You know maybe I am out of line here and I'm sorry if I upset anyone but I am getting very tired of hearing the same old stuff. I am getting tired of saying it, hearing it, believing in it. For years now we've been all saying the same things. Have we lost any weight? For most of us the answer is a resounding NO!!!! Everyone says not to set high goals, that you set yourself up for failure, start slowly, lose 1 -2 lbs a week and so on and so forth. Has any of this done us any good? We all talk the talk but we don't walk the walk. If we did we would all be thinner by now. I've been coming to 3FC for over 2 years now and I don't think I've really lost any weight. When I first came here it was a tremendous relief to me to discover that other overweight people had the same feelings and faced the same difficulties that I did. It helped me sort out a lot of my own feelings and I hope I have helped others do the same. I've said all the same things everyone else has and while it may be true it really hasn't helped me lose any weight.
Recently I had a serious wake up call. You know that I had a baby in September and I have a year off for maternity leave. I was hoping to use this year to lose all the weight. I gained 5 lbs over December. Please don't anyone post that it is the holidays, and whatever. The plain and simple truth is that I wasn't exercising, drinking any water or had any willpower to stop myself from eating all kinds of treats even though I know better. It finally hit me that if I want to lose weight before I have to go back to work that I need a serious kick in the rump and I need to work hard. It isn't going to be the nice and easy road that I must have been envisioning. It is going to be HARD. Gaining weight is easy, losing it is probably a million times harder. So I set myself a tough goal for Valentine's Day. 25 lbs in 7 weeks. I lost 4 lbs the first week because I worked hard. I worked really hard for those 4 lbs and I'll probably have to work really hard for the other 21. If I don't make it I'm not going to go crazy and eat a gallon of ice cream, I'll just work harder. I finally feel that I am walking the walk. I've had almost enough of talking. Sometimes I feel we talk and talk and talk and while it certainly is important we need to start putting some action behind that talk.
Anyway I just want to say that I am not going to starve myself, I'm going to eat healthy, drink lots of water, exercise and I'll lose the weight I want to lose. If I have offended anyone with this tirade than I am sorry, you have all really been helpful to me, as I hope I have been to you.