My mojo has once again been lost! I feel like this is happening more frequently too. I haven't wanted to work out and when I do I haven't really put in a lot of effort either. I also haven't been cautious or even that aware of my food intake either. Just ask my Mom, we started a little competition back in January to track our food intake and exercise and whomever had the greatest caloric deficit won the competition. Well, I failed at doing that too. (Sorry Mom!)
Luckily Angie has come to my rescue! She has been helping me stay on track for the past week. I am trying to make healthier food choices (which has been a slow go but I am getting more and more motivated now) and we are trying to get in physical activity at least 4 times per week. These are our goals until the 28th of February, which is not a long time frame at all. I am hoping that this small short term competition will help me get back into the habit again. They always say that it takes only 14 days to make a habit. Hopefully this will be the case for me.
But I want to make it public on a daily basis for how I am doing. I need some personal coaches out there. So my plan is to post on facebook every night when I go to bed for the next 14 days whether I am building a good habit or bad habit. My status will say good habit today or bad habit today. Sorry, you may get sick of seeing these posts for the next 14 days, if so then just hide me until the end. If we aren't friends on facebook, then request me (I can't believe we aren't friends yet!). I need to check in with someone on a daily basis. I need people to yell at me when I am making bad decisions. This is where all of you come in. And I am willing to reciprocate the coaching too.
I also have hung up some inspiration in places around my bedroom and car. I have a picture of Jennifer Hudson (She has lost a ton of weight doing Weight Watchers and looks FANTASTIC! I want to look like her when this is all over, toned and curvy!) in my bathroom. I have put the weight I want to be on my scale, so every time I step on it (or even look at it) I can remember my goal. Oh yeah, I want to be down to 50 pounds by May 31st! That means I have 30 pounds to go in 14 1/2 weeks. Which is 2 pounds per week. Which is on average what I was losing when I was being a good girl. I have been eating lunch in my car a lot lately (I need to get away from the office for at least an hour each day so I eat in my car instead of at the office) and so I am going to put the weight and a skinny picture of me in my car so I see it everyday when I am on my lunch break. This too should help me make better decisions when eating out because it should be hard to go to Taco Bell when your weight loss goal is staring you in the face.
I know all of these things are simple and some may and may not work. But I found a great quote today. I don't know who it is by but it's fantastic. It says, "you don't drown by falling in the water. You drown by staying there." Seriously, that is awesome! I am going to keep treading through the water until I reach the finish line. I know I am going to get tired from time to time and other times I am going to swim through the water like an Olympic champion. Sometimes I will be only waist deep in the water and sometimes my head will be barely sticking out, but I am not going to be submerged. Weight loss is hard. It's an ongoing battle that I know I am going to have to deal with the rest of my life. If I give up and just let myself stay "in the water" I could end up like one of those people who have to have a wall cut out of their house so they can go to the hospital. Luckily, I know I can never ever give up (I'm a stubborn girl from time to time). It's time to start swimming instead of treading. Now where are my goggles and swim cap?
