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"Gah! Total n00b gamer experience, that last post was me shouting \"Halp!\" I'm getting shot! How do I hide behind this burnt out car?!\"   So. I know why I didn't do BBWW again. I hate working out at home. I want to know my bf% estimate because I've been faffing around for a year and a half at the same weight. After trying to get my hard hat to fit and get the workout done, and wondering WTF was up with me, I figured *gasp!* either it was too hard for me, or I don't know how to recover properly. So for 10 days I flailed about figuring out what the problem was. First! I am more unfit than I thought. Good, I have more progress I can make than I thought. Second! I want to be a gym person. I want fitness as a hobby. Third! I'd been slipping with my intuitive eating (goal is for it eventually just to become Eating). Fourth! I want somewhere I can escape to work out, not in my bedroom, where I study and sleep and play video games. Fifth! I want something productive to track that's not food (that makes me binge, I know it's not for me). Sixth! I need to find a hard hat that fits my head better, by eliminating obstacles that are stopping me from working out when I want to.   1. I faced the fact that I'm starting from nothing with fitness, and decided I shall start with the basic compound lifts at 1 x 5 with the bar. If I can do 5 x 5 with the bar in 6 weeks, I'll be happy. Goal is to work up to being able to start Stronglifts 5 x 5 when I'm ready (whenever that is). I also want to incorporate some HIIT later, but at the moment, I'm going with a moderate amount of moderate cardio after my lifts. 2. I joined my local uni's gym. As a OU student / NUS member I get full membership for Â£20/month. I do tutorials at this uni every now and again, and the gym gets good reviews, and I've always wondered about it when walking past, so that's that sorted. 3. I started taking a few minutes before eating to work out if I really want what I'm eating, or if I'm just bored/tired/emotional/whatever. Result (because I've had a lot of practice with this way of eating, yay progress!) was less cookies, more meat and veg. I could live off salmon, pork chops, steak, and roasted carrots and peppers. One ginger biscuit last night and that felt like enough. I love not bingeing  Tasty tasty  4. See 2. 5. While shopping after work last night, I happened across a new scale that measures bf%, checked and it gets good reviews online. Â£20. Decided it's worth the investment. I can't afford any other type of bf% monitoring, but it's hardly going to say I'm 22% when I'm 42%. I'm 47.8%! Gah! Well, knowledge is power. Yay. 6. I currently get about using all day tickets on the bus, so when I'm going out, I like to get everything done in one day, to minimise cost. I did a bit of research, and I can get a student weekly ticket for the price of 3 day tickets, so I've grabbed my student card and off I go. That way I can go to the gym whenever I want. Went to bed at a reasonable time, so that I can get up and in the gym during the day before everyone else piles in after uni/work. Put myself on day shifts this weekend so I can keep my sleeping pattern on this schedule easier. Prepared my gym bag with all the stuff I need to just grab it and head out.   So, today is gym exploration, warm up, 1 x 5 squat, bench and deadlift with the bar (because I've done similar with dumbbells so these are the ones I'm most confident with getting my form right on my first day at the gym. Still terrified though!) then 30 mins of moderate pace cardio, stretching, then go home. I got a book so I can monitor my lifting progress. I plan to go twice a week as that's all I'm ready for, and get some walking/swimming in on my days off.    Daunted but excited!   And I think I should have WIS +1 for figuring this out  \n"
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