Big Guy

I’m still here. I didn’t start another diet, have a bad day or two and just fall right back into the old habits. A year ago when I tried changing my lifestyle, I came out like gang busters with a first week loss of 10 pounds. I was stoked. Then came 5 pounds. Woohoo! Then came 2, then 3, then 1… By 6 weeks I was bummed. That first week was a huge buildup and then a quick let down. I know I know. It was water weight and that is what happens. But mentally I could not handle it. Well maybe I didn’t want to handle it.

Things are different this time. I have vowed to not allow myself to keep me from having the things I like. I will simply work them in when I need to. I also have decided that I would not weigh until after I had been doing the “new lifestyle of eating and exercise” for at least a week. I then would not have that let down of the number differences.

I have yet to make any major changes to my exercise, but I have made an effort to move my butt a little more each day. I am getting up form my laptop and taking short walks around the office while I try to get in my water intake. It seems to be working. My watch has started spinning on my wrist (always the first sign of that so called water weight loss). I will weigh in for the first time on Sunday. Things seem so much clearer now than ever before.

“I can see clearly now the rain is gone. I can see all obstacles in my way.” - Carole King