Day 141 of writing every day.
I did some cleaning today to start making space that would make it possible to fit a new fridge. Amongst the things I took out of was a body scale that I hadn’t touched for maybe a couple years. It was a purchase from a few years ago when I had my mind set on losing more than just a few pounds. The unit used for bodyweight in Japan is kilograms, but that doesn’t sound very American English to use regarding weight.
At the time I was rather focused on exercising every day with weight training on my own outside of regular Aikido practice. I even tried to count calories and made active choices to avoid feel-good foods that are just empty calories, such as ice cream and processed junk food. Although I did lose weight at the time, I hit a plateau where my weight didn’t seem to go down anymore and floated around a range.
Weight loss can be as simple as cutting excess calories and burning off what’s stored as fat on your body. Other times it can be as complicated as establishing a sustainable lifestyle with regards to sleep, diet, exercise, and even supplements.
On a side note, I heard recently that in the US there have been a large number of people abusing some drug that was normally targeted to diabetics. It’s said to help people lose weight because of whatever does with blood sugar levels, and it’s unfortunate that some people with money are able to hoard the supply that was supposed to be for diabetics who might need it. Insulin is also pretty damn expensive from what I heard.
After not seeing my weight for a while, I was a little taken aback by the number I saw. I believed myself to be taking in not that much excess calories and to be maintaining a steady weight all this time. Even if some strength exercises without weights added some muscle mass, the gain in weight was clearly not all from muscle. I didn’t feel my clothes getting tighter but I did want a slimmer waistline, which has always been the case even when I gave up on daily weight tracking.
But I’m not going to run away from the truth of weight gain. I might even use this as inspiration to make a weight tracking database to help me learn programming. I’m sure the culprit isn’t just any single type of food, but I’m going to cut back on the single serving sized cups of ice cream that’s been making a rebound in my routine to satisfy food cravings.
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