As I sit here this afternoon, I am just trying to think of anything that will get me back on track and trying to lose weight again. I hate being fat and I hate feeling like I don't look good.
I know what I have to do to lose the weight. I have done it before. Last year I lost 43 pounds using weight watchers points plus program.I am not quite sure what got me off of the program. It was working and I was losing the weight. I had even started jogging with a friend of mine that had lost about 25 pounds herself just cutting back and exercising. She is the one who got me started jogging. It was really kind of funny how it all started. I was going to the park and exercising with her, but I wasn't jogging. We would walk, I would leave and she would jog. Then my husband wrecked my car and I had to catch a ride with her. I am just a bit too competitive to sit on a bench and watch her jog, so I gave it a shot. The next week at my weight watcher meeting I had lost 5 pounds in two weeks.That was enough to keep me going for about 2 more months.  But whatever got  me off track got her off track as well because she stopped jogging too. It was extremely difficult to get our schedules synched up for a while and I think we both stopped instead of doing it by ourselves.
I am starting this blog in hopes of finding something that will motivate me to get back on track and maybe motivate someone that is reading it to get back on track as well. I have gained most of the weight I lost back. It seems much easier to gain it than to lose it, so I want to make sure that the changes I make are for a lifetime. I am tired of the yo-yo diet train and of doing something I can't sustain. I am a busy person and I want something that I can do for the rest of my life that will leave me healthy and happy. I am tired of not feeling good about myself and not having the energy to enjoy my life. I want to be an active person that has fun. My kids are grown and I am a school teacher. I don't have a lot of money, but I do have the time to go and do things that I enjoy. I just have to figure out what that is and feel good enough to do it. Right now, I am so over weight that I have the energy to get through about 1/2 of the day. The rest of the time, I am just laying around feeling bad!
Tomorrow morning I will weigh and measure. I will post my weight and my measurements on this page. I will post each day and state whether or not I had a good day and stayed on the points program or whether I got off and what the occasion was. I welcome anyone that is reading this to post positive comments on here with me. I am hoping that by posting I can learn about myself, my moods and the things that contribute to me losing or gaining weight.