Somewhere, Sometime February 26, 2011
Posted by Scott in Goals, Motivation, Tools.2 comments
I ended my last post with a few lines from the band Rage Against The Machine – It has to start somewhere, It has to start sometime.
This morning I decided that the somewhere was going to be HERE and the sometime was going to be NOW. So it is official. I am back on it. As of today, I am restarting my efforts to improve my health. Will it be easy? Not always. Will it be worth it? Absolutely! Am I ready? Uh, I think so. Am I doing it anyway? Yes I am.
This plan of mine had to start somewhere, and it had to start sometime. I started with the somewhere. I went to myfitnesspal.com and signed up, and even loaded the app for my phone to make it even easier for me. As for the sometime, I did all of this before breakfast. I wanted to get off to a good start today, and I didn’t want to put it off, just in case putting it off was as easy today as it has been for so many days over the past month or so. It had to start somewhere, It had to start sometime!
It has been a good day so far. Eating well, tracking my food on myfitnesspal.com and even drinking lots of water. Has it been a big change? Well, yes it has been. But a big change is what I am looking to do. I want to get rid of this extra 30, 40, 50, 60 pounds or so that I have been carrying around for too long. I am going to try to go about this the same way that I intended to when I started this blog about a year ago. I am going to break my goal into 5 pound increments and repeat 10(maybe even 13) times. I am 65 pounds away from one-derland, and I would love to go back there.
It has to start somewhere, It has to start sometime, What better place than here? What better time than NOW?
The Thinking Continues February 23, 2011
Posted by Scott in Challenges, Goals, Motivation.1 comment so far
I continue to think about getting back into the weight loss routine, but I guess you could say I am only dipping my toes in the water. I probably won’t feel like I am actually progressing until I am completely at it again. Completely, as in keeping a close watch on all of my food intake, regular exercise, lots of water everyday, routine visits to the scale to mark my progress and maybe even some regular postings on this here blog of mine.
Now, it is not a total loss. I have tried to cut back on some of the food that I was eating. I have been drinking more water than I was even a month ago. I occassionally get a little bit of exercise into my day. I have started taking my vitamins again. These are good things. Yes, but……I want more, and I am not currently doing more. I need to build up the reslove to get off of the side of the pool and get rid of the doubts that keep creeping into my head and just jump in.
I need to stop listening to those quivering little toes on the edge there telling my brain that this is going to be so hard. That I am going to be miserable while I work at improving my life. That I don’t have the time to do it.
To borrow a line from Rage Against The Machine
It has to start somewhere, It has to start sometime
What better place than here, what better time than now?
Starting Over February 18, 2011
Posted by Scott in Goals, Motivation, Updates.1 comment so far
One of my favorite sayings is “The journey of a thousand miles begins with one step”. That is what I was starting last spring when I began this blog and started trying to lose weight, a journey of a thousand miles. Things started pretty well and I lost 13 pounds in 9 weeks and looking back I was feeling pretty good about the whole deal. And then.
And then, and not to sound cliche, I fell off of the wagon, and in just a short period of time, I lost focus, quit posting, quit weighing myself and as far as my journey goes, I JUST QUIT!
Now I find myself one year older and no closer to my goal, and possibly even farther away from it. I don’t really know because I haven’t weighed myself in about a month, and I don’t think I have just lost a few pounds over these last four weeks.
I want to get started again. I do. Sort of.
I am having a hard time finding the motivation to get started. I know I need to. I know how to. I know that all of the sweets that I eat are not helping me at all. I just need to do it! This post is my declaration. I will get back up, and take the first step. Then steps. Building my journey as I go.
