Weigh In, 12/3/2010

Thanksgiving did a number on me.  For quite a few weeks now my weight has remained pretty stable around 243 and I was content with that for a couple of reasons.  Today though I weighed in at 248.4, I am not content with this.  248 is dangerously close (I know 243 kinda is too) to my first big goal of 250.

Over the years I have become quite an expert at being able to ignore certain problems; like my weight, eating habits or lack of exercise.  Since hitting 250 and congratulating myself I have sort of been ignoring the fact that I still need to loose a serious amount of weight.  I feel kind of like a broken record writing this lately, blah, blah, blah I am slacking off; blah, blah, blah I can’t get motivated.  In a way this here blog has kind of backfired a little bit.  I created it, in part, to have some accountability with friends and family and now I don’t write when I think it will be boring to read.  But, this will change.

I have started doing some small things to get back on track with my weight loss and fitness.  First of all I have been walking to the T stop from work everyday (unless it is rainy).  The walk is a little over a mile and according to an application on my phone a leisurely walk burns almost 150 calories, which I know is not a lot but it adds up write?  In addition I have gotten back onto green smoothies for lunch and breakfast.

My big problem lately is hunger.  I get home from work and I am so hungry that I go on these binges and it seems as though I can’t stop myself.  Sometimes I will do awesome at work, drink lots of water have my smoothie for lunch and then I get home and it all goes out the window.  This has been the hardest thing for me to tackle of late.

I am planning on getting my butt to the gym this weekend and I have found that the more I work out the more I am willing to make better food choices so hopefully that will help.