I've long avoided posting pictures of my younger self: not only is the quality really bad (try to remember the digital cameras of 10+ years ago) but the skinniness and ... the attitude ... are quite embarrassing. Still, if I took this picture in the first place, it's because I was proud of my comeback: skinny as it seems to me now, this body was a *vast* improvement over what I'd become after two years in a corset.

According to the body composition machine I tried today at the gym (the kind that has an electric current travel through your hands, ankles, and soles), I have 18.2% body fat and am 7.7 kg (17 lb) overweight. I'm crushed.

I've long avoided posting pictures of my younger self: not only is the quality really bad (try to remember the digital cameras of 10+ years ago) but the skinniness and ... the attitude ... are quite embarrassing. Still, if I took this picture in the first place, it's because I was proud of my comeback: skinny as it seems to me now, this body was a *vast* improvement over what I'd become after two years in a corset.

Lots of martial arts, but little lifting and no supplement at all -- I didn't even know about protein shakes.

Close to my best fighting shape.

What I managed to gain back in one month (of proper training and nutrition) after a break of nearly two years. Muscle memory truly is a blessing.

Because of too many personal projects keeping me busy this summer, I've only been to the gym once or twice a week. As a result, not much progress has been made, so unlike last May, I haven't bothered borrowing a digital camera. (Awright, to be perfectly honest, my seldom going to the gym is *also* due to my current lack of motivation in more than keeping in OK shape. Taking narcissistic pictures helps, but I need more to really push myself.)

Having trained more seriously those past two weeks, I've "celebrated" by borrowing a camera. :oP

Having done more sets over the past two months than in the whole year before, I once again "celebrated" by borrowing a camera. To compare, I took the same pose as five years ago.

According to the body composition machine I tried today at the gym (the kind that has an electric current travel through your hands, ankles, and soles), I have 18.2% body fat and am 7.7 kg (17 lb) overweight. I'm crushed.