So, as I mentioned in the last aesthetics update (previously known as the ugly update. It could still be called so, since the efforts are to reduce the amount of ugly, and that would technically count as an update on the ugly, but it sounds nicer to call it the aesthetics update. So there.), I started going to the gym at work. I’ve now been 4 times. I’m only doing very light exercise, mostly calisthenic and body weight type of stuff. For example, incline push-ups rather than bench pressing, deep knee bends rather than squats… and stretching regularly. 

I’m also slowly dropping weight. Since starting back at the end of November, I dropped from 82.5 Kgs (181 lbs) to 79.2 (174 lbs). It’d be nice to get under 78 by the end of the month. I’d like to drop around 2 kilos (4.4 lbs) per month, which would put me around June hitting my target weight of under 70 (154 lbs). 

I do NOT enjoy going to the gym at all. Maybe later I will, but right now, I’m just doing it because I should. I am noticing that I’m starting to limber up a touch more, and some of the exercises are getting easier. If I actually start to look better, maybe I’ll at least see the benefit of it and like it a bit more.  

But even years ago, when I was in great shape, I didn’t like going to the gym, I went because I knew it was good for me. So, I’m holding out some thin hope (ha! Thin hope…. get it?), but I’m not betting the house on it. 

Q: Dave, why do you give your weight in kilograms? Are you a commie*? 

A: No, I’m not a commie. I was originally planning on moving to Italy, and since they are on the metric system, I wanted to familiarize myself with it so I wouldn’t have to constantly convert weights and measures in my head. But at this point, moving to Italy is no longer in the cards. I’ve been considering just going back to the Imperial weights, so I’m not having to constantly convert here. Oddly enough, I started learning metric so I wouldn’t have to convert in Italy. But I live here so I need to constantly convert back to imperial. Based on my own logic- not having to convert numbers, I should go back to imperial weights. I think I just convinced myself. 

* commie might just refer, in some people’s minds, to anything not flag-wavingly ” ‘Merican “, in which case, I suppose wanting to move to Italy would, in those particular people’s minds, actually qualify as commie.