I've never written a blog, but I've never been able to get weight off and keep it off either. I'm no baby anymore, I'm not a young woman, so it's dang time that I get this weight off and keep it off before I die!
As most folks can, I could use excuses and some are valid, but they don't cut mustard. Yes, I'm on Prednisone which adds weight and the doctor has recently upped my dose, so my weight went even higher, BUT I didn't get THIS fat solely because of Prednisone or any other health problem. My difficulty in exercising hasn't helped, but I hadn't searched for exercises that I can do.
Now, I found FitClick last Thurs. and a couple of days ago, my MIL showed me some website videos that she wanted burned to a DVD. I don't know that I can burn them for her, but I do like the exercise videos and that's amazing! I haven't been too good with them yet, but hopefully I'll get out of this Lupus flare funk and start the body moving.
When I realized that tomorrow would make one whole week on this program, I thought it would be a good idea to blab to no one, but keep my thoughts so I can take a look back when I am further along. Right now I'm just taking it day by day and so far I'm doing just fine. I'm nervous though.
Will I stick with it? Will I be a loser at losing again? Frankly, I think I'm going to do just fine and I will lose this weight! It feels natural this time. I'm not struggling, I'm not hungry and I don't feel deprived. Some of the choices I was making, that I thought were good choices, weren't good choices. But, now I have good tools to guide me. This is very much like Weight Watchers online, but better in many ways.
This is more like the way WW was years ago when you counted carb, protein, and fat allotments. Depending on your goals, you had a certain number of carb servings, etc. that you could have each day. Now they don't keep track of carbs, protein, etc., but you either count points which is a great way to eat junky food and still have it fit in ;-( or they have another method where you can eat as much as you want of certain foods, but others are strickly limited. It looked too hard to follow, so I never tried the latter. Basically, I'm a snacker. I don't eat large quanities in general, but I could finish a bag of Chex Mix Choc. Turtle and that'd be my meal. Not a good meal, admittedly.
I guess I weigh myself on Thursdays, as I started on a Thursday, so I still have tomorrow before I weigh myself. I hope I do well, but no matter how much I lose, I'll just continue the way I've been going. If the weight loss is very low, a pound or less, perhaps I should drop my daily calorie allotment. Time will tell.
