Between EV’s and turbo everywhere and downsizing, it’s hard to find a car that sounds really nice, seemingly. What cars still sound really good?
To start this off, I have a coworker with a newer BMW X5 M60i. Low key, it sounds MEAN. Not super loud but louder than one would expect a luxury SUV with a turbo to be. And just a very nice sound in general.
41M. Long story short, I spent my late 20s and all of my 30s getting fat and sad. Eating until feeling stuffed, drinking calories nightly, getting more depressed and racking up nagging injuries. I felt old. This January, I decided to go with high lean protein, lots of veggies, and eating only until satisfied, not full or stuffed, and being more consistent with my workouts. Long story short, I’ve lost 40 pounds, from 268 to 228 and counting at 6’1”, in just four months, while putting on muscle, vastly increasing numbers on every single one of my lifts, reversing multiple nagging injuries including one that has persisted for 13 years, and legitimately feeling 25 years old again, except better. 11 years of weight gain reversed in just 4 months with more outward definition than I’ve ever had. No GLPs or pharmaceutical assistance.
The strange thing is, this is bringing up a lot of emotions that I didn’t expect. I look in the mirror and from the neck down, I quite literally don’t recognize myself sometimes compared to four months ago. I can move better, with more, run faster, and jump higher than I did at much younger ages, and I’ve always been into working out to some degree, especially having spent time in the Air Force for 14 years, but I look back and wonder how much easier in life and my career would have been, how much more I would’ve seek out and enjoyed sports, and as someone who loves being physically active, it feels like I’ve wasted years and years of my life. There’s been a little bit of mourning. When my two oldest kids were young enough to enjoy running around, I couldn’t run with them, and now that I can run and move, they are teenagers and naturally not super interested in playing at the park and running around. I feel like I screwed myself over , and the feeling is intensified by how quick and simple this whole four month process has . The roughest and most dramatic moments of my life have also coincided with fat gain, from childhood all the way to recent years. And it’s all just gone in 4 1/2 months.
Has anybody else dealt with feelings like this? I feel absolutely incredible, all insecurity about my age has completely disappeared, I can run and jump in physical and play sports again, and I love every benefit. But the feelings are definitely unexpected in something that taken some getting used to and some working through with therapist. Has anybody else dealt with similar feelings of light mourning or like they’ve wasted time?