I have been going with my mother to Curves at 4:45 in the morning and I decided that I wanted to join. So we went this evening and I am an official member of Curves.
I love using free weights and using the treadmill and elliptical, but if I don't ever get motivated enough to go to the damn gym, none of that even matters. With Curves, I meet my mother there first thing in the morning and we do our workout. I come back home and get ready for work and I have the rest of the day ahead of me. I love it!
So in the past week I have lost almost 4 pounds, which is a good thing. I know - the loss is going to slow down big time. I don't really care. I do not have a scale because I have an obsession with it and if it didn't tell me what I wanted to hear, I'd be depressed and eat more and gain weight and get a bad reading on the scale...
Can you see the madness?
So there, I get weighed and measured once a month, which is good enough for me.
So yeah... It's good. And I increased the WXL and it's starting to work for me now! I'm so glad.
I'm sorry I vanished off the face of the planet for a bit. There was a lot of stuff going on and I just wasn't in the space to worry about my weight on top of everything.
As a result, I have gained and gained and gained. But, I'm not fretting. If you can believe that! I'm changing my perspective as well as what I do, so it'll be fine. I'm in a better headspace, so it's not impossible to me right now.
So I took my first pill today and I didn't have the adverse reaction that I was expecting.
The wonderful thing - I wasn't hungry today. I think that part of it was the fact that I was so busy, but even so, I just wasn't hungry. So I did have a mcmuffin for breakfast, but I had half a bowl of stew for lunch and aome fruit salad for a snack. I think I'm just going to have a bowl of cereal for dinner.
I went to the doctor today instead of tomorrow and he would not prescribe phentermine to me. He said that it's basically speed and I can't take it because of my blood pressure. Instead, I have been prescribed Wellbutrin, so I'm excited to start taking it tomorrow. Hopefully it will help some of this Prozac weight off of my body!
So tomorrow is the first day of my new plan! I'm also going to try and eat between 1500 and 1800 calories a day. I have a plan that I want to basically follow and I have purchased some things from the store this evening.
Another factor that is going to contribute to my success -- I finally have a job. It's almost full time (32 hours), but I have somewhere to go every day now and I'm not just sitting at home thinking about eating. That is going to make a big difference!
I'm finally back from my family reunion and I am in so many pictures, there will be no chance of anyone forgetting what I looked like at this time.
My doctor's appointment is on Tuesday and I know that he's not going to be pleased that I have gained a lot of weight back (since last he saw me). I am hoping that he will help me get back on track and I'm hoping he will prescribe something that will give me an assist.
Wish me luck!! I'll be back to normal posting the end of this week. Right now, I'm decompressing from a 14 hour road trip!
I'm out of town at a family reunion this weekend and I am insistent to be in every piecure that is taken.
Why? Because I have said that no one is going to see me this fat again. Ever.
I have been yo-yoing and it's completely my fault, but I'm finally sick of it. Can you believe it? It's take me forever, but I am completely sick and tired of it. I am going to my doctor on Tuesday and I am going to ask him for some medication. I refuse to do anytrhiing surgically, but if he can give me a preseciption for Phentermine and it can help, I will more than happily take it.
So as I am down here eating these rich, high-calorie foods, I am bidding them adieux.
Next week is a new week and I am praying that my doctor will agree to give me a prescription for Phentermine.
Here's to hoping!!
Hope that everyone is doing well. I will be checking in on everyone's journals when I return next week!!
I've been eating so poorly as of late, but I finally hit my wall last night.
After watching television and seeing how good Niecy Nash looks after losing al lthat weight, I just decided that I have to get serious and stop playing about as I have been doing.
I'm going to go back on South Beach because it seems I need some rigidity for it to work for me. I also need to make note in here at least once a day and keep track of exercise and food intake.
So I have gained my five pounds back, but in hindsight, I am so lucky that I didn't gain more.
Consistency: Agreement with what has already been done or expressed; conformity with previous practice.
I went a bit off-track for a little while, but I'm okay with that. Sort of. I'm dealing with a bunch of issues and I'm really trying to work them out. In the meantime, I know that exercise will be my salvation.
I'm going to the gym today to walk on the treadmill for a bit. Sweating is good for me!
I have lost weight before, so I know that I can do it again.
