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Six years ago, I was at my highest weight. I’ve been maintaining by 140 pound weight loss with little effort for the last four years, but I still can’t get motivated to exercise regularly. Last night I started attemp number 7387438 to exercise consistently.

During Covid I bought a pair of high end rollerskates. Slapped them on, stood on the sidewalk, panicked, took them off and went back inside. So five years later I thought I’d take another crack at it.

For the record, I was a decent skater as a kid. I could go fairly fast but never learned to do many tricks or anything. As an adult I’ve skated once. I was 28 years old, in the best shape of my life 5’10”
128 pounds with ripped abs (almost) and could move somewhat. That skating outing involved BYOB and ended with me sporting a cast on my arm. Now I am 21 years older, 145 pounds, totally out of shape, bad balance, late diagnosed adhd, brain/body miscommunications, but I said, f**k it - let’s go! Sure it took about 67% of the time to get me to put the skates on but I did it.  Dominated the training rink then made a few laps around with the big boys. Proof I’m out of shape is I got a little nauseous and overheated from the exertion even though I was going slower than I run, which is imperceptible.

Plan is to practice at skating rinks until I can get comfortable enough to go out in my neighborhood so that I can start rollerskating for exercise and get back to my audiobooks. We shall see if my hips survive.

How it started (highest officially was 289) and how it’s going into year 5. Cleaned up my diet a bit for the last couple weeks and am down over 10 pounds. That carb fluff is real.