Steady As She Goes
So. I just quit the gym. I haven't been since probably February and it was a very liberating experience. This isn't as controversial as it might sound, given that I now do power yoga 6 times a week and largely I quit the gym for cost savings. But still, it seemed significant enough that I wanted to write about it. Probably what I really want to write about it how hard it is to maintain fitness. I still get people asking me about losing weight, and honestly, it's hard to be encouraging sometimes. For me, losing weight was the easy part. Why? Because it was successful and measurable . As the pounds were shed, you could literally tick off small victories each week, hell, sometimes each day! The weight-loss process became a series of WINS! The weight maintenance phase, however, feels like it has few concrete results. Muscle gain is excruciatingly, incrementally slow. Plus, since muscle weighs more than fat (please ...