Choice In The Matter

a fat update

Eating healthily is suprising easier than I first thought it would be.  I have much more energy too!  I'm even enjoying the gym again and long runs down the beach (if I live by the beach I may as well take advantage of it right?).  My waist is...well a waist again!  I no longer feel like I'm carrying around 5 pounds of water strapped like a fanny pack across my middle.  It's great! 

Now if only I could find a way to make my boobs grow without having surgery, I'd be set.

goodbye fat day three

Day One
Eating breakfest sucks.  Honestly.  Unless its a large gooey egg/cheese/bacon/tomato/potato omlette.  Or biscuits and gravy!  I love biscuits and gravy.  I mean I love my Kashi Go Lean Cereal.  Yum!  Sigh.

Why does eating breakfest always make me even more hungry by the time lunch comes around?

Today is my first gym day in a gazillion years.  I actually love being in the gym, I just hate putting on my shoes and lugging my lazy ass into my car to drive to the gym.   After work, all I really want to do is read, nap, or stare blankly off into space for a few hours.  Still, off to the gym for me.

I hate gym scales.  I have decided that they weight them.  Evil.

Day Two
I am actually enjoying this eat five times a day bit.  I'm not scary hungry at the end of the day and so, suprise, not eating enough for three adult men in one sitting resulting in me feeling like a water balloon ready to burst.  Plus, yoga today!  I signed up for a starter course with P because he's always wanted to learn and he didn't want to go to the class alone.  He looks so cute doing downward dog!

Day Three
I still hate breakfest.  Drinking all this water may be healthy but my office mates now think I have the bladder of an 80 year old.  More gym today!

wake-up call

It's official, I have now gone beyond the "I'm just feeling a little bloated lately" to "Oh my God I think my jeans must have shrunk when I dried them the other day (except I never dry my jeans)".  I jumped on a scale a few days ago thinking maybe I'm just, you know, carrying more water lately, and won't it cheer me up to jump on a scale to prove to myself that I am not indeed a gluttonous cow and was suprised to find that I've gained 10 pounds.  Since my birthday in June.  Which I know some people are thinking wow 10 pounds big whoop!  But when you're barely 5'4 (in the morning and after a few stretches, thank you), with bones the size of chopsticks, it really does make a difference.

Me yelling to P: "Oh my God I gained 10 pounds!"
P: "You can't tell at all, you look beautiful" (typical boyfriend answer but have to love him for it)
Me: "But I gained 10 pounds!  Maybe my metabolism realized I turned 29!"
P: {laughter}
P: Should we order pizza?
Me: Grrrr....

I have never had issues with weight.  For the most part, I've stayed around the same weight (give or take 10 pounds) for the last 10 years or so.  I know I am thin and healthy, but I've never been fit.  And I realize, as I get older, that my belly is starting to pouch out a little and my arms are starting to jiggle and my knees are sagging and yes, it's probably just me that sees it, but I also get tired faster and overall have much less energy than I did when I was a spry, young 18.

Well that's normal, you might be thinking but I'm going to fight mother nature dammit!  I went to yoga the other week for the first time in almost a year and there was one woman who must have been at least 50 and another who was in her 30s and had just had a baby, and they both KICKED MY ASS.

To further irritate matters, yesterday P's event company hosted a pool party and every bikini model on this side of the Pacific decided to show up.

Instead of being jealous (ok I was a little bit), I decided to be inspired by these women and whip my lazy butt in to shape.  I've joined iShape to set me up with basic workout/calorie intake guidelines and I start my program tomorrow.  The thing that I am most looking forward to, with this program, is that it offers all sorts of logging features to keep track of when I'm working out, what I'm doing and what I'm eating.  I've always been terrible about those things in the past.

I'll keep you all updated!