Determination comes at 2 AM

[avram]

There’s my problem. The best time for working out is the morning, when I’ve got all the willpower of a mushroom. Sometime after midnight my desire to work out clicks in, at which time it does me not a speck of fucking good.

I’ve been reading Bill Phillips’s Body for Life, a plan similar to, but less time-consuming than, the Hot Point Fitness plan which worked for me in August. (Also, I can have pasta under Body for Life! And one day a week I get to eat whatever I want!) I’ve been slacking off on the exercise since sometime in September, and haven’t been to the gym at all in about two weeks. I’m planning to take up regular exercise after the move to the new apartment, when I’ll be nearer to a gym, and can therefore exercise in the mornings before I eat, for maximum benefit, but now I’m eager to be actually doing something instead of just planning to do something. So I think I’ll go do something tomorrow. The perfect is the enemy of the good.

The Body for Life website has success stories on it. I found a guy who lost 184 pounds of fat (and gained 10 pounds of muscle) in one year on the plan. That’s at least twice as much fat as I have to lose.

Sticking with it for more than a month at a time, now that’s the hard part for me.