Week Number One

Over the Christmas holidays I must have eaten everything coming and going.  I felt the elastic in my pants getting tighter and tighter.  It isn't unusual to gain the holiday weight but this time I just felt like it was getting out of hand. I think the breaking point was when I had purchased 4 size 14 jeggings for my daughter and when she tried them on they didn't fit.  It was a depressing moment for her and even more depressing when we went back to the store and they didn't carry her size in that same style.  When we walked into the plus section to shop for her. I had this raging guilt trip.  I had done this to her.  I had turned her into a blob.

I am 42 years young. I had a hysterectomy in 2004 and with it went any and all desire to exercise, work out, play co-ed ball and many other things that I enjoyed doing.  I have a precursor to cancer so I didn't want any hormones.  My baby was a baby so she has no recollection of the woman I once was so this is the woman she got. When I thought about the fact that I played the role in her becoming this lazy heavy set teenager I decided enough was enough.  We both needed to work on self. 

Week one.  You find that when you want to eat healthy you need to add at the very least $100 more to your grocery shopping fund.  Anything healthy is more expensive.  I'm not sure the propaganda behind it, I am sure this could be a whole other blog if I wanted to delve into that alone. I found that Aldi has a good brand of product called Fit&Active.  It's the cheapest and tastiest I have seen yet.  We bought bottled waters, no sweets or chips & no freezer treats.

Every night at 7, we ventured out to Work Out Anytime (WOA) and started out this great adventure.  We found treadmills together and she and I walked a mile.  She ran some walked some, I kept it at 3.0 for 20 minutes on rolling hills.  I found myself needing to be distracted so I have brought ear buds.  With no distraction you only have you and that awful countdown and all you want to do is make an excuse to get off.  With the distraction, I can focus on Steve Harvey's silly behind on the Family Feud and it makes the time go by faster. 

I tried Zumba but I am not ready for all that direction and cardio yet.  My friend Dee, did it correctly and I just did my own thing  happy to be upright but I pray that no one ever gets the opportunity to watch that horrible display of no grace what so ever. I just keep telling myself it will get better, it will get better.