Beginning Again

Last week was a total bust. Save for a few kayaking trips, I didn't do a single workout the whole week. This weekend, I did nothing but sleep in and eat terrible food, including pizza, and I'm seriously disgusted with myself for sliding down the slippery slope of laziness.

But I can't continue this. I can't go back to 280 pounds. I can't stay here at 240 pounds. The only other option is to keep losing weight. I have at least 60 more pounds to lose to meet my initial goal of losing one hundred pounds this year. I have five months to do it. Losing roughly ten pounds a month, as I've been doing, would put me right at that goal. But no more slacking off, no more wasting days without exercising, no more being lazy.

Today, I technically slept in, but I'm not going to change my sleeping patterns in a day. Tomorrow I am setting the alarm for 10:30 AM and I am getting up NO MATTER WHAT. As soon as I finish this blog, I'm going to do my belly dancing DVD. I figure it will be a workout, but not so much jumping around and intense cardio as my other workouts, and will be a nice transition from a week of no workouts, to going back to working out twice a day. Tonight at work, I'm either doing 25 minutes on the elliptical or Level One of Jillian Micheal's 30 Day Shred. I was enjoying that workout, and can't wait to get back into it.

I've been sticking to eating my three salads a week, but with all the bad food choices on the weekends, I feel like I've negated any positives that eating salads has given me. I'm going to keep that habit going, minus the eating of fast food on the weekends, because I'm starting to enjoy salads more, and I've started looking forward to the creative ways of making them and trying out new salad recipes every week.

I didn't know what a scallion was at the beginning of this week. Now I know it's a green onion. :D I'm learning and developing more healthier eating habits and that's exciting! Plus, salads seem to give me energy and make me feel better throughout the day. I'm ready to face the day and be active after eating a filling nutritious fresh salad.

So here I go, I'm essentially starting over, because even though a week doesn't seem like a long time, my body is already resenting the thought of working out, and it's going to be a fuss to get back into hard cardio workouts. Just the thought of getting sweaty and tired and achy doesn't sound fun at all, but I can't give up now. I've come too far and have too far to go to check out and give up.

So let me know any  motivations you use to get going back on the right track!