Wake Up to Reality

Use your mentality, wake up to reality-

Frank Sinatra

Stepping on the scale for the first time in many months yesterday was my wake up call. It's time to stop believing that exercise alone is going to control my weight.

In my 20's weight and exercise was not an issue. I was thin and shapely naturally. Even after having my babies I went right back to my 125-130 pound average.

In my early 30's I started to put on a few pounds, maybe 10. Well, I was a stay at home Mom that loved to cook and my exercise was housework and taking the kids to the beach or park to play.

So when my youngest went to kindergarten I leashed up the dog and started running up and down the hills of our beach town. I loved it! It was exhilarating to run up the hills and take in the views and then fly back down. I was more thin and fit than ever. I never worried much about what I ate. I just tried to eat healthy.

Now I'm 41, I live in the desert where it is too hot to run outside much of the year and running in the cookie cutter suburbs is not exactly inspiring anyway. So, for the last 5 years I have been working out sporadically on my treadmill and Bowflex and not getting the results I wanted. I have overall fitness and endurance but I continued to gain weight.

Early this spring my husband and I started the P90X program. Several of his friends were doing it and getting results. Unfortunately, we have not followed the diet ( it's gross) and I did not get the same weight loss results as Rod. But then, he wasn't fat to begin with.

So here I am 5 months into this extreme fitness program, I have more muscle than I have ever had and I like that, I feel good, strong and fit but I weigh more than ever! 169.5 ugh, I hate writing that. I know muscles weigh more than fat but this is ridiculous!

So this it; time to use my mentality, wake up to reality. I will use this public forum as a tool to motivate myself to achieve my goals.

If you have read this far you must have an interest in diet and fitness, so I invite you to witness my public humilliations and victories.

This blog will be mostly visual, with pictures of every morsel of food I put in my mouth and a log of my workouts. Feel free to comment, critique, and share your own experiences with me.