New Year, New Me

Well, once again the New Year is here, and so far I have worked out every day of the new year! This is pretty good for me, if you know me, you know weight has been a losing battle of mine for most of my life. But now it is a little more of an important battle than it has been in the past.

The main reason is that I am noticing more health issues from being overweight. I have a very very tiny Cholesterol problem and my blood pressure is still considered "normal" but it is getting higher than my "normal". This is just the clinical proof, the other proof is in being out of breath at the top of stairs and having aches and pains and not being able to do things I used to. Along with clothing getting more depressing to purchase and more expensive.

My goals are pretty high, but I am breaking them down into smaller more attainable goals that don't feel so overwhelming. Losing weight is a slow and steady race, not made for people who need to hurry through in unhealthy attempts just to lose the battle again. So I am setting 20 pound goals and realistic time frames for them, so I obtain a goal and reward myself with something small and then continue on the next goal, another 20 pounds.

The tools of my plan are pretty simple. Wii Fit Plus, Biggest Loser for the Wii, and working out with my husband doing Army drills to build stamina. My favorite thing: Wii Fit Plus Free Run, Rythem Boxing, and Free Walk (this is done by walking on the Wii Fit board with a metronome in the Wii Remote and watching whatever I want on TV, it counts your steps and keeps the time for you!) I highly recommend the Wii Fit system, it is in your living room, you don't have to go to a gym with people that are shopping in a meat market setting; you don't have to go outside in the elements, which in Ohio is a big deal most of the year; you do it all barefoot, no crazy shoes to buy; you keep track of your progress every day! This is one of the best investments in our health that our family has purchased and I recommend it to everyone!

The hardest part of weight loss for me is to eat correctly all the time. I can do it most of the time, but S U G A R is the enemy for me. I get rid of sugar and then it somehow finds a way to creep back into the home! It is like a bug!

I have plenty of motivation, for instance: photos of myself at various stages of life; the possibility of having kids in the next five years and needing to be healthy to do that; being healthy because I am in the health industry and it is a little contradictory to help people get healthy when I am not; to have the body God desires me too, taking care of the temple He has given me here on the Earth.

Lets all encourage each other in our endeavors in this New Year! Share your plans with me and we can encourage each other as we go!