Marathon Mom

Finally the scale caught up with all my eating right and exercising. 156.2 today! I find irony in the fact that I ate twice as much yesterday as I had the previous two days! My brain just will NOT accept that I have to eat to lose. Yet there it is, in big flashing digit numbers. I eat, I lose. But I know that exercise is the key to that. I’m making sure to exercise at least an hour everyday. Period.

I’m currently reading the book “Secrets of a Former Fat Girl” by Lisa Delaney. She developed a mantra “INO - It’s Not an Option” and I’ve found myself using that a lot lately. Want to skip exercise? INO! Don’t feel like drinking that last bottle of water? INO! Run to the QuikStop at 3pm for a Snickers pick me up? I!N!O!!!

I feel good. Really good right now. I feel strong and confident and in control. And the number on the scale is great (wearing my size 8 jeans this morning is super great!) But the best is the feeling of making a plan, a commitment, a goal - and sticking to it. Knowing that I’m not going to fall victim to a rogue pastry.

I’ve gone all Boy Scout - BE PREPARED is my motto! I make sure the freezer at work and at home are stocked with grilled fish and chicken, bags of steamed veggies. I have boxes of green tea and fat free hot cocoa by my desks in both my home and work offices. And I even have raw almonds and beef jerky in the fridge at work, incase I need a snack or pick me up.

Why water has been so hard for me, I just don’t get it. Small fact: the water cooler in work is IN MY OFFICE! Yep, just a few feet from my desk. I keep a reuseable water bottle at my desk. I have literally NO excuse, just laziness, stubborness, juvenile rebellion (you can’t MAKE me drink water! I don’t wanna!!)

But I’m tackling the trifecta: food, exercise, water. They’re like the three legged stool, the most important leg is the one that’s missing.

Posted on November 20th, 2008 by firefly
Filed under: daily blathering