Anyone up for a confessional?
I am overweight. That's just the truth of where I am right now. Not only did I never lose the weight gain from AJ's pregnancy, I've slowly been gaining more weight in the past year. In April, I started Jillian's 30 Day Shred and made it about ten days before sickness and travel allowed me the distractions and excuses I was looking for to quit.
This week, my friend sister Sasha launched her Shred it or Dread It challenge, and I am going to join her. Sasha has a lovely vaca in Mexico in six weeks to motivate her weight loss goals - if she doesn't shred it, she'll dread it. I, however, have no such trip planned and no big event to spur my motivation, but there are plenty of other factors causing me dread:
- I dread getting dressed on Sunday mornings because I can't (won't) wear the one pair of jeans that still fit marginally okay to church and everything dressy that I own gets tighter with each passing week.
- I dread outdoor activities with the girls because I don't have any summertime clothes that fit right - and I refuse to buy the next size up again.
- I dread shopping for clothes because I have a closet jammed full of size 8s that I cannot squeeze into right now.
- I dread getting in front of the camera because it provides such a shocking and accurate reminder of how I have not taken care of myself
I had no problems at all losing baby weight after Dacey. This is what I looked like when Dacey was 9 months old and I was so content and happy with my weight - just right for me:
I would like to get back to that place. I would like to fit back into those jeans. I would like to shred away twenty-five pounds.
Sasha laid out her three goals. Mine are similar:
1) Count WW points every day except Sunday.
2) Wean myself off of the Diet Coke addiction, beginning with cutting back to one a day. (Obviously Diet Coke is calorie-free, but it does weird things to my blood sugar and makes me feel really hungry. But, oh, Diet Coke. I do love you so.)
3) Exercise six days a week, completing the 30 Day Shred and then rewarding myself by getting back to my favorite exercise routine - alternating between jogging and Windsor Pilates.
This is the last time I'll take about the challenge here, but you'll see in the side bar the Shred It or Dread It button and the link to my weight loss journal (including my weigh-ins!). Some of you know I was keeping a weight loss journal in April when I first started the Shred, but without the challenge of very public accountability, I fizzled out. I'm hoping Sasha will pop in from time to time and kick my big booty if I am not keeping the challenge journal updated. (You know, in your copious free time, Sash!)
So that's that. Anyone else have some weight-related dread going on? I'd love to have you join us!
