THE SKIPPER!

Well as you can see there is a new "weight loss ticker" on my blog now.  Yes, after 12 1/2  years of getting heavier, I am going to try my best at losing some weight.  Anytime anyone wants to encourage me with positive words /comments - please go ahead.( I need all the positive motivation I can gather up.)  I didn't realize how out of shape I am .  It is funny in a way, because I do not see myself as the  person the mirror reflects.  I still think of myself as someone in  relatively in good shape and a pant size 12.( Actually I think I have avoided looking in mirrors at myself for the past 10 years.) But not anymore.  And I should mention that I am mortified by what I see.  So, now is the time!

My first two days of food journalling have been successful, meaning,  that I am writing down what  I am eating.  I have blown the allotted calories by going over 200 calories each day and no exercise to boot!  So a little more improvement is needed in this category.  I don't understand food sometimes.  I can eat a bowl of oatmeal for 160 calories or  a Caesar salad for 90 calories?  Well put me down for 1 caesar salad for breakfast and one for lunch then!  Who wants oatmeal anyway?  A homemade medium sized bran muffin- you'd think healthy- right?  WRONG! That little homemade morsel of joy is a whopping 186 calories.  Yikes--- I had 3 in the last 24 hours.  Well come-on it is bran, it came out the other end already!!!! Goodness me  it is very easy to throw your diet out the window and become part of the bad habits club.  As it looks right now, I have the platinum membership to that club.  I guess I will just have to work harder on the diet part.  

Now, onto the exercise part.  I walked 20 minutes on the treadmill at a good beginners pace the other day.  When I finished I did some light stretching and my poor legs were so wobbly.  But I did it!!!! This morning I thought I'd grab the skipping rope and head down to the dudgeon (basement) playlist/ i pod in hand- i was ready to burn some serious calories.  I was a good skipper when we lived on Spencely Court! My Papa even told me so!  Well that "good skipper" was, gone!  Dead!!!!   I could only skip 24 times continuously before stopping and gasping for air.  I mean gasping for air.  Maybe it is a bad exercise day for me?   And I only lasted skipping rope for 10 minutes before I gave up.  So that means ---I just have to skip for another 2 more 10 minutes sessions to make my day successful in the exercise department. 

Well I know I haven't gotten off to the greatest start, but I am going to keep trying.  I mean I have to start somewhere.  So off I go now for another 10 minutes skipping session.  Try and get a session in before D comes home from school.