1.
Kids
2.
Time
3.
Food
4.
Stress
It actually makes me laugh because these 4 things are so
general but they all relate and make it impossible for me to succeed.
Kids
My 18 month old is going through a clingy stage. If I leave the room, she cries. If she isn’t tugging at my shirt or pants or
poking me in the eye and sticking her finger up my nose, she cries. Her teeth are coming in so I am trying to
keep it together but guess what I want when I don’t have a moment to myself. Something juicy but not Mo juice, something more
mouth watering…like…a chicken quesadilla with quac. On Tuesday I dropped her off at the childcare
at my Bar Method class. About 25 minutes
into the class, I hear, “Noreen??….Noreen???….”
Yup, that is for me, and it isn’t the teacher telling me to tuck my
butt, it is my baby calling…actually screaming for me. See you later Bar Method. Today, I tried again. I’m not a quitter. She cried for 10 minutes and then right
before abs, she did a poopie. “Hmmm,”
she thinks, “how can I get my mommy back to me?” Splat! I knew I wouldn’t be coming back to class
after the diaper change. She wouldn’t
let me. Take that MOM! Pow!!!
Time
See, I’m the type of person that likes the end result, not
the journey. I’m just being honest. This isn’t just with working out and losing
weight, it is with everything. We just
had some work done in our house and I’m a little unsettled because things aren’t
hung on the freshly painted walls. I
need an intervention. My husband walks
in the door last night and I’m standing there with a hammer and nail ready to
nail SOMETHING, ANYTHING to the wall. “Put
down the hammer Noreen.”
I would be happy if the 60 day challenge was like 3
days. They could measure me on Tuesday
and on Friday I would win because I would have lost .00000000000001
inches. This is a LONG process and I
have never had to work so hard to lose weight in my LIFE! This is exactly why I was a sprinter and not
a long distance runner. I mean, let’s
rip off this band aide already. Right
now the hairs on my arm are standing up and pinching me slowly and torturing
me. But the problem is, it is going to
be over and I’ll be exactly where I started.
I must learn to Take. It. Slow.
Food
There is so much good food and I can’t have any of it. Not a good combo. I do well and then KERPLUNK…back to the
drawing board. My motto is, “I’ll start
tomorrow.” Not a good one to have, I
know. I’m actually staying within my
weight watchers points, but they actually give me like a gajillion bank points
which I don’t go over, I promise. But
why, when I use every point I have and not a point more, I don’t lose weight, weight
watchers? That question is for you.
Stress
See the above title marked, “kids”
So, here I am, in the middle of a roadblock and with less
than a month to go, I’m a little discouraged.
But, I guess I have to buck up and keep trying. I just don’t see any big changes right now
and I thought I would by now. I guess I’ll
just keep plugging along….
-8 Total
I told you- totally can tell in your face. And you were never "fat" so it's not like you're going to see a HUGE difference as if you had like 30-40 lbs to lose. Eight is pretty darn good, because it's also not like you're 10 ft tall. Eight down really shows on you, but subtley. For me, when I saw you, it was more like- "Oh, I never noticed that Noreen is so tiny", (forgetting about the challenge). Just making a quick observation. Not like- wow, she was so fat before- she looks like she dropped a ton. You look good. You should feel proud of yourself.
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