My Friday date with the scale. I was very unenthusiastic about our get together today. I didn’t do the work needed to have a happy encounter. Oh, it’s not that I was out partying with Doritos or Alfredo sauce. It was little things. I skipped my workout too many times. An extra handful of walnuts (those delicious, nutritious, fattening bastards). Too many iced lattes in the afternoon to help me survive having an infant who wakes up to eat several times a night.
There was also that Chipotle burrito bowl last night.
Anyway, back to my first official weigh-in of this blog.
223
This is me!
So, I’m 5’10”, doing the math, carry the 7, that puts my BMI at 31.94. That is obese. And that is just awful. Obese sucks. When your obese, you can’t lie to yourself. You’re not just a little overweight. You can’t pretend that no one notices your extra weight. You can’t tell yourself that your weight doesn’t matter. You are one of the statistics. You are fat.
I don’t want to be that statistic anymore. I don’t want to contribute to soaring healthcare cost. I don’t want to be one of the people they are talking about on the Nightly News. My first goal is to get to 209 pounds. At that weight my BMI is just under 30 and that is overweight instead of obese. There are more goals after that but I don’t want to look too far down the line. It is daunting.
I had a baby on February 13 of this year. Prior to that pregnancy, I had just lost the weight from my first baby and was at 208. Unfortunately, I do not know how to gain weight moderately and ended up 20 pounds again. So I was back where I started. Since then I have lost 6ish pounds (after my weight stabilized) and completed the Couch to 5K running program (for the 3rd time). The weight is coming off slowly.Very, very slowly. Part of that reason is that I’m breastfeeding and that makes my body want to hold onto fat and makes me outrageously hungry. The rest of the reason is my lack of enthusiasm obsession. Obsession is good for weight loss. I’m hoping this blog will help with that as well as give me a place to talk about weight loss, fitness, running and me, me, me!
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Hello there and thanks for stopping by. I am just getting this blog up and running so check back on Friday, June 22, 2012 for the first real post.
Your body is the baggage you must carry through life. The more excess the baggage, the shorter the trip.
Arnold H. Glasgow
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