I have been struggling with my weight/weight loss for years now. Sometimes I lose and gain the same pound over and over. If you read my blog consistently, you know that I do have some success. When you are trying to lose weight and get in shape you are bombarded with ads promising quick fixes. The ads usually show happy, thin people and they tell how much weight each person has lost. It makes weight loss look easy. For example, there's Sensa. I haven't tried it, but according to their ad all you do is shake it on your food and eat regularly. You'll lose weight, supposedly, because Sensa makes you feel full or something similar.
The truth is there is no magic bullet. Weight loss is hard. Exercising can be enjoyable, but weight loss is hard and it takes time. I didn't get to this weight overnight and I won't get rid of the weight overnight or the next night. One of my main problems is I like to eat. I predicted as a child that if I ever had to go on a diet, it would be really hard for me. Self-fulfilling prophesies usually come true. Bringing me to where I am today.
Recently, I lost a lot of weight in one week. I lost 10 lbs in one week. I know that is a lot, but I just wasn't hungry. One of my bad habits, related to food was to eat, because it's there. It is important in weight loss/control that you recognize what being hungry feels like, so that you eat when you're hungry, and not when you aren't. Weight Watcher's Online said that I was losing weight too quickly. Excuse me Weight Watcher's but 1-2 lbs/week is the average weight loss that is recommended! However, I am above average and I think that 10 lbs was my water weight that you lose initially or whatever. In any case, it did scare me a little. I made sure that I ate breakfast, even if I didn't finish it. I ate some lunch and a snack in the afternoon. I tried to eat healthy and exercise.
So this week, so far it looks like I lost another 2lbs. Which is average. Remember that I'm above average, so we'll see what happens when I weigh myself on Sunday morning.
Meanwhile, I have been trying to do exercise that I enjoy. If I don't enjoy it. I know that I won't do it. My exercise of choice is swimming. I've been taking water aerobics twice/week all summer. It has been cancelled twice. Once due to poop in the pool and the second time due to the weather. So, I need some land exercises that are low impact. I do plan to take a strength training class in the fall, so if I don't go swimming, then at least I'll have that.
Also, if you are on facebook, you may have noticed my "new" profile pic. This photo was taken in maybe 1994. It is my inspiration and motivation for my weight loss. For a long time, it was just that I needed to lose weight, because I weighed too much. Now, it's I need to lose weight, because, hot damn, I look great in that photograph. For about 4-5 years, I have not wanted to get my photo taken at school, because I thought I didn't look good in photos. I got a photo for my ID, but now that is over a year old. I don't think I'm ugly, and inside is a thinner, healthier person struggling to get out. I know that I will never be thin and frankly, I think that is unnatural. I think my smallest size in ladies sizes may have been a 7/8 and that was in high school. After two kids, horrible eating habits, lack of exercise and stress eating I got to my heaviest weight which I'm almost embarrassed to say, but it was 250. The last time I weighed myself, I was down to about 238.
If there was a Magic Bullet for weight loss, I think it would be handed out like lollipops at the bank. We would be a much healthier society than we are now, but just like a lot of other things, everyone would have to be on board. That means that restaurants would have to make their portion sizes smaller. Commercials and print advertisements would have to feature more people that were not stick thin. It would really help those teenaged girls who develop eating disorders due to the models. A plus sized model would not be a 12. Don't get me started on that predicament.
Weight loss is a journey. There are many stops along the way. Sometimes you fall off the wagon and sometimes you fall under the wagon. If you are like me, you eventually, pick yourself up and start again.
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