Buildup
Goal Post #1 Growing up I was super active: swimming almost every day in summer, biking everywhere, climbing trees, and weekly gymnastics lessons . Unfortunately, none of that prepared me for how my body started deteriorating with age. Rather than approach things constructively, I decided this was just how getting old works and became less and less fit. By the spring of 2017 I was far from healthy. Walking more than a mile made my legs hurt, my back completely seized up twice a year, I needed help moving our coffee table off the carpet, and suffered heartburn multiple times a week. Like most people, my weight has fluctuated over the years. When I got my driver's license at 16, I added ten pounds to my actual weight. My logic was if I gained weight, no one could look at it and think “Yeah right, 20lbs ago.” I also didn’t want to have a mythical “driver’s license weight” that was some unattainably low number because I was still a kid. I figured I’d get heavier and