I was watching the HBO special, "The Weight of the Nation", a week or so ago and it really resonated with me. If you have 2 people who are a healthy weight; one who has always been that way and one who was formerly overweight, the one who was formerly overweight will have to eat 20% fewer calories, or burn that many, for the rest of his or her life than the always a healthy weight person in order to maintain that healthy weight?! This made me cry. Even after I do all the work to get down to a healthy weight, I will have to work harder at maintaining it, no matter how long I maintain it, than a person who has always been skinny. Ugh, talk about disheartening!
So, I went to the doctor for a yearly check-up yesterday. My blood pressure has never really been an issue, but it's the best it's ever been, 106/58! My cholesterol; good, bad, and total, has gone up, unfortunately. I'm hoping that if I can maintain my past week of behavior, eating and exercising, that maybe next time it will be better.
I've been pretty good about the exercising lately. I'm training for a half-mile swim and 15 mile bike in July, and a 1.2 mile swim and 56 mile bike in September. I'm pretty much ready for the swim, but am struggling with the biking some. I just don't enjoy it that much, honestly. I love to swim, biking is just boring to me. It's nice when David and I go for a ride, but we don't have a whole lot of time to do that. I'm really worried that I won't be able to finish the bike in time. I have to do 56 miles in 4.5 hours. Basically, 14 miles an hour. When there's no wind, I average about 15 miles per hour. However, the race site can be pretty windy, so I'm worried that I won't be able to finish...I don't even care if I come in last, I just want to be able to finish.
Today I weighed in at 175.0 pounds. That's the lowest I've been since Christmas. I'm tracking my points on Weight Watchers religiously this week, and have worked out on a 4 day rotation (swim, bike, run/walk, rest). It seems to be working :-) I lost 1.2 pounds since last week! I'm really hoping this is the time that I stick with it. I have an old high school friend coming in to visit at the beginning of October, and I'd really like to look good by then!
I'm going to try this picture thing. Last time, 7 years ago, when I started Weight Watchers for the first time, it really helped to take a picture every 10 pounds. I don't know why, other than I hate seeing myself fat in pictures so I had motivation to get an updated on as soon as I could. So, here's what I look like today, at 175 pounds.
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