I haven't been doing a very good job of keeping up on this blog for the last couple of months, or keeping up with taking care of my body. I haven't had a single day off in a long time (working 7 days per week and up to 12 hours per day for over 6 weeks now) and everything just sort of broke down.
I stopped logging my foods on loseit, and then I started again briefly, and then I stopped again. I have been getting exercise, but not purposefully exercising. My weight is, unfortunately, back up where it started at the beginning of the year.
I was inspired recently to restart my pedometer tracking since I am having trouble setting aside specific time to exercise. It took me a bit to find the thing, and it was out of battery juice, so I've gotten replacement batteries that I need to put in there. I'm going to start that tomorrow, and try to set a modest goal of increasing my weekly steps 5% each week. Several years ago I did a program where I was supposed to increase my steps 10% each week and I just couldn't keep up with the pace. I have a feeling that with everything going on right now, I had better just pick something manageable so I don't have another "failure" on my hands.
So...I've had a setback, but this isn't the end of things. I'm going to keep pushing forward.
My mom (although she lied to the whole family about it) had lap-band surgery about 10 months ago, and has lost about 65 pounds. She'll say something like, "All I had to eat today was a handful of almonds," and actually be genuinely proud of that. I think it's unhealthy... sick even. She keeps finding ways to bring up her weight loss in conversation with me.
I'll be posting more often now, to try and get myself back on track.
