My last post was over a month ago. In it, I talked about not being able to lose the weight I gained when I got back from my vacation in Thailand, about overeating at work, and I admitted that I wasn't really doing much to rectify the situation. Since then I've gained another half pound. This morning I weighed 155lbs.
Last night I decided to get serious. I at least want to get back to 148lbs, and wouldn't it be nice to finally reach my goal of 138lbs as well? In the past when I've lost weight it's structure that helps me out the most, that keeps me motivated and making good decisions when bad food choices are staring me down. I did a bit of googling, but got sidetracked and didn't have a plan by the end of the evening.
Then, this morning, my sister told me about the site SparkPeople, which helped her get over her weigh loss plateau. It's one of those community/food and activity tracking web sites, like most others. I signed up, latching onto my small amount of momentum and my sister's. We'll see how it goes.
This is what I was meant to do this time last year when I got above 150lbs, to prevent me from getting to 155lbs in the first place. I did try to watch what I ate, and tracked my food for a bit, but I was never disciplined and regimented about it. So this time I will be.
4 comments:
Kudos to you for getting back on the wagon! I will endeavor to be supportive and not so piggish when we dine together, not only for you, but for me as well. I've regained all the weight I had lost between February and April (I'm still lower than my January weight, but just barely).
Seppo's made a renewed commitment to get fit as well (in terms of both diet and exercise), so we'll have to band together and give each other support!
Weight isn't everything. But, if you feel like dropping a few pounds is the right course of action, I'm all for it. Just glad to see you're still working out and being active. I'm starting up from a three or four year hiatus. It's tough to keep at it.
Our dinner the other night wasn't too piggish, and I think we both did a good job of stopping when we were full. (Mack scarffed up all the leftovers and says Thanks!)
But I'm all for lots of support!
Andre: I couldn't agree more about weight not being everything. I know that I'm healthy and active and relatively in shape, and that those are the important things. My main worry is that if I don't pay attention the weight will slowly creep back on until I'm at a point where I'm NOT healthy anymore. Better and easier to put in a few months of effort now to reverse the momentum than to let it be until I'm pretty overweight again.
You've been doing a great job of being active, at least it looks that way from here. It is tough, though. There are lots of days when using the bike or going to the gym is just a slog. But I'm glad for it in the end more often than not. I bet you are too, right?
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