So last you heard from me I was posting pictures of myself commenting on my weight and basically telling all of you what I was going to do to lose said weight. As you can imagine I've done none of those things that I said I was going to do. Why??? Because its me and I always tell myself that I'm going to do this that and the other thing to move myself in the direction that I want to go. But then something happens like maybe it rains the day I'm suppose to start walking. Well I can't walk in the rain ;) so I don't and I put it off and a day became a week and the week turns into a month and before I know it, its June and I weigh more then I did in January. So there's my dirty little secret, I'm a huge procrastinator.
So now its June the girls want to go to the pool and I'm just dreading, absolutely dreading putting a bathing suite on because I know I've done jack over the last 6 months except eat everything I told myself that I wasn't going to eat and now I have like 2 weeks to lose 100 plus pounds. So like the good dieter I am I go on a crazy crash diet and I manage to last a whole week. Granted I'm hangry and acting like a total loon but its all worth it because its weigh in day an I know, I just know that when I get on that scale its going to tell me that I've lost 50 pounds and life will be good. Only I get on the scale and I've lost nothing, not even an oz. So now I'm stating there stark naked, hangry as heck and all I want to do is through the stupid scale across the room, but I don't because then I would just have to buy a new one to torture myself with. So eat instead, not anything that is on the crazy diet that I'm following but everything I can get my hands on, things I don't even like. I bet you can guess what happens next, that's right I crash and cry and blubber to my husband how I followed the diet and it didn't work and I just don't know what I'm going to do because I can't possibly go out in public in a bathing suite.
Well in the end I got a faltering one piece suite with a skirt bottom and I wore it like a badge of honor every single day just do my girls could go to the pool and hang out with their friends and have fun. I have to admit that I had fun to once I stopped worrying about what I looked like and loosen up.
Another 6 months go by and it's December and I start thinking about what changes I can make in the New Year that I can actually live with. No crazy diets or workout plans just simple changes that I can make to start felling better and living the kind of life that I want to live.
Change one I decided that I wanted to try and eat a mostly plant based diet, so I started cutting meat out of diet a meal at a time until we were eating meatless 6 days a weeks. Now 4 months later we enjoy meat when we go out for a nice meal. Its been fun coming up with vegetable based meals that the whole family will like.
Change two the quality of food that we are eating. My husband as been on me to start buying organic for years but I kept insisting that wouldn't be able to afford it. Wrong I was just being lazy and didn't do any research in the subject. My husband being my husband finally said I think we should a service like door to door organics. Door to door is a company that delivers fresh organic foods to your door once a week. You go on the webpage and pick a box and then from there substitute things you don't like for things that you do like. Since we eat a mostly vegetable and fruit based diet this not only helps me stick to that way of life but it cuts down on time I have to spend in the store food shopping.
Change three I stared making things like bread, and butter and even drying fruit for snacks. This way I can control what goes into our food and hopefully this keeps up happy and healthy.
Change four has been a more recent change. I started doing the C25K program because I've been telling people and various family members for years that I'm going to run a 5K. I'll be starting week 3 on Saturday and I have to say I'm really enjoying it so far and I'm confident that I will finish the program this time around.
So it's April now and I've been doing those things pretty consistently and as a result I've lost
20lbs. I have a butt load more to lose but I'm happy that I've come thins far.
Things in my world are looking up and I can't wait to see where I'm at come June
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