New year’s resolution update.
My new year’s resolution was to become more physically fit.
Here’s the thing about becoming physically fit. It’s not actually very interesting. At all. It largely consists of picking up heavy things and putting them down again, combined with getting your heart rate up. You don’t have to know the difference between a tricep and an ab. (And even if you do, it doesn’t make any difference. You have to pick things up and put them down again just as many times.)
So I’ve gone down two belt sizes, I’ve got more definition, etc.—it’s working out. But, really, it’s just not interesting, to me or to you. It’s not like diet, where there’s so much to learn about farming and subsidies and chemistry. I tried to read up on this stuff, and I don’t care. Because, again, the picking up and the putting down.
The good bit about being fit and getting regular exercise is this: I do not feel guilty about eating what I like, within the confines of everything that I learned about diet from my 2006 new year’s resolution. Being active gives me peace of mind about my diet and, ultimately, my health. If I want to have a bacon cheeseburger at Riverside or a frappe from Chaps, I do so without concern for my fitness. I can afford it, calorically-speaking.
I intend to remain a member of the gym, though I hope to eventually be responsible enough to not need the guilt of spending money on a membership hanging over my head to actually exercise. Maybe come January I’ll have a new year’s resolution that’s more interesting to blog about.
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