and i’m back… a manifesto on dieting in uncertain times
04-23-09
so it’s been like a year since i posted here. in that time i got down to my lowest weight ever (317), had an awful week where i worked harder than i ever have and didn’t lose a pound, and subsequently quit the whole thing. i lost my personal trainer/dietitian, and gained over 30 pounds… all in about six-eight months.
also in that time, i became unemployed (still am), and am quickly running out of ways to pay bills. i can’t find a job to save my life, and my wife is working as much as she can at her two jobs to try and make ends meet. additionally, we’re trying to sell our house, but every time we get close something happens and the whole thing falls through.
in the midst of all that, we’ve decided to start trying to live a healthy lifestyle again.
wait, what?!
yeah.
here’s the thing… in arguably the most uncertain times my wife and i have ever faced in our lives, there are very few things we seem to have any control over. two of those things, is what we put into our body, and how we treat our body. being honest, dieting is the only thing i feel like we have control over right now, so we’re going to stick to it like a fat kid on cake (pun intended).
we don’t have anything fancy this time… no gym, no trainer, no dietitian… we have a DVD player and a library with a load of workout DVD’s, a treadmill someone was kind enough to give us, and some resistance bands. we’re going to make it work. we started eating healthy again on tuesday, counting every calorie that goes in, measuring every single piece of food. today i started working out again, time on the treadmill, pushups, wall squats and planks to be precise.
and really, it just feels good to have something solid in our lives right now.
I think one of the biggest problems you may have is using the name “fat blogger”. It’s like that is what your identity is…fat! So your self image is in a place that there is no way you can ever expect success because you start by seeing yourself as a failure. What if you called this fit blogger or will be fit soon blogger? Just a thought and good luck with this endeavor.
In these harsh financial times you have still managed to hang on to your marriage. You could change your stratagem to not think about getting fit – but how much you and your wife love each other. I have seen many people lose weight because they want to be fit for their children etc. I assume your wife is also working out, and you jsut need to find some common activities and maybe try new things together! Make games out of it etc. It’s all about project how you want to be and aim for it. and remember it takes a lot longer to build something than it does to destroy it.
Boy you have a lot on your mind. The job and the house, those are some of the biggest stresses in life. Your doing the right thing though by getting back into a healthy lifestyle. The exercise helps to take away many of the other stresses, you’ll as you know feel better about yourself and feel more motivated to do things when you exercise on a regular basis. Keep up the good work and stick to that cake:>) Pat yourself on the back for getting started again. Nice and slow is the name of the game. You don’t need anything fancy. Keep it up!!