Well, here we go.
If you know me or have read my numerous weightloss/fitness blogs before, you are thinking, here we go again. And to be honest, you certainly have a right to think that. Yes I am starting over. Yes I have a new blog, and yes, I hope that this time is the time I stick it out.
Not going to make excuses for my past failings in the weightloss/fitness department. I have reached a state with my health that while certainly know life threatening situations, I have some stuff that needs to be nipped in the bud quickly. I am 37 years old, have been overweight for about 10 years, and I am starting to have some health issues that if not taken care of now will be troublesome in the years to come.
For the past two weeks I have had a steady tension/migraine headache. Not your run of the mill standard headache, but a pulsing, throbbing, someone give me something, anything to stop this right now and I will give you 500 dollars headache. I have recently been put on high bloodpressure medication (March 1st) and have seen readings in the last two weeks as high as 174/114 at Outpatients.
I have been off work the past two weeks because of this headache foolishness, and while work has been absolutely fantastic with me over my absences over the past two years due to chronic migraines/chronic back pain its not going to go on indefinately looking the other way. I am not someone who takes advantage of the great benefits my work provides and I believe management believes that, but I don’t want to have to use up so much sick time/medical leave. Besides the simple fact of the missed time/ lowered pay because of benifits being exhausted, I am simply sick and tired of feeling like shit.
So I now start over, and make a REAL, HONEST take no prisoners and make no excuses approach to get myself back on track, healthy, fit and happy.
I will be starting weight watchers on the weekend with my mother. I will be attending the meetings and I will be following the program to a tee. I have “tried” many programs over the year. Tried has consisted of “real honest effort for a few weeks or months ” to saying I will start something but never really doing it. That takes care of the nutrition side.
The exercise side will be using a Keep it Simple approach. Less time sitting on my ever expanding butt in front of the computer or tv, and more time moving. Move move move will be my new motto. Walking, exercise bike, power 90 and then p90 x video’s and whatever else I can get my hands on to stop living the life of a shut in/slug, and the life of a healthy, vibrant, positive rolemodel for my family.
More details about me if you are interested will soon be posted in the ABOUT link over there on the left.
