As most of you know, I have gone through hell and high-water to lose weight, including two different weight-loss surgeries. Well, successful as I was, I have fallen off the wagon and I need to figure out how to get back on it. For so long, my whole life revolved around losing weight and being healthy. Then, life got stressful and I forgot about myself. I started worrying about everyone else, and I took my weight-loss success for granted. Then one day, I noticed my pants didn't fit anymore. Uh oh. But, apparently, that wasn't enough to spur any action. Well, now the "fat-pants" are getting tight. Now, that is enough to get my attention.
Back to basics.
Time to start tracking every food that goes into my mouth. Time to start paying attention to my breakfast every morning instead of just getting eggs and bacon at the cafeteria. Time to start working out again, even if its not much to start with. So, that is the goal. I know myself well, I have been doing this for my entire adult life. What I tend to do is this: I get super excited about starting over, I get really motivated, I do great for about a week, and then I decide this is a lot of work and I stop. I have done it too many times to count. So this time, I'm gonna try something different. I'm not going to go all-in for the first week. Each week will have a new goal. This week, it will be to just track all of my food, and exercise just once. When I do that successfully, I will add one more day of exercise. Then, perhaps, I will institute a calorie goal and ensure I don't go above that. Let's see how I do. Baby steps, right? I've done it before, let's do it again!
It is a constant struggle isn't it. You can do it though!
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