Current Ramblings
Saturday, February 19, 2005
Weighty Issues
So yesterday I started walking again. I went in for a check-up with my gastrointerologist (Yay, I don't need another colonoscopy anytime real soon!), and even taking into account that I had just had a nice meal before coming in and I was fully clothed and all, I still did not especially like the numbers the nurse wrote down after I stood on the scale. It's not that I am like so many young women who fixate on their weight. I detest doing anything that might suggest to anyone that that particular horrible-but-so-often-true female stereotype has anything to do with me - ordering Diet Coke, fussing about how fatty things are, that sort of thing. But in my mind there is a weight I am supposed to be. It's not some unreasonable goal, just a number that used to apply to me in my late teens and stopped applying so much when I moved to Michigan's Scenic Upper Peninsula and for all intents and purposes shifted to a sedentary lifestyle. A couple years ago I started walking every day, just a trip around the block, about 1.3 miles in 25 minutes, and within a couple months I had lost that extra 10 pounds from sitting in front of the computer so much. I dropped from what I think of as my "sedentary weight" to my "active weight", and that was all I really wanted. But winter came, and as the weather got cold I got wimpy, and then around the time last year I had been planning to take it up again I got sick, and so while I made spotty attempts to get back into my routine last year, I never did. As soon as I got the UC under control I crept back up to my sedentary weight, which I wasn't thrilled about but considered acceptable. But now I seem to be going beyond even that, and that's bad. Clearly it's time to get off my ass and put those earmuffs with the headphones in them to good use. Before I have to take more drastic measures and stop picking the crunchy fried bits off everyone else's trays at Long John Silver's. We can't have that.
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