[ SECRET POST #2500 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2500 ⌋

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Re: somebody smack some sense into me

[(Anonymous)]

As somebody who lost a ton of weight this year by doing something similar, I kind of share your anxieties - I just don't want to gain back the weight I worked so hard to shed. On the other hand, you do need those breaks as well. It's completely healthy and normal to have a day off from the gym routine, instead go for a walk or just do weights instead of cardio. Something of lower intensity. The calf pain may have been some exercise you did earlier or the way you stretched or something - I remember trying to jog after being on the rowing machine and my calves didn't like it at all.

Fitness world has all these shaming mottos and catch phrases that make you feel like you always need to push yourself, otherwise you're not worth shit, and I'll admit some of the fun is the "pushing yourself" part, but you have to listen to your body. That's how I lost all that weight, I realized working out made me feel good, heavy meals followed up my fatty desserts did not make my body feel good. If it hurts and it's not a good kind of hurt, you have to stop because you can actually hurt yourself.

So here's my new motto: do what feels right, and realize that doing something is always better than doing nothing. Some weeks I can do 60 minute runs or jogs, followed by some jumping rope exercise, some days I can barely do a quick 30 minute walk (like when I'm on my period, I get pretty intense abdominal pains and headaches). But so long as I don't just not do anything, and eat myself sick, that's fine.