Well I did eat bagel lox and cream cheese and I didn't share with pooches, but I ate no dessert, and really that is all I ate (bagel lox and cream cheese) or yea and latte.
But no exercise. I really need to exercise on the weekend. There are weekend warriors and non weekend warriors, I am a non weekend warrior. I sit around all weekend - resting my aching muscles. Then I swim - but not everyday, I have to take Tuesdays off to rest my aching muscles.
I was thinking of working up an exercise plan, but I never seem able to keep to it. Mostly I find it just to tiring. Or boring. One or the other.
With swimming I have this goal to go faster, but there will come a time when I am going as fast as I ever will, then what? What happens when you know you are not going to get any faster? What motivates you to get in and swim anyway? That was the problem when I was swimming before. I thought I had hit the best that I could ever be with the training and motivation I had so I quit. Will that happen again at 54?
Dieting is just the opposite. You get where you want to get and you get to quit "dieting". The problem is people think (including me) that that gives you license to eat. Just because you are not trying to lose weight doesn't mean your cured. I still have that road ahead of me.
It is that road that is the hardest, you have to find that fine line between calories in and calories out and maintain it. There have been people who have been doing it all their lives, and they are good at it. It is second nature. It is not second nature to me. I am not good at it. I can barely maintain right now while I am still trying to lose weight - what am I going to do when I am trying to maintain. That is a dilemma I hope to face within the next six months, but for now I most go back to trying to take off the weight. Not tomorrow. Today.
But no exercise. I really need to exercise on the weekend. There are weekend warriors and non weekend warriors, I am a non weekend warrior. I sit around all weekend - resting my aching muscles. Then I swim - but not everyday, I have to take Tuesdays off to rest my aching muscles.
I was thinking of working up an exercise plan, but I never seem able to keep to it. Mostly I find it just to tiring. Or boring. One or the other.
With swimming I have this goal to go faster, but there will come a time when I am going as fast as I ever will, then what? What happens when you know you are not going to get any faster? What motivates you to get in and swim anyway? That was the problem when I was swimming before. I thought I had hit the best that I could ever be with the training and motivation I had so I quit. Will that happen again at 54?
Dieting is just the opposite. You get where you want to get and you get to quit "dieting". The problem is people think (including me) that that gives you license to eat. Just because you are not trying to lose weight doesn't mean your cured. I still have that road ahead of me.
It is that road that is the hardest, you have to find that fine line between calories in and calories out and maintain it. There have been people who have been doing it all their lives, and they are good at it. It is second nature. It is not second nature to me. I am not good at it. I can barely maintain right now while I am still trying to lose weight - what am I going to do when I am trying to maintain. That is a dilemma I hope to face within the next six months, but for now I most go back to trying to take off the weight. Not tomorrow. Today.
By the way, we had fresh caught Alaskan salmon in the refrigerator (smoked too) - probably would have been good on the bagels even though I'm not much of a salmon/lox fan.
ReplyDeleteThere also are "weak-end" warriors & that's what "TSH" is becoming as my sciatica & derriere hurt as I grow weaker & they grow larger. Tolar also needs to walk since she is FULL of energy - Taya needs to walk since she's full of sausage, etc.
Focus on losing now & maintaining as well.
Thanks for keeping up the blogs!