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Gambling is Never a Good Choice

2/14/2014

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Yesterday I went to the gym and burned 500 calories on the elliptical machine.  After work Kim came over and I taught her another metric crap-ton of awesome bellydance moves for 45 minutes, and we did conditioning with TheraBands and stability balls and, like, gravity for another 45.  I ran through my songs for tonight's performance (I hope you'll come!).  I went to the Goodfoot to see Guda and MeltingPot, and danced around for a bit.

Somehow I managed to gain a pound, and it is merely a reminder to me that gambling is never a good choice.  Even when it doesn't seem like gambling, it seems like a sure thing.

A month ago I bought in to DietBet - you pay $25 to get into a "game" wherein you and a bunch of other folks "bet" that they can get to their goal weight in a specific amount of time.  Winners get to divide up the pot, losers get to wave bye-bye to their cash as they wallow in their fat, broke, defeatedness.  But me?  I was in the middle of a 30-day movement challenge.  I could already see muscles beginning to emerge.  Hell yeah I can lose 5% of my body weight in 30 days!  Duh!  

So, between paying my $25 and my official weigh-in, I lost 5 lbs (which was not that much from what my goal would have been, had I weighed in at the exact time I paid to enter the game).  Now, the official closing weigh-in is due in ....38 hours.  And I've only managed to lose a pound from the official beginning weigh-in.  So, unless there's another miracle 5-lb loss hiding somewhere (maybe with my tahini oat cookie - RIP) I guess I've lost $25.  And 1 lb.

...it sucks to lose money, but I'm hopeful that this isn't going to get me down: I've got SO much more muscle now than I did a month ago.  I wish I'd been taking my measurements.  I wish that body fat % was part of the deal.

Also, note to self: don't buy stuff from China.  It's so easy - it's online at my fingertips when I am most bored or in need of distraction.  It's cheap.  It looks so good on those cute little models.

But it's like buying stuff from Walmart, without even trying it on first.
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Fat old lady
2/14/2014 04:36:43 am

Body fat percentage should ALWAYS be what counts. Of course you aren't going to lose "weight" if you are starting to see muscles emerge! :) I like looking through stories of people getting "fit" as opposed to getting "skinny". I've seen photos of a woman at something like 110 (very slender, but not fit), and then the same woman at 125. After "gaining" 15 lbs of muscle, still wore the exact same size as before, but looked a million times better in it! Now I just gotta try making MYSELF more fit. T_T

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endi
2/14/2014 05:10:35 am

Thanks! You're so right - I'm tempted to be down on myself (it's a 29-year-old habit) for not making the "goal" but the real goal was to just feel better about myself- and I do! Hooray! It's so worth the effort!

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