Guess this had to take its time
I've had a lot of conflicting feelings about losing weight before. I've *thought* about the benefits of weighing less. I've seen how I'm starting to get some of the warning signs of If I Don't Do Something About It. I also know how much I hate to exercise, how I stubbornly *feel* that eating healthy should be enough, and how I have some safety issues about being larger leftover from abuse.
I had to come to this place in my own time, but I'm here now. I've considered what feels like a reasonable goal, something I really could use and am now in a place of actually *wanting* it, which is 90% of the battle.
So one way or another, by hook or by crook, I want to be at least 40 lbs lighter this time next year. I originally thought 4 dress sizes from 22W to misses 16, which is probably my long-term goal. Then I said 50 lbs. But 40 feels pretty solid, pretty doable. Since I've lost about 10 lbs since going on HRT (which is backwards than most women, but the first wave of peri-menopause symptoms came with a very sudden 25 lb weight gain, so I'm not surprised) and eating more protein and less cheese, 40 lbs would put me right about 200. And 200 would be a good time to reassess where I am and where I want to go from there. Being under 200 is a have-to for being reasonably heathy...how much under it is debatable.
And I want to be able to start section-walking the Appalachian Trail soon, hopefully in 2011. That'll be a lot easier with less weight, besides being a good chunk of exercise itself.
If this means I lose some weight and liposuction the rest, or get to June, realize it's not going like I want and I get a lap band, that would be the crook part. :) Whatever I need to reasonably do to hit that goal, I will at least consider it. I will start with walking to work whenever schedule and time permits, using the little gym at work whenever I need a 5-minute break to clear my head, and using my free 3 months at 24 Hour Fitness since there's one in walking distance to work (and therefore to home). I'll see where things stand in February and go from there.
Yeah. Let's just get this done. I can go back to just healthy eating once I'm at a lower weight if I want to.
I had to come to this place in my own time, but I'm here now. I've considered what feels like a reasonable goal, something I really could use and am now in a place of actually *wanting* it, which is 90% of the battle.
So one way or another, by hook or by crook, I want to be at least 40 lbs lighter this time next year. I originally thought 4 dress sizes from 22W to misses 16, which is probably my long-term goal. Then I said 50 lbs. But 40 feels pretty solid, pretty doable. Since I've lost about 10 lbs since going on HRT (which is backwards than most women, but the first wave of peri-menopause symptoms came with a very sudden 25 lb weight gain, so I'm not surprised) and eating more protein and less cheese, 40 lbs would put me right about 200. And 200 would be a good time to reassess where I am and where I want to go from there. Being under 200 is a have-to for being reasonably heathy...how much under it is debatable.
And I want to be able to start section-walking the Appalachian Trail soon, hopefully in 2011. That'll be a lot easier with less weight, besides being a good chunk of exercise itself.
If this means I lose some weight and liposuction the rest, or get to June, realize it's not going like I want and I get a lap band, that would be the crook part. :) Whatever I need to reasonably do to hit that goal, I will at least consider it. I will start with walking to work whenever schedule and time permits, using the little gym at work whenever I need a 5-minute break to clear my head, and using my free 3 months at 24 Hour Fitness since there's one in walking distance to work (and therefore to home). I'll see where things stand in February and go from there.
Yeah. Let's just get this done. I can go back to just healthy eating once I'm at a lower weight if I want to.