Graduate school helped me gain knowledge but it has also helped me gain weight. My goal starting this summer was to work on being healthy and get back to my pre-Belmont weight.After my preacher had a heart attack my husband even joined me.... but for the past 2 weeks (I can't believe it's basically been 2 weeks!?! where does the time go?) I haven't been able to do it. We all have reasons why we get off track but I want to be sure that I just express life events that contributed to my bad choices and that the followings aren't excuses. So, I flipped out about my loved ones lying to me, I thought I was going to lose my mind about our finances, my anxiety medication in now at 1/2 of what it started at, my allergies have been horrible, our health insurance is going up in January, Jason and I had some serious issues we had to work out and are still working on, we had a trip to NC, a birthday party, a meeting with family members and the start of a whole new schedule that includes me living with my parents during the week. Yeah, it's alot... but I have to own my decisions. Needless to say it's Saturday night, I've been off my healthy living for 11 days and I'm feel like crap. I did exercise a bit the past 11 days... but my diet has been questionable.
Tomorrow I'm committing yet again to a healthy life style with at least 30 mins to an hour of physical activity daily, a healthy caloric intake and more fruits and vegetables. I'm really thankful for the support of my new Meg's Fitness Diva, Kim and I feel bad for not offering her more support right now. Unfortunately, I could not have foreseen the drama that erupted on the 1st of this month. The worst part about committing to losing weight is weighing myself. So in the morning, after all this food has digested I'm going to give it a try and I plan on staying positive and working hard to achieve my goal of life long health and being at my pre-Belmont weight by graduation... 8 months 2 days to go!
PS I don't love hearing about people taking drugs to lose weight...... and I feel jealous of people who get to eat whatever they want with no consequences BUT alas, this is who I am and God made me this way for a reason. I must love myself with every ounce of my being or I will never be successful.
You can do it baby!
ReplyDeleteBest of luck to you, Reagan! =) You definitely CAN do it! I read something somewhere that the less often you weigh yourself, the better, so you don't get discouraged (especially true for women 'cause of the monthly cycle that can cause water weight for a week or 2). Like maybe only step on the scale once a week, or once every 2 weeks? Also read something about having a support person and/or support group. Some women have told me they preferred measuring themselves to see the difference in inches, or just going by how clothes fit. I hope I'm not too "know it all" sounding 'cause I definitely don't, but thought you might want to think about it. Losing 20 lb of baby weight (after Jack) was the hardest thing I ever had to do.
ReplyDelete~Leighanna