Sunday, August 24, 2008

Not just a diet

Sunday afternoon has come and as I sit here I am thinking about just how much weight I have lost in these almost 8 months, 141 pounds as of Friday has been shed from my body and I am physically able to do things that I could not do just last winter, lives have been changed 100% since starting on this regimen of eating better and moving more and mine is the one most drastically changed. I eat a total of 1700 calories per day, I exercise on a daily basis a lot of the time it is more than once per day and I am hardly sitting still for more than a few minutes during any given day, jumping up to do a few sets of push ups randomly or running up the stairs to use the bathroom upstairs instead of the one that is 10 feet from me. I snack on baby carrots and an array of fruit along with sugar free Popsicles now when I feel hungry, and go for a walk when I need to relax or hop on my stationary bike and get lost in some good music. Let us now flash back to last summer, and we will talk about some of my habits from that time in my life. 1700 calories might have been the total calories of a single meal which was in a string of the same type of meals. exercise for me was to walk up the stairs to go to bed and 10 of 10 times you could find me sitting on the couch with a clicker in my hand and a half of a bag of something sitting next to me, whether it be a big bag of BBQ chips, or a bag of Doritos. a push up? in my wildest dreams maybe and the back pain that would come with all of it was just the icing on the cake, and speaking of cake there was lots of that around as well, I am reminded of a line from fight club where Edward Nortons character says "this is your life and its ending one second at a time" that was me before I decided to change my life and control what went into my body and what I did for myself in the area of health and nutrition and living a healthy lifestyle. This works for me because it is not treated as a "diet" it is not something that will be a temporary fix or the next thing that I tried to do in 2008, it is a lifestyle change plain and simple.



Stronger now than I have been in nine or more years, mentally as well as physically I can say that statement with one hundred percent certainty that it is true, nothing will stop me from reaching the goal that I have set for myself.

You met me at a very strange time in my life.

As Ever
Me

3 comments:

  1. Love the post. We met you at a strange part, huh? Nah - - I wouldn't say "strange," I'd say "important" or "pivital." Those old habits you talk about - I am all too familiar with that lifestyle as well. I think this one is a lot more fun, don't you??? I never felt anything but like a lazy fatass when I sat around with the clicker and a bag of something next to me (often mine was Doritos, too - - or Oreos!). I enjoy the feeling of being proud of myself for doing something that is healthier (or should I say for NOT doing something that is unhealthy). It's rewarding, for sure - - to see that scale change in a direction I've been wishing it would change for so many years. I was thinking about it earlier today - - how I always knew that being overweight was temporary. I knew one day I would lose it. What about you?? Did you always know that one day you'd finally just do it, and lose the weight???

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  2. Robyn, I have ALWAYS been the biggest kid in the room, and biggest adult in the room, it was just a part of who I was, and if I am being honest I never saw it as an issue until I hit that 500 plus area and it was affecting my life in a negative way. I always did what I wanted when I wanted to and it never really got me down, so to answer your question I never really thought I would lose the weight because it never stopped me until recently, now I am on a roll and sort of a high with the working out and scale watching that I don't know when I will stop :)

    also I wanted to say thanks for being there pretty much from day one with this weight loss thang, you were a part of it for sure.

    As Ever
    Me

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  3. You are doing amazing! Isn't it great to discover all the wonderful things that you missed out on before this year?

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