So this month I have decided it's time to lose the extra pounds that I'm carrying around. I'm tired of the way that I look and how my clothes fit on me. I'm not really following any program, but combining Weight Watchers and calorie counting. I'm only consuming 1,500 calories a day and exercising at least 20 minuets a day.
The reason I say the scale is evil is because every time I have ever tried to lose weight the scale always goes up on me. My clothes always fit the same but the scale goes up. Yes I know that muscle weighs more than fat and that I'm probably building muscle. But that is really a downer when you are trying to lose weight to see that. The last time I did this was before I got pregnant with my son. I was going to the gym 5 to 6 days a week and trying very hard to eat right and the scale just kept on going up up up. Very depressing. Then I got pregnant and did not really worry about losing weight, after I had my son 8 months later I was pregnant with my daughter.
Well my daughter just turned two yesterday. I nursed her for 16 months, so during that time I did not really worry about losing weight. I was only trying to eat enough to make enough milk for her. But now that is all done and over with it's time to shed these extra pounds.
I also have to be careful on how I work out. I have bad hips and bad knees. I'm going to the Doctor on Friday to get them looked at and see what I can do about all the pain. Once I can get that under control I can start running again and hopefully really start dropping the pounds off.
I used to love to run, I played sports a lot in school, softball mostly, and I miss running. I was always pretty much the fastest one on my teams, raced people and pretty much won all the time.
So I have, right now, one pair of jeans that I can get into but can't move when I put them on. So those are my goal jeans, my goal to get them on and be able to move in them.
So wish me luck on my new journey to fit back into an old pair of jeans.
