Monday, July 13, 2026
As an experiment last year, I set out to gain weight. I intended to. I started working with a trainer and thought I’d “bulk up.” Starting at 150, I worked my way up to 181 (6 months). I didn’t like how I looked.
So, I dropped back to 150 (6 months). I changed my mind. And just like that, my body changed. I set out to add and subtract! When I gained weight, the “extra” didn’t look like I expected it to. My bathroom mirror didn’t match my inner mirror. No problem.
If what I saw in the mirror didn’t match what I wanted in my inner mirror, I closed my eyes and met my match. I aligned the outer with the inner. What I wanted to see was what I would see. You may have been told it’s easy to gain weight and hard to lose. I call bullshit on that myth. You may also think I’m young, but I did this in my 50s, so don’t tell me younger people can do this more easily.
Gain/loss and hard/easy are both alike. Spending money is no harder than earning it. I enjoyed gaining weight. I enjoyed losing it. There were just different properties of the same energy – calories. Subtraction is enjoyable, and so are division and multiplication. Adding is fun too. So is calculus. But matching is key. Maybe, you’re just the Great Mathematician who loves all the fun ways of subtracting, dividing, adding, multiplying, and equating.
If you’ve met your Match, gain, loss, competition, and range of difficulty all seem like indifferent properties of the SAME TRUE MATCHLESS ONE. Sometimes we simply miss the equation (connection) and fail to meet our Match. When Matches are made, the ins and outs of evolution will be a joyful breeze made in heaven.