Groovybabe

We are all guilty of taking our health for granted from time to time but for the obese among us this has become a life long habit. ‘Opps! I fell off the wagon…again…I’ll start again… tomorrow…’, sound familiar? It is to me. And tomorrow rarely comes.

For the past six months this has been the story of my life. It is a shame because I spent the six months previous to this working so hard at getting my health back. But once I’d lost a significant amount of weight, albeit only half way through my journey, I started to take my body for granted again. ‘I can start to relax now…’ my unconscious told me. And relax I did.

I still kept up the pretense of caring about my weightloss: kept going to the gym and kept an eye on my calories but at the same time my social life REALLY picked up. I found friends - and lovers - for the first time in years, my confidence soured and my priorities changed. Less and less I went to the gym until visitations stopped altogether, and with that my calorie controling too.

And because of this my confidence started to dip, which made it harder to go back into the gym and my eating became uncontrolable. I tried - half-heartedly - to control it, would last a few days, lose a few pounds and then put more back on than I’d lost, until I’d put on a stone (14lbs) of my weightloss. It is so easily done but if you are aware you can stop it.

So, as I have mentioned a few days ago, I dramatically cut back my social life and slowly but surely my weightloss has started to become more successful again. I have not felt this focused in a long long time. Before, any kind of indiscretion and my weightloss plan would fall by the wayside. This time I feel so relaxed about it all. For example as discussed about the scales yesterday, fluctuations no longer bother me. And the night before last I lapsed into night time eating and I havent let this get to me either. I didn’t eat through the night last night so it was just a slight lapse. Today I weighed in and I was 14.13 stones. Down from 15.3, so a loss of 4lbs so far and I have two more days until my weigh in.

And my body, inside, is feeling really good. This is a result of sustained good nutrition, not abusing my body with excessive calories and having stayed off the booze for three weeks. For the first time in a long time I am not taking my health for granted and my body is really thanking me. As a lazy person I will always need to keep an eye on my health and make a concerted effort to eat well and properly and I think as long as I do my body will thank me. It will be worth it for each and every day that I feel well and am not plagued with illness (which incidently I havent been since I have been back on track).

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