I am writing this for the sake of me, not my readers so bear with me.
I am so excited about my progress with my weight loss. I have really struggled in the past with getting my body to respond to my efforts at losing weight. This time around things are different and so as usual I have analyzed and have come to a few conclusions. It has only taken me 18 years of self retrospection to get to this point. I guess I am a slow learner.
1. I can not exercise and lose weight. It is too much for me. I get so famished that I lose all self control and so I end up maintaining instead of losing.
Two years ago I was exercising like a mad person. I was also following the Isagenix program. When I look back I realize that my body was literally starving! I was not eating enough calories, and was exercising so much that the famished thing was killing me. So, lesson? Don't take on heavy exercise until I am ready to maintain.
2. I need to move more in order to lose weight.
I have tried dieting in the past, like last year for Mark's dad's wedding, and my weekly average loss was something like .6 of a pound. This time around my average loss is more like 1.4 pounds. The difference? I am working. I move a lot but I am not "exercising" so much that my body can't handle limited calories.
3. I need to eat.
This goes back to my story in lesson 1. I was doing Isagenix which would be fine for someone who doesn't move, but I was moving a lot. As I worked out my body needed more calories and I was either feeding it too many calories (on my no willpower days) or not enough calories the rest of the time. This time around I am doing weight watchers and when I count my points every day I realize that I am eating way more now than I was two years ago. I think my body went into starvation mode to compensate for the stress I was putting it through.
Interesting. Some people starve and lose weight. My body will not let me do that. Some people "work out" and lose wieght. My body will not let me "work out" it off either. I lose only in moderation. Moderation in eating, moderation in moving. I have had to learn to be happy with me everyday. I have had to learn to look at food as fuel and stop eating because of stress. Wow, is that a hard lesson to learn and even harder to come to terms with. Talk about changing my peridigm.
I am only 3 pounds away from my half way goal. People are starting to notice a change and I have to say....it is feeling really really good!
I am so excited about my progress with my weight loss. I have really struggled in the past with getting my body to respond to my efforts at losing weight. This time around things are different and so as usual I have analyzed and have come to a few conclusions. It has only taken me 18 years of self retrospection to get to this point. I guess I am a slow learner.
1. I can not exercise and lose weight. It is too much for me. I get so famished that I lose all self control and so I end up maintaining instead of losing.
Two years ago I was exercising like a mad person. I was also following the Isagenix program. When I look back I realize that my body was literally starving! I was not eating enough calories, and was exercising so much that the famished thing was killing me. So, lesson? Don't take on heavy exercise until I am ready to maintain.
2. I need to move more in order to lose weight.
I have tried dieting in the past, like last year for Mark's dad's wedding, and my weekly average loss was something like .6 of a pound. This time around my average loss is more like 1.4 pounds. The difference? I am working. I move a lot but I am not "exercising" so much that my body can't handle limited calories.
3. I need to eat.
This goes back to my story in lesson 1. I was doing Isagenix which would be fine for someone who doesn't move, but I was moving a lot. As I worked out my body needed more calories and I was either feeding it too many calories (on my no willpower days) or not enough calories the rest of the time. This time around I am doing weight watchers and when I count my points every day I realize that I am eating way more now than I was two years ago. I think my body went into starvation mode to compensate for the stress I was putting it through.
Interesting. Some people starve and lose weight. My body will not let me do that. Some people "work out" and lose wieght. My body will not let me "work out" it off either. I lose only in moderation. Moderation in eating, moderation in moving. I have had to learn to be happy with me everyday. I have had to learn to look at food as fuel and stop eating because of stress. Wow, is that a hard lesson to learn and even harder to come to terms with. Talk about changing my peridigm.
I am only 3 pounds away from my half way goal. People are starting to notice a change and I have to say....it is feeling really really good!
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