NOW it’s time to get serious! We applied for the marriage license; we’ve set a tentative wedding date – which is a little more than a month away; and I’ve been completely floundering on my weight loss efforts since January. I don’t know why I can seem to get after it this year. I really thought Jenny Craig would be the answer to the problem. Jenny has all that structure to the diet plan – just what I thought I needed. But – I’m still struggling more than ever.
Here’s how I analyze my weight loss failures:
1. Going away too many weekends – in many cases it’s unavoidable. We just have to go away to attend a conference or business meeting – or desperately running away from teenagers.
2. Taking weekends off from dieting. This was only supposed to happen on the weekends away – but, I guess I found it so enjoyable that I continued on the weekends we were home.
3. Going out to eat. I’ve really stopped buying food or cooking food – for the house that is. And when the Emperor is home for dinner – we’ve always enjoyed going out, and since there’s no food in the house – we still do. Having been raised by a 1950′s environment where the woman takes care of the house, meals, etc. It’s my nature to feel as if I should feed all the people in my house. So, I don’t feel as if I can fix my Jenny Cuisine and not prepare something for my man as well. Old habits die hard – and I’m pretty old and don’t foresee making this change.
4. I’ve stopped exercising. For no other reason than I don’t want to. I don’t like going to the Boyertown YMCA – but, I’m sure that I come up with a reason as to why I haven’t liked any of the previous gyms. I just don’t like to exercise. I like the idea of riding my bike now that the weather is warmer – but, I’m actually scarred of riding on the streets and there isn’t any other options. I know that I need to exercise and I know that I feel much better about myself when I do exercise. But, to do it in the morning sucks – cause I really hate getting up early; doing it in the middle of the day sucks – cause when I’m “in the zone” I don’t want to stop; and doing it at the end of the day sucks – cause after all I am a morning person. Do you know what the difference is with people who exercise and people who don’t exercise – they do it. They aren’t “programmed” differently; they don’t necessarily like it – they just do it.
From a broad view – they are the reasons I’m giving my weight loss failures today. It doesn’t really matter why I’ve failed – I just need to stop whining and get back on track and get motivated to lose weight!
My weight loss goal -
- lose 10 pounds by June 16th. That’s a little more than 5 weeks and a healthy rate of weight loss is 2lbs a week – so, I should be right on track.
- Write on this blog every day to report my progress
- Do SOME form of exercise EVERYDAY!
37 Days until I get married!
Food Day 1
Breakfast – JC French Toast, 1TBS syrup – cal=250
Vitamin Bar – Chocolate Peanut Bar – cal=110
Lunch – Southwest Chicken Burrito – cal=260
Snack – 1oz Cheddar Cheese – cal=110
Dinner – Lentils w/beef – cal=240
Dessert – Triple Chocolate Cheesecake – cal=150
Extra – kids size Rita’s Italian Ice – cal=165
Total calories=1285 – not too shabby and even better if I could exercise.
Posted on May 8th, 2007 by lizzie
Filed under: Weight Loss Ramblings
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