Nov

17

Groundhog Day

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I've been here before.  Last time I lost 100 pounds. Most of that (and the hardest part) came with the help and inspiration of Dr. D. I am so much healthier, both in what I eat and how much I move, than I was back in that dark hole 100 pounds ago. However, I am also the proud owner of a bouncing baby boy. How ironic that losing weight was what allowed me to get pregnant in the first place, but the pregnancy itself left me in this all-to-familiar place of starting over. It's been about 3  months since the boy joined us, and I still am looking at another 43 pounds to get back where I started (with plenty more to lose after that).

I've been back working with Dr. D for about a month now, but I'm feeling like a slug. I'm mentally committed to the plan, but my, shall we say, execution is lacking. It's simple, really, - eat healthy, count calories,write it all down, and exercise a lot. I don't know why I'm making it so hard.

Speaking of hard,  I went swimming for the first time in a very long time today. It was not pretty.  Swimming is one of the exercises that was very helpful as I lost weight before. In fact, at the height of my workouts, I was swimming more than six hours a week. That makes the fact that I'm so sore I can barely type after only an hour of swimming kind of, well, depressing. But depression on the first day back won't help anyone, especially me.

So, for now, I shall take it one day at a time knowing that losing the weight now is just as important as it was then. I've been here before, and I can get there again.