2024 Fitness Journey

[FETCHER.]

It's a few days off being exactly a year to my wedding and rather than giving myself weight loss commitments, I am going to give myself fitness and nutrition goals instead.

I am committing to 4 weeks of eating in a calorie deficit, hitting my daily step target, running 3x per week and no alcohol.

I do have 3 days in Copenhagen at the start of July which I will enjoy but also I want to make smart choices. Another goal is to keep a sustain everything right up until I go and get back to my plan as soon as I am home, I have a bad habit of sacking it off a week early and taking 2+ weeks to get back in to the swing of things. It isn't exactly ideal when I am away every other month 🫠.

[DJChameleon]

I'm ending this year at 285. It's definitely a combination of muscle weight as opposed to fat weight. I have to take in body fat percentage even though I still look chubs but I don't feel it the same way as earlier in the year.

[Guybrush]

I don't know what my weight is because the scale's batteries have been dead for a long time.

I am unsure about my future in crossfit. I like the social aspect, but I have also realized that it's made me compare myself to all these fitness superfreaks that go there. I can't exercise as much as they do and I'm generally older. I don't juice. I can't possibly keep up and I perpetually feel like a runt in there. In other words, while my fitness condition is certainly much better than last year, my self-esteem is actually lower. I'm aware and this helps, but it still affects me.

[DJChameleon]

Yeah, working out tends to manifest body dsymorphia. Where you compare yourself to others or constantly try to improve because you don't feel like you look good enough as you could be.

[Guybrush]

Yeah, working out tends to manifest body dsymorphia. Where you compare yourself to others or constantly try to improve because you don't feel like you look good enough as you could be.

The cruel irony of exercise, it seems 😄