Yesterday I did something that I haven’t done in a while. The horror, the horror: I stepped on the scale, and it was as bad as I thought. Last year, I had gotten down to about 179, but now I’m almost reverse of the numbers at 196. What happened in the interim?
A few things:
- I stopped tracking my food on SparkPeople, which helped me lose at least 20 pounds during my first six months there.
- I stopped running as regularly as I had been running. I found, and still find, excuses not to run. It’s raining. It’s too late in the day. It’s…blah blah blah.
- I stopped going to the gym for strength training.
- I started rationalizing that a milkshake/a trip to Pizza Hut/a little bit of alcohol once a week or every two weeks was all right. All those milkshakes, trips to Pizza Hut and little bits of alcohol begin to accumulate — right around the stomach area.
So what am I going to do about it?
- I am tracking my food on SparkPeople once again.
- I am beginning a regular running routine and getting up early so I have no excuse.
- I am making a goal of going to the gym at least twice this coming week.
- I am not having anymore milkshakes, alcohol or trips to Pizza Hut. Whenever I go to Pizza Hut, I look around and see people who are more obese than myself and think how sad, but then realize I don’t have too far to go to be there. In fact, I have been there and literally am there, when I’m there with them.
As my wife says about the upcoming Bald Eagle Mountain Megatransect, I don’t need any more weight to climb up the mountain. She’s right. Now is the time to start jettisoning some of that weight.
This post is cross-posted at An unfinished person (in an unfinished universe).
3 responses so far ↓
Shieldmaiden96 // July 25, 2008 at 3:30 pm |
I believe I used the term ‘fat bastard’ at some point too. But I meant it in love.
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I think both of us have shown that we’re really good at exercising consistently, and eating well, and staying organized and disciplined, now we just have to learn how to do them all at the same time! And I think we can.
citrussnapshot // April 12, 2009 at 5:43 pm |
I can identify with that. You do ‘little’ things that you think, ‘hey, it doesn’t matter, it’s just ONE thing’, and the fact is if it WAS just one thing then yes, it wouldn’t matter. But doing that one thing consistently is actually a habit and that is when you start getting into trouble. I literally have the EXACT SAME PROBLEM. Btw, I started using sparkpeople too, only a couple weeks so far. You can do this! That “one thing + consistently = habit” goes both ways.
Best of luck.
unfinishedperson // April 13, 2009 at 8:46 am |
So true…I’m back to using SparkPeople myself and tomorrow the Wife and I are starting a new plan together.
If you’d like to read more of my “exploits,” my blog has since moved to unfinishedperson.com.