It had to happen again at one point, I guess

[kaiserkuchen]

Today is the first time since about half year that I have actually engaged in strenuous physical activity. After our day full of errands, Ma dragged me to our housing community/mooban's gym and I proceeded to wheeze my way through a half hour of the cardio machines on middle setting. IT FELT LIKE I WAS ABOUT TO DIIIIIE AFTERWARDS, lol I am so out of shape >_>;; (aaaand we're gonna try for longer tomorrow! Ahhh)

This suddenly willingness to be dragged to vaguely sportive activities on my side was perhaaaaaps prompted a bit by what happened at the hospital the last time we were there for some of Ma's check-ups. There was this fitness promo stand that was offering free blood pressure and body fat percentage measurements, and yours truly, masochist that I am went for a go of the latter option. It's amazing what these newfangled weight things can measure now, I got this whole barrage of data out of it. APPARENTLY, at 176cms/72kgs (5'8/158lbs) I am still in a normal weight range, but for my age class I am officially a "fatty" with my body fat percentage being a whopping 32,4% (over 30% pushes you over that mark, it seems. DAMN THE JUNK IN MY TRUNK). Lolllll the poor guy explaining the data to me was all trying his best to be ~tactful~ and ~optimistic~ about what I could do to change and I was just standing there cracking up because, wow, it sure is something to see that number black on white. But I also have a very good to extremely high bone density and an average muscle mass. Which would end the flood of data on a positive note, but nooo, I then got the memo that I apparently have the metabolism of a 30 year old, too XDD (my first reaction to that was basically 'WTF HOW CAN THEY MEASURE THIS BY ME STANDING ON SOME METAL BITS ON A SCALE?? XDD)


AH WELL, MUST TRY TO VAGUELY TOUGHEN UP*. Summer in Vienna is approaching! I am friends with Carmen and Hazel, both tiny and petite ladies! I do not want to look like their giant beached whale friend on our pictures! FIGHT FIGHT etc etc 8DD


*it seems that Carmen is going to sign me up for beginner's rock climbing classes with her at the USI anyhow?? Oh boyyyy~~

Comments

[kaiserkuchen.livejournal.com]

.....DDD: sorry for being triggering, I guess?? But yeah, with all the number crunching that you can do re:weight and what is supposedly health and what isn't, you could pretty much set any arbitrary number and manage to halfway defend it :| I just thought it was okay as a kind of 'WELL YOU ALWAYS KNEW YOU ARE SLOWLY SLIDING DOWN THE SLOPE OF BEING A LAZY BUM, SELF, HERE HAVE SOME OFFICIAL SOUNDING NUMBERS TO MOTIVATE YOU OTHERWISE'

but oooh! Belly dancing! How long did you use to do it? Did you have the swank outfit and uh, jingly belly-attache thing?

[jorajo.livejournal.com]

NO! DN apologize for 'triggering'. I just tend to rant sometimes. IT IS ALL GOOD, BB.

I so did not do it in public or..in front of anyone. And it wasn't like I was actually bellydancing, so I am just being misleading. It was one of those bellydancing workout tapes IT WAS HARD. It was awesome. I did it for about 6 months and it helped with my coordination and confidence and rhythm. Discovery Health and/or TLC have this 30 minute show called Shimmy that I DVR and never watch anyway. It is way hard (for me, since I've gone back to my lack of coordination and flexibility) but I highly recommend bellydance to ALL.

[kaiserkuchen.livejournal.com]

LET THE RANT FLOW THROUGH YOUR BODY LIKE A CLEANSING WAVE OF ...UH, SOMETHING CLEANSING. I AM TIRED AND MY VOCAB IS SHUTTING DOWN lolol

Oooh sounds like fun though! I do get the whole "THIS MUST NEVER LEAVE THIS ROOOOOM" aspect of it though, I mean, I bought a DDR mat for the PS2 so I could hop around like a crazy person trying (and mostly failing) so look cool whilst playing that damn dance game at home instead of at some public arcade XDD Mainly I just sweated a hell of a lot, damn hopping is more tiring that one thinks XDD