Tomorrow will mark the 1 month point of my change of perspective so I thought I would take a moment to reflect.
As I have posted previously I decided to work a bit on my body. Not because I want to lose weight or diet my ass off, but because I want to improve my overall health. And hey, if I drop a few pounds along the way, great. But I refuse to diet. I am simply eating better and exercising daily.
So I am approaching the 1 month mark and I am still feeling nothing but positive about the change in my life. I have eliminated a lot of snacking which is nothing but good. I have changed my eating habits to include fresh vegetables and/or fruit with every meal, cutting down on the fatty bad foods. This part has been rather easy. I like a wide variety of meals and honestly for the past few years I have been rather redundant in my meal choices. So it is really nice to expand into some of the meals that have fallen by the wayside.
The flip side of this new Me is exercise. Now believe it or not I do exercise but mostly it is during the summer. During the summer I swim every day and walk a mile every other. Since I don't weight myself I don't know how much weight I lose but I know that I usu sally drop 4 clothes sizes. Unfortunately come winter I put it all back on though. Couple that with quitting smoking and the weight just kind of sticks around. Ugh. But I am changing that. Since Jan 1 I have been doing a daily Yoga routine. Now before you begin laughing at yoga, I challenge you to give it a shot. An hour long yoga workout can kick your ass. After the 2nd week of my basic workout I decided I wanted more and switched to a weight loss yoga workout. This annihilated me. Seriously wrecked me the first few times. I sweated like a bitch. In fact I was pretty sure I couldn't continue doing it. But I did. and now the routine is much easier. I still sweat my ass off but the routine is MUCH easier to get through.
Today when I finished my routine I took my shower as usual. When I got out I clocked myself in the mirror and was surprised to see that I could actually see where some of my weight has begun to come off. This was an unexpected happiness for Me. It felt really good to be able to point to something specifically and say, LOOK! It's working!
So in any case I am proud of Me. Now onto the next month! February HO!
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Congrats on your weight loss success! Diets don't work so you are definitely on the right track--it is about being healthier so we can live the lives we want all year long.
Also congrats on quitting smoking--that is a huge accomplishment to be proud of.
I love that you are gaining health without succumbing to the fallacy that we have to be miserly calorie counters and/or slave at the gym for hours each day in order to have success.
I too Refuse to Diet and encourage others to join the revolution and drop fat and gain health, naturally and permanently!
Laurie~ Thank you! and congrats to you as well!
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