I\u2019m bouncing off the top of two sixty right now. I was darn near close to two eighty at the beginning of the year, so touching two sixty is pretty amazing. Getting under it is the challenge of course. I continue to exercise, and need to keep my portions small, but a body that has been not been exercising enough tends to complain about it.<\/p>\n
Even with modest and careful exercise, I have a lot of aches and pains that are making it difficult. But I see weekly progress. Even as my weight will sometimes plateau for a week or two or three, my conditioning improves. I\u2019m not losing muscle weight. I\u2019m actually gaining it, which is good, even as it hampers the goal of losing weight. But the goal is to lose weight in a healthy way, so I\u2019m perfectly happy to take stagnation in actual weight loss if it includes stronger muscles.<\/p>\n
But there are a number of things that are better. I can fit in all of my shirts better, and can actually take off most of them without unbuttoning the wrist cuffs now. My belly continues to shrink, and I am losing the beer gut, even though I\u2019ve never been a drinker of beer. There\u2019s still a little bit at the bottom trying to hang on for old time\u2019s sake, but I intend to see that gone in the weeks to come. I said before I can fit my Green Lantern ring on my middle finger now, when I never could before.<\/p>\n
And I just slipped on an old birthday present for the first time in years. No… not that one. It\u2019s a Celtic Ring my mom bought me decades ago. I stopped wearing it because it became too tight. It fits me again. And then there are the shoes. I never fully understood the meaning of the phrase \u201cMy shoes are too tight, but it doesn\u2019t matter because I have forgotten how to dance.\u201d But many of my shoes had become too tight. I could walk in them, but I had to take them off many times a day because my feet were too cramped. They no longer are. My shoes are no longer too tight.<\/p>\n
So many little things. I have a short term goal that I intend to hit. The Minnesota State Fair is coming. I intend to be under two sixty when I walk onto the fair grounds. That will feel amazingly good.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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