It's been tough; even now I'm still going without more than I'm indulging (which is good), but it starts wearing on a person after a while. I see all these delicious recipes posted by my blogging friends and I drool, knowing that I should only look, not cook. I know that one fat- and calorie-laden meal won't derail my efforts (and I have been enjoying things more often), but I still must maintain constant vigilance to ward off the return of the paunch.
It's all worth it, though, when something like this past weekend happens. We went to the local middle school for the annual sixth grade play on Sunday, and I ran into a friend of my sister's from high school. She married a guy I went to high school with, and the two of them didn't recognize me as I walked up to say hello. And I've seen both of them since high school, too - my sister has kept in touch with her friend - just not in the past 3-4 years.
But really, not having to get that yearly prescription for Lisinopril is the greatest feeling I get from the lifestyle change...
That is all.
8 comments:
Good for you. I know the hardest part of all is making up your mind to do it.
Congratulations, Jay!
I hope I can post about maintaining my goal weight three years from now.
Hey Jay... let me know if you need any blog fodder to bump up the old B-P.. :) hahhahahha
Congratulations!
Thanks for the motivation, Jay. I hope to be halfway to my goal by Charlotte.
Thanks Paul.
Making the decision to go ahead with the diet was tough, but the toughest part IMHO has been recently. I've found myself starting to slip, more and more, and little by little I go back to the old ways.
After the vacations coming up it's right back to the grind.
Thanks Christina!
One of the biggest reasons for putting it out like this is that it FORCES me to be honest. I have to put out the milestones so that I don't just go back to the way things were.
Thanks PISSED. And no, living in MA provides me with plenty of opportunities to raise my BP...
Nancy,
Excellent! That's another reason for putting this out there - if I can get even one person to say, "Hey, if that lump from MA can do it, so can I!", all the better...
I've found it's easy to lose weight, hard to keep it off.
I start getting close to where I want to be and then think, "Well, I can have that...."
Next thing, I'm hitting up the vending machine at work and then, poof, I'm back to where I started.
Congrats to you and the maintenance of your goal/program.
I know it's tough to keep up the exercise regime (I was finishing my abreviated workout at 7:45 PM yesterday - bedtime 8:30-9), but even tougher to stay on a sensible eating plan; There are just so many temptations out there!
Keep up the good work!
PS - the verification word is "rotoputi" - doesn't mean anything that I know of, just made me laugh because it sounds like it could be (just trying to come up with a good definition is kind of fun too). God, I need to quit getting up this early in the morning!.
Congrats jay, way to go! Great blog, you make me laugh and yell at my computer, usually in tha same post. :)
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