I'm back!

I'm Back. Time to check in. I haven't actually moved away from my efforts to lose weight, but life has intervened. While I still tried to work out, eat right, yada, yada, yada, the reality is I lived each day as I desired.

The result? A few extra pounds, a few less workouts, all which means No progress.

Boring.

Annoying.

Frustrating... only because I WANT the damn pounds to melt away simply because I WANT IT!

Observation...The difference between Biggest Loser contestants, Other Successful Weight Loss People, and me is .... drum roll... suspense.....could it be the obvious? Priorities!

They have given up 6 months of their life. I have a hard time letting go of 1 hour of each day.

Yoga on Thursday? No, that's my Bible Study day and I really enjoy it. I like the people, the discussion and the teacher is fantastic. (of course my yoga instructor is fantastic too, and I Could go to Bible Study in my yoga clothes after class, but .... nah, I need to .... eat breakfast first, change my clothes, (yada, yada, yada)--excuses....

Time to walk the dog? It's cold out....windy....or rainy. We get a lot of both here. Or maybe there is a lot going on. Who has time to walk the dog?

Ah, the dog. That has become a sticking point. The dog loves to walk and actually SHE is my priority. The dog is quite likely to get the walk. But she is 12. The days where she walked ME are long gone. I do walk her quite regularly because I believe she really needs the exercise. But she is a slow walker these days. So that good power walk has taken a back seat to the nice therapeutic walk. I'm not sure anyone has ever lost weight in therapy. Strengthening, perhaps. Development... yes. Healthful? Of course. So that's where I've been. I'm the therapist for my dog. She is my priority.

I think I have just self-talked myself through what others would easily pick out as the obvious.

I make excuses and so I am fat. I don't lose weight because I'd rather do what I want to do instead of what I need to do.

I think I'm back. But am I really? You'll probably know before I do. Tune in, if you can't stand the suspense. Will I start watching my calorie intake and my exercise (calorie output)?

Watch and see.

Stalled

This week has not been a good one as far as my diet and exercise goals are concerned. I knew it would hit sooner or later, and it has. I seem to have a couple of main issues.

1) Summer is over, and the fall schedule has begun. I have less free time and more demands that interfere with walking or working out. This has always been an issue. In fact it is a reminder of what people who are seriously making changes in their lives while raising a family or holding a job go through all the time. It's tough keeping up with the schedule AND making sure that exercise has a priority. I haven't done well with that before. I will have to find a way this time.

2) With fall comes a number of challenges to the diet. Activities that serve snacks; cold temps making comfort food much more desirable and salads less desirable, holidays--my birthday, for starters.

3) I am easily discouraged from walking when the temps drop and the wind picks up, which really happened this week.

I did not gain anything this week, but neither did I lose. Worst of all, the inches around the middle, that
trouble spot on my body that I want to see improve the most, started creeping up again.

It's not going to get better until around May, so I'm really going to have to work at finding a solution. I have to find some way to push through each obstacle so that I can be an 'Overcomer'!