StressMonkey’s BodyBlog

I’ve found that I can find motivation for lifting in the strangest places.  Some of these are so silly, but they put an ear to ear grin on my face.

• I’ve been noticing that some of the shirts that I wore last spring are really snug on me now.  One or two of them don’t even fit at all anymore.  You would think that I would be annoyed that my wardrobe might be shrinking, but every time I put on a shirt and find that it’s now snug it makes me so happy.  I tried on a small t-shirt at a store about a week ago and I could barely get the thing off of me.  I was afraid I was going to rip it Hulkamania style.  LOL
• Whenever I step onto a scale that you have to manually adjust I put the lower section on 100 and then adjust the top section.  I’ve been doing this since the 80’s and it’s pretty much an automatic behavior at this point.  The problem is that that doesn’t work for me anymore now that I’m over 150 pounds.  Every time that happens a part of me still can’t believe I’m over 150.
• I went out with my all of my coworkers recently for a department luncheon.  There’s one guy who I’m just a casual acquaintance with.  Pretty much a “Hey, how are?” in the hallway is the most we ever say to each other because we work on separate projects in separate areas.  At the lunch out of nowhere he leans back in his chair and yells down the table, “Hey, how much are weighing these days?” I told him and asked him what he had thought I was.  His answer?  165 pounds.  I swear I floated out of the restaurant.  You’ve got to understand that for 98% of my life when people mentioned my weight it was to comment on how skinny/anemic/unhealthy I looked.
• I started buying a plate of 28 large water bottles at the local warehouse club when I started working out.  It’s a lot cheaper to buy them there than pay a buck at the gym.  I can distinctly remember picking one of them up the first time and thinking “Ugh, this is heavy.”  I went and bought one today and it wasn’t until I was going to check out that I realized that I had picked it up from the shelf without even thinking about it.  Functional strength gains are cool!
• Last week someone came up to me and mentioned that they had seen my testimonial hanging on the wall and they wanted to congratulate me.  He seemed a little bummed out because he had started working out with my trainer and said he felt like he was as weak as a kitten.  It felt great giving this guy a pep talk.  I told him I felt the same way at first and almost puked a few times early on in the process.  If it was easy everyone would it!

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