There is no ending… December 4, 2009

Current Goal: 1) Workout Monday, Wednesday and Friday with Gwen of Better Body Sculpting, 2) Set an alarm to remind me to eat, 3) Continue open communication with family, 4) Recognize my accomplishments  

Current Struggle: Letting ‘chores’ slide to put me/exercise first.

Current Weight: 160.8

Current Mood: Invigorated! ****************************************************************

Hello Everyone,

Notice my Christmas colors : )  The last 2 weeks of November and this month are very busy and I’m sure all my readers can relate to that.  Between the family get-togethers, Christmas shopping, work, school, and normal everyday activities…whew…time can fly by.  This has caused a problem for me in my nutrition.

You see, when I get busy, I forget to eat.  Yes, I know what you are thinking.  Well, that should make losing weight easy; however, that is not true.  You may lose weight (water and muscle), but you will also put your body into starvation mode.  In this mode, your body is very greedy with calories and stores as many as possible as fat.  So, even though you are exercising, staying active and eating less…you gain weight and lose muscle.

Plus, it wears your body down when you don’t have the nutrients it needs to stay healthy.  Yes, you guessed it.  I got a cold.  Thankfully, it was just a miserable cold and not the flu or worse.  I decided it was time to dust off a plan I used at the beginning of this adventure–enter my cell phone alarm.  Now, I set my alarm to go off every 3 hours to remind me to stop and eat-something healthy : )   Yes, I have to clarify that statement, because us Americans are really use to getting what we want immediately…such as food to go.  This isn’t a bad thing on a once-in-a-while basis, but it can be if it is your go-to meal on a lot of your days.  Yes, I do eat at McDonalds, Burger King and Wendys.  But I get a plain burger, side salad, and water at McDs, a whopper junior with no cheese, mayo, or ketchup, skim milk and a salad at Burger King and plain baked potato and small chili with water at Wendys (only eat half the potato topped with half the chili). 

 Okay, with the nutrition part taken care of, I am still having trouble letting chores slide.  You know what I’m talking about: you go into the livingroom/den (where ever you exercise) to workout with one of your favorite DVDs and on the way you notice the rug needs vacuuming, dust or unfolded clothes.  DO NOT DO THEM UNTIL AFTER YOU EXERCISE–let’s face it, the chores will still be there waiting on you when you are finished.  However, if you put off exercising until you finish your chores…well, let’s just put it this way…I would hardly ever exercise : (  So, even though it is in the back of my mind…I know my family, as well as myself, benefits more with the exercise I am doing.

Take one day at a time with an ‘I will do it’ attitude and YOU will!