Tuesday, August 4, 2009

Hello, my name is Living on the Spit

and I have completely let myself go over the past 4 years and I want it to STOP! I am a carboholic and a stress eater. i love to cook and unfortunately I have this problem with butter. I live with a tall, thin man who can eat and eat and eat and NEVER gain an ounce...I cook like my Jewish grandmother who instilled deep inside my brain that good food is love. I was raised by parents who associated food with praise and that to be a good girl one must clean their plate.

Just for TODAY...I am stopping the soda once again...evil, it is. I am drinking water, water, water, and more water.

I will only have one glass of wine a day...unless it happens to be a Bloggers Weekend, then I will limit it to one bottle.

I started taking 1000 mg of fish oil and flax seed oil once a day. I will continue to do that daily.

I will eat more veggies and less crap...I will steam these veggies or broil them in EVOO and not smother them in butter.

I will begin walking every day for 15 minutes whether it is hot and humid or not.

I need to do this now or I will die.

4 comments:

  1. Sounds like you are off to a great start!!! Being able to post on this blog (good and bad) will be a tremendous help to all of us:)

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  2. That last line is my motivation too.

    I have high blood pressure. My birth mother died at 57 of congestive heart failure. Her brother died at 56 from a heart attack. Her sister had a massive stroke at 53. Her father was left incapacitated by a stroke at 42. Her mother died of a heart condition at 59. So things aren't looking very good if I want to see 60.

    Honestly, it scares the crap out of me.

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  3. Looks like you have taken the first (and hardest) steps to regaining your life, the way you want it to be. I applaud you. Hubby and I are trying to stay away from the processed, fast convenient foods we drive by every day. It is not easy! I used to be young enough that walking the dog equaled getting in shape. Not anymore. Not it requires visits to the gym, and actually going through wit it! I hear you and send you best wihes and will visit to see how you are doing. :)

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  4. I'm here to help too M! There will no dying until you are looking hawt OK?

    Now I still need to figure out how to post my confessions of a chubby girl!
    Help!

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