Friday, May 31, 2013

Step One

I'm overweight.

I'm beautiful, funny, confident, generous, and sassy.  I'm also overweight.  Since I have started this process of weight loss before, I am trying not to take myself too seriously, but so far, I haven't been able to shake the feeling that this might just be it this time. 

Over the past 20 years, I have doubled in weight.  I have not come to a place in this journey where I can identify specifically why I gained so much weight, but that will not be the focus of this journey for me.  Loosing weight and being healthy is the focus for me. Follow along if you would like to.  I greatly enjoy the partnership and support.

Success: I've gone to the gym every day this week and I've eaten great, delicious, healthy meals.

Bottleneck: I have gained almost 5 pounds.  I really was expecting that there would be some decrease, even if small, but the opposite direction of what is currently being reflected on the scale.

Thoughts for the upcoming week: My mother-in-law goes to a nutritional chiropractor.  I'm thinking about checking into that to see if I can learn more about how my body is metabolizing food properly.  My goal for this weekend and next week will be to increase my water consumption and increase my cardio time by five minutes.

"Take care of yourself, take care of each other, and take care of this place."