on working out

[seventhe]

The things I really want to say I will try to sum up as follows:

• “Losing weight” and “being skinny” are not actually always the same thing or even related…


• …and neither one really is directly guaranteed to be related to “how you look”…


• … and none of the above necessarily have anything to do with “being healthy”…


• …which in turn is something related to, but also different than, how “strong” or “fit” you might be.

And also:

• Some people like to challenge their bodies; others don’t. Different bodies accept physical challenge in different ways, and react to it differently. You are just as good as you need to be.


• Some exercises are more effective than others. Some aren’t worth your time. Some things aren’t going to help you reach your goals, because you’ve made correlations among combinations of the above things that may or may not be true. Or really matter.


• And people can be totally attractive, smoking hot, dead sexy, insert your phrase of choice here, at any point on any of the above scales!


• And finding your balance of all of the above factors – figuring out not only which are important but which things you can affect yourself and which are not worth your time worrying about – is a difficult but important process.

There’s more of a rant that goes here but it became a very self-centered tl;dr on my own health problems and, well, this version works for now.

Conclusion: I creepershark everyone.

Comments

[crankyoldman]

Damn fucking straight.

And I say this as someone that accidentally off my exercise regimen. My goal is to fucking wake up in the morning and do it then.

[seventhe]

Morning working-out is so hard. For a while I was trying to do 15 minutes of yoga* every morning and it totally lasted like four days.

*note 15 minutes of yoga =/= a workout, even!

[yukie]

I'm going to fangirl you now. XD Just sayin'.

I started running again and at first I felt bad about not being able to go as far as I could before - but there is no reason to feel BAD. I can go a little farther every time. And be nice to my knees!

Signed, someone who also has cantankerous lungs sometimes. XD

[seventhe]

YESSSSSSSSSSSSS. For so long I was comparing myself to my ex (who I still work out with as it was a fairly amenable breakup) because we started at the same time, so I thought, well, we should improve at about the same rate, right? WRONG. He is tall and also male and so he was clocking me at 7.5 mph when I was having asthma attacks trying to run at 7.0 and failing, badly.

Now I have learned to say, you know what? There really is NO REASON to feel BAD about the fact that I RUN. XD


(YAY BAD LUNG CLUB)

[lassarina]

woooooooord.

*bites you. or your tags. one of these two things is true.*

[owlmoose.livejournal.com]

Yes. Yes yes and also yes.

I could also insert a rant here, but a) I shouldn't dump my tl;dr rants on you and b) I'm about to get on a plane, so for now I'll just say thank you for saying this. :)

[first-seventhe.livejournal.com]

Ooooh, feel free to dump tl;dr rants on me anytime *sexy wink*! No, really; I have a lot more to say on this (and plan to), but it wasn't coming out in a version I thought clearly expressed what I wanted to say.

[albijuli]

THIS is going on my memories and then printed off to be placed on my fridge.

[drakonlily.livejournal.com]

AMEN

[first-seventhe.livejournal.com]

AGREED. There are a lot of reasons to work out that are good, happy ones!

[jennyclarinet.livejournal.com]

I agree, but what inspired this?

It's funny because I just watched last night's Glee episode and it was about self-image. Super cheesy, but that's Glee.

[darcenciel.livejournal.com]

AGREE.

I would love to be skinny, but I have accepted that I will never be skinny because if I lost any more weight, I might die. My body has found its happy place.