You Canโt Eat Love
Stars arenโt just for kindergarteners
Or how to trick yourself into building new habits
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Have you ever set a goal for yourself? A goal of something you want to accomplish ๐ซ๐ถ๐ด๐ต ๐ฃ๐ฆ๐ค๐ข๐ถ๐ด๐ฆ? It ๐ฟ๐ฒ๐ฎ๐น๐น๐ is not going to change your life, but ๐๐ฉ ๐ฌ๐๐ก๐ก change your life. One of those kinds of goals?
Well, back in July 2020, when it became really obvious this whole, โwe will be back to normal in just a couple of weeksโ thing was not going to happen, ๐ ๐ด๐ต๐ข๐ณ๐ต๐ฆ๐ฅ ๐ง๐ฐ๐ค๐ถ๐ด๐ช๐ฏ๐จ ๐ฐ๐ฏ ๐ด๐ฐ๐ฎ๐ฆ ๐ค๐ณ๐ข๐ป๐บ, ๐ธ๐ฉ๐บ ๐ฏ๐ฐ๐ต ๐ข๐ฏ๐ฅ ๐ซ๐ถ๐ด๐ต ๐ฃ๐ฆ๐ค๐ข๐ถ๐ด๐ฆ ๐จ๐ฐ๐ข๐ญ๐ด.
๐๐ฃ๐ ๐ค๐ ๐ฉ๐๐๐ข ๐ฌ๐๐จ ๐๐๐๐๐ก๐๐๐ฉ๐๐ฃ๐ ๐ญ๐ณ๐ฑ๐ก๐๐จ.
Now, I can hear you asking โwhy in the heck would you pick ๐ง๐๐๐ง as a goalโ? Well, I really donโt have a good answer. The best answer I can give is I wanted to challenge myself to see if I really could lift that much weight. If you were to put goals into buckets of โlife advancingโ and โvanityโ I guess you could say it would fall into the โvanityโ bucket. (You have any of those kinds of goals?)
I told Jackie (the most amazing trainer in the whole wide world) this was what I wanted to do, so we got to work. The heaviest I had lifted (and with a lot of struggle) before this crazy decision was 130. I could struggle 150, but it was just that, a ๐๐จ๐๐ struggle and ๐ฏ๐ฐ๐ต very pretty at all.
I wanted to get to 175 by my birthday. Well, I blew past that and ๐ข๐ค๐ต๐ถ๐ข๐ญ๐ญ๐บ ๐ญ๐ช๐ง๐ต๐ฆ๐ฅ 185 ๐ฐ๐ฏ ๐ฎ๐บ ๐ฃ๐ช๐ณ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฅ๐ข๐บ. I still remember how excited I was! Jackie was pretty excited too. We jumped around, shouting and high-fiving. ๐ง๐ต๐ฒ๐ป, after savoring the moment, for a moment, I said, I want to aim for 210lbs.
Why 210? Like so many answers to so many random questions in my life
โ โ๐๐ฉ๐บ ๐ฏ๐ฐ๐ต?โ
I must confess, I shared that goal with my youngest son and he challenged me to aim for 225lbs. I thought about it for a moment, and said โWhy not?โ
Well, for the past several months, I have been stuck at 210. ๐ฅ๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐ธ๐.
I changed up some of my workouts on the other days, focused on being able to move heavier weights andโฆ