Weight Issues

So, if you started at the beginning of my blog, you'll know that I've been on a weightloss kick for a while now (7 months). I *WAS* doing so well. By the end of December I was down from 247lbs to 197lbs - reaching my first all important goal of getting below 200lbs!! Pathetic to all you skinny bitches I know... but it was no picnic.

I went from taking 4 spinning classes a week & maybe an hour of weight training to working out at least 2 hours every day. I would include hiking 6 miles or so most days of the week, in addition to the above gym routine. I made it more fun by buying a heart rate monitor and along with my book I'd compete with myself every week to add more calories burned to my sheet.

Not only did I feel great, and full of energy, but exercising helped my ADD unbelievably. I was so much calmer, less impulsive, focused and my mood was elevated naturally....

Then sometime in January I felt really run down, like I needed a break. I also spent more time on the computer than I normally do (which meant less time exercising), and I started slacking off. Then February hit and by then the weather was really nasty, snow, and freezing cold, and my kids would alternate between goopy snotty noses, or having the flu. I used those as excuses to not make it to the gym, and of course, I sat on the couch typing on my laptop even more. No more running the stairs, or jumping up them two at a time. No more tai-bo tapes when I had 30 minutes of peace and quiet. I really just slacked way off.

I could tell by looking around my house that I was spending too much of my time online, flylady's habits were starting to wane, and my floors really need to be polished.

I was only spinning maybe twice a week, I was buying peppermint patties for my chocolate cravings, eating edy's fruit ice pops almost nightly (albeit only 80 calories), going out for dinner and margaritas or red wine, at least weekly, and sometimes twice a week, and I literally haven't gone for a walk since sometime at the beginning of February.

Even though I'd kicked my sugar habit, my alcohol habit, and my chocolate habit, they have slowly crept back in, and it scares the shit out of me. So much so that I decided today was the day I had to recommit to my program. So I got on the scale, logged back onto sparkpeople, and after entering my weight - 183lbs - I was told I'd graduated to stage 4 of 4! That was enough to refuel my waning desire. I dusted off my motivational binder, printed out a few new recipes from sparkpeople, and read it from cover to cover. I also listed new goals for myself. I'm going to give myself to Oct 28th to get down to 150lbs, which I realise will mean that it's taken OVER a year to lose 100lbs. But this is real life, and if the mind can conceive it, the body can achieve it.

Feeling less stressed already.....