It Ain't The Fastest.....

Remember the beloved children's tale of the tortoise and the hare.  I'm no "children's story expert", but I vaguely remember the moral of the story being that the fastest doesn't always win, but it is the slow and steady that prove to be successful.  More often than not, in this lovely journey to reclaim my life, I find that I want to be the tortoise saying, "Here, hold my protein bar while I munch on cupcakes because this is agonozing!!!"  However, I am finding the "slow and steady" theology to be true in the Weight Loss Race as well.  Stupid children's stories!!

It has been exactly 2 month since I have started this blog.  I started losing weight that week, and shortly thereafter on May 6th, I started using the "MyFitnessPal" app on my IPhone.  I have an idea where I was when I started my journey, but for accuracy sake, I started using the weight I was on May 6th when I started the "MyFitnessPal".  Today, I celebrate my first official 10 pounds since I have been tracking. In fact, I have lost 10.6 pounds.  I am attaching a picture of me at Easter, which is when I started by blog, and my picture today (forgive the rough and ragged look - I just woke up!)

I can't really tell a big difference. 

April 2012

 

 

June 2012

Everyone says to not worry about pounds, but to worry about inches.  Truth is, I didn't measure before I started weighing.  I figured that once my clothes started feeling a little loose, I would think "Hey, this seems to be working!  Maybe I need to stick with this thing!"

I have reflected today over the things that have happened over the last 2 months and how it is impacted where I am.  When I lost weight around 5 years ago, I was constantly chasing my next work out, my next healthy meal, etc.  Now, my life is much busier.  I have a beautiful little girl who will be 4 in less than 2 weeks, we live further away from my job so I can't come home at lunch anymore, we have a a more active home life between church, dance lessons, school plays, baseball for Bubba, and busier days at work.  I don't get to go to the gym 4-5 days a week and work out 2 hours at a time.  I don't get that quiet time at home during my lunch hour to count exactly what I am eating.  More recently, I have had personal things happen in my life that I stop and contemplate "Does being skinny REALLY feel better than that thing I am craving?", to which my answer has been "yes" more than "no" more often than not.  Do I always make the best choices?  No.  But you know what?  I am not going to live my life so on the edge and think that one wrong choice, one moment of a chocolate chip cookie dough cupcake from Bake Cupcakes (I think I just got a shiver!  lol), will ruin me forever.  So what it has taken me a month to lose 10 pounds?  I haven't gained 10 pounds.  In actuality, that is great.  But, it has been a hard road so far, and I have much, much, much further to go.

My first goal has been reached - 10 pounds.  My next goal?  It is a little private, but I will tell you that I am so eager to reach it.  Hopefully, in the next month, I will be there.  My immediate long term goal?  Lose 20 lbs total before school starts in August.  Isn't that sad?  I detested school and starting school because of weight issues and the never-ending "I'm losing this weight before school starts" and what happens?  I end up working at a school!! Life can be mean sometimes!

So, for those of you that have read my blog, commented on my blog, or in passing thanked me for being honest and being open on here - I say thank you.  You have helped me be accountable because when life has gotten busy, and i haven't been able to be on here, you question me. You encourage me.  You make me stick with it.  Keep doing it because you are helping to save my life.

Here's to the next goal!!