I’m leaving that 212 set point in the dust! And I’m knocking on the door of a BMI in the 27’s. Last night I got my ProForm Dumbbells and Pro Gym Resistance Bands. I was researching reasons why it’s so hard for me to lose weight in my 50s, since this is the toughest time I’ve ever had losing weight. According to what I read, I need to rebuild my muscles. Now before we proceed, my lawyers would have you know I’m not a professional trainer and you should consult your doctor before starting a new exercise routine. Ahh, that’s better.
Zero+ ; Nickel ; M: 115 ; C: 78 ; P/U: 50 ; W : 5 mi
Health R.O.S.
- Weight: 209.0
- BMI: 28.3
- Fat %: 21.6
Muscles and Age
According to my research, you lose 10% of your muscle mass by the time you reach your 50s. While doing push ups is great (and I’m up to 50 now!), you also need to work out your other muscle groups. So I’m adding in some dumbbell exercises and resistance bands to my morning routine.
As I rebuild muscle mass over the next few months, I should see more rapid weight loss and be better able to maintain my goal weight once I get there. That’s the idea anyway.
Joyous Exertion
On my morning hike, I thought about joyous exertion and its relationship to where I currently find myself in life and on my sobriety journey.
This journal and the path forward from here will be forged through the actions and aspirations captured herein. As I progress, the ‘work’ is becoming ever more joyous and fulfilling. I look forward to sitting down everyday and working on this blog. I embrace my morning routine. I love each day more with its passing.
With my new found mission in life, I’m having a tough time connecting with my actual day job. During the early days of my sobriety journey, my relationship with my job improved markedly, but now it’s not getting the airtime it once did or deserves.
Don’t misunderstand me, I’m not suddenly disgruntled or unsatisfied with my employer. Rather, it’s become sort of ‘Meh’, so what, and not as important as what I’m attempting to do here. It lacks the ‘meaningfulness’ I seek. I show up everyday and do the work, but it’s far from joyous. Working through my sobriety challenges and potentially helping others find solutions for theirs is far more meaningful for me.
I feel in my heart I can make a much larger impact on society by sharing my sobriety journey, with all its ups and downs, than by further enriching the shareholders of the public company I’m an executive at.
I feel a deep spiritual calling sprouting from the fertile soil of my life’s realignment. And this very realignment is shifting my priorities. Let’s face it, there’s only so much time in the day and here is the place I’m compelled to focus my energies.
In the meantime, there’ll be no sudden upheavals in my career. Heck, I gotta pay the bills! But there will be a quiet and persistent paving of a new path forward, until, through its own natural progression and inertia, it overtakes and recasts my current reality. If you visited the Grand Canyon 7 million years ago, it was a stream. It’s amazing what constant flow and pressure will create given enough time.
Strive not to be a success, but rather to be of value.
– Albert Einstein
