January 23, 2006
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Today is the First Day ...
Earlier this month my sister and I started lo-carb diets (again). She's doing it for a very serious reason, she's been diagnosed with Diabetes and she has to either get control of her blood sugar or suffer horrible consequences. I did it because I have been at a plateau for almost two years and I want to lose some weight. My Goal for 2006 is to lose 36 pounds. That would put me just a hair over my ideal weight, but surely 3 pounds a month is doable.
I've always been much much better about "dieting" than exercising. I can count calories and follow a basic food plan. What I have trouble with is consistently following a program of exercise that will get my body moving and my heart working. But this morning I did it, I followed through on what I know I need to do for my health. I got back on my treadmill.
I bought the treadmill ... 3? years ago. That seems about right. And I used it consistently for about a year and a half, until I moved away from Indiana. Since I've been here, it's just seemed so overwhelming at times, all the things that I needed to do, that I have allowed it to slip off my list of priorities to spend that time.
Then last week, ooooooh, boy, was I SICK or what. And that really got my attention. This time last year I was taking the Synergy Vitapak and managed to make it through the entire cold and flu season without a sniffle. This year, I let that slide. Oh, I'm still buying the Synergy vitamins for my children. But I started thinking that maybe the grown-up version were just too expensive and surely I could make do with the stuff you get at Walgreens. Nope, it's just not the same.
So, I put in my order for the Vitapak (hopefully it will arrive this coming weekend). I got up this morning and walked a mile and a quarter on the treadmill, and I'm watching what I eat more carefully than I have in a while. I know how to be healthy, I'm just generally not motivated to make myself into the kind of priority that I have to be in order to work all those pieces into my daily schedule.
Comments (7)
That makes me sad that Cheryl has diabeties. I have now for 7 years and have been told as of friday if I don';t get the rest of my wieght off the pills are no longer working and I will have to go on shots. I am going to get back to the gym and start trying to walk 3 times a week. When it is about your health and not vanity it changes things...
Try not to get discouraged. I'm trying to pull myself out of this disease and find that i'm so weak that walking a block to the mailbox and back each day is a good goal for me. At some point, I'll go farther, but for now I value the movement and breathing the clean air. It is hard, I know that. I'm taking it in baby steps because I think I'll last longer that way. Good thoughts cming your way.
30 mins. on the tmill for effect and 40 is better. Best to you.
I get on my treadmill named "Pete" most days and walk away it is in my livingroom. I will not make a coat rack out of it. smile, Judi
Good for you for getting back into the exercise routine.
It is hard to make yourself a priority - kudos to you (=
Hi there,
I really lost weight and felt much better on the paleodiet. You can go to the website. http://www.paleodiet.com. There are a lot of great ideas. Anyway, I lost over 50 lbs a couple of years ago. But like any diet, once you go back to the regular way, the weight comes back.
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