Weight Weight Weight!!! I have struggled my entire life with self image. Too afraid to walk into a gym because I'm too fat so I get a dog. This will force me to walk walk walk and lose weight and be healthy. It actually worked. I had the luckiest dog on the planet if you ask me. When we lived in the city (in my cool and hip apartment with its cool and hip balcony that overlooked the ally) I walked her everywhere. The key was to have a destination on our walks. I couldn't just walk to walk. Boring!! Sometimes the destination was next to the Dairy Queen. Oh well. We were a hip city duo. Me and my super healthy city shelter dog.
Now I live in the suburbs. I have two new dogs (jt's been many years since the hip city days and my beloved city shelter dog has since passed away) one big and one little. My big boy, Flash, is from a rescue way up North where a very humble blue collar family with barely enough room in their home for themselves was fostering him. My little one, Sweetiekins, was my mom's pampered pup. I promised her that I would take her if anything ever happened. My mom passed away in January 2006. It has taken almost this long to de-program this little girl from expecting her daily hours of lap time, carry time, endless walks and countless treats. My mom was a retired senior and this little girl's paws had barely touched ground for more than a couple hours a day.
I have gained 28 lbs. since the hip city days and I was 10 lbs. too heavy then. Now, instead of walk walk walking. We drive. I even drive the dogs to doggie daycare when the weather is bad so they can socialize with other dogs without getting wet or being too cold.
Many diets and exercise commitments have come and gone. Even daily dog walks are blown off for more important things. We have a HUGE back yard so, they still get their exercise.
Being a home owner has given me a whole host of new exercise blow off excuses. The deck needs sweeping (that's actually exercise although I never sweat or get sore mussels), weeds to pull (I pay a little neighbor girl to do that, I hate pulling weeds), mow the giant back and front lawns (I have a rider lawn mower but when it's hot I do sweat little), and other house stuff.
There is actually a walking/riding path right across the street. I've been on it a few times. It's nice and I have committed to using it every week now.
So, to sum things up. Today is the day I promise myself to eat healthier, walk the dogs more and go to the gym on a regular basis. Also, I am going to have one glass of wine not the whole bottle on Wednesdays, Fridays and Saturdays. That alone should shed a few pounds.
Today: The calorie count is at weight loss level, yay, even though I ate a huge piece of pie with fat free frozen yogurt for dinner. I split the bag of popcorn with my dogs for a night time snack. And.... drum roll please....... I EXERCISED!!!!
GREAT DAY!! On a 1 - 5 basis a 5 being the best I would say I'm at a 4 today. Yay for me!!
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