Worth the weight?

Posted by terri | Filed under chub chub, natsukashii, watashi

I spent my day off alone today, so I figure I might as well do something productive that I can do myself and that of course was cleaning my house, namely my old room.  I am ashamed to say that my old room has not seen a cleaning in more than 10 years.  It has mostly been used for storage of all my stuff.  Up until lately, I’ve been kind of a pack rat, but in my recent housecleaning frenzy, I’ve learned to get rid of stuff — not keeping things just for the littlest sentimental value.  You can imagine that it in 10 years, a lot of stuff accumulates and rummaging through it becomes this wonderful trip down memory lane.  And though there are so many things I could write about for the sake of nostalgia,  I think it’s more appropriate to write about what I realize I need to do for my future.

I found some old clothes of mine that I couldn’t believe I once fitted.  As I looked at myself, it was a moment of “What the hell happened to you, Terri?”  There was a time when I was so much more active with my life.  Every weekend, my friends and I would go climb Diamond Head just for fun, and we did all sorts of fun and exciting stuff like kite flying and playing ultimate frisbee.  A lot of that changed when I didn’t get to see my friends as much for various reasons, and then the company I kept was more content with staying indoors playing video games.  And of course, by then I had gone back to school where I was stressed out and propping myself up with coffee and bad food.  The result has been gaining probably 60 pounds and feeling constantly lethargic.  I think I can chalk some of it to a possible glandular problem, but of course, I know I control my own fat(e).

I don’t want to say that I’m on that “d” word, but I am trying to take better care of myself.  I have been trying to take a walk around my neighborhood almost every evening (with the aid of my new Nano!) and am also being mindful of what I eat and more importantly when I eat.  I am not sure how long it will last, in all honesty.  I guess I just have to take it one day at a time.

Yesterday, in the spirit of trying to exercise and for the purpose of killing time in town, I took a rather long walk.  I walked from Ala Moana to the Honolulu Zoo on Kapahulu Avenue via Waikiki.  I can’t remember the last time I walked through Waikiki as it is not my kind of place, just like with many locals here.  I have to say I enjoyed it as a nice scenic walk and I might very well do it again.  As always, I had my trusty Canon SD1100 IS with me, so I snapped away.   You can check out the pictures on my Flickr. (It’s nothing special so I won’t post it here.)  When I got home, I went to mapmyrun.com to figure out just how long I walked. I was pretty surprised that it was over 2 miles. For a lot of people, that’s nothing, but for someone like me who is normally so lethargic, that is definitely something.

 My route through Waikiki

In cleaning up my room (which I have yet to finish), I threw almost everything away in trying to relinquish my pack rat ways. I did, however, keep all my nice “skinny” clothes in a nice storage container. I don’t know if I’ll ever fit them again, but it’s nice to have a reminder that I wasn’t always such a lazy bum.

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One Response to “Worth the weight?”

  1. BK Says:
    October 11th, 2008 at 2:23 am

    good for you and your inspiration. i too have adopted a rather lethargic lifestyle i’d like to do something about. seems you took a lot of pictures of couture brick-and-mortar! if i were ken, i’d be a little worried ;) . anywho, keep up the cleaning frenzy. it’s always a little sad at first to unstash somewhat sentimental collected stuff around the room, but it’s also great to be in a clutter-free room. i find that for myself, the less clutter in a room, the more i’m able to focus. and yes, no d-word, especially around resolution time.

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