D.Alan’s BodyBlog

I started out the week feeling a little sorry for myself, having been away for a few days and not being about to lift and eating badly, though on my return home my weight wasn’t too far out of whack.  Spent the rest of the week getting back into the routines and eating better and felt a little better, but was still feeling like I am still too chubby, not buff enough, etc.

I took a couple of pix Wednesday evening and a day or two later got comparing them with my earlier photos.  Wow, have I come a long way.  I made up a year’s comparison between April of last year and April of this year which shows the progress I have made.  I posted that and have gotten some nice comments on it.  What really boosted the ego, though, was looking at my earliest photos.  I started doing some basic, I guess you’d call it, lifting back in 2005.  It was nothing serious, though at the time I thought it was.  What I ended up doing was toning up a bit, but the diet was still terrible and I didn’t weigh myself at any point (didn’t have a scale) and I never lost any fat.  I did take monthly photos of my non-progress.  Looking at them now is almost painful to see how big I had gotten and how I was making no gains in the lifting, or what alleged to be lifting, that I was doing.  What’s even sadder is that at the time I thought I was doing well!!  At least I finally found out the right way to go about it.

Anyway, looking at those photos of me then compared to me today really helped to pick me up and give me the oomph to keep at this.  I have made a lot of progress, and it is still continuing.  So, I’ll keep liftin’.

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