current condition, I am certainly not (though it is nice to know that he is okay with me being a little rolly polly). Additionally, I am not doing this to feed some sort of gay vanity thing either. Sure, being noticed is a nice thing, but what my main motivation is my feelings about myself when I look in the mirror. To help me along with this today, I took an incredibly unflattering picture of myself in my bathroom mirror, and I have made it the background on my computer. No, I am not going to post it here, though I will do a great before and after photo come July!
Anyway, wrapping this up, this is the first day in a long time that I have tracked my calories via a website called FitDay. I did this religiously when I first started to lose weight, until I became so predictable in my diet that I didn't need to do it anymore. It is a great tool to see where you can start cutting things down, and I am going to start posting my graphs on a daily basis.
Keep in mind that today I slept until 11. So, this is not a full day of eating for me, but I can already see that carbs need to come down quite a bit, which means brown rice is probably going to be ejected soon. Ah, this is going to be fun....
Happy New Year!
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