For the first time in my life, I was told to lose weight. Ok, I could lose some fat.
I switched gyms. I go to a wellness centre, and it offers one free health assessment a year. I have nothing to lose. I just turned 40, which is 67 in gay years. I thought my body fat would be close to 0% because I have been lean my whole life. It is 36.4%, which is not high. The segment fat analysis shows that I am slightly above average in my trunk area for fat. I’m just finding it funny that I am “too fat.” At my height, 6‘1”, 10 years ago, I was 135lbs. I’m 178lbs today. I was 183lbs before my colonic the other day.
I worked hard to put on weight. I dirty bulked when I was 29. I wanted to be 160lbs when I turned 30, which was the weight I was when I graduated high school. I achieved that goal, but I felt like shit, I looked like shit, because I ate like shit. Go figure. I cleaned up my diet, by a lot, since then. I plateaued at 145lbs until I went vegan. Then I plateaued at 160lbs after that. Then to 170lbs after I started going to the gym. Then after my 5-day fast in November, it climbed to 180lbs. The current goal is to continue to put on more weight and mass, but in muscle instead of fat. Though it is really hard to find fat on my body. I’m an ectomorph.
Besides that, I am still battling gut health. I always had these problems, but I was desensitized to them until I started to restrict the trigger food. I had a colonic the other day. It was my second one. It does what my coffee enemas cannot do. It cleans out all 4 feet of the colon. We struggled to clean me out as thoroughly as we would have liked. My liver is very sluggish. Debris, endless trapped gas, lots of mucus & inflammation, and 4 BMs, barely, is what we got out this time. I feel so good after. Though I recently noticed that my PC muscle is always activated. This doesn’t help.
Stress stress stress is my problem. My body isn’t prioritizing digestion. I have an appointment every day next week. Therapist- Somatic Healer - Naturopath - Dietitian - Osteopath, oh my. Then my family doctor, two weeks after that… in the middle of my first day of class. Fuck, I gotta reschedule.
Anyway, the other fun parts of the assessment were that my grip strength was rated very poor. Everything else was excellent. I’m right-handed, but my left arm and leg have more mass. I can balance better on my left side, also. I managed to do 25 pushups, which I passionately hate doing. We couldn’t do the cardio test because I got busted. I went to the gym that morning to do leg day, which I didn’t know I wasn’t supposed to do. I hate cardio, passionately, also. I stopped doing it so I could gain weight. I want to swim as my cardio, but that can get expensive. I have a second appointment where they will show me some exercises to build more strength, etc.
Blah, I’ve got to get ready for work now. It’s my second day running the program without my coordinator. Yesterday was my first; it didn’t go too well. That’s a tale for another day.
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