Back at it

I finally decided to get back in gear. After the Spirit of St Louis 1/2 marathon I lost my left big toe nail. That was my excuse for not walking. Not any longer. Excuses are a dime a dozen. In order to reach your goals and dreams you have to take away the excuses.

I decided to rejoin Weight Watchers...again. You would think with my Mom having quad-ruple bypass in December of 2005, stents in March and September of 2006 and Feb of this year I would have done something along time ago. I've often wonder why I didn't. I don't have the answer for that one. What I do know is right now, I'm working the plan. I won't be embarrassed to say that as of today, I weigh 209.2. That is down from 212. Yep... I do carry my weight well. Right like who am I kidding. I don't carry it well. I hide it somewhat well. Fact is I'm obese. The sooner I came to grips with that the sooner I can make a change. I've tried WW (mutiple times), Atkins, Sugar Busters, Low Carb, Low Fat. You name I've tried it. The only one I ever had any success at was Weight Watchers. The only reason I stopped loosing was I stopped working the plan. Now we're back on the plan.

One thing I do know is you have to combine whatever type of diet with exercise. Sure you will loose weight without exercise but how successful will you be in keeping it off? Tonight I walked Rocky first for 20 minutes. Came back and got Boo-Boo and went for another 20 minutes. So I've got in a total of 40 minutes today.

I'm slowing weining myself off of caffeine. I've had a total of 4 soft drinks (with the exception of Holiday World) int he past 4-6 weeks. I drink either plain ice water, water with flavor packets added or Crystal Light Peach Tea. Right now I really like Lipton Diet Citrus or Diet Peach Tea. I'm on my 6th glass of water for the day.

So why did I decide to embrace a healthier lifestyle? Well for one the alternative is an unhealthy lifestyle which leads to an early death. I don't want that. No one does. Yet who wants to be alive unable to walk down the block, up/down a flight of stairs, out of breath and unable to do any activity? Not me. Not something that I can control. Sure there are things we can't control. They are either heredity or other causes. There are things we can control. How much we move, how much we eat and what we eat. We totally underestimate how much we eat. At Saturday's WW meeting the leader mention the "sigh" factor. She said when we should eat till we are satisfied. How will we know when we are satisfied, we will let out a little sigh. We all do it. We just ignore it. Well I've made a concentrated effort to listen for it. Guess what....we "sigh".

That's it in a nutshell...well at least for now. I don't write like my Blessed Sisters Colleen or Donna. They both write such flowery poetic writings. Mine just seem to ramble. So I guess you could say I'm a rambling on. Of course someone else might say a "rambling fool".

Until next time,

Blessings,
Dixie