Exercise is a little tricky right now. With everyone staying at home most of the time it’s amazing how little exercise I get compared to before, when I was running around more, visiting stores, washing cars, swimming, and walkin places. So I have been trying to walk several times a week, a 3-mile circuit with lots of hills. Today, I ambled instead, on a 1.2-mile trail. I don’t know if it counts much for exercise, but it was nice to be outside.
And it made my hungry for dinner.
My food intake and calorie count
Breakfast – pizza (450); chocolate (150);
- 600 calories
Lunch – bratwurst (280); 1/4 protein wrap (30)
- 310 calories
Dinner – 2x hot dogs (110); Ole wrap (50); Gobi Aloo cauliflower and potato curry (300);
- 570 calories
Snacking – marshmallows (60); ddd (00)
- 60 calories
Total for the day: 1540 calories (limit 1700)
When your body is catching up
I have heard may times from people who have lost significant weight that they also get impatient with their bodies. Many start working out in order to show more progress. It’s difficult to lose significant weight and still see an overweight body in the mirror. Then the moving of the goalposts begins. I mean that your goal changes.
Even if you are thin, controlling your weight won’t result in a body that is fit, toned, or muscular. Here you were thinking “if only I were thin” and now you start thinking “if only I were thin and worked out.” I don’t know how much further it goes. But at some point you have to decide how far to take it. Will you lift weights? Work out? Start running? Those exercises, especially lifting weights, burn a lot of calories. But they also take a fair amount of dedication and maintenance.
The key, as ever, is to get your mind right. If your life is fixed on weight control, it helps keep the rest in perspective. You may not work out or have a supremely muscular body, but you are in control of you body’s weight. I plan to be modestly fit, but I am curious to know what would happen if I was thin and lifted weights for a bit. Not to become bulky, but to be stronger. How different would I look?
Anyway, that is a fantasy. I have a goal and I will keep my mind on the job. Go thou and do likewise.
-The Doctor