Anyone willing...
to give me a good swift kick in the pants?
I just can't seem to get my butt out of my reading chair and start exercising.
I figured out by counting weeks on the calander that I have 15 weeks until my daughter's wedding. I don't think I will reach my goal by then but I will be darn close.
The count as of today is 16.5lbs.
I have added skim milk, strawberries and yogurt to my diet. This means I can have Chai Tea. Love it. And yogurt and strawberries. Love it even more.
I haven't become totally bored with my diet, but I have become bored w/ thinking about food. I don't think I should have to think about food so much, but on the other hand, if I had thought about food maybe I wouldn't be obese.
Yes obese!
According to guidelines bought to you by your neighborhood wellness experts, I am obese in relation to my height and age.
So my husband says I need a goal.
My goal is to lose 2lbs a week until the wedding. That would be another 30 lbs. Add that to the 16lbs I have already lost for a total of 46 lbs. I wanted to lose 60lbs. I will still have 14lbs to go before bathing suit season (LOL) but I have a feeling I will be looking good at the wedding.
This diet thing has become a family affair because over-weightiness is a genetic trait in our family--amoung the women. It has something to do with the stout little English grandmother on my dad's side and the stout little Irish grandmother on my mother's side.
My niece is getting married this year, right after my daughter. So my sister is now on a diet. She is having an exercise motivational problem also. That may be genetic too. She says the most exercise she has done so far is get the Richard Simmons excercise tapes out of the cabinet. She has placed them where they constantly remind her that she is not using them. This is also a genetic trait.
Our younger sister has been reading my blog and is now fearful that she will be the Fat Aunt at the weddings. Keep reading sis, maybe you will find some motivation here. Or not.
I just can't seem to get my butt out of my reading chair and start exercising.
I figured out by counting weeks on the calander that I have 15 weeks until my daughter's wedding. I don't think I will reach my goal by then but I will be darn close.
The count as of today is 16.5lbs.
I have added skim milk, strawberries and yogurt to my diet. This means I can have Chai Tea. Love it. And yogurt and strawberries. Love it even more.
I haven't become totally bored with my diet, but I have become bored w/ thinking about food. I don't think I should have to think about food so much, but on the other hand, if I had thought about food maybe I wouldn't be obese.
Yes obese!
According to guidelines bought to you by your neighborhood wellness experts, I am obese in relation to my height and age.
So my husband says I need a goal.
My goal is to lose 2lbs a week until the wedding. That would be another 30 lbs. Add that to the 16lbs I have already lost for a total of 46 lbs. I wanted to lose 60lbs. I will still have 14lbs to go before bathing suit season (LOL) but I have a feeling I will be looking good at the wedding.
This diet thing has become a family affair because over-weightiness is a genetic trait in our family--amoung the women. It has something to do with the stout little English grandmother on my dad's side and the stout little Irish grandmother on my mother's side.
My niece is getting married this year, right after my daughter. So my sister is now on a diet. She is having an exercise motivational problem also. That may be genetic too. She says the most exercise she has done so far is get the Richard Simmons excercise tapes out of the cabinet. She has placed them where they constantly remind her that she is not using them. This is also a genetic trait.
Our younger sister has been reading my blog and is now fearful that she will be the Fat Aunt at the weddings. Keep reading sis, maybe you will find some motivation here. Or not.
5 Comments:
At 8:18 PM,
shortstory said…
How do you motivate yourself--I just can't seem to do it. I would rather read.
At 10:38 PM,
Confessions of a Starving Mystery Writer said…
I think you need horizontal exercise. Though I'm so far from it, I can't advise.
I feel the same way. I have a goal. I get up in the morning and 100 thing get in the way from exercising and eating right.
Beer is somewhere in the four basic food groups.Right?
At 6:52 PM,
shortstory said…
Yea, what costs only $20/month? I may go for a visit. I had a member ship once and I payed but never went.
RJ--The horizontal bop is about the only excersise I'm getting.
At 10:56 AM,
10-8-ious said…
SS - I'm gonna give you a good swift kick if you don't keep up your blogs -- this diet one was supposed to me a DAILY journal -- I look everyday for my motivation from your blog - but alais - it's been days and days. . .
(and I was also enjoying your other blog which you have given up entirely!)
get exercising and get bloggin', girl!
At 11:30 AM,
Ginger said…
Hey SS, I've started down the diet path too - I'm going with the online "Biggest Loser Club", which is based on the TV show...they provide me with well balanced meal plans (I've been on it almost a week and I certainly don't feel deprived), and an exercise program which I too have been slow in starting.
My excuse is that I typically spend my days climbing up and down ladders, bent over scraping, or in some other godawful activity that already leaves me sore at the end of the day. Unfortunately its not exactly cardiovascular and I know I've got to get moving - literally...so I'll kick you in the pants if you'll kick me in the pants ;-)
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