What Is Motivating My Weight Loss Today?

What is moving me this morning? The scale, for sure.

It’s tracking in the wrong direction, which means that so am I

Today’s agenda, the one that I’ve just put back onto the front burner as I type, will be to work on launching counter-measures that will undo my weight gain.

Whew, I rewrote those last couple of words several times before settling on my ‘weight gain’!

I tried to sugar coat them, tried to make them all flowery and warm-n-fuzzy, but it is what it is, ‘weight gain’. Not monthly bloating, eating too much salt, not ‘I was sick and not feeling well’. Ugh. Weight gain.

The thing is, I’ve become too complacent.

When my littles had something they wanted to share with me, I ate two of whatever it was, well, since both boys wanted to share with Gramma. When my daughter tried a new recipe, of course I had to have one – a piece instead of a bite, don’t you know. When I baked for my church, I had to taste everything. When the church had fellowship potlucks, I tried a little of everything, “…don’t want to hurt anyone’s feelings…” dishes. 

And exercise. That went mostly out the window when my annual physical turned into a cardio nightmare for me when a heart murmur diagnosis turned my life upside down. I made the mistake of checking Dr. Google before a cardiologist and found that people with the condition they found with my heart only last one to two years. What did that mean???? I quit exercising (hey, that could shorten the one to two!), ate what I wanted, and generally gave up on anything positive since nothing I had been doing would prolong my stay.

You get the idea. I spiraled.

Today I’ll be working through how to deal with the areas that I know are a struggle, and how to handle the unexpected.

Weather will be a factor for outside exercise, so I’ll be coming up with multiple routines that I can do both inside and out. My new dog is needing some exercise, more than I am currently giving him, so this is a step in the right direction too.

I’ll also revisiting what worked before with my hundred-pound loss – rebuttals for my excuses and the “here, you’ve got to try this’s”, and today I’m planning on bringing alternative dishes that are within my program to the church table.

I just may make my goal by the end of September. I’ll figure out where to go from there, when I get there. And hey, if there’s only a couple of years, I’ll be around for a little while longer.