Sunday, September 13, 2015
FromHereOnOut
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Hey!
Well the plan today is to rest my legs so I can do another walk tomorrow to see if the shoes affect my achilles. My achilles feels okay today, but my legs and rearend are actually sore from my walk yesterday. After all, it was over 8 miles.
Laura, I know what you mean about the ebb and flow of all of this. I never expected to slide back as much as I did in the USA, but I was in an extreme environment. My husband has even told me that my MIL is not too keen on coming back to visit with us where my family lives because it's all just too much...all the food and drink and money-spending. She loves my family and the visits, but can't keep up with it all. Hearing that at least validates to me that it's not just the extreme juxtaposition of my own psyche coming from an increasingly impoverished country to the USA---it's even extreme for other Americans too!! (I love my family and I know we miss each other very much, but it isn't necessary to turn every moment I'm there into a full-buffet, open-bar, no-spending-limit party!!!) Anyway, I feel the shift in me that my heart is back into what I want and need to be doing (esp missing running
) and it's very hard to have that old outlook in this new body. My clothes don't fit right and the reflection in store windows as I pass is big and cumbersome. I find myself wanting to drop this weight superfast so that the outside of me will more closely match the inside. It doesn't help that since my husband joined the gym, he's lost weight (and didn't really have too much to lose), therefore he keeps pointing it out to me and then telling me what I need to do...as if the last few years never happened, like I have no idea what I'm doing! It's so frustrating that in the exact same time period that he's gotten INTO fitness (finally!), I managed to backslide so much. In a few short months, it's like he's the fitness one telling me I should fast, I should jog (grrr, I don't think he actually believes that I have achilles problems), etc. and that I'm the one who's just not willing to do what it takes. Makes me want to scream! 0 -
Sherri it seems royally unfair how much easier it is for guys to lose their extra weight. My hubby same way, if he gains it he easily cuts back and it drops off, he doesnt even go to gym or jog. Says he has worn same size since high school!!
He will go back and forth on encouraging me to eat big pasta dinners and pancakes with him to giving me advice on how to cut back like he does....if only it were that simple! I am 5'3" and he is 6' so he has lots more room to put stuff!
I told you guys I felt off yesterday, well I never went back to packing as it got worse until i was up most of the night sick. I slept about 4 hrs and feel fine now, sort of afraid to eat for fear my stomach can't handle it. On days like this eating simply is easy.
So my day is busy with packing and laundry we figured we better do it today as won't have W/D for a week or more.
Also Sherri can you talk to family about your visits? Tell them how much you love seeing them but hate having to come home and loose 15-20 lbs? Or are they very overweight themselves and having company just gives them good excuse to overindulge? If thats the case you need to plan ahead for every visit adding in things to do in area that include lots of walking or at least swimming to work some of it off.
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