Weight Loss: The Second Day

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All in all I think that today was a great day.  I was able to stay on my plan as far as eating, I almost drank all of the water I should have, and I am feeling overall happy.  I know that to some two days in is nothing but for me it is everything.  This is a journey I have take before.  It is a journey that I have yet to complete.  I cannot tell you the number of times I have worked at loosing weight.   I have joined Weight Watchers many times, I have tried the South Beach Diet, nutritionist led diets and the list goes on and on.  It is more times then I wish to count. It is not the programs that do not work.  It is that I do not work the program.

It is odd.  This time it all feels different.  It is not that I am pumped up on motivation or anything.  It is not that I have some huge reward waiting for me if I am successful.  It is just different.  This time I am just doing the best I can.  I am easing into loosing weight.  I am making my getting healthy a family afair.  Not that I am discussing dieting with the kids or anything.  I think that discussing dieting is wrong with children.  They so often become obsessed.  I have told our girls that we have been eating very bad lately and that for the new year we will be changing all of that.  They have been great about it.

Thanks to my mother-in-law I am now the proud owner of Sketchers Shape-Up sneakers.  I am adding a small walk tomorrow morning.  I have invited Abigail to come with me on Monday’s and Friday’s.  Emma is expressing interest but I do not think that she is going to want to get up early and walk in the freezing cold.  I guess we will see.  Her days are on Tuesday and Thursday.  Wendsday will be my alone day.  I wanted them all to be alone days but the more I thought about it the more I realized that if this was going to be a family change the girls would also have to be involved.

Day two is in the past now and I am anxious to move into day three.  I think that tomorrow I will take a before picture.  I think of all of the people who are successful and they all have their before picture.

Becca

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Weight Loss Journey: New Year’s Resolution

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I am ready.  Today is the first day of 2010.  It is the first day of a new me.  I have done a lot of sole searching in the past week to determine if I am really ready to loose weight.  It has required a lot of thought.  The first thing I decidecd to do was to list all of the things that my weight is holding me back from.  Although it is very personal I decided to share.  I figure that in sharing it perhaps it will help someone else stay motivated.  So here it is:

  1. I am in pain.  It is preventing me from living the way I want to day to day.
  2. I cannot hike with the kids.
  3. I am uncomfortable sitting in the movies because my butt is too big.
  4. Everything hurts… Sitting, walking, climbing the stairs, shifting in bed, and yes I mean everything!
  5. I cannot walk  without becoming winded.
  6. I cannot fly in a plane comfortably.
  7. I cannot go on roller coasters.
  8. I cannot dance with my girls.
  9. I cannot get off of the floor easily when I play with the kids.
  10. I cannot buckle comfortably with a coat on.

I will be beginning to cut calories today, tomorrow I will ease into exercise and in two weeks I will be joining weight watchers.  I have been successful before with the program and am looking forward to structure.  Until that point I will finish a jar of HerbaLife I have left over.  While HerbaLife will be a good jump start I have not found that I am able to stay on it for more then about a month.  Mixing things up should help!

I am sure that there are many more things that are not on my mind right now.  I need to do this for me.  I need to be alive again.  My weight is killing my body, my mind and most of all my spirit.  This will be the year that I take charge of me.  Who is with me?

P.S.  The scale picture is not me.  I am going to take on… but I will not post it until I am ready emotionally to put it out there!

Becca

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