Weekly Results Post: Exercise as repentance

• Today makes exactly 1 month of exercising. YEAH!
• I am also now 1 week gluten free, sugar free, and meat free! All of my glutenous Celiac Disease bloating is gone from cutting the gluten again. Score!
• Last week I walked 123,276 steps which for me is 58.38 miles. 
• I lost 7.2 pounds. 

Notes from the week: 
I have been a little bit tired in the afternoons. I think I need to front-load the day and eat more in the morning and at lunch and make dinner smaller.

Thoughts: 
I have a lot of friends and family that jump on every diet bandwagon that passes through town. I have watched them put all of their fitness faith in these quick fix sorts of programs and they often do lose weight just to gain it all back when the program is over.

It seems so simple to me. Calories in. Calories out. If I eat it I have to burn it at some point. I really don't believe there is a magical way to burn a calorie. It takes some kind of physical work to get that calorie back out again...

I am NOT a religious person per se, but as I was walking on the track working on my fifth mile I realized that for the overweight person exercise is basically repentance. Repentance - making reparations for your past wrongs. As you exercise you are repairing the damage you have done to your body, you are freeing it from the weight you have put it on it, you are moving forward and working towards being a different and stronger person.