So. This is my summer fitness program. Roughly.
Wake up.
Run - about 400 calories.
Eat about 400 calories. Sometimes more like 300. A bowl of oatmeal and some fruit.
Then eat dinner and dessert with my family. My estimate is that dinner is a lot of calories - maybe 1000, 1200 maybe. Maybe more, I don't know really.
Then pushups, situps, etc before bed.
And, according to internet, maintenance is around 2300.
So now the question is 'Why? Why do you need to lose weight? You're skinny already." Yeah, well I'm also squishy. What good is being squishy? I'm doing pushups and situps and little things to stop myself from totally wasting away. And I know I'm never going to be a big, muscular, built guy - that's why I have to do this. I'll never be that perfect mesomorph body. But I can be skinny and cut and not squishy.
This sounds so fucked up. It is.
A friend of mine once said that because I like skinny girls, I am the problem with men. She's a little chubby and it probably stems from that. But here's the thing - she likes muscular guys. She's the same as me; she's as bad as I am. If I am what is wrong with men, then she is what is wrong with women. There are a couple differences between us.
At that juncture, she had a boyfriend. So it shouldn't matter to her what kind of girls I like. It has no relevance to her. Also, I decided that I am going to get in shape. I am lighting a candle while she is spiting the darkness - she wants men to change to accommodate her, while (although, I'd like it if women would just like me for being skinny and squishy because it is more convenient) I am going to get in shape. Perhaps the difference is that she is getting what she wants anyway, so she doesn't need to change anything.
For full discosure's sake, some time after we had the exchange where I am what is wrong with men, myself, her boyfriend and her family (and her grad dress) convinced her to try to get into better shape. But at the time of the exchange, she had no such plans. Also I don't know if she's kept it, as she's graduated now.
Wake up.
Run - about 400 calories.
Eat about 400 calories. Sometimes more like 300. A bowl of oatmeal and some fruit.
Then eat dinner and dessert with my family. My estimate is that dinner is a lot of calories - maybe 1000, 1200 maybe. Maybe more, I don't know really.
Then pushups, situps, etc before bed.
And, according to internet, maintenance is around 2300.
So now the question is 'Why? Why do you need to lose weight? You're skinny already." Yeah, well I'm also squishy. What good is being squishy? I'm doing pushups and situps and little things to stop myself from totally wasting away. And I know I'm never going to be a big, muscular, built guy - that's why I have to do this. I'll never be that perfect mesomorph body. But I can be skinny and cut and not squishy.
This sounds so fucked up. It is.
A friend of mine once said that because I like skinny girls, I am the problem with men. She's a little chubby and it probably stems from that. But here's the thing - she likes muscular guys. She's the same as me; she's as bad as I am. If I am what is wrong with men, then she is what is wrong with women. There are a couple differences between us.
At that juncture, she had a boyfriend. So it shouldn't matter to her what kind of girls I like. It has no relevance to her. Also, I decided that I am going to get in shape. I am lighting a candle while she is spiting the darkness - she wants men to change to accommodate her, while (although, I'd like it if women would just like me for being skinny and squishy because it is more convenient) I am going to get in shape. Perhaps the difference is that she is getting what she wants anyway, so she doesn't need to change anything.
For full discosure's sake, some time after we had the exchange where I am what is wrong with men, myself, her boyfriend and her family (and her grad dress) convinced her to try to get into better shape. But at the time of the exchange, she had no such plans. Also I don't know if she's kept it, as she's graduated now.
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