Another diet blog? Really?

Yes really. Why? Well why not? I am soon to be 45, have been overweight most of my life and I'm ready to do something about it. I quit smoking a year ago this month and decided I needed to make another huge life change this month. Lose weight.

That brings us to 2150 calories per day.

When I calculated what I needed to eat to lose the weight I want (a really huge goal of 100lbs) I figured how hard can this be?

I knew the exercising would be hard, I knew it was a huge commitment but who thought eating 5 meals per day every 2 1/2 - 3 1/2 hrs and totaling 2150 calories could be so hard?

I thought the eating would be the easy part.

Boy was I wrong.

So join me as I attempt my huge undertaking. Some days I'll succeed, some days I know I will fail then have to pick myself up and start again. But with this blog I hope to bring a smile to some faces with my odd sense of humor and I'm sure there will be a tear here and there as well.

If the exercise doesn't kill me (bodyweight training) the 2150 calories certainly will.

Thursday, February 10, 2011

Sometimes it's not about the scale

You all know what I mean. The scale can lie! Mean and nasty invention that it is. It can say what it wants but it is all about the clothes sometimes.

Point in fact. My brother bought me an oilskin coat for Christmas some years ago. It didn't fit me when I got it but I was gracious and loved it (because I did) and I just couldn't give it up. Now the right thing to do would have been to exchange it but sometimes a girl doesn't want to tell her brother that the coat doesn't fit.

Ok so it's been in my closet forever. Ok forever is an exaggeration, a couple years is probably more like it.

Anyway let’s get back on track. I had to go to the store today and the coat I would normally wear (it’s big and comfy and not a girl coat at all but it’s big and comfy and I like it so back off) is in the car covered, I’m sure, in dog hair. Bummer. Now what am I going to wear, it’s cold outside.

Think, think, think, OW! Ok too much thinking.

I go to the closet, more non-girl coats (can you see a trend here?) but I spy the oilskin coat. Hmmmm I know it doesn’t fit but maybe I can wear it unzipped and at least have my arms be warm. I take it off the hanger, I unzip it and put it on and realize I can zip it. Woo Hoo! It fits! And not just a snug fit it is a comfy fit. Double Woo Hoo!

So see? The scale lies. Life should not be based solely on what that dumb old scale says. Life should be tried once in awhile. Like trying on an old coat. It might fit and if it doesn’t maybe you will find a forgotten $20 bill in the pocket from when it did fit.

There’s an upside to everything.
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