So all my good intentions for this year have come to naught. I’ve not lost all that baby/stress weight, and I’m not sure what weight loss diet I’d need to perform such a miracle on the schedule I’m currently following. But I do have a resolution for my fat that is very much in tune with a form of a weight loss diet – I’m going to be diabetic.
I know, I know – I think I tried this before. But now I’m really going to do it. It’s time now.
My father has Type 2 diabetes. So do both of my Aunts. I know that I can prevent it for quite some time if I can get my weight down, stop eating sugar and start exercising (again.) So here’s the plan:
I will (starting tomorrow) follow the same style of diet I’ll have to follow in about ten years. If I am even reasonably close to cutting out all the sugary crap in my diet, I’ll be in business – I’ll lose weight, I’ll feel better, I’ll be setting a better example for the kiddos and I’ll be preventing diabetes.
Finding time to work out will be the hardest part, but I can work it in when I can for the next few months and when summer rolls around again, I’ll join up (again) at the Y to utilize the childcare, awesome kiddie swimming pool and the elliptical machine.
It’s workable. I just need to do it long enough for it to become habit.
December 31st, 2008
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I did try to do things correctly and eat in a healthy way, but somehow it just didn’t work. I’m pretty sure it’s because I have no willpower.
I used to have willpower. I went about 12 months in high school eating maybe 500 calories a day – and I’m 5′9″ on a sturdy frame. I actually turned yellow due to malnutrition and my period stopped. Crazy, right?
Well today my skin is pink and glowing do to all the healthy fats it’s receiving in my current diet. And believe me there are plenty of them coming into the system.
I’m growing more convinced that will power deserts us:
- When we have a husband on the Michael Phelps diet who never gains weight and leaves junk everywhere.
- When we sleep six hours a night in six different segments – thanks, boys.
- When we have an outrageous schedule that leaves little or no time for fun.
In my little world, food is my fun. “Hey, I can’t watch TV or read, I have to work. But I can sure eat some Skittles to keep me awake just a little while longer! Oh, and there’s a brownie – yum!”
Case in point: As I jot this down, my hubby walks out the door to the store asking, “Hey, do you want any candy bars or anything?”
Naturally I say no since I’m trying to pretend I have self control for a hour or two, but later I’ll just eat his because he leaves it on the counter and I’ll need the artificial energy.
Plus it’s just sitting there half eaten, and as we know – I have no self control.
Don’t worry about me. I think my self control is hiding under the shadow my butt seems to be making these days. I’ll find it again eventually.
August 28th, 2008
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I’ll admit that I’m not a skinny person. I was never a skinny person, although I know a skinny person lives inside me. I was slender, and dare I say it – HOT, back in the day.
At the moment, I’m what I’d like to call “fat,” which is a shorter way of saying “I have thirty pounds of baby fat still to lose following my 12lb 8.5oz* child born a year ago.”
At least according to friends who also have a life, it’s normal to take years before all the weight comes off. I also have skinny friends, but they just lucked into the weight loss – plus they are better at eating small portions. But I think that’s because they are smaller people – they have smaller stomachs, too.
*(I find stating his weight makes people forget that I’m overweight – it’s proportional)
But now that Brian is about a year old and Jake is three (although not potty trained thanks to six months of moving hell), it might be time to tackle this fat once and for all – or at least get started on the three year process.
My Plan?
The skinny person diet.
I don’t have time for counting anything and have no desire to leave my kids to go to meetings. Can’t go in the evenings anyway – I’m working.
So I shall simply pretend I’m skinny and eat like the skinny people do. And I don’t mean the people like my husband (who isn’t skinny, just slender) who have mega-fast metabolisms. I mean the skinny people who DO have the time to count things. I figure if I watch them and eat the way they do, I’ll be benefiting from their hard work.
I’ll let you know how it goes.
You may have noticed I also have time for a renewed interest in my blog. Here’s to my future non-fat self and my renewed blogging!
June 29th, 2008
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