So it's another month and that means it's time to reaffirm my commitment to myself. I must say I really don't understand what my problem has been with digging into this weight loss thing whole hog. While it is true that I don't have the kind of support group I had around me during my last big loss (there were a lot of us at work and we walked every day and kept each other on track) I still have plenty of support options out there! Tomorrow night is weigh-in and I'm mixed about it. On one hand I've had some really great days the last week, and I've made some good changes, but I've also had some serious roadblocks that I allowed to get in my way. I really hope to see a loss tomorrow night but if I don't I only have myself to blame.
So about this reaffirmation. What does this mean to me? Over the last couple of years I've allowed myself to kind of disappear. I've allowed my whole life to be run by family needs, work needs, charity needs and church needs. I've let the fact that I have been so busy substitute as being useful and productive and really all I've been doing is spinning my wheels. I've ignored my own true needs and allowed them to be covered up with my perceived "needs" of chocolate, large plates of pasta, and deciding that "time to myself" simply meant curling up in bed with a book for a few hours or getting a pedicure and going out to lunch. What I have decided is that I need to commit this time to my health and well-being. My work, family, church and the charity I volunteer with still need me but I can be far more useful and helpful to them if I have my own life under control. The main way I can do this, at least for now, is to lose this weight and get healthy. So I need to set some goals for April. Not so big that I'll get discouraged by them, but not too small either.
So about this reaffirmation. What does this mean to me? Over the last couple of years I've allowed myself to kind of disappear. I've allowed my whole life to be run by family needs, work needs, charity needs and church needs. I've let the fact that I have been so busy substitute as being useful and productive and really all I've been doing is spinning my wheels. I've ignored my own true needs and allowed them to be covered up with my perceived "needs" of chocolate, large plates of pasta, and deciding that "time to myself" simply meant curling up in bed with a book for a few hours or getting a pedicure and going out to lunch. What I have decided is that I need to commit this time to my health and well-being. My work, family, church and the charity I volunteer with still need me but I can be far more useful and helpful to them if I have my own life under control. The main way I can do this, at least for now, is to lose this weight and get healthy. So I need to set some goals for April. Not so big that I'll get discouraged by them, but not too small either.
- Drink a minimum of 80oz of water a day. I would like to get this up to 120oz a day but let's start with 80!
- Wake up every day and before even getting out of bed, review my goals in my head. Give myself a pep talk and think about all the positive reasons I am doing this. Review everything good I did the day before and develop strategies to offset anything negative from the day before and prevent them from happening again.
- Have at least 3 good, productive workouts every week.
- Walk at lunchtime a minimum of twice a week. I don't have to get sweaty and nasty since I do have to go back to work and we don't have a place to take a shower, but I need to keep moving throughout the day.
- Stay within my daily PointsPlus goal and use no extra weekly points for at least 1 week. The other weeks of the month I can get into my weekly points if I need to, but I may not ever exceed them.
I think those are great goals. I'd like to see a follow up post from you a few times a week on how you are doing on them. Just because I'm not there to walk with you at work anymore doesn't mean I can't still hold you accountable :) And don't think you can avoid me by not posting the blog.......I know where you live.
ReplyDeleteGreat goals, Wendie! Mentally, it seems like you're in the right place to lose weight with realizing you need to put yourself first to get healthy. It does feel almost a little selfish at times when we, as women, are so used to focusing on everyone else's needs before our own. You'll get over that feeling though and you do deserve the time to get healthy. It benefits you and everyone around you. Have a great week!
ReplyDeleteAwesome goals! I, especially, like #3! Great idea! I think, I'm going to try that, too!
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