Weight, weight - don't tell me

[kitchen_kink]

When I started working out (and when I last visited the doctor), I was around 192 pounds. I tend to float between 190 and 195.

I now weigh 200, and have for a couple of weeks.

I am not un-pleased by this. Though my weight is supposedly a little over even for someone of my height and bone structure (large), I can carry a lot of weight. And this 200 looks a hell of a lot different from the 200 I weighed when I graduated college.

I've been peeking at Fitness for Dummies, and it advises you to make goals for yourself. The long-term goals (3-6 months) are the ones I always have trouble with. But here's mine:

Be able to say that I weigh 200 pounds. Have it be pure muscle.

Comments

[rednikki.livejournal.com]

That is a fabulous goal.

[fanw.livejournal.com]

Remind me not to arm wrestle you in the near future. Whew! Wow!

[greendalek.livejournal.com]

Beautiful image called to mind there. *grin* Incidentally I haven't forgotten you nor my goal of rendering you in something suitably superheroic --I just need to get two more semesters out of the way.

[dietrich.livejournal.com]

I might be able to get you a better picture in the near future - I want harkavy to shoot me again once I'm all ripped.

[longueur.livejournal.com]

Please keep the tits and brain though.

[dietrich.livejournal.com]

Okay, 185 pounds, pure muscle. Plus 15 pounds in tits and brain. Or something like that. Wait - also organs. And hair. Though that doesn't weigh much. Oh, and bones, otherwise I'll have trouble walking. Hm. 100 pounds of pure muscle, everything else in the remaining 100?

Now you've confused me.

you need a new scale, surely

[unknownrockstar.livejournal.com]

200?! no way!

Re: you need a new scale, surely

[dietrich.livejournal.com]

Oh yes. m'dear, 200. Actually, I always like it when people say, "There's no WAY you could weigh 200 pounds!" But at the same time I balk at the assumption that less weight is somehow better, or that 200 pounds can't be beautiful. ;)

Still, I take it as a compliment. :)

[dda.livejournal.com]

I read the other day that skin weighs about 5% of total body weight and you sure don't want to do without your skin! So 10 lbs of that 200 is skin, approximately.

[skyline99.livejournal.com]

is ur name dietrich? my name is dietrich too. i have never found someone with the same name! maybe we can be friends

[dietrich.livejournal.com]

Hee - it's not, actually, sadly. My username is in homage to the late great Marlene Dietrich. Hi, though!

[unknownrockstar.livejournal.com]

I just got the NPR reference joke, :p oh I'm slow these days...

[dietrich.livejournal.com]

That's funny, 'cause I didn't get it.