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Hello….again….x3

Published July 22, 2012 by mydiettherapy

As any good reader of weight loss blogs knows, when there is a significant amount of time in between posts, bad things happen. Those bad things/times are usully followed by a post about how they fell off the wagon, life got in the way, yada yada yada…just look back a few posts on my blog and you’ll get the drift.

So this is that post….again….

I find myself more than halfway through this year and with not much accomplished. I set goals and didn’t follow through, I had plans that didn’t work out.  But I did come to realize that I must have structure with this weight loss journey and it has to be very simple.

I also found out that having a “work out” buddy doesn’t work for me. The problem is finding someone who also needs to lose 200 plus pounds. My partner needed to lose maybe 15lbs.  She just couldn’t understand why I couldn’t do some things.  I wouldn’t expect her to, she’s only ever been at most 30lbs overweight.

So here I am starting over again, but not totally over. I have some new views on this journey and hopefully what I’ve learned about myself will help a bit.

So here’s to new beginings…again. 🙂

 

Mayday in May.

Published May 27, 2012 by mydiettherapy

I’m starting to think this is impossible. I make plans and the crumble. I skip one day and feel like a failure. I weighed myself a couple of weeks ago and I was down to 409 lbs. Weighed my self last week and I was at 413. I know only 4lbs  isn’t a lot when I’m trying to loose 200 + lbs. I sometimes think I need a combination life coach/fitness trainer/therapist.

Week 4: -1lbs (421)

Published September 14, 2011 by mydiettherapy

Well, I made it 4 out of the 7 days this week trying to make a goal of walking 30 minutes each day or taking 30 minutes to myself each day to do something.  I still walked the other days it just wasn’t all 30 minutes at once.

I think I’ll take before pictures sometime this week so that as I go along I can have a visual of where I am, and where I hope to not go back to.

I made a huge step this week in something that I think was hindering my weight loss goal.  I currently have a career that required me to work nights.  As anybody who has ever worked nights before knows, it’s hard to sleep, get good sleep, when you sleep during the day.  I felt like I was just not going to be able to better myself if I continued on this path.  Also, everything I’ve ever read about weight loss usually has something about getting quality sleep.

So I got a regular day job.  I thought this my also help with being able to schedule myself better for workout time and hopefully I can do some more cooking so that each day I can eat better.

As usual, I’m disappointed in myself for it being the 4th week and not having a huge progress, but then again, I’m sure anybody that observed me probably would think I’m not doing anything different.  The walking alone is not going to be enough.  I’m going to have to do some changing in the way I think, eat, and move.  But even just thinking about that is exhausting to me.

 

It’s 17 weeks till the end of the year, if I only lost 2 lbs a week that would put me at 34 pounds by then. This seems doable, but I need to be accountable to my own actions to achieve this.

So that is it for this week.  Not a stellar week, but at least there was a loss…I guess.

Movin’, movin’, movin’!

Published September 8, 2011 by mydiettherapy

Ok, day 2….the hardest day of any plan in my opinion.

I woke up later today and I almost talked myself out of it.  My shoulders, my legs, and yes, my ass hurt.

But I prevailed.

Started out slow and picked up the pace.  I walk in a very busy neighbor hood and I always am worried about traffic and being hit by cars.  Today I have a new worry, being eaten alive by dogs.  Yesterday I was face to face with only a chain link fence between me and a very angry dog.  Apparently he was not a fan of my new-found motivation and wanted me off his sidewalk  Scared me so bad I jump off the sidewalk and into the street.  Pretty sure I burned a few extra calories just on that little encounter.

So today I decided I would be smart.  I walked on the opposite side of the street and decided that it would be a safer bet. I was attached by a pug puppy, but his only motive was for me to pet him.

At this point I am actually smiling at the other side of the street because I made a smart move.  Walking next to  a very tall wall.  Next thing I know a huge dog is attempted to jump over it.  It had to be at least seven feet tall and half of his body was over it!  Again, jumped into the street and screamed.  I’m sure someone was getting a chuckle out of this if they where watching both days from their living room!

So tomorrow, I’m changing routes all together.  Hopefully I’ll find one with only friendly dogs like the pug.

Day 2, 30 minutes 1.2 miles…moving a little slower today, but still moving.

2 miles and I think my heart is in my ass.

Published September 7, 2011 by mydiettherapy

So I wanted to stick to my word.  So this morning I got up and the first thing I did was map out a 2 mile path around my house.  I figued I could at least walk 2 miles in 3o minutes at 15 minutes a mile.

 

Oh, Hell, No.  My lard butt did two miles in 47 minutes and 17 seconds.  At first I started off going slightly uphill, this was not terrible.  It actually was pleasant.  Then I think I got to about mile two…I started to sweat a little more and I could feel my heart rate increasing.  I got a little twinged in my chest, but I think that had more to do with my breathing.  At 422 lbs you’re not exactly flat chested if you know what I mean so even breathing is a chore with theses potato sacks on my chest.  The as I was rounding the corner for home I started to slow down a bit.  And I finished, I was so proud till I looked at my stopwatch…but still a little proud that I did it. As I cooled down at home I could feel my heart beating in my ass, thighs, ankles, and feet.  I felt like my whole body was twitching, but a good twitch.  A twitch that will lead to more good things.

 

Wow.  That 5k I signed up for is going to be…well, I don’t know how it will be, but hopefully I won’t have to have an oxygen taken and the ambulance (waaaaambulance 🙂 lol) at the end up it.

 

At least I have a starting point now and I can only get better from here.  So tomorrow, 30 minutes to myself just walking.  I downloaded Pandora to my blackberry so that helped and the fact that I didn’t walk on a track help.  Sometimes when I used to walk on the high school track in the neighborhood I just couldn’t do more than a mile because it bored me to tears.  This was a little better and I’ve lived in my neighborhood for almost 4 years, and saw streets today that I never noticed.  So that’s a bonus.

 

Now for a protien filled breakfast.

 

 

Happy days 🙂