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I've been out of work for over a month now...about a month and a half really. This morning I was thinking about all the things I could have accomplished during that time off. The main thing was the weight I could have lost. 2 pounds a week is a normal goal, and in the six weeks I've been off, I could have easily worked off 12 pounds! But noooo, I haven't lost a single pound, because I've been too busy moping around the house, getting depressed.
Not like, I want to kill myself depressed, but I've been losing the motivation to even get out of bed. I've been sleeping too much. It's weird - I sleep half the day away, and then when my husband gets home from work, I still feel too tired to do anything with him, and then when it's bed time, I can still sleep through the night. I reckon (did I just say reckon??) I've been sleeping about 16 hours a day, but I still feel tired!
Enough depressing talk!
Today I decided to start my 1500 calorie a day + at least one hour of exercise per day routine. I should have decided to start it BEFORE I made the choice to have frozen burritos for breakfast. :S Who knew two relatively small burritos would have 560 calories?!? oh well.
I've done half an hour of cardio so far today, so I have to get another half hour of some type of exercise in before the day is over. It's always hard to start working out again. I thought I was going to die about 10 minutes into the workout, but I kept going, and somehow I got through the whole thing. I totally got my second wind, and, though I was very tired by the time the workout was over, I felt so proud of myself for getting through it. :)
I just weighed myself, since I need to know how much I weigh before I can determine how much I want to lose...
...drum roll please...
226.4 pounds. :( That means my BMI is 31.52. So my first goal is to get to a BMI of under 30. That would put me into the overweight category, instead of the obese category. If I get to about 215 pounds, I would no longer be obese! 11 pounds is totally doable for a mini goal!
I'm going to do this on my own...no fancy diets, no pills, just hard work. I'm doing this for myself. My husband thinks I'm beautiful, and I've been overweight for so long, he's never seen me thin, and I think he'll be pleasantly surprised.
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