NoJoMo #8

NoJoMo #8: What steps do you take for your health? Do you exercise? Eat healthy? Or do you figure you only live once and the heck with worrying about it?

A: Ha. This question has a lot of history behind it with me. For starters, the first 24 years of my life was spent as a scrawny skeletor.

My senior year in high school

I was forced to do exercise in the Army, but I never really pushed myself to go much farther than the bare minimum required by the Army (60% – 42 pushups in 2 minutes, 53 situps in 2 minutes, 2 miles in 15:54).

In 2004 I fell in love with a girl named Nicki. And for so many years I wanted her to care about me. (reference practically any entry from 2004 – 2008).

In 2008 when I got out of the Army, I started working out in the hope of swooning her. I went from 130 pounds to 170 pounds very quickly.

Me at 130 pounds.

Me around 140 pounds.

Me at 150 pounds.

Me at 170 pounds.

Of course… the plan didn’t work out. Plans like that never do. So for awhile I worked out simply to hurt myself. I worked out in the hopes that just maybe one day I’d accidentally run into her, or better yet, her boyfriend. So I could break him.

But sooner or later, I just realized… does it really even matter anymore? She’s never going to care about me. Why bother working out? There’s just no point to it. So I stopped.

And it’s been about… 2 years since I stopped working out. And now I’m basically kind of fat. Which is something I’ve never experienced before. However, I’ve decided I’m going to lose the weight and just maintain a nice normal 150 – 170 weight (I’m at 180 now, I think).

So I signed up to do some Crossfit here in Panama City. And it’s soulbreaking exercise, it is. But that’s where I’m at. I’m still 180 pounds, but I know with time, this exercise will trim me down slightly.

And that’s my relationship with exercise.

~Bruce