239.6 No, it isn’t a future blog number. It is in fact how much I weigh. I’m supposed to be 20 lbs less by now. Yet I’ve gone the opposite direction. I looked in the mirror yesterday and saw the side view of a man who really needs to change. Of course, what I want to do is be dramatic about it and pull of some Rocky level stuff, but those things don’t keep. The most effective thing I’ve ever done in my life–the most consistent positive thing–is this blog. I manage to drag my butt to the screen or the page every day for ten minutes. Some days I love it. Some days I have to really tap each key slowly in order to get all the way through. You can tell by the content and by the length exactly where I am with writing (and likely emotionally) that day. Even on empty I get this done.
So why not start that with my body?
I can do ten minutes. I can do HITT for ten. Sure, it isn’t going to get it done, but it is going to help move me towards a lifestyle. I need to be more active in order to activate the ability to burn off this fat that is surely to kill me. I feel it in my body and in my brain. I feel slower and less healthy and mentally coming apart at the seams. Yet I am doing next to nothing about it.
239.6. I will get started today. 238.6 next Thursday. My goal is a pound a week again. Just one pound. That, according to the Mayo Clinic, means burning 500-1000 calories more than I consume daily. It means raising my resting metabolic rate. It means getting more and better quality sleep. All of these things are part of the process. I need to start taking the process a lot more seriously.
My life actually depends on it.