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.

Falling off the wagon…….

Published January 20, 2012 by mydiettherapy

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 🙂

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.

Another Day, Another Dog,…

Published September 9, 2011 by mydiettherapy

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.

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.