Since my blog tends to be pretty quiet on the weekends, I'm going to recycle my very first blog post from last April...enjoy!
So here I am....47.
Wow.
Why is it that I feel 37 mentally and 57 physically? Gee, maybe because I'm overweight, out of shape, still smoking on occasion, and refusing to set foot anywhere near a gym? Let's face it, if I'm going to be sweating and breathing hard, there better be nudity involved. I'm just sayin.
So I decided to start blogging. Jump on the wagon, so to speak. (Hey, that would qualify as exercise, right?) I was told today that I should start recording everything I eat..."if you bite it, write it". That way you are more cognizant of your food behaviors.
Food behaviors? I eat anything that doesn't move. How's that for a food behavior?
OK so back to the purpose of this blog. I just turned 47 a few weeks ago. Clearly, I'm not getting any younger. So if I plan on taking one last run at being "all that" (ok so I've never actually been "all that", but I'd like to, at least once before I die, hear someone say "You're too skinny!" without any sort of medical intervention being involved!)...anyway, I need to get that last run started.
The thing is, I *know* better. My best friend is a naturopathic doctor, for heaven's sake! She has tried for years to get me on the right track (not to mention, to save my life) and I've fought her every step of the way. Whining at the top of my lungs..."It's too "hard" to eat healthy and organic and natural. I don't "like" to exercise. Yes, I "know" I have no business eating meat or any other animal products with my history of colitis, and family history of colon cancer." I can lecture other people until the cows come home about the bad effects of dairy on your body! (pun intended) So it's not like I'm stupid, or clueless, and have gotten to this point in life by accident. My body is what it is because of my own negligence. Period. I got nobody to blame but me.
So I figured accountability is a good place to start. I don't know if anyone will ever read this, so I'm not sure who I'm being accountable to or what I'm really even accounting for. Am I going to post what I eat every day? Maybe. That should be good for a laugh. Am I going to post how lazy I am and how much time I log being hortizontal rather than vertical? Possibly.
I'm just starting slowly at the exercise thing. If I type enough, I should have really skinny fingers, right?
7 comments:
Oh this was great and you should get this published. I nodded all the way through but its Day 4 of the New Year and I haven't had any sugar yet so hoepfully I can be better than I was last year and actually manage to get healthier. Oh and I have been blogging for nearly a year and my fingers are slimmer but my backside is bigger from all that sitting. It's all or nothing with me....
You're 37 mentally? Man, you are way older than I am! I'm like 17 mentally. No, make that 21. That way I can legally drink.
OK, I'm up for skinny fingers. Maybe that's my goal for the year...by the time I'm 48...in July..
Skinny fingers....yep, that's it!!!
Loved the post :)
Jules! I lost you as a follower :( I thought you was my sistah from another muthah!
i'm trying to make small changes on my end...truth to be told i did not gain all my weight in one pop so i won't lose it in that manner.
i read somewhere that weight gain stems from a series of bad choices and weight loss well stem from a series of good choices. so that is what i am working on more good choices than bad..
and i hear you on being breathless and nude...that was a good one!
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