Keeping Up With The Cobwebs

So I’m finally reconnected to the web.  I have a computer that actually works! This is amazing.  While computerless for the past I don’t know, almost year?? I’ve lost my concentration on the whole weight loss thing.  I’ve been slowly getting back into it and I think blogging really helped me and the more I forgot or neglected to blog the less I worked out the less weight I worked on losing…

So I’m going to start fresh this summer.  Weighing in at a total of 262 lbs I’m looking to lose another 80, but small goals first.  I’d like to be at a weight of 255lbs in three weeks.  Seems impossible at the moment, I’m so not motivated, but I know that I can actually do it.  I’ve started swimming with a friend every other day and I think I’ll swim a lot more than just float if I get some goggles so I can see where I’m going when I am doing laps.  I’ve made a plan to exercise for thirty minutes a day but so far in the past two days since making said goal having not lived up to it whatsoever.  And it’s one in the morning right now so there is no way I’m going for a walk in this neighbourhood at this hour by myself.  It’ll have to wait until morning.  That’s okay.

So why does blogging work for me and losing weight?  Well for one thing, if I do it on a regular basis it keeps me focused on what my goals are.  It keeps it in the front of my brain instead of back with the cobwebs.  You don’t have to write a blog to keep focused.  If sharing with others isn’t your thing try sharing with yourself through the old fashioned personal journal.  They’re a great, inexpensive way to keep you motivated.  Write an entry before you work out, then write one after you’re done for seven days; after the seven days read over what you wrote to see if your “mood” changed as you went further with your exercises and after exercising.

I find writing up motivational posters around my apartment help too.  I get out the old grade school Bristol board and sharpie markers, and I create colourful images and words to keep me going.  I have my most recent one at the foot of the bed so I see it every morning.  I have things on it like current weight/weight loss metre, I have things like “Fit Not Thin!” strewn across it and four steps to a healthy me.

Keeping your exercise equipment in view is a great way to keep yourself motivated.  Started to head to the corner store for a quick snack?  But as you were tying up your running shoes you saw your jump rope sitting there all lonely looking for a little love, so you skipped the unhealthy snack and went to jump some rope for a half hour.  Bam! You’re sugar craving is gone, you’ve exercised and you feel better about yourself in one fell swoop.

It’s sounding so easy now, but it’s not, it is hard and that’s okay.  Nothing worth doing ever came easy, right?  And it’s your health, your life, so trust me when I say, it’s worth doing. ;)