jmg0237's Journal

Return to Myself
Oct 06 2008 09:35

Well what can I say. It has been such a battle these past few months, with work, fatigue, illness, depression, that I lost track of myself and my goals. But somehow through it all, I finally reached the 245 mark, which brings my total weight loss to 44lbs. My next goal is 225 (I am going in 20lb. increments). Right now, I fit comfortably in size 40 jeans, and I can actually close some of my size 38 pants without having too much of my stomach peel over. Some have agrued that means that I am actually a size 38, but I prefer my jeans and such to fit a little looser.

I also started my walking routine again. Every morning I park across the street from my building and walk to my office. This gives me about 700 steps going, and another 700 coming back. I'll admit that after lunch I park my car closer, but I do plan on going back to where I wouldn't do that so much. Then, in the evenings I walk about 2 to 2.5 miles. I want to get back into weight training and such, but I didn't want to jump into anything too soon. I wanted to just get into some routine again, so I figured I would start slow, then work my way up. This is especially because my personality has not been at it's most stable right now, and I knew if I began to see working out as a chore that I would totally stop before any results took place.

I also decided to stop reminding myself about how skinny I used to be and focus on how much I have progressed since I first saw the scale hit 289. It's difficult, because I do remember, but it won't help me in the long run. Instead, putting on clothes that didn't fit but now do actually helps me a lot more.

Well, enough of my rant.