Biceps, Lots of Rain and a Cheat Meal "I Will Regret For Days"...

Did you know that a pizza has over 700 calories? Or better said, the pizza I just ate a few hours ago (pizza diavola) has 750 calories...

I'm not the kind of person who weighs and counts the calories of everything I eat, but I'm also not the kind of person who eats everything my stomach demands. In reality, the stomach doesn't even ask for anything in particular, the brain is the one that has cravings and eating disorders, but this one is a topic for a future post.

We'll get back to that pizza a few paragraphs later... Until then...

I don't usually go to the gym on weekend days, but I did it this week. Ever since I got into the fitness world I've been trying to train all my muscle groups in the Monday-Friday window of every week and in almost a year and a half of doing this I've only had a few weeks off.

I am a fanatic in almost everything I do, and towards which I have developed a morbid passion, and fitness is one of those passions. That's probably why I decided to go to the gym today, while the majority stays at home watching Netflix and whatever, and as usual, the muscle group I work on at the end of the week is my arms...

Today I worked my biceps and triceps and had a half great workout. Why do I say half great? Because I'm only feeling the beginnings of a muscle fever in my biceps. Triceps were trained more moderately today and without intent...

This is the first time I've had muscle fever in my biceps since I started going to the gym and by all means, I love it. Why haven't I had biceps muscle fever before? The answer is very simple... Most of the time I put too much weight into my exercise and this led to lots of swing movements instead of slow conscious contractions.

Pull-ups don't put the healthy pressure on the muscle that it needs to be properly worked out and that's why this muscular fever I'm feeling now has been slow to appear... until today. 1.5 years in and I still have a lot to learn about myself...

After I got home from the gym I felt I still had enough energy left and decided to do a cardio workout. We have plenty of treadmills at the gym but I don't like using the treadmill. I feel the same way about treadmills as I do about electric cars and AI-generated content on Hive 😀...

It was raining outside when I tried to do my powerwalk, but I went for it anyway...

I got a waterproof jacket on before leaving the house, which luckily helped me sweat a lot during this cardio session, and then I got out facing this odd spring rain and the unusually cold weather.

The cardio workout lasted somewhere around 45 minutes and I managed to get home soaking wet from sweating. The way the t-shirt I wear during cardio looks after I finish the cardio session tells me a lot about how successful this session was. I'm not going to put pictures of it though...

I didn't eat anything after I got home. I took a shower, got dressed, and went out to the city for a hot tea with some friends. I had a slight feeling of hunger, but I let it fade away. On the way back home I got very hungry and decided to eat a pizza.

I haven't had a cheat meal for more than 2 weeks and I couldn't resist the temptation to eat something unhealthy but insanely tasty. I like pizza diavola a lot so I ordered one, I also had a cola with it and of course some dessert (eclairs). I can say I like to make my drifts smoke 😀...

After the third slice of pizza had already been eaten, I regretted having ordered it but it was a bit late for regrets. The pizza had no problem, don't get me wrong, it was really tasty, but the feeling of guilt in me caused me anxiety. It was a conscious decision(I said to myself), so I went ahead and almost ate the napkins on the table with that damn pizza...

I saved this resentment I had eating that pizza in my memory to bring it to the surface the next time I feel the need to have a cheat meal.

I did the same with the frustrations and anxiety I experienced during the bear market that just passed in relation to how I handled the wheels of my "crypto racecar" during the past cycle...

When the next euphoric phase comes for this bull cycle those vivid frustration memories will be there to trigger the signal that I have to go against the herd and sell, so I won't be walking through the same hell again in the next bear market.

That's how the first weekend day of this week went for me. It's still raining outside, but on Hive the sun always shines... How's life in your part of the world?

Thanks for your attention,
Adrian

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