Attack of the DOMS!

Once upon a time, I didn't know what DOMS was. I lived a sheltered, peaceful existence where I sat in front of a computer a lot and hissed at the sunlight from a distance. On the road to becoming a healthy human being who remembers what it means to manufacture vitamin D, you rediscover exercise. This means pain.

I thought I'd gotten that all over and done with, but here's the thing. Say you don't go running or do your Wii Fit exercises for about 5 days. Then you realize you've been slacking and feel guilty. Then you step on the balance board intending to run through all the routines you used to do, at maximum reps. An hour later I felt pretty accomplished but I knew there would be a price to pay. The price of DOMS. EVIL DOMS. It stands for "delayed onset muscle soreness" or "you know how right after you exercise you feel fine, but you wake up the next morning and your limbs feel like they're full of broken glass? Yeah, it's like that". I'm equal parts annoyed with myself for skipping enough days that resuming activity makes me sore, and pleased that I'm sore because that means my muscles should heal up stronger. Yeah, that sounds sort of sick in the head, but I'd like to be able to do pushups without my knees on the floor before the end of the year.

I think I've hit some sort of plateau so far with weight loss. I deviate a fraction of a pound each day, and like the stock market I never really know if it's going to be up or down until I hit the scale. Case in point: I've eaten a lot of rice this past week. A lot. With vegetables. Also, there was an unfortunate incident with a bag of Hershey's Kisses with Almonds that I won't go into, except to say that chocolate is illegally delicious and should be banned. But even after a week of sitting in darkness in my apartment (old buildings in San Francisco have EXCELLENT eletrical) eating high-carb food and doing not much, I still lost weight. I don't understand. Apparently, building a lot of muscle from running really keeps your metabolism up. That's a great thing if you have to live in a world that includes chocolate candy.

It's also good if you happen to have the perfect weight for wobbling on some important BMI line, which I do. If I gain any weight, even a fraction of a pound, it puts my BMI calculation right above the Overweight line and my Mii develops a potbelly. When I lose weight, I drop back below the line and my Mii stays svelte. This happens several times a week. I'm beginning to worry that my Mii is going to develop an image complex, and I can't afford to send it to a shrink. Well, at least not until they release Wii Therapy.

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