An Honest Reckoning
Today's Weight 178.5 lbs
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I’m 2.5lbs heavier today that I was a week ago. How the hell did that happen?
Maybe it’s time for an honest reckoning.
Eating has been OK. I’ve maybe allowed a little bit of calorie creep – mainly of nutritionally-crap stuff like the odd toffee or After 8 mint which I never used to indulge in at all - but it’s not crept beyond 1500 calories, and it’s usually pegged at 1100 to 1350 cals a day. It’s the season of festive cheer, for chrissakes – I don’t think one toffee or After 8 mint a day is anything to get worked up about. I can live with that. After all, I always said that I wouldn’t fall into the trap of starving myself just to see the scales move in the right direction.
Anyway, I can’t have gained 2.5lbs by eating between 1100 and 1350 calories a day, surely?!?! And I’m not cheating, because I weigh and write down EVERYTHING that goes in my mouth. Well everything edible, at least! Heh heh. So I don’t think food is the problem.
So where am I going wrong?
Exercise has been almost non-existent. I’ve been working horrendously long hours (80 hours last week!), and to be frank I just can’t be arsed to move once I get home in the evening. This is not acceptable. I am a bad, bad girl! It’s what happens to me every winter, and this year I swore that this year I’d not fall into the same bad habits, and lo and behold, here I am, Little Miss Couch Potato.
I’ve been cutting myself some slack because I’ve been getting to my office at 4am and not leaving it until 8pm at night – but the bottom line is that cutting myself slack isn’t helping me to lose weight. The excuses are going to have to stop.
It’s not as if I don’t have the resources to get some exercise – even when it’s pitch dark outside, inside in my (very crowded) dining room I have the turbo trainer, my rebounder, my taebo DVDs, my skipping rope, my weights – I’ve just got to summon the enthusiasm to use them.
I have such a sluggish metabolism that exercise is essential. I HAVE to make it a habit. But I hate exercise – at least, I hate exercise-equipment-type exercise! It’s boring! After a 16 hour day at work I want to sit on the couch and watch old re-runs of Stargate SG1 or Malcolm in the Middle, not get all hot and sweaty on the turbo trainer.
Mwaah, I don’t want to do it!
Well tough, I’ve just got to.
I admire all you Duracell bunnies out there, and I’ve got to start following the sterling example you’re setting. How hard can it be to just get in half an hour’s exercise every day? Even I can manage 30 minutes out of every 24 hours, surely?
I’ll just have to force myself…
Can you set up a TV near your exercise machines so you can watch Stargate while you exercise? I used to watch TV while I walked until our living room TV broke and we had to move it in there.
It might be good if you could exercise at work if that\'s an option, just to break up the day and get your juices going. I\'d like to do that because I sit at a computer all day, but there aren\'t exercise facilities at my work or more importantly a shower. I don\'t want to get nicknamed \"Stinky.\"