Friday, June 26, 2009

It's All UpHill From Here...

It is nice to be back at home. That being said...

I am overwhelmed by the things I must do over the next month in order to leave. Besides the usual everyday work of running a household and taking care of finances, there is the ever present middle age bulge that refuses to stay away.

I have lost the same weight over and over and over for the past year and a half. It refuses to stay away. All the diets I have done successfully in the past to drop 20 pounds don't work anymore on this body. Not only has this body seen just about every diet out there - it refuses to stick with any one diet long enough to change eating habits. I blame my body - because I REALLY want to lose the weight. It's just this body has CRAVINGS! For, you know, food.

Anyone who knows me can tell you that I am not a picky eater. I love food and will try just about anything at least once. That is how I got addicted to sushi, which is my all time most favorite food, above and beyond even sweets.

While this wonderful quality makes me great at dinner parties, it does absolutely nothing for my waistline.

For the last year and a half I have been exercising regularly. A minimum of three times a week and sometimes as much as six. I even went with a friend to a personal trainer for six weeks, five days a week. I actually ended up gaining a pound. How does that happen?! So, I switched to a cardio based exercise regimen and I ran instead of strength training. I was able to drop another ten pounds, making it a total of 35 pounds lost. This would have been great...

IF it didn't keep on creeping back on! I still need to lose another twenty pounds. Okay, I could get by with 15. But I want it off and I want it to stay off, and I want it off yesterday!

I don't think that is too much to ask.

1 comment:

  1. When you fall off the wagon, don't give up! Climb right back on! And don't wait until certain events are over. It's so easy to say "I'll start on monday", but what happens when we do that is then we over eat on the weekend, knowing our days of deprivation are coming on Monday, and we end up having to lose not only what we had already gained, but the addtional weight from the weekend too.. Not good! You'll get a lot further if you just forgive yourself, dust yourself off, and start again right now.

    Now go run!

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