A Lesson Learned

After breakfast and my exercises today, I sat down at my computer and decided to reflect on what I have or have not been doing to aid or sabotage my weight loss.

Over the last week, I have found many things that have helped and hindered my goal. The chief among the ones hindering me are getting lazy, and not drinking enough water. When I don’t drink enough water my body hoards it and I pack on the weight that way. When I get lazy and don’t do my exercises, I don’t do enough work to burn off the calories I am getting so bingo more weight.

The last one stunned me, nearly every night I find that I am between 600 and 800 calories short of my daily goal. This might sound funny in a way, it is, but it takes half a bag of my favorite home popped popcorn to fill in the gap. I know there have to be healthier ways of having those calories so if the family heads for Walmart today; I am going to tag along. I go to find some sensible deserts, and for the exercise that I get walking around the store.

The other thing that I have to get used to is the burn in the muscles as I do exercises that I have not done for years. I also have to force myself to do my exercises. It seems like I can find a million reasons for not exercising. All of the reasons add up to one reason, and that is ‘I don’t feel like doing it today’. I find many, many ways of saying the same thing and that is ‘I want to be lazy and not do them’.

From what I have said the answers seem simple, do my exercises and my walks, eat sufficient calories to knock out the deficit and drink ½ gallon or more of water per day. Now I just have to convince myself it this is the way. What I need to do is to make it routine. Make it something that I don’t need to think about doing.

Some of these have been hard learned lessons, but they are ones that I can do and will do.

JO