If you follow my blog (I hope someone says yes!) then you will know that I was attempting to follow Weight Watchers. I say attempting because I was only really doing it full heartedly for a few weeks. I would do well for a few weeks and then fall off. Then I would get back into it but then stop mid-week or something. There was always a reason why I was not counting points that day or following it exactly. Or I would start counting the points and then I would get a bit psycho about it. Only to myself, mind you, but I hated feeling that way, so then I would stop. i would weigh myself every day, multiple times a day and I would allow the results to dictate how I felt about myself. I decided not to renew my membership, even after I saw both my SILs who are following WW and doing an AWESOME job! (Go Kelly & Gina!) I have realized that after trying WW 3 or 4 times that it really might not be the plan for me.
You will also know that I had fallen off the exercise wagon. I was doing some Wii stuff but nothing regular and I was not utilizing my gym membership. Last week I started back to the gym and I have been going regularly. And it feels amazing. I mean, I am a bit sore but I am so happy to be back. I was thinking that I was going to be embarrassed that the guys who work there would know that I was MIA for so long. I am not. I am not worrying about what other people think of me. I might have to remind myself of that every once in a while but I am not letting it get to me. I am concentrating on cardio and my ab exercises (which I learned in PT to help my back) and stretching. I am hoping to do yoga again soon, but for now I am just incorporating poses into my post-workout stretching. I need to build up the strength in my wrists before I start really doing anything with weights again, so plank, table, and downward facing dog and cat/dog are perfect for that.
Here is the big thing: I am not getting on the scale. I slipped last week at one point and I could really tell how it mentally brought me down for a few hours. Besides that one slip, I have not weighed myself in about a month. I feel crazy good about myself right now. I know that I did not lose all the extra pounds in one week at the gym, but I just feel better about myself. I am a little bit firmer perhaps and my legs always get definition quickly. The main thing is how my state of mind has been able to remain positive. Even this morning I was feeling so good about myself and like maybe I even lost a few pounds so I thought, "Maybe I will just step on the scale and see." I resisted because if I stepped on the scale and I had not lost any pounds I risked losing my positive outlook. Maybe someday I will be able to step on a scale without it affecting how I feel about myself that hour/day/week. But until then, I have sworn off the scale!
Now I just have to remember all this when the going gets tough and work starts back up September 1st.
Now I just have to remember all this when the going gets tough and work starts back up September 1st.
