Our long journey

We're two friends who have decided to work the weight loss struggle together. We've made the decision to make the leap and press on through the ups and downs of the process. We realize this is not going to be easy, but it needs to be done. We're tired of feeling tired, weighed down by the extra baggage and depressed by the person staring back in the mirror.

Sunday, September 23, 2012

So, have we started?

Well I sure haven't! At least not as of tonight. I joined a 12 week program with a bunch of facebook people..and while I've been cheering everyone on their journey, I haven't even started mine. I keep putting it off, and shuffling it aside. I pretend it's all for lack of finding my eating plan, or that I don't go to bed early enough (she says as it's 1:20 in the am) , or that I just don't have the room ...equipment...motivation..determination...blah de blah de blah....

Well, seriously, I'm running out of clothing to wear. My pre-pregnancy jeans haven't fit since I gave birth, my fat jeans are loose, but not loose enough. I'm over eating, or under eating all at the same time. I can't track things, I tried the online route of putting things into a planner, but even that didn't help much. I have got to kick myself into shape. I feel horrible, look horrible, my "will power" is lacking in every aspect.

I wish you were here and we could really do this together. I mean like, I call you at 5 am to get us going, or you pull my out of my comfy little cubby hole to get us going.  Seriously, we could be dangerous together....though that could go both ways now that I think about it.  LOL

SO, procrastination must go! Fat ass MUST GO! I don't care if I turn up flabby from weight loss...I'd prefer if I could build muscle along the way to take the place of that flab, but I'm not going to complain when it starts.

So now, I head to bed...in hopes that tomorrow will bring a lot more determination!

Tomorrow I'm sending you my list of why I am doing this, and my goals broken down into bite sized bits. I think it's the only way I'm going to be able to get started. **sigh**

Sunday, February 5, 2012

Where to begin!?!

Ok I've been doing a "diet" for a month now. Needless to say it's not going well. When I tune into DIET mode, I tend to over eat and really treat myself badly.

So I start tomorrow morning with another attempt at the lifestyle change. I was out grocery shopping and wished I were out running. Some strange, weird thought process over took me and I was standing in the produce aisle in some sort of health fit induced fog. My mind literally started "running" and I had this intense desire to be outside right at that very moment moving and feeling the wind in my hair. This of course might be an effect of cabin fever. We've had unnaturally warm weather here this winter and it's been far to muddy and icky to do much outside. I fear the terrible tick invasion we'll be starting back into this coming year.

So tomorrow, I plan to get up early and do some back to basic exercising. Push ups, jumping jacks, anything to get myself moving. I've taken a few zumba sessions and really love it, but can't justify $7.00 a pop or $55.00 a month for a punch card. I've been looking into purchasing some zumba dvds, but they're also expensive. Until I can start bringing in a larger amount of money, I just can't go around buying expensive exercise equipment that I can't guarantee I'll use every day, or at least twice a week. So I've put $20.00 into a little pedal set I can run while I watch tv, and have my weight sets to start building up some muscle.

As for eating, I think I'm going to have to literally pack everything the day before. If left to my own devises, I'll go almost all day long and not eat a thing and then eat well into the midnight hour trying to play catch up. I've got to go back to breaking my eating plan down and measuring things and really taking every advantage of sales on produce and the like to get myself back on track.

I keep asking myself how I did the first round so easily. I still have yet to figure that out. I lost 80 lbs on that first round and I've put 40 0f that back on! Most of that putting back on has just been mindless eating and poor choices. I've also done my metabolism no favors by not keeping the fire stoked with good foods and proper eating times and levels.

I'm fearful of going back to the endo. and dealing with medications so I must kick this whole thing into gear and lose that 40 plus. There are so many reason I need to commit to this whole process, but can't break through that glassine window and go cold turkey as easy as before. I'm becoming very frustrated and a bit crazy about it.

This post has basically just been a dumping of my brain so I can slip into sleep a bit better tonight. If I'm going to change up my routine tomorrow I really need to fall asleep as soon as my head hits the pillow, not two hours after I turn in for the night.

**sigh** this will get better.