Saturday, October 9, 2010

Change is good

With frustration I am changing up my diet again. I've been doing a low carb bootcamp since July and it did work initially (I lost 8lbs) I've stayed there ever since. I've been working on the eating plan (not exercise) with a personal trainer. My problem is I can get the eating right but not the exercise or I can get the exercise and not the eating. There just is never enough time. I'm now stagnate at 185lbs, the same weight I weighed one year ago, so I'm hoping a change up will get me down.

The last few weeks I've become a lazy butt, yes me! I've only taught my 1 class a week at the gym and I've only been running once a week. Crazy! I'm very nervous for my half marathon next weekend as I don't feel well prepared and I really wanted to be faster than my one in April. We shall see how it goes. What I did notice is how easy it is NOT to exercise...sooo easy and how hard it is too get the job done. There is just so much more we would like to be doing and for myself I love to exercise so I can only imagine how people who hate it struggle to get it in.

Here I am trying to get back into the swing of things with my eating and workouts. I've resorted back to the Weight Watcher plan and will follow at home for now and see how it goes. I'm terrified to add more carbs back into my diet, but it will be far less stressful than what I was eating before. Although I felt like it works well, if you're single and have no life its not suitable for a mom who is trying to get her kids just to eat one stinking vegetable and enjoy it. I LOVE food, it makes me happy to try new healthy recipes and I guess its a hobby, a necessary hobby that I haven't been able to do lately. So I'm back to more variety with some extra knowledge of what a low carb bootcamp can do for my body at the same time.

I hit up the gym today and was not feeling it, I hope my long run tomorrow goes well. I need to get my groove back!

1 comment:

karen said...

So your kids are on the "veggies are evil and ucky" kick too, huh? It drives me batty because John used to LOVE broccoli and mushrooms and a handful of other veggies and out of nowhere everything is a tantrum waiting to happen. *sigh* And I'm REALLY not a fan of those "sneak it in" ideas where you puree the veggies beyond recognition and hide it in something else. I want him to learn to like them again as what they are.
I hope you have great luck with trying WW. I've actually been considering saving up and joining the online version again myself because I've been stuck bouncing around 185 myself for faaaaar too long.