I don't know about you but the hardest time of day for me is night time. Like right now, when I'm watching Food Network and I'm wanting to eat something SO bad and it would be so easy too. No one would have to know, the kids are asleep, my husband is at work (usually, he's home sick tonight), and I am up all by myself. I would know though! And, since my whole thing is doing this for ME the fact that I would know should be enough... should be... but not always is. So far tonight I've done good. Yeah me! I attribute that mostly to working on this blog all night. It has helped keep me focused on my goal.
So, anyway, night time is the wrong time for me when it comes to eating. I snack and I snack on the WRONG things! I'm like yummy, white bread with butter (and once even sugar!) nom nom nom! Baby steps though, tonight my husband handed me some crackers and I turned them down! Yeah me! Focus on success. I'm setting myself a time limit now, after 8 no more snacking... I'll let you know how that goes...
In addition to doing research for this blog in the evenings I'm going to begin posting a food/workout journal every night as well, again, to help keep me focused and on track. And, I also plan to post weekly pictures of my progress. Now, the whole picture thing could go one of two ways: Absolutely wonderful success look how small I am! OR Horrible crushing failure oh my God it has been 16 weeks and I'm still a fat heifer cow! Let's all hope for the former shall we.
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January 11, 2011
New Life, New Year, New ME!
Well, the title pretty much says it all! I've started a new life with my family is Savannah, it is the start of 2011 a brand new year, and the begining of a new, and hopefully smaller, me! I officially started working on the Me part of this trilogy today. I started participating in a program at work called "The Biggest Loser". Basically you pay in and in a few months whoever has lost the biggest precentage of body weight wins the pot! There is a potential for $450-$900 here! The money is an awesome motivator.
So, today I begin my weight loss journey 2011. I have tried in the past, in high school, in college, when I was pregnate and always the same results... I would lose some but then nothing. I would level off and lose no more or *gasp* gain some, most, or all of it back! So, one may ask themselves "You've been doing this for almost 15 years! And, have had nothing but failure, why continue? Why not accept your size and move on? I mean, you are happily married, you have two beautiful children, a career, life is good! Why suffer and potentially gain nothing (of a lot of unwanted somethings) from it?" The answer to this, which I believe will be the key to my success, is that now, finally after 15 years of trying, I am doing this for ME! Not for a man, not for my friends, family, new clothes, or anything else but for me. So, with everything going right lets get going!
My starting weight is, are you ready for it... 252.5 pounds! Now, that is a lot but in itself is pretty good considering in Aug. of 2010 I weighed 275 pounds :) All this walking at work is paying off. And hopefully, if I continue to be mindful of what I eat, how I eat, and exercise (which I also started doing today) it will continue to pay off and I can reach my goal and win some money!
So, today I begin my weight loss journey 2011. I have tried in the past, in high school, in college, when I was pregnate and always the same results... I would lose some but then nothing. I would level off and lose no more or *gasp* gain some, most, or all of it back! So, one may ask themselves "You've been doing this for almost 15 years! And, have had nothing but failure, why continue? Why not accept your size and move on? I mean, you are happily married, you have two beautiful children, a career, life is good! Why suffer and potentially gain nothing (of a lot of unwanted somethings) from it?" The answer to this, which I believe will be the key to my success, is that now, finally after 15 years of trying, I am doing this for ME! Not for a man, not for my friends, family, new clothes, or anything else but for me. So, with everything going right lets get going!
My starting weight is, are you ready for it... 252.5 pounds! Now, that is a lot but in itself is pretty good considering in Aug. of 2010 I weighed 275 pounds :) All this walking at work is paying off. And hopefully, if I continue to be mindful of what I eat, how I eat, and exercise (which I also started doing today) it will continue to pay off and I can reach my goal and win some money!
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