If there are two things I love that I can spontaneously name right now, it's CHALLENGES and SURPRISES.
I am never a vain person, more like conscious probably, but never vain, I solemnly swear. Though I often look at mirrors, it's more out of habit than out of a constant desire to look my best whenever wherever.
Sometime ago, I survived 9 months without combing my hair, for Pete's sake. If that's being vain, I don't know what is not.
But please don't get me wrong, I am not a walking male version of Ugly Betty. I take time fixing myself, preppin' up and styling, but it's not a priority, less an obsession. I just believe that there are more imporatant things I can spend my PRECIOUS time on other than wax-spiking my hair, trying on bling-blings, deciding whether to button up my polo or not, to put on a belt or not, et al.
In the past, I have challenged my self:
1. To battle out with my being underweight
2. To improve on my cardio by running and/ or jogging
3. To try a no-meat diet for atleast 2 months
4. No Facebook Posting for a month
5. Quit on soda/ softdrinks
6. Some other silly, weird, crazy challenges that only me can think of. Not sharing
all of them though.
The list of my self-challenges could go on and on. Some were ambitious and some were not. But for the record, I stepped up to these challenges and accomplished them, and mind you, with flying colors.
I miss the feeling of rising to whatever challenge I give myself that while taking my usual Ayala-to-Dela Costa walk to work this morning, BOOM! it hit me. The perfect time has now come for me to challenge myself, AGAIN.
Since my weight is very BIG deal to me, and since I dropped about 8 pounds of muscles from last December (I might tell the whole story about how this happened on a separate entry), I am obviously in Depression Island.
I had the chance to look myself at the mirror some 2 or 3 days ago and I didn't like what I saw. I'm becoming skinny (flashback to my old built 6 years or so ago) and it's like my greatest fear, to be the super skinny me again. "Hello, Olive Oyl, I don't want to be your challenger!"
So, what I thought of: NO MIRROR Challenge!
Hahaha, You might laugh, as hard as I am now. This may be the funniest challenge I've ever thought of. And may also sound like the most nonsense.
Applying my very own 4-way Test:
Is it simple? ... Yes!
Is it doable? ... Yes!
Is it possible? ... Yes!
But is it easy? ... Damn it, a resounding N O !
I resort to mirrors whenever I wanna check if I had gained some pounds, have buffed a little, or I still am in the 'skinny' side.
I do that, without a miss, every after I work out. It has been my so-called ceremonial and progress indicator.
Though no muscles are targeted in particular, looking at mirrors while flexing (Yes, I do that. Guilty.) is an ESSENTIAL part of my work out regimen. All men do flex their muscles every once in a while, mostly when no one watches them or in the privacy of the changing room. Either way, still in front of a mirror. That is a fact.
Point is, while my new challenge may seem nonsense, it actually is full of logic and sense.
For a month, I will not look in to mirrors to check if I've had gains.
Will not step on scales to weigh also.
This will keep me guessing my weight. Therefore, having no idea where I stand in the kilo-scale would give me nothing but a "gain more, work out more, eat more, sleep more" mindset.
By the end of 31 days, I am hoping that I have aced this yet-another CHALLENGE of mine. Good luck to me!
The STATS
Sometime ago, I survived 9 months without combing my hair, for Pete's sake. If that's being vain, I don't know what is not.
But please don't get me wrong, I am not a walking male version of Ugly Betty. I take time fixing myself, preppin' up and styling, but it's not a priority, less an obsession. I just believe that there are more imporatant things I can spend my PRECIOUS time on other than wax-spiking my hair, trying on bling-blings, deciding whether to button up my polo or not, to put on a belt or not, et al.
In the past, I have challenged my self:
1. To battle out with my being underweight
2. To improve on my cardio by running and/ or jogging
3. To try a no-meat diet for atleast 2 months
4. No Facebook Posting for a month
5. Quit on soda/ softdrinks
6. Some other silly, weird, crazy challenges that only me can think of. Not sharing
all of them though.
The list of my self-challenges could go on and on. Some were ambitious and some were not. But for the record, I stepped up to these challenges and accomplished them, and mind you, with flying colors.
I miss the feeling of rising to whatever challenge I give myself that while taking my usual Ayala-to-Dela Costa walk to work this morning, BOOM! it hit me. The perfect time has now come for me to challenge myself, AGAIN.
Since my weight is very BIG deal to me, and since I dropped about 8 pounds of muscles from last December (I might tell the whole story about how this happened on a separate entry), I am obviously in Depression Island.
I had the chance to look myself at the mirror some 2 or 3 days ago and I didn't like what I saw. I'm becoming skinny (flashback to my old built 6 years or so ago) and it's like my greatest fear, to be the super skinny me again. "Hello, Olive Oyl, I don't want to be your challenger!"
So, what I thought of: NO MIRROR Challenge!
Hahaha, You might laugh, as hard as I am now. This may be the funniest challenge I've ever thought of. And may also sound like the most nonsense.
Applying my very own 4-way Test:
Is it simple? ... Yes!
Is it doable? ... Yes!
Is it possible? ... Yes!
But is it easy? ... Damn it, a resounding N O !
I resort to mirrors whenever I wanna check if I had gained some pounds, have buffed a little, or I still am in the 'skinny' side.
I do that, without a miss, every after I work out. It has been my so-called ceremonial and progress indicator.
Though no muscles are targeted in particular, looking at mirrors while flexing (Yes, I do that. Guilty.) is an ESSENTIAL part of my work out regimen. All men do flex their muscles every once in a while, mostly when no one watches them or in the privacy of the changing room. Either way, still in front of a mirror. That is a fact.
Point is, while my new challenge may seem nonsense, it actually is full of logic and sense.
For a month, I will not look in to mirrors to check if I've had gains.
Will not step on scales to weigh also.
This will keep me guessing my weight. Therefore, having no idea where I stand in the kilo-scale would give me nothing but a "gain more, work out more, eat more, sleep more" mindset.
By the end of 31 days, I am hoping that I have aced this yet-another CHALLENGE of mine. Good luck to me!
The STATS
(as of January 9, 2013) Goal ( After 31 days)
Weight : 124 lbs 132 lbs
No of times that I looked at the mirror : 0 0
Challenge Success Rate : 100% 100%
Will keep you posted.
Weight : 124 lbs 132 lbs
No of times that I looked at the mirror : 0 0
Challenge Success Rate : 100% 100%
Will keep you posted.
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