Oops! ... and goals...

As you can see from the lack of posts since February, this blog ended up being a big failure.  I lost interest and well, wasn't really dieting for the last several months.  However, it's time to begin anew.  Here are my motivators...

• I just turned 36 and I really should get healthy...
• My best friend is getting married in a year and I'm in the wedding.
• I'm taking a trip next summer to visit old high school friends AND go to a book conference.
• I've also been really bad about getting in any exercise and just falling back on fast food for my meals.  And it is definitely noticeable in the fit of my jeans.

*sigh*  All this leads me to get back on track.

We'll see about getting some measurements taken, but my weight as of this morning is 294.6... which is obviously creeped up.  And that 300 mark is looming and I NEVER want to be there again.

My goals for the new week 1:

• Lose 2 pounds
• Eat out no more than 2x
• Get in 3 workouts.  These won't be too elaborate since I'm seriously out of shape, but I just need to get moving.

I'll check in next Monday to see how it went...

Oy vey!

I know I've been horrible at keeping this blog updated.  Last week was a bad diet week and the 2/16 weigh in came in with a 3 pound gain which of course depressed me. 

I can't say I did anything different this week, but my weigh in came in at 288.6, which a two pound loss.  I'm just glad that I didn't have to pay anything in this week.

Now I need to find the motivation to keep going down.  I've joined a second challenge (Romances Biggest Winner) which starts next week and runs for 6 months. *crossing fingers* this works.  I really need to lose these pounds...

Weigh Ins

Wow... my motivation totally sucks right now.  I just weighed in at 287.6, which is almost a pound gain from last week.  *sigh*   I don't think those peanut butter cups I binged on last night helped.

I really need to get on track.  One month of the challenge is gone and I can't seem to get started and moving in the right direction.  I think what I need is a good smack upside my head...

Words of Motivation

Be specific in what you want, and use specific words.

Empower yourself, and become the person you dream about.

It comes down to a simple question: what do you want out of life, and what are you willing to do to get it?

You won't fail if you're not perfect, you'll fail if you're not committed to improving yourself slightly each day.

Rather than aiming for being perfect, just aim to be little bit better today than you were yesterday.

Anything is possible, It's your choice whether or not you choose to make IT happen.

We can reverse years of damage to our bodies by deciding to raise our standards for ourselves,

then living differently. Old wounds heal, injuries repair, and the whole system improves

with just a few changes in what we put into our bodies and how we move them.

What would you attempt, if you knew you could not fail?

I've been a slacker...

I just realized that I've been AWOL for a couple weeks.  Whoops!  And while I've been absent, I've not exactly been doing all that great with the weight loss.  I'm still finding it hard to get motivated.  At first, it was my not feeling well... and let's be honest, who wants to work out when you can't breathe.  But lately, I've been finding it hard to prioritize and exercising and such is just getting pushed to the back burner.

With that said, here are some words of motivation that I can only hope and pray will flip that switch...

A win!

Granted, I've been sick the last two days, but I was at work long enough today to do my biggest loser weigh in.  Today's weight is 286... which is 5.2 pounds lost this week.  I'm not sure what I did because it wasn't exercising or not eating out that did it.  But I'll take it and hopefully this is the push I need to continue on in the right direction.

Now to get healthy so I can start exercising...

More Words of Motivation

I've been slacking in my posting, so here are several days worth of motivational phrases.

Your past does not equal, nor does it dictate, your future.

 

One definition of insanity is: Doing the same thing again and again and expecting a different result.  

 

Do you choose to simply know the path, or do you choose to walk it? 

 

We fail because we don't strike the iron while it's hot. We don't take immediate action toward achieving what we want. We decide to wait until tomorrow, or next week, or even next month.