Social Workout

the irony.

onion rings (via Ganesha Isis)

It's kind of funny to me that the week that I'm the "featured body," I've actually done very little in terms of body-stuff. Yes, ok, I had one good workout at the gym and the epic walk, but that was it. I took two full days off - one to go to Princeton to attend my dad's public lecture and the other (today) because I'm feeling very very sick to my stomach after deciding to "screw paleo" and have onion rings at Stand for lunch. They were delicious but boy am I paying for them. Tomorrow afternoon I do have Trainer Mike, so I promise a really kick-ass workout to myself and you guys. Hold me to it!

While we're on the subject on my latest non-paleo-food-induced malaise, I should mention that I failed my D.I.Y. feat of only having 4 open meals this month. Last night's dinner in honor of my dad was the 4th and the onion rings marked the 5th (and look where that got me besides failing the feat). Anyways, I can think of a trillion other D.I.Y. that would be worthwhile (or even more so) to me, so I've decided to change it up. We're going feral, right? So, I'm giving up all measurement devices that have become part of my daily routine -- no reading of the exerspy data, no weighing myself, no HR monitor. I'll keep wearing the exerspy, but since it can hold weeks worth of data, I won't upload it until I have to. Also, 2x a week, for my sessions with Trainer Mike, I'll make an exception for the HR monitor since he wants to know where I am during our sessions. But, I won't bring my watch and he can use his to keep himself cued in. I can gauge now where I am in terms of intensity of my workout and, honestly, there's really no need for me to measure calories burned during exercise.

I've become so addicted to the data that I think it'll be cleansing to eliminate it. We'll see!