exercise along with Peggy

[egypturnash]

Day 1: Exercise. Realize you need a sports bra, badly. Resolve to get one on the way home. Forget to. Do, however, get healthy munchies that should last for most of a week at work.

Day 2: Neglect to exercise, citing lack of sports bra. Graze through half of healthy munchies at work. Go directly from finishing dinner to crawling into bed due to finally connecting enough with RP characters to get a good scene done, after a month of distance due to internal drama.

Day 3: Recoil in horror from the scale, which is telling you you're 1.5 pounds heavier than the day before yesterday. Breathe a sigh of relief a little later when it tells you you're the same weight as two days ago. Exercise. For running, don a bra that's on its way to becoming too small; this is better than nothing. Ponder using the elastic bandage you'd gotten around last Christmas for the purposes of binding tits to hide them from Grandma during the mandatory visit; dismiss this as a big hassle to put on. Ponder how absurd you look running with both hands on now-curvy ass to support it, with penis flailing humorously.

At least exercising was easier. Two days ago, doing push-ups for the first time was horrible; today, I was halfway through them before it started getting tough. I just have to prod my body into remembering I have muscles again.

If it sounds like I'm bitching about this - I'm not. I'm just amused at these new complications. Most of the time, when I think about this transition, I'm quietly ecstatic that I'm doing this; I'm a lot happier in my body now.

Comments

[koogrr.livejournal.com]

Well it's interesting to hear about.

[lediva.livejournal.com]

Don't weigh yourself every day. :P

Seriously. Weight fluctuates throughout the day, or even between days. Weigh yourself no more than once a week, and then, always do it in the same way. I like to do it sans clothes first thing in the morning on Sundays.

(Boy... that can be taken out of context.)

[shatterstripes.livejournal.com]

I do and I don't. I know about the fluctuation, and I do weigh myself naked soon after I get up.

Being a geek, I have a program on my PDA that I dump the weight into, and it graphs both the day's weight, and the continuing trend line of your weight - so it helps you see that what feels like a plateau is really just your body pausing for a moment, as the moving average drifts down to meet your current weight. And before it does, you're probably starting to plunge again if the down-drifting average has given you the confidence to keep the diet and exercise going...

[lediva.livejournal.com]

URL! URL! URL!

[shatterstripes.livejournal.com]

Um... go Google for "The Hacker's Diet" and you should find it. This is what happens when nerds try to make sense of weight loss - they get deep into the theory and make tools.

[dv-girl.livejournal.com]

I dunno. I started weighing myself daily as kind of a cattle prod to exercise more (not eat unhealthily) but I balance it with a lot of other things, like what sort of work I plan to do that day, what sort of things I did the previous day, and I'm not interested in the actual number so much as the overall trend. I use weight as a factor but I'm not neurotic about it. (If I were, I would not have had _TWO_ bowls of pasta last night. ;) YMMV, of course but I think it is possible for someone to use weight in a healthy and responsible way.

[lediva.livejournal.com]

YMMV, of course but I think it is possible for someone to use weight in a healthy and responsible way.

Oh, as do I.

I just think there's too much day-to-day fluctuation for daily weighings to be of much use.