Saturday, February 14, 2009
So, I'm making a commitment here in hopes that you ladies will check up on me to see if I'm sticking with it. Starting on Monday I'm cutting sugar out of my diet and working out a minimum of 4 days a week. I want to lose 20lbs before I have surgery and 30lbs by my birthday. I so easily fall into a complacent attitude when it comes to weight. David loves my body regardless of the extra pounds and while I adore that about him, it doesn't help me in the motivation area. I'm tired of looking in the mirror and not recognizing the person I see. I'm tired of using food as my crutch. Things have gotten out of hand since Hayden was born, and I need to regain control. I turn 30 this year. What better reason is there to lose the extra pounds?
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I turn 30 this year, too. I think it provides added motivation :) So, I am a month in to the limiting sugar, and I don't crave it anymore. Fruit tastes better than I thought possible. I had a few cheddar goldfish tonight and it felt like total junk food. It's weird how fast tastebuds and wants can change.
Thanks for that comment. I know that if I just stick with it longer than a few days the cravings will go away. I've done it before. I just need to remind myself that healthy food tastes better and feels better.
Do you feel 30? I just can't used to that age. I don't feel it at all! Apparently I don't look it either. Recently Erin and I were out together and someone thought we were sisters. LOL
Sandra, is your doctor behind you on this? Are you perfectly healthy that you can do this? Will this affect nursing or anything like that? Other than that, I'm with you, Baby! I'll be praying for you.
Mine is salt... I don't do a lot of sugar except what is just in foods, but salt, now that's a different story. My BP has been too high over the last month so I am trying, hard, to cut out extra salt. I know if I could lose 10 or 20 pounds the BP would regulate itself... so, I've been walking every day!
So, here we go... again. I'll throw out the pretzels if you throw out the chocolate chip cookies :)
I have actually been looking forward to 30. It feels like a real age, like a definite I am a person and doing things age. My twenties were so nebulous and all over the place, always looking for something. I am not really looking for anything anymore. I am doing. I like doing better than looking. I want the 30s to be a doing decade.
Jeanne, Thank you for your concern. The doctor is 100% fine with me doing any type of physical activity. I've lived 29 years with this defect and I've been fairly physically active. It's not something that will kill me randomly or anything. Basically, if I don't have surgery to repair it I would go into heart failure in another 10 years because the right side of my heart, which is already slightly enlarged from the extra blood volume it has had to take on, would enlarge further and eventually weaken. Cutting out sugar shouldn't affect nursing at all. I wouldn't do anything like this without making sure it was healthy. I have no plans of shortening my life span. :)
Aola, it's not the chocolate chip cookies, it's the brownies I just made and the soda. There outa here! :)
Becky, I like your comment about the 30's being the decade of doing. I feel like my 20's was a decade of life leading me around. I'd like to take a little more control during my 30's.
You young whippersnappers!
I wish you success in getting more fit and ready for surgery, every little bit you can do helps your recovery.
Is it feasible at all for you to attend a local weight watchers group? They are accountability central.
I've thought about checking into WW. I think there is one in town which is about 30 minutes away.
I've heard WW has a good online program, too...
I have a few years to 30, but it is right around the corner, too. I know you can do this, Sandra. You're doing it for all the right reasons. :)
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