Well, I watched How Heavy Are the Dumbbells You Lift? again. (Or, more accurately, its first two episodes again.) And today I found myself signing up for the gym. It helps that the day job provides a half-price corporate membership for the year (although that's still a fair bit) but if I make sure I go reasonably often for at least a few months, it'll be worthwhile.
And y'know what, I'm feeling pretty motivated right now, for once. Motivation to exercise is something that seems to come and go with me; when it comes, it really comes (and when it goes, it buggers off for years at a time), but I've never really managed to effectively combine it with weight loss. The last time I got "into" exercise I ended up running a 10k. I was still fat, and it took me a long time to finish, but I finished it; I have the medal to prove it.
This time around, I'm following a weight loss program with regard to food and feeling motivated to exercise. This, to me, sounds like a winning combination — though of course thanks to past experience I know all too well that things don't happen overnight.
I'm feeling pretty good about the prospect right now, anyway. We'll see how I feel if/when I manage to get myself out of bed in time for a morning workout tomorrow… and when I remember how achey your first gym session after umpteen months inevitably makes you!
But I'll do it for Hibiki. And Ayaka. And Akemi. And the other ones who haven't been in the anime yet.
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