I Cannot Lose Weight for Weight for Him or Them – Followup

When I wrote the first article on this subject a few months back the response was both overwhelming and encouraging.  Losing weight challenges many, many women. It’s something some face every morning and every night. Or perhaps you act like the weight issue doesn’t exist – Been there, done that.

If you are anything like me you have heard it all.  Things like:

• You can’t lose weight living in the house with a bunch of skinny people.
• If you say lose weight, you will never do it because internally we don’t like losing things.
• You look good the way you are.
• You better do something before he starts looking at other women.
• When you lose it, let’s see how long you keep it off.
• All you have to do is….

If just one more person told me “all you have to do is…” I probably would have screamed!

Well, I stuck to my word. I said I needed to do this for me, not because someone said, “I am concerned about you” or I thought my husband or even my kids were looking at me different. I put my word out there, I became self aware and began to take better care of me. As a natural care giver, I had to turn the tables and take good care of me. This one was ALL ABOUT ME.

• I want to have the energy to run up a flight of stairs.
• I want to be able to play in the floor with my grandbaby.
• I want to feel a certain way in my clothes.
• I want to do everything I can to keep my body in health and not harm it.
• I want to take good care of me.

You can relate to having a busy, hurried lifestyle and grabbing food on the go. That was my daily routine. Still, I grad food on the go but now it is food that I prepared the night before. It’s amazing how many new fruits and vegetables the taste buds will adapt to if given the chance.

Forty pounds down and I still have a little ways to go.

What I am saying here is that you can do this. Do it for yourself. Not to fit into a certain size dress. Not because a special occasion is coming up, but because life has some good things in store for you and you want to be around to enjoy them.

It’s no mystery that junk food, fast food, too many sweets, and too much salt are not good for the body but they taste so good. I get that.

However, put yourself on your calendar. Plan your meals. Plan your snacks and your exercise. Plan your trips to the grocery store and buy the proper food. Not sure what to buy? Do a little research before heading to the store.

Do I have it all together? No. For example exercise is still not a part of my regular routine. However, having it ALL together, as far as diet and exercise are concerned, is not my goal. My goal is to be size healthy through making healthy choices that prosper me physically, emotionally, and spiritually.

Make no mistake; I am not a nutritionist, a diet counselor or anything of the like. My thing is relationships and my weight spoke to my relationship with myself. Right now I am simply offering a little encouragement to you and to me.

Put yourself on your calendar and take good care of you. The next step for me – add regular exercise into my routine.

What is your next step? Share. What are you going to do to place YOU on your calendar and make yourself a priority?