For once in my life I'm actually enjoying exercising. I don't always want to do it, and getting up each morning instead of sleeping a bit longer is still difficult, but I do actually enjoy the process of the exercise. I've been doing mostly Leslie Sansone DVD's, and they are really quite motivating. They aren't difficult, I don't have to make my body do things it wasn't created to do, and I feel like I received a decent cardio workout when I'm done. Add to that my walks at lunch, which I've come to depend upon to pick up my mood, and my lovely bike rides in the evening with my husband and I no longer think that maintaining this weight loss this time will be as difficult as it was before. By enjoying the process of being physically active I hope that once the main weight is gone I'll still want to exercise, although not as much, and enjoy living a more active lifestyle altogether. I think biking might even become a passion as knitting is. Now if I could just combine the two. Can you imagine biking and knitting, now there is a disaster waiting to happen.
I'm still quite impatient though. I'm feeling great, I feel like I'm already a fit person. Oh sure, I still get winded easily at times, and I still have aches and pains due to being overweight. But I no longer feel obese, even if my BMI says I am. But while I feel great, I still don't look great. I'm dropping clothing sizes quickly, but my weight is still coming off slowly. I've only lost 24 pounds but I've dropped 3 clothing sizes. At some point this will have to even out I tell myself. But I'm impatient for that to happen. I want that scale to drop quicker then it is, as quick as I feel....but I know in reality the slower it comes off the longer it stays off.
The worst part is I'm going to have to go shopping again here in a month or two for more clothes, some of my pants I'm only wearing once before they look way to big. Fortunately though, wearing things a little too big is not as offensive as wearing them to tight.
Well I guess that is all for now, I'd better get my brain back into what I should be doing.
If you'd like to see pictures of me shrinking, I posted them on Facebook. If you don't know my full name to search, send me an e-mail (or comment to this post with your e-mail address) and I'll send you that information.
Toodle Pip
Tuesday, July 21, 2009
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Here's what you can do: get a tandem bike so you can knit while Nick pays attention to traffic! :)
Healthy muscle weighs more than fat. So all the muscles that you are improving are probably offsetting the weight loss. I think you that your dropping clothing sizes proves that you are really accomplishing a lot.
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