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Now What?
I hope everybody had a wonderful holiday season! I really did have one myself. However at three a.m. on Christmas Eve morning, my nearly two-year-old baby girl woke up throwing up. She repeated that every fifteen minutes for four hours! By noon my two sons and I joined her. It was yucky! Luckily it only lasted 24 hours with the worst of it being over after about 8, so we were able to enjoy Christmas day without repeated trips to the powder room.
Even though that just might warrant a post in and of itself, the idea of my blog here is about my quest to find and try new things. So, simply writing about our family flu bug just wouldn’t really fit. So, I will continue on with the story. After my sickness had ended, I had lost a few of the holiday pounds that I had packed on , and I used that as an excuse to feast like I have never feasted before! When my family celebrates anything, we do it around food. Great tasting, high calorie, delicious to the taste food. I usually enjoy the food, but do so in smaller portions. Not this year. I really enjoyed my food.
That leads me to today. Here I am, on a Monday morning feeling TERRIBLE! Not because I am sick, but because I did things like ate Snickers for breakfast, had dessert after every meal, and enjoyed seconds on every serving. I didn’t even exercise like I usually do. Once again, I feel TERRIBLE! I stepped on the scale this morning and nearly DIED! I immediately rushed to my computer to find a healthy weight loss chart, and found that while I am still in the “healthy weight range” for my height, I am creeping to the side of the spectrum that I want to avoid.
My husband gave me a gym membership for Christmas. I am always complaining about how hard it is to work out at home with the kids, so he felt like a gym membership would be something that I would enjoy. I was offended. I am shallow. He kept repeating that he didn’t give it to me because he felt like I needed to lose weight, but because he thought I would enjoy some “me” time. Deep down I know he is serious. On the surface I’m still a little offended.
Anyway, on to the point, after a combination of my excessive holiday weight gain and my husband’s thoughtful Christmas gift, I have decided to start Body for Life. I have done it once before, and I was thrilled with the results. I loved the way I felt. I didn’t feel like I was depriving myself or like I was missing out on the “good stuff,” and I really felt like I could eat that way for life. However once the 12 week program was over, I let my guard down a little bit. Ever so slowly my old habits took over and I am right back to where I started in the first place. How depressing!
This time I am doing it and I am doing it right. I started this blog with the hope of becoming a better person. More experienced and more confident. If I’m not feeling good about myself, I am far less likely to take risks and try new things. So this is part of my new quest. Wish me luck and feel free to join me if you’d like!