So far, seven is the magic number.......

Well, I am proud to say that I’ve lost one pound, which brings my total of pounds lost to seven.  Now, it’s been a while sense I’ve been on a scale.  Mainly because I know I haven’t been eating too well and I was afraid of seeing what the numbers would be.  But  I closed my eyes, crossed my fingers and stepped on anyway, because for the past week or two, I have been trying to get back on the ‘weight loss straight and narrow.’ Though I could have been a lot LESS lazy and ‘slackerish,’ I am proud to say that my efforts somewhere along the way have kept me from gaining.  I thought I was headed downhill, and I may very well be if I don’t pull it totally together fast!  But that one lousy pound serves as a great booster.  I have my work out clothes in my trunk.  My Ipod has been updated with fresh music and television shows, I just received my new issue of Fitness Magazine in the mail, and now I’m ready to go, lol.........

Losing weight is the hardest thing I have ever tried to do.  Losing weight starts with the mind.  It starts with wanting it.  It starts by knowing you deserve more, and knowing you were created for more – and all being overweight does is slow you down.  Well it slows me down.  Some overweight person is going, “nuh-uh girl, I’mma be movin’ regardless…..”  Well good for you.  I have never felt more sluggish in my whole 25 years of living.  I have never experienced back pain, knee pain, or ankle pain – for no reason.  Normally, if I were to experience pain in any of these areas, it would be because I fell, or lifted something too heavy or did something else to cause an injury.  But to sometimes feel like I can’t even get out of the bed in the morning? Ridiculous.  My frame is too small to be carrying around all this extra baggage.  If you’re fat and you’re happy with yours, live your life.  I want something more for my life, though.  Losing weight, as with any goal you have requires self control, endurance, tenacity and perseverance; so you can finish what you started.

So I lost one pound.  I was slacking off so hard I’m surprised I didn’t gain ten!  I guess I will never understand the mystery of weight loss – but who am I to complain?  I’m going to keep working hard and I am going to set my first goal right now:  By April 19^th, 2008, my 26^th birthday, I will be 20 pounds down.  Not only does that mean that the 200’s are gone FOREVER, but that means I have to get to work NOW!!!