An Epic Test of Resolve

The galaxy was testing me today and I was so close to failing that test. While I was working out using Yourself!Fitness on the X-Box, the game glitched out 5 minutes into the routine when I saw Maya, the strict but caring trainer, being stuck in an infinite animation loop. This was quite devastating to me because I was already deep into the groove. I had to reset the system, thus ending my workout session early. I started thinking about replacing Yourself!Fitness with something else. Perhaps I should go back to Ring Fit Adventure on the Nintendo Switch so that I would not encounter this problem anymore on an aging console.

You know that this is a very, very dangerous thought however - quitting one routine to transition to another is not an easy thing to do because one tends to add a lazy vacation period in between the two. Just sticking to an exercise program in itself requires some mental fortitude. I took off my clothes and was ready to jump into the shower to start my evening when I saw the scale sitting in the corner of the bathroom. I would only check my weight during Maya's bi-monthly checkups but since I was thinking of leaving Yourself!Fitness, I stepped on it and saw that I actually lost yet another pound. This brought me back to reality: I know that this program works and there is no way in hell I would allow a rare console hiccup to stop me from sticking to it!

It may not look like it but when Maya stares at you, she is silently judging you!

Let me just put that additional pound of weight loss into perspective. Over the past year, I had gained about 13 pounds of pandemic lockdown weight. Ever since I started using Yourself!Fitness a couple of months ago, I have lost a total of 11 pounds. Sure, progress may be a little slow but progress did indeed happen! So I put my clothes back on, turned on the X-Box and restarted today's session. Maya of course overdid some parts of the routine where I just couldn't keep up but after I was done, I felt like a total bada$$! To step away from finishing a workout and justifying the reasoning, only to redo it... Maya should be very happy that the programming chip she had implanted into my brain works!