Wow
What a difference 6 days can make. The first 3 days were a bit tough, but today I am moving in full stride. My mood is much better and slowly my energy is returning. How much weight have I lost? Don’t know, don’t care. At least I don’t care at this stage of the game.
Today I am just enjoying eating clean and working out. Enjoying the journey for the journey’s sake. Tomorrow will take care of itself. So many folks on this board have already lost more than I need to lose, or at least 100 + pounds. It took them time, but the journey is always the same, even when they take different paths. Eat clean and be happy…the rest will come.
If you are having a hard time getting started just put your head down and do it. Three days straight is what it took me. How long will it take you? Hell, water even tastes good.
October 10, 2008 at 10:07 am
Getting to the point where water tasted good was a huge step for me but now i cant think of not drinking it. I think i need to take on your attitude about the weight. I work out consistantly 5 days a week and do cardio 5 days as well just dont seem to be dropping the pounds. I am getting the diet tuned up this week. Great to here you are enjoying it as much as you do. I dont feel right when i miss a work out.
October 11, 2008 at 4:29 am
I was on a "diet" for 30 years and weighed myself at least three times a day and it never worked and it also made me feel bad and out of control. Not only have I stopped weighing myself, but last year I actually took my bathroom scale outside and smashed it with an axe and then I burned my food journal. Hahah I called my scale bad names as I hacked it up into pieces and then I actually broke down in tears and felt immediately relieved like I had just killed my oppressor ! I have never been obese, or severly overweight for that matter, but since I was a teenager I had myself so messed up obsessing over my weight and didn’t trust myself to feed myself what I needed - I believed I would get as big as a house if I didn’t constantly monitor it. I have to weigh myself somewhere else now and only do that 1 - 2 times a month and guess what, I’ve lost a few pounds since last year and I feel great. Go figure.