Transformation

I am constantly getting frustrated by people not following through on their plans. Friends and family alike, so many of them say they are going to do something and the never do it! Something I have always prided myself on is the ability to follow through. But today I had the realization that there is one big area in my life where I constantly say I am going to do something and then ALWAYS fail within a few weeks. (which makes me a hypocrite. Which I hate.)

Weight loss. A constant battle for most women today. I understand the pressure put on us by main stream media and all that, but mostly it is a health issue. Well, that and the clothes get cuter the thinner you get. It's a rotten, sneaky scheme by clothing designers but an ingenious one at that....what a good way to entice women to lose the weight! I'm sure the designers hearts are not so pure that turning around the fat fad was their plan, but I'll take it. Now if they could just lower their prices a little so I could afford most of them....

Anyway, So here I am. Nearing 28 1/2 years old. I am 5'6". I weighed myself today on our doctor's scale and I am back up to 164 pounds!!! I couldn't believe it!! (to back track slightly, I topped out about 3 years ago at 180 and then via Weight Watchers and exercise, got down to my lowest of 151 and could never break that. Then I lost my job and couldn't afford the monthly Weight Watchers Online fee of $16.00 {I know, it's not a lot, but it was an automatic response to the loss in pay to cut out any unnecessary bills} and I got out of my normal routine, thus gaining 16 pounds quickly.). Gaining the 16 pounds is unacceptable to me. It was really hard work getting the weight off initially, so I am not going to sit back and let it all come back to me just like that.

So since this blog is still fairly new to me, I am going to change things around a bit. I am going to use it as an accountability tool for me (and maybe an inspirational one for whomever might come across it. But to be honest, in this whole big blogging world it is easy to remain obscure). I am going to track my exercise and food habits. I refuse to call this a diet because a diet always implies that it is temporary. If anyone is to lose the weight and keep it off, it must be an entire lifestyle overhaul.

So three big things I must work on:

1. Cutting back on calories. For the most part, I don't really overdo it too much. But I will ruin a whole weeks' worth of good eating habits in one Friday Night Dinner Group get together (which we have every Friday and the food is rarely healthy).

2. Upping the exercise. While I have the mornings free from having a job, I MUST use this time to get my exercise in. I began this again last week and have been tracking my progress on Facebook using iRan. I'll definitely put my mileage on here as well

3. Cutting back on the adult beverages. Yep. I'm a drinker. I think all of these empty calories have made more of an impact on my weight gain than I realize. Any time we get together with friends (several times a week), there is alcohol involved. I'd say I have a drink 6 out of 7 days of the week. This needs to be cut back to three or four out of 7 days. I suppose I should track that on here as well - the better to keep me accountable.

My hope is that my writing about this daily on a public forum, I will actually stick with this and make my body what it should be. My goal weight range is 135 - 145. I should always be in this range and never higher. So I have about 20 pounds of weight to lose to get to the top of this range.

Stay tuned. More to come. :)