Not going to make excuses...no one, myself included cares to hear them anyway. I'm going to hold off until Tuesday next week and do my weigh in then. Have really been struggling this week, swam once, did a 2Km on Tuesday and really haven't done the swim/gym thing otherwise.
As happens periodically to everyone else working on losing weight and getting fit, I'm in the doldrums right now. Its as though the 50lb mark took some of the wind out of my sails. Just not feeling the level of motivation I was before. Not to worry though, I will find it again! In some ways its really good to have this happen, I need to know that there will be problems and times when its not as easy as others, and I can still recommitt and keep going.
On the plus side, I've had several people comment this week on the fact that they can really see the weight loss. That definitely feels good! Still a tremendous distance to go, but a little external validation of your successes helps a lot.
I've decided to start posting more regularly here, I find that it makes me more accountable on some level, and accountability is key (for me at least). I've been reading other blogs from people who are 100+ lbs overweight and are trying to get healthier, they're all really inspirational to me and its good to see that we all have the same issues with motivation at times. I really hope that someone can read this and find the same thing! I'm going to throw some recipes and such up here as well, my new mission is to try to "skinny" down some of my favourite dishes and see if I can keep them palatable :)
As far as my recommittment is concerned, its a beautiful day today in Toronto, I'm going for a bike ride this evening (hopefully the chain will stay in one piece this time...) and if the weather holds out for another day I'll run/walk tomorrow morning. I have a couple of plans in the hopper right now and will update as things progress, but for now I'm going to focus on getting my head back in the game.
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Friday, March 19, 2010
Monday, March 1, 2010
Trying not to be a lazy blogger
OK, I'm not going to pull this card out again, but I'm pretty new to this blogging thing so I haven't been as diligent as I could've been about keeping it up to date. Some of the things I've read suggest that to blog properly you need to do it every day.
I'm not about to do that! I don't say I never will, but at this time it just seems excessive for what I want to say. I'm double posting today since I left my previous post in draft for over a week...First a quick update. I weighed in last week, and after the 10lb drop the previous week I was ready to take a bit of a hit without feeling any disappointment.
Well, I wasn't disappointed...I actually lost another 2.5lbs. Gotta say, a little surprised, and very happy! Things are going well, and I have a milestone coming up. I'm not going to talk about it because this is not what this project is about. I'm not racing to lose weight, not planning to let the scale define how successful I am.
As big as I am, it took time to get here, and I'm unconcerned about how long it'll take to get back (if back is actually an appropriate description for someone who's been obese for as long as I have). Whenever I get to a point where I feel like I'm at a healthy weight and fitness level, I'll move onto maintaining it. Since the big goal is to maintain there's really no rush. This is the rest of my life, which hopefully is getting longer by the pound!
Anyway, the past week was not so good. I sucked at going to the gym, ate pretty poorly a couple of times and basically behaved like the Mike of old. Funny, previous times I would've found excuses and somehow it would've led to me slacking off on the whole program, but this doesn't seem to be the case.
I'm kind of shrugging my shoulders, saying "this is going to happen sometimes", and getting back into the swing of things. The try-a-tri defintely helps, I know I still have to race in June, but more than that I am really gaining something from this whole thing. A sense of personal accomplishment, a feeling that I'm addressing the one area in my life I've consistently failed at, and that's a pretty powerful feeling.
I'm not about to do that! I don't say I never will, but at this time it just seems excessive for what I want to say. I'm double posting today since I left my previous post in draft for over a week...First a quick update. I weighed in last week, and after the 10lb drop the previous week I was ready to take a bit of a hit without feeling any disappointment.
Well, I wasn't disappointed...I actually lost another 2.5lbs. Gotta say, a little surprised, and very happy! Things are going well, and I have a milestone coming up. I'm not going to talk about it because this is not what this project is about. I'm not racing to lose weight, not planning to let the scale define how successful I am.
As big as I am, it took time to get here, and I'm unconcerned about how long it'll take to get back (if back is actually an appropriate description for someone who's been obese for as long as I have). Whenever I get to a point where I feel like I'm at a healthy weight and fitness level, I'll move onto maintaining it. Since the big goal is to maintain there's really no rush. This is the rest of my life, which hopefully is getting longer by the pound!
Anyway, the past week was not so good. I sucked at going to the gym, ate pretty poorly a couple of times and basically behaved like the Mike of old. Funny, previous times I would've found excuses and somehow it would've led to me slacking off on the whole program, but this doesn't seem to be the case.
I'm kind of shrugging my shoulders, saying "this is going to happen sometimes", and getting back into the swing of things. The try-a-tri defintely helps, I know I still have to race in June, but more than that I am really gaining something from this whole thing. A sense of personal accomplishment, a feeling that I'm addressing the one area in my life I've consistently failed at, and that's a pretty powerful feeling.
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