{"id":37631,"date":"2013-10-05T22:16:41","date_gmt":"2013-10-06T02:16:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/totfc.net\/?p=37631"},"modified":"2020-07-08T22:16:51","modified_gmt":"2020-07-09T02:16:51","slug":"i-must-have-a-tapeworm-or-something","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/?p=37631","title":{"rendered":"I must have a tapeworm or something"},"content":{"rendered":"

I don\u2019t weigh myself often, because considering how often I hit the weights and try and develop muscle, I should always expect to be a little on the heavier side if I\u2019m doing things right.\u00a0 In other words, I think the number is irrelevant as long as the body develops in an ideal manner, but I\u2019d also be lying if I didn\u2019t say I was somewhat partially conscious about it.<\/span><\/p>\n

But every now and then I get a little curious, usually after some sort of period of time in which I\u2019ve abused myself with eating like crap, or like when I do a whole lot of social drinking.\u00a0 The curiosity is often in the tone of \u201chow much did I regress?\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

So when I saw that the scale was actually unoccupied the other day, I decided to cave into the curiosity and brave the harsh reality of what I must weigh now.\u00a0 It\u2019s been about six months or so since the last time I actually weighed myself, and I was pleasantly surprised to find that I had managed to creep underneath the 190 pound mark, to 188 pounds. I know I had succeeded in some size gains, given how some of my shirts were starting to get tight in the chest and arms, but the fact that the number had actually crept downward meant that somewhere in the prior span of time, I must have managed to shed some fat.\u00a0 Shedding fat is always a good thing, in my opinion.\u00a0 Putting on muscle\u00a0and<\/em>\u00a0shedding fat is like a double bonus.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Anyway, weighing myself on this particular day, I always start the same way \u2013 move the prime weight to 200, and hope it tanks instead of maintaining afloat.\u00a0 Thankfully, it tanked; so I knew that my weight was still underneath 200 pounds, which seemed like a good thing in spite of how badly I think I treat myself when I relax my consumption habits.<\/span><\/p>\n

Anyway, I slide the secondary weight back to 188, and the scale plops back down.\u00a0 I appear to have lost some more weight, somehow.\u00a0 I slid the weight repeatedly to the left, watching the scale begin to lift off of the bottom, and by the time I centered it out, it was on 180 pounds.\u00a0 I was like holy shit.<\/span><\/p>\n

So I think I must have a tapeworm or something, because although I have seemingly lost some weight, I really don\u2019t feel that much different.\u00a0 One pair of jeans feels looser around my waist, but it\u2019s also my go-to favorite pair of jeans to wear, so I assume it\u2019s just natural wear and give.\u00a0 But most of my work slacks don\u2019t feel any different, so I would never have assumed I was really losing any weight.\u00a0 And I\u2019m pretty sure I\u2019m not losing any muscle mass, because I\u2019m still working out every single work day, and if anything at all, I\u2019ve increased certain lifts out of progressive improvement.<\/span><\/p>\n

A tapeworm seems like the only logical explanation for this surprisingly aesthetically pleasing number for my own narcissism.\u00a0 Because I still have a spare tire, and I always feel the need to tilt my head up slightly and smugly, as I have fear of photographing with multiple chins.<\/span><\/p>\n

But 180 pounds?\u00a0 I\u2019d be lying if I weren\u2019t happy about seeing that.\u00a0 I don\u2019t think I\u2019ve been down in that neighborhood in like six years.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I don\u2019t weigh myself often, because considering how often I hit the weights and try and develop muscle, I should always expect to be a little on the heavier side if I\u2019m doing things right.\u00a0 In other words, I think the number is irrelevant as long as the body develops in an ideal manner, but … Continue reading I must have a tapeworm or something<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[109,15,52],"class_list":["post-37631","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-brog","tag-gym","tag-og","tag-owned"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37631","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=37631"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37631\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37632,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37631\/revisions\/37632"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=37631"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=37631"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=37631"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}