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Day 350: A hot mess

Day 350 - front

  • Weight: 139.4 lbs.
  • No workout today; next: Workout C, Aug. 17
  • Total inches: 125.4
  • Protein: 122g (10g under target)
  • Calories: 2,221

This will take some research, or some lazy crowdsourcing, but I’ve noticed an important thermostatic shift in my body in the past year of Project Bulk.

I’m hotter.

Not in the “I’m too sexy” sense, but in the body temperature sense.

When I started Sept. 1, the weather was getting cooler. What I noticed was that I wasn’t walking around the house freezing as lower temperatures settled in. As a skinny person, I used to bundle up because I felt cold all winter long (and I didn’t necessarily want the thermostat to be set at 85 degrees).

Winter temps didn’t get to me — I felt rather comfortable indoors and outdoors.

But summer has been even more telling.

Usually, I find a sweltering Alabama summer to hit the spot. I loved 90-degree days, and driving with the windows open, skipping the full-blast AC. The rare moments I would feel any sense of humidity is coming off a hot shower, and continuing to sweat even after toweling off and getting dressed.

Now that I’m 20 pounds heavier, I am sweating. I am sweaty. I am a faucet of perspiration. Summer has tried to wring me dry through my upper body and head.

No one told me I’d endure male menopause this year.

I am assuming that the change to my physiology has wrought this sweaty problem. I used to sweat profusely after working in the yard or running on the treadmill, naturally. But nowadays, I sweat in a T-shirt driving in my car, or sitting still on my couch.

I take comfort in that today marked an unusually cool day for August in Alabama, some 20 degrees lower than normal. Sweet relief.

But as my forehead glistens through the rest of summer, I wonder if I’ll ever be cool again.

Day 350 - side