Postive Outlook

Maybe its completely foolish of me, but I have complete confidence right now that I will do this, this time. Maybe its because right now I'm not consumed with every thought and breath of the weight loss journey. Maybe its because this last long weekend, I went completely crazy with calories and yet on Tuesday, I jumped right back on the bandwagon. Maybe its because I'm looking ahead to the future and planning things out. I'm not sure what the difference is, but hopefully whatever it is, it'll stick around and in 3 months time I'll still be here struggling and planning and losing weight.

I've stopped doing the Kettlenetcis work-out, honestly its kinda boring, the 20 minute work-out is fine but the longer 50 minute work-out you do the same swinging motion for what seems like 70% of it. And at my current fitness level I wasn't able to do the work-out all the way through and was feeling like a failure. So I switched to Debbie Rocker's Walking for Weightloss DVD. Now you do basically walk-in place for a good portion of it, but it keeps my interest by changing things up and doing some toning, it has great scenery, and I find her encouragement helpful. Plus I can do the whole work-out without taking a break because after a certain exercise she always does a recovery walk. I'm really enjoying it, I've been doing the 30 minute option on the DVD as I've been short on time, but today I was able to get out of bed earlier and actually do the full version which is 50 minutes. And I was able to do the whole workout without breaking.

I think the more intense workouts I have like Firm work-outs and maybe the Kettlenetics (although seriously not impressed with it) will wait until I've built up more stamina. In the meantime I think I'll purchase some Leslie Sansome Walking DVD's and try those out too. The other benefit of the Debbie Rocker and I hope with the Leslie Sansome is it doesn't use up much floor space and in my living room I have very, very little work-out room because of the furniture.

One day, one step at a time. I have a little encouragement taped on my monitor that says this:

"Success if found in making small lifestyle changes for their own sake rather than for loosing weight. Forever is the key concept, ever mindful of the process you design, and ever learning from your mistakes." Its from a blog post at Calorie Count.com. I find it inspiring.