Having a slower week but still keepin at it!

 



I am having a much slower week and not exercising nearly as much as I would like to. I have only gotten out once this week for a lunch ride and work is too busy to try to get out again but that is fine for now I am still on the diet and its not like I am gaining weight or losing any of my ability to ride so I am taking this as a bit of a rest week. I was not feeling the best the other day and that has not changed a ton but riding my bike and remembering what I used to look like compared to now is making me feel a lot better. 

I made a threads post the other day about using a selfie tripod to take photos of myself while on a ride and figured maybe one or two people might respond and I am very supprised at the amount of responses I have gotten on that post. More likes than I though I would get from a post as well. Now I did not mean it to be engagement bait I really did want to know peoples thoughts but I am awful at responding to people I have fine reading comprehension skills but a lifetime of things has made me a bit jaded so I always end up worried they are being mean to me and I end up responding wierdly because of that. So I chose not to respond and to read all the comments with a happy tone in them and really if I tried to read them with a negative tone I don't think I could. The most negative comment was something like "I would find it weird if you took selfies with a tripod but if you enjoy your ride who cares" which made my day and continues to make my day. So many people just did not care or were happy to see someone happy enough on a ride to to share pictures of themselves that they liked it. Now that does not change the fact that I am still finding worry in the idea of people knowing my face. This fear is rooted in years of early internet where you did not share anything about yourself lest you get ridiculed somewhere. I am going to find a way to get over that as well I mean I still will be a random person whos name is irrelevant but putting a face to a blog / vlog is something that I should not fear. I don't think anyone that was on threads who commented will ever see this but if you do see it thank you for leaving a comment it made me happy to read them and I liked all of them. 



Currently the wieght is still going down and I am so very happy about this. The pace has slowed again but this time that is more than fine. Like I have posted about in the past I am going to focus more on the exercise goals and less on the weight / waist size goals. I will want to share this from time to time becuase I am so excited to see the progress I have made.

To go along with the happy from the progress I have made I did do something else when I first started the journey before the blog started even I took pictures of my scale and of myself front and side and I think today I am going to take those same pictures and show my progress a bit. I will still crop out my face and anything too identifying such as my tattoos so if it says altered with AI its because I suck at photoshop and just use my phones removal tool to edit out those things. 


I am going to leave this blog post with a side profile photo of myself with no face but a start in posting photos of myself era. Thank you very much for reading! Have a wonderful day!


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