Friends, it's been a long time since I've started a # thread but I really felt the need to bring attention to this issue and starting a new thread seemed like the best way.
I posted on the 'where's BA thread' and some of it was along the idea of how busy we all get and so on and so forth. So after I logged off the computer I go downstairs and I'm on my exercise bike and it occurs to me what a big pile of steaming you know what that excuse is. I am doing the typical woman thing in that I am putting everyone's needs before my own. Next thing you know I'll be 80 years old and still weighing what I weigh now.
Now I know that my baby, my husband, my work are important things. But are they more important than my own health and peace of mind? Can I be a good mom, wife, nurse if I feel like cr@p all the time because of my weight?
I've been waffling around this for ages. I lose a bit and then gain it back. I'm not really putting a lot of oomph into my efforts into losing weight. I play at being serious, I have my journal out and buy exercise tapes but until I am using that journal all the time and actually using the tapes I'm just pretending at being serious. Even coming to this site and being supportive and doing challenges and so on is really just all talk and no action.
Okay I'm kind of getting lost in all of this. I think I'm trying to say that it is time to 'sh!t or get off the pot' as my mother's favourite saying goes. We are getting to that dangerous time of year...Halloween, Thanksgiving, Xmas and you know that we all gain weight during the winter with all these occassions that of course demand food.
Look, there are a few here that are losing weight but I think a lot of us are just waffling around. We need some serious kicks in the @ss to get us going. Maybe I am just speaking for myself here, this is how I feel about my efforts to lose weight. I'm making a ton of excuses why I can't get serious, the baby, my job, my husband.
Dyan, kudos to you for getting up at 4am to workout. That is a serious committment. this is what we need to be doing.
I ran into a girl at work who in the year I've been off on maternity has lost about 80 lbs. she just cut back on eating and started walking. Nothing difficult, nothing fancy just a serious committment to losing weight. She looks unbelievably great. It can be done, it can be done without bells and whistles. Let's just get down to it and do it!