Oh Boy! Can I relate to everything that has been said!! My weight started giving my issues somewhere around age 37. I had to work out just a little bit harder to get the same results I had years before using the same training method. I recently turned 40, and my stomach pouch is driving me crazy! Now granted that the last year has been quite stressful for me and depressing – mostly due to the fact that the weight won’t stay off! This too can is quite the issue now but only because I am so discouraged about the weight gain that I don’t exercise as much these days. I keep telling myself that it will do me good and that with hard work and determination and complete dedication that I can remove these unwanted pounds. It seems as though every time I loose 5 pounds, I come to a standstill, the pounds won’t budge and then lo and behold – I start eating all the things that cause the weight to return!! Why do I keep doing this to myself?
Oh! And it doesn’t help that I’ve returned to school and the classes are taking up a bit of my free time. But that’s no excuse. I just need to learn to prioritize and make fitness a daily habit again. I also have a sedentary job and my 50 minute commutes don’t help either!
Over the weekend to motivate myself I bought a workout journal. Something special to get me going. Years ago, in my 20’s, I kept a journal and was more successful then too. And I’ve been reading BFL for Women. I’ve read and have done the original BFL in the past and had great results, even tried it last year too. But come week 3, still nothing! Before at week 3 I was noticing slight muscle definition and was seeing big improvements in strength. Last year! Ha! At week 4 I gave up, I was so disappointed. But I’m ready to try this again. I’m so disillusioned with myself that I’ve had the Hard Core series for months now and have ONLY PREVIEWED 3 of the workouts. The rest are all still freshly sealed. I thought the HC series would be the motivational boost I needed but nada!
I have to come out of this state of “do nothingness”! Now I’ll admit I have worked out about twice a week since coming back from Jamaica on March 3rd (my birthday). And I thought I was going to be fine because the whole time there, I was up every morning at 6:15 getting dressed to go on the 4 mile power walk through a very hilly course. It was great! But since then, I’ve tapered off to 2 workouts per week, 3 if I’m lucky. I’ve got to build some muscle!
So I’m back to BFL, with my new logbook and a new attitude! The plan was to start Monday (that’s the first day in the logbook) but wouldn’t you know it – a stomach virus hit me late Sunday evening. I’m just about recovered. I will ease into some workouts this week and officially begin writing in the journal this coming Monday!
Getting older can be tough, especially when you lose hold of that fighting edge. I want it back! And plan to get it!
Okay, enough whining from me! Thanks for letting me vent and thanks, Intensitylisa for starting this thread. No one in my family has any interest in working so it’s hard staying in the right frame of mind when no one else cares.
Thank you all for being here!
Angie
