I've posted a couple of times since I rejoined the board, and I know I sounded really gung-ho and like I knew what I was doing, but ...
here it is early in the morning* and I'm finding I need some encouragement and help motivating myself, so here goes:
I'm really having trouble making myself think good thoughts about myself right now, because during the past year, I stopped exercising, and gained almost 40 pounds.
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My excuse for stopping the daily walking was that I strained my knee. I do have arthritis so there's some justification in that - you do have to stop and let your body heal. However, once the knee healed, I had gotten back into the habit of sitting and watching TV most of the day. "Binge-watching", you know.
So the weight piled on! And now here I am, getting ready to "tote that barge, lift that bale" again, only this time, instead of weighing 220 pounds (which was already too heavy), I'm at 260! So I have to get rid of all those pounds before I even get back to where I was when I was *already* too heavy!
Sigh. Well, I know I'm not the only one with these problems, but I just thought I'd post it because there's really not a whole lot of people I can talk to sensibly about these things. I have a friend who's a "Doctor Oz" fan and pushes pseudoscientific nonsense about smoothies and juice fasts at me whenever I mention my weight; and a husband who's got his own health issues.
So - you are IT! Sorry about the rant, and FWIW just writing it all out makes me feel a little more positive. So if you just read the first sentence & then skimmed down to here, that's OK! Just pat me on the head and tell me I'm doing OK! (and thanks!!)
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(also FWIW, before I sat down to write this, I *did* do my "Shovelglove" workout - four days in a row, woo hoo!
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