You Can Call Me Madcat!

Weigh in this morning showed me at 184 lbs which is down 6 lbs from my starting weight of 190. To tell you the truth, I’m not really finding this all that difficult. Ok, let’s not lie. Living a health life style is harder than just doing whatever… it takes more planning and more thought and more awareness. Bu it isn’t a BAD thing to live like that. I like that by making a promise to track things I eat it makes me think about the stuff that goes into my mouth. Even on bad days it is important to track.

This is a fragile thing, this living healthy thing (at least in these early stages). It’s important to not fall into an all or nothing mindset. If I have a bad day – oh, and I will have a bad day here or there – it’s important to not let that be an excuse to just throw my hands up in the air give up.

I’m trying to vary up my workout more too. Yesterday I actually did the Dreadmill, and even jogged a few minutes here and there. Ok, not a jog per se more a light-footed fast walk. No one is going to call what I do jogging. I think doing things that involve moving my whole weight is good. I’m also trying to stretch more and play with the medicine ball and the stability ball. So goal is cardio and a lot of core work. Weights here and there, just for fun.

I have a NSV in mind. I have these really lovely black lace pants that I would really like to wear to New Years. They are a size 12. I believe I can do it.

Oh, and hi chicks. I missed you too. :wave:

I’m back I haven’t been posting but I have come back into the game. I re-started Weight Watchers on-line at the beginning of September at a weight of 190. This is the most that I have ever weighed and I hated it. Weirdly enough it seems as if something has clicked and doing this does seem to be working. I’m down 5 lbs so far. That’s the weight I was on last Wednesday weigh-in day.

Like an alcoholic in recovery I can’t say that this is going to be smooth sailing but it does seem to be working. I already feel better, not as draggy and huge as I did even 5 lbs ago.

Why now is it working? I dunno. I think that now that my sister is gone, there are fewer excuses. I did the Terry Fox walk at the beginning of September and it was hard. Ten K should not be hard. My sister used to run 13K for the fun of it every other day. Even after she was quite sick, she did the Terry Fox walk last year in 3 hours.

Maybe I’m starting to unthaw and that is the difference. I dunno. Maybe instead of having this thing that I can’t let go of, I can use it as motivation. Make her proud, or maybe even make myself proud.

I’m too young to be prematurely old.

I’m going to try to post every now and again.