4XLT

Sorry for the lapse of posts over the past few days. You want a quick recap? Sure thing, boss!

We got out power back on about two days ago – just in time for more snow! But, lucky for it, it was just snow and not some hellish freezing drizzle. All our trees are down, for the most part, but that’s really neither here nor there for a health blog, eh?

So, to remain on topic, here’s the long and the short: no gym and only moderate eating progress. Sinus infection makes life in general no fun, but I shouldn’t use it as an excuse to let go entirely.

Reaching for 100%

I was reading Billy’s blog, and he wrote something that really resounded in me:

You need to DOMINATE your reality in every way. This is my reality. I do what I say. This is different from “I do what I want”. I uphold the promises I make to myself and to others. When I walk into a room and there is a table full of food that tempts me, I only eat what I say. When I walk into a gym, I do what I say. Often what I say is not what I want. I say “lift a heavier weight” even though I don’t want to. But I listen… I think it all boils down to dominance vs. submission. Are you going to dominate your reality, or submit to it and give up control? Do you have a strong character or a weak one? Are you willing to change? Do you want to?

I reads really similar to another teaching / motivational writing that I read recently in an email newsletter. In this other one, the author writes from time to time about defining the reality you want to live in, and then inviting others to join you. These two lines of thought – defining your own reality and then dominating that reality – put into words a significant mental shift I am going through. And it isn’t simply in regards to my own health / weight loss situation, but it applies to all aspects of life, from my professional affairs to friendships and relationships. But, I’ll write on that later.

I make my own reality. Come and join me.

Stylish New Digs

I also took Billy’s advice and went ahead and purchased that Seahawks jersey I mentioned a few posts back (How’d we biff it to the Panthers today?! Gah!). The dear, dear UPS man delivered it to my icy doorstep earlier this week. It’s been awesome already to set it out in my bedroom while I work some on the exercise bike (that thing’s been a Godsend). Oddly enough, it fits a lot better than I was imagining a 2XLT would, and by that I mean perhaps I’m surprised it fits at all. Honest, I was a bit put out by it at first, but I’ll just take it to be a blessing in disguise and extra help to sporting that thing next season.

I’m still in the process of sorting out my weight routine, tonight, in fact. I’m hitting the gym again (now that the lights are back on in town and I can manage the sinus infection) Monday morning, so I may end up working through my old routine again (which isn’t too terribly bad, mind you). Still, I’ll find a good routine soon. I have to!