Another week has flown by. Where does time go? It's been eventful yet stagnant, if that makes sense. I am feeling mired down in my weight loss journey, feeling as if my life is defined only by this weight loss journey. Maybe it's time to look more deeply at those feelings!
Busy Week
Where has the last week gone. I added a new post last week and then I blinked and here we are a week later! I honestly think that that older I get, the faster time flies! I feel as if I have no time for anything and that I'm always on the go! But that is the way it goes, I guess!
So, my week, what to say? It was crazy busy as always. I didn't have a car for a few days as Jason's car was in the shop. The main thing not having a car messed up was my visit (s) to see my mom. We got the car back on Thursday evening so I was able to recommence with my visits to her so all is well.
I used my time after work wisely. I have been trying to split that time down between spending time with Zoe and with yard work. I feel somewhat successful for the last week as I was able to get a few hours of mowing done in the evenings before Jason came home.
On Friday I had a day off work. I got the car back just in time for a busy crazy day. I started at my normal time at 5AM. The early morning proceeded as normal but at 7:30 I headed out to see my friend. She had lots of plants to divide, and I was the lucky recipient! It was so good to see her. She is a friend that I made whilst doing Zumba and it has been ages since we have seen each other! I was with her all morning and got home just in time to take Zoe out for a potty break and a bit of a playtime outside and feed her lunch. I was back out the door by 12;15. I had a few stops in the afternoon and my brother and I spent some time getting an old riding lawn mower to a repair shop. (Maybe, must maybe we will have a riding mower to help us for a season or two......which would cut down on that 8 hours of weekly mowing!). I came home and spent the rest of the afternoon and evening planting!
Saturday, started the errands and groceries and a visit to see momand it was a rainy day so no yard work. Sunday was the clear day so we were outside working. And before I knew it, I was back to Monday and heading to work. It will be another busy week as I have mowing to finish today after work. I have a few more plants to get into the ground. And weeds. I have so many weeds to pull! And watering...new stuff and potted stuff needs watered. Summer is here and with summer comes the outside work! I am also committed to training Zoe. She is a nut case! She gets so super excited that it is ridiculous. I have been working on her training here and there. But I have made a commitment to really focus on a few different trouble spots and really work! (Wish me luck!) Plus of course a few nights of visiting mom. So, another busy week!
Weight Loss
Really? I have been eating pretty healthy. My calorie count has been spot on, I have been eating lots of fruits and veggies. I've been drinking water. Exercise? I am exercising religiously every morning at 5:30AM! And yet my weight is refusing to budge! What is up? I'm incredibly frustrated. I'm exceedingly angered. I'm disappointed with myself.
Could I tighten the reigns a bit more? Yeah, I'm sure I could. But what I'm already doing should be causing me to have weight loss. Yet it's not!
I am still dealing with a poison rash. I swear, I get new patches of poison almost daily! It's like a never-ending nightmare! LUCKILY, the whole body experience is mostly behind me. The bulk of the patches of poison that covered most of my body are just scaly and dry, which indicates to me that they are on the way out! The new patches are usually small and relatively contained. (The other day it was between two fingers.....today the new spot is on my neck). Could my body fighting off this poison be affecting my weight? That is my only theory...so I'm going with it!
Weight Loss is All I Know
I have been writing about weight loss for a lot of years. Seriously, I started this website/blog way back in the early days of 2006. I have written over 2500 posts. (This is post 2546). I have talked about weight loss a lot. I have been utterly transparent about my journey and my struggles. Years ago, I started to write a book about my weight loss and what I learned. (I have pulled it out and I have been working on it...it's mostly in the edit stage with just a bit more writing to complete). I had started to compile a collection of my diet-ventures. It is a collection of stories about the crazy things that have happened to me in regard to this weight loss journey. Weight loss has become my life. It's who I am.
But shouldn't there be more to me? Who am I without weight loss? When I think about writing, it usually tends to go toward weight loss. Years back I started a youtube channel. It was ironically started as a mountain bike channel....yet my videos tended to sound more like weight loss videos. Rather quickly the channel became a weight loss channel. Why? Because that is what I feel most comfortable with. Over the last 17 years, weight loss has become my life.
But shouldn't there be more to me? Do I want my identity to be "the girl whose life is weight loss"? How do I expand and become more because weight loss is all I seem to know after so long.
3 comments:
I don't think weight loss is all you know. You are a good wife to your hubby, a caring and compassionate daughter, a loving sister, a good employee and a great dog mom! Your efforts on weight loss are bar none to say the least! I've been reading your blog since your first marriage and you were "sort" of obsessed back then too. You have to remember that at your age you are battling the aging body. Menopause does horrible things to a women's body. Peri menopause is terrible too! Maybe it's time to put the efforts into training the puppy more. Or walking to just walk... not weight loss. Stop putting that first and do something FUN ! Just for Fun! Take the word out weight loss of your vocabulary for a week and see what happens! After all it's just a week! :)
Take care!
Yes, as Anon said, "walk!!" It will help with everything...weight, mood, dog, ...
(Oh, and it's "reins", not "reigns". 8-) Think horses, not crowns!
It might be what your calories are made of instead of how many. Calories in, calories out doesn't work as we get older. Insulin is a fat storing hormone so if you eat a fair amount of carbs, no matter how few calories, you are giving your body the message to store fat. Just my two cents. And yes, it's way harder to loss it at 50 than it was in my 30's!
If you ate on Facebook I recommend you peek at the page of author Geneen Roth. She has a gift of explaining our inner experiences in how we self-identify within the struggle of weightloss. I don't think it's a bad thing. It's a dream you've worked toward for a long time. Like anyone who has a passion or goal, they tend to get associated with that thing, basketball, dance, fishing, etc. For the record, I tend to associate mountain biking with you. It's something I wouldn't be brave enough to do and I'm impressed by your ability to do it!
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