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01 April 2010

Well, I had good intentions at the beginning of this week...and I actually really believed myself when I said I was going to dedicate this week off to work harder instead of taking a vacation from health.

Well, the good news is that I definitely didn't take a vacation and I've been getting in the exercise but I've discovered (not surprisingly) that it's much easier to eat the right stuff when I have to work...at home or on the run or hanging out with friends provides SO many opportunities to EAT. Work does too sometimes but it's not the same.

Anyway, I'm rambling but the bottom line is: not quite the week I was hoping for but I'm still doing MUCH better than I would have done in the same situation a year ago. Baby steps.

I'm actually looking forward to going back to work on Monday JUST to get back to my routine. I have to have SOME reason to want to go back to work, right? (I do like my job...as much as anyone likes WORK...it's just that I'd prefer to be independently wealthy...and then what I do now could be called what it is--volunteering.)

Oh my goodness...I hope nobody is subjecting themselves to reading this crazy, all-over-the-place journal entry! Just stream of consciousness.

31 March 2010

This was almost a forum posting but then I thought it seemed more like a journal entry so here it is:

Does anyone have any tricks to motivate a loved one to lose weight? This is sort of a rhetorical question I guess because I think everyone has to get there on their own...but I fear that my husband will never get there on his own and we'll lose him to a heart attack...or he'll develop diabetes (he's already pre-diabetic and possibly diabetic but hasn't had his levels checked in quite a while). I was encouraging him for a while and he said he'd try NS but I knew he was just doing it for me...and I was doing all the work (yes, hard work of opening the boxes and microwaving...plus putting the other foods with it). So I told him to stop if he wanted to stop (since he wasn't really doing it 100% anyway).

I know that a) I would be SUPER ANNOYED if he were the one telling me to lose weight; b) anytime someone I loved did talk to me about losing weight in my life, it had the opposite effect--they might as well have shoved food in my mouth themselves...; and c) I'm doing what I'm doing now because I decided to.

I know he wants to but he doesn't want to enough.

I know I just have to keep doing what's right for me and hope that he'll want to do the same some day.

29 March 2010

28 March 2010

It's funny that you don't realize how badly you feel about yourself/weight/health until you realize how great you feel when you're taking care of yourself and making progress towards your goal.

I wouldn't have said that I really had a poor body image before...and maybe I didn't...but since I feel a marked difference now, I had to have not felt that great about myself before...and duh, I guess it's obvious...because if I had, I wouldn't be here today, right?

Anyway, it's kind of funny to feel this way on a day when I am recording only a .6 lb loss. FS said it would take me 32 months if I continue on this way (I always love to see that each week) and although I would obviously prefer to do this in at least half that time, today I'm feeling like if it takes me 32 months, so be it...I feel better already and I never want to feel as unhealthy as I was before.

Things are good. :)

28 March 2010

Weigh-in: 241.8 lb lost so far: 16.2 lb still to go: 81.8 lb Diet followed reasonably well
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