No, falling off the wagon doesn’t do it justice…I not only fell off the wagon, but the wagon flipped over in a ditched and burned down and took an entire village with it.

Basically, I have been sucking at life.

So I did the American thing and made a New Years resolution.

1. I will eat less carbs.  I once tracked my carbs for a couple of weeks and I realized that even though my calories where in good range my carb intake was extremely high.

2. I will participate in my works things that’s get us to walk more. (so far I’ve walked over 18,000 since Tuesday! ) I want to work up to 10,000 a day.

3. Pretty much any kind of exercise will do at this point.  I think you get to a point where your so fat, that you just need to do something, even if it’s small in retrospect.

4. Get organized. I don’t know about any one else, but when my life is cluttered, I can’t think about anything else but the clutter.

5. Get my financial life in order…(but wait….that’s not a “health goal,” why did you add it?) Thanks for asking imaginary commenter.  Last year I tracked what I spent.  I spent close to $250 on food/snack that where not purchased at the grocery store for meal.  If I bought my lunch at work, I included this into the “fast food” category because I didn’t prepare it.  So my thought process is this, if I in theory cut my food budget significantly down, I can in turn use that “found” money to pay some credit card bills and student loan bills.  It really a win win.

5 goals that seem very attainable 🙂

So right now I’m 19 days into January. I weight 417, that’s down from 428 that I weighed myself on January 1, 2011.

Debt is at 8,752. (starting point)

I’ve cleaned out one closet and my bedroom so far. I donated/threw away approximately 8 bags of cloths and junk.

So almost 20 days in and I have had reasonable outcome.

Here’s to a better 2012 🙂

Seriously…1 lbs…

that sucks.

Another walk compleated.

Today I chose a new route, and still managed to find a dog that looked like it was pissed of to be chained and would like to take it out on me.  I’m a little worried some of those chains are not strong enough to hold a dog that’s charging at me.

Anyway…

So day three, I really, really, really, had to talk myself into today.  But I did it.  I went 1 mile in 26 minutes.  So I still have four minutes to burn, but I’ll do a few flights of stairs at work to make up for it.

Another strange thing is my body feels swollen, especially my fingers.  I don’t know if it’s a coincidence or if it correlates with all the walking I’ve been doing.

Another side effect, my house is a little cleaner.  For the past three days I have found a little more energy then I normally had and make my self do stuff that I would normally not want to do, or wait to my day off to pretend that I would do it and then still ignore it. 🙂

Maybe this will work out splendidly.

So I have to admit, I kinda feel like week one was a fluke, so I wasn’t so shocked at a 2 lbs weight gain this week.  I didn’t do the walking like I wanted.  I wanted to be able to walk uninterrupted and all at once.  What I ended up doing was walking when I could at work.

The juicing thing is harder then it seems and super expensive.  I’ve decided that I will buy the food on the days that I want to juice, that way there is no waste.

So on to week three, want to loose 2 lbs, walk 3 days this week for 30 min each… 🙂

So when I weighed myself last Saturday I was 425. Highest that I’ve ever weighed. When I weighed myself this Saturday I was 419.
My plan was for the week to do a lot of juicing. But it’s very expensive. So I did lot of juice, vegetables and salads. Seems to have work a bit.
My goal for week 2 is lose 2 lbs and walk 3 days this week.
Wish me strength.

So much for my “Thou shall not eat fast food” post.

Again, I was unprepared caught off guard and ate at taco bell.  I know I shouldn’t eat it, I know I don’t feel well after it, I know that I could have probably waited, went  to the grocery story and made something healthier… but I didn’t.  Something inside me overrides my common sense and goes straight for instant gratification.

And, I didn’t go walking for 30 minutes today either.  I could have, I should have, but I didn’t.

double fail 😦

I realize that there will be ups and downs, but it particularly hurts when I realize I wasted a perfectly good day to try to make myself better. Epic failure 😦