Finding my centre

Sir,

These past few days have been taxing; they have been much more mental than physical. The physical pain is tolerant... it’s the mental game that calls for a little extra. You see, Yours Truly has been training these past four weeks. This is not to chase bulging biceps or buccaneering quads but more about weight gain.

Yours Truly has been always an ectomorph; that means he falls under the skinny and lean body type. For purposes of this letter we will leave the endomorph and mesomorph body types out. Just under a month ago I came across a realistic and quite mind-blowing diet plan. I broke it down into my body type.

Understood

I understood exactly how metabolism works, what ectomorphs need to do to gain weight. Since we have a high metabolism – somehow I thought it was slow because I’d eat, if at all, one full meal and a fruit or two a day. I’d never go hungry and yes, people would be surprised whenever I could not recall whether I had anything to eat or not sometimes. Such is the life of an ectomorph.

However, I discovered that because of the high metabolism I’d burn food fast thus feel filled up and since I am quite athletic, I thought it to be normal.

But there is a twist; my quest to gain weight has been long going. I have given up, binged, tried again and failed but now I don’t just feel the difference, I see it. It has been a long journey, but I have finally found the formula. The key to my gaining weight is in gaining muscle. So in order to gain muscle I had to train consistently and it is paying off.

This has led me to this conclusion – some dreams take longer to manifest than others. What’s more, to get to your end goal you might need to do uncomfortable things consistently like my training.

Andy