bring it on! aka, losing some weight
So, if you were paying attention to my last blog post, you noticed that I mentioned doing the P90X workout. Actually, if you’ve followed my blog for more than the last month, you’ll know that my attempt to lose weight has met with limited and temporary success thus far. My goal has been to reduce to 175 pounds, about 25 – 30 pounds less than where I am now. Last year I made it to 180 before getting sick and put it all back on over the next several months trying to get my system to balance back out. Given the way things have been going lately, I’ve decided it’s time for a different approach.
I’m a firm believer in diet and exercise for losing and maintaining weight and health. My diet hasn’t been particularly good of late, and my exercising has all but stopped as well, quite a bad combination. After seeing the infomercial and doing some research on the internet, I decided to try the P90X system. It arrived late last week, but due to current commitments, I haven’t been able to start it yet. This Sunday I’m starting. It’s time to get my body back healthy – that means adequate exercise, a proper diet, and losing some of this weight. Except I’m not going to focus on weight this time. I’ve come to realize that I’m not necessarily looking for weight loss, I’m looking for fat loss. Weight loss will be a side effect of that, but it may not take me down to 175. But I’m ok with that. I know what I want to look like, and that’s really what I’m after. If I don’t reach 175 but manage to look how I want, I’m ok with not weighing 175.
I know what I said the other day about unleashing some things, well, this is one of them. No, I’m not going to magically change overnight to the way I want to look, but eventually, I will. And that’s what matters.
I do want to add a caveat to what I’ve said. I think it’s very important to like yourself, regardless of your weight, looks, what have you. I do like myself. I think I’ll like myself even more as I get closer to looking the way I want to look.
One other thing – over the years I’ve learned there is no magic pill that will make you more or less of something. That takes time and hard work. I know a lot of people who are very good at what they do that labor in relative obscurity, and will never be famous for what they do. They do it for the love of doing it, and that’s why I’m doing this. Not necessarily because I love working out, but because being healthy will allow me to appreciate everything else in my life that much more.
Okay, I’m off the soapbox now. Later.