So I began my quest to achieve my second resolution of losing weight yesterday. I went to the gym against my every inclination, but motivated by the resolution (and my boyfriend). I also weighed myself...super fun! I'm weighing in at 181 (4lbs lighter than my last doctor visit in October). I thought it would be easy for me to do since I have "gotten healthy" as I put it (or "trimmed down" as my college cheer coach put it) before. This time, having the words "lose weight" in my mind is making it that much harder. I can do this!
I read an article in the New York Times today about how exercise is not only about accessibility to work out equipment, but personal motivation and the belief that you can achieve your goals. Intellectually I think I can do this, but physically I doubt myself. I feel like recently I've been bombarded with overly skinny women making me feel even fatter than I am. I know that I am a muscular woman, but I've begun to hide behind that as an excuse for weighing a lot. I have definitely NOT gained 25lbs of muscle since college, that's for sure. Maybe a few pounds, but not 25.
But along these lines, my company has initiated the Blubber Bowl. It's a competition to lose weight in the month of January. We have an office scale and we'll all weigh in together at the beginning of the month and the end of the month. There is a prize to motivate us all, and I have enlisted our Operations Manager as my coach. He rides his bike like 30 miles every morning and has been the same weight since college (he's 40 now) where he was in crew. It's going to be rough at first, but he is very logical about everything so I think that will help me stop making excuses.
Stay tuned for more updates as I go along. It should be an interesting journey to July 1st and 160lbs. I'll probably be hungry and grumpy in the beginning, but ultimately more energized.
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