First Day Out of the Gate

Well....... Today is a fresh start. Did lots of exercise yesterday. About 30 min of cardio (Shape boxing on Wii - pretty good workout actually!) and then I did a Jari Love video. For those of you unfamiliar with Jari Love, she's a fitness instructor here in Calgary and has several resistance training videos out. They are FANTASTIC and extremely effective..... I suppose that's why I feel like I've been run over by a truck this morning! It's a good pain though..... it means that I challenged my muscles yesterday..... with time I will be less sore and start to see results :) Eating didn't go as well yesterday, but I'm off to a good start so far today, so I'm going to forge ahead with that.

Hope you're all having a fabulous day!

Cathy

I'm going to be brave..... in spite of myself!

Well, the truth is that I would like to lose weight. I want to lose weight in order to maintain my good health (because it will inevitably not stay good if I don't lose weight). I also want to lose weight to help improve my self-image because, frankly, it's terrible right now. I think that one key thing that I've been missing when trying to lose weight in the past is accountability. So.... I'm asking people who read this blog to help keep me in line. I'm going to use the blog as a bit of a diary to keep track of my exercise and eating habits. Not that I'm planning on going in gory details or anything, but I feel that I need help keeping on top of it.

I've also decided that I'm not going to have a goal weight or a particular goal size in mind. I've done that before and it's never worked out very well for me. Sooooo, I have a very simple daily goal (simple.... but not necessarily easy for me). Every morning I will resolve to eat a healthy, balanced diet and get some form of exersise for that day. That's it.... nothing more involved or complicated than that. No long term focus.... just one day at a time. Part of the reason I am doing this is so that, if I have a bad day, I won't feel like it has ruined my whole plan..... just get back on the wagon the next morning with the resolve for that day and that's it....

I'm not sure that this will work better than anything I have tried in the past, but it seems to make sense to me. I've spent so much energy trying to change my phyche in the past and I've just realized that my brain works the way it does.... it's extremely difficult, if not impossible to change that. So, instead of fighting my phyche, why not work with it?

Please help me on my quest to stay accountable for one day at a time.....

Thanks!