To New (New) Beginnings
Week 1
Age: 37
Weight: 145.9 kg
Mental State: Optimistic
Debt: $
Spirits: High
Don’t call it a comeback.
Or maybe, do. I’m back. To this place of private and public accountability. As you can see by the weight metric, things really fell of the railings in the last couple of years. Actually before things got worse, they actually got a lot better. There was a point in time in my life where I was hitting the pool every morning and trying to achieve my ideal weight.
In this era of Ozempic and what-not, why put in so much effort into this? I’m not sure I have a specific answer to this. I guess, I just know that I could in theory have a healthy lifestyle and that’s what I want for myself.
I think going forward we’re going to tackle this weekly checking with a few sub headers.
Physical Health
So, what’s happening here. The weight gain is a big concern again. But we’re showing some positive signs. The holidays which are a toxic period for my health are now in the rearview mirror. So what’s the gameplan for the year ahead?
I mean for starters, we’re returning to some habits i had given up on previously. One is the morning picture. Every morning I stand in front of my mirror and take two pictures. One head one and one from the side. It’s kind of rough to see myself in this shape for now but I hope that as the year goes forward I’ll get to a point where the picture is actually a positive, a proof of my hard work and effort.
The other habit is weighing myself every morning. I think for better or worse, knowing my weights is important. I think sometimes it’s a little scary to think about. Especially when I’m at like 150% of what weight I’d like to be (let alone what weight might actually be good for me). But Rome wasn’t built in a day, they say, so as I move forward to building Rome it will be good to know what progress we’ve made with some cold, hard numbers.
Now in terms of exercise, when I look back to the point in time where I felt the most in control there were two things going on. One was swimming which I’m trying to get back to the speed/distance I could do. The other was yoga. So I started yoga again. I’m doing the Peloton beginner yoga program and its clear that I’m not longer where I was, but it’s fun to do it again.
In addition, we have a new member joining the team. Recently I received a new Pixel 2 Watch for purchasing a Pixel phone and so now it’s the new way I’m tracking (almost) everything. I still need to use my Garmin Forerunner watch to track my swimming. But everything else is going into the Fitbit dashboard directly.
Speaking of which the Fitbit dashboard lets me track my food and water intake, which is something I think is very important. Because I can go pretty fucking wild.
I think next week I’ll talk a little bit about what else I’m hoping to accomplish in this upcoming year.
Mental Health
Mentally, where are we at.
Definitely not suffering the anxiety of the Fall 2023. That was pretty fucking bad.
But I think I have ADHD, so I would loev to look into something liek Frida. I have a good relationship with the Freddie program and getting something else that might help me would be fantastic.
I also think I have a small amount of OCD and maybe dyslexia. But I think it’s important to tackle one thing at a time so at to not get overwhelmed.
Financial Health
Now this is where the shit gets dire. Which is a wild thing to type considering I just said I’m super physically unfit and mentally unwell. But yeah, 2024 needs to be the year I get stuff in order.
More on that next week!
