So you hit the bottom. You left the clothes on the dressing room floor (and my apologies to the dressing room attendant, I was having a "moment.") And then you committed to finally doing something about it.
(And there I go again with that strange calling myself "you" but you, and really this time you, know what I mean, right?)
So now what?
First, I needed to recognize something in myself, I have developed a whole slew of totally bad habits. So to start I have to do something radical. I know myself well enough to know that I can't make it work with just a "I'll cut out white bread." Or "take smaller portions." I know those are the long-term solutions, but I need a temporary hard break. And so I have started that. I'm neither a dietitian nor here to debate the efficacy of starting it this way, so I'll leave it at that. But if you have questions about what I am doing, feel free to ask.
Second, as I have said before, I really don't like traditional exercise. And that is putting it nicely. So I am going to work really hard to change my mindset on that and I am going to seek to find fun ways to exercise. They may not be as efficient or effective as going to a gym, but I am hoping that if I do things I like I might stick with it longer.
And I found one for sure this weekend.
While we were in Lutsen, friends brought their copy of Michael Jackson The Experience
for Wii.We all started off playing in sweatshirts and jeans and before we knew it, were dressed like this.
Doing this.
Sweating and laughing and finding ourselves totally out of breath. (And some of us were already in shape, yours truly not included.)
And yes, the next few days we all discovered strange new muscles hurting.
So yes, I bought my own copy. And I am going to dust off my Wii Fit
from time to time, too. And when our 80+ inches of snow melts, I might actually get out and go walking over my lunch hour.I am going to do this. And I am going to laugh and have fun (well as much as I can) while I'm doing it.
As always, thank you all for your comments, emails, tweets, ideas, suggestions, and plain old misery loves company commiserations yesterday. I appreciate you all. And if you are feeling like it's time to change your game, join me. I'll check back in with you next week to let you know how it's going.
And for your viewing enjoyment, here is a snippet of what the game looks like. I promise I did it, too, I just had to stop and take a video (which, yes we were in a basement, so sorry for the darkness).
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