Dieting Reality Check
I believe I just saw a tumbleweed blow past this blog; I need to get better at this regular blogging thing, but I digress.
In the past couple of weeks, I’ve had more than my fair share of dieting reality checks thrown my way. The worst had to be yesterday’s when my sister made the stunning observation that I’m not as young as I used to be. That means, in part, that it’s much more difficult for me to lose the weight that was especially easy for me to lose about 5 years ago.
You see, way back in the day, I wasn’t as light as I wanted to be (today I’m the heaviest I’ve ever been in my life and it truly depresses me whenever I think about it), so I decided to start dancing. Within 6 months of dancing three times weekly — in the last 3 months of the six, I’d also added Tae Kwon Do lessons twice weekly — I’d lost about 35 pounds.
At the time, I still believed I was overweight despite people noticing I’d lost weight. Of course I was pleasantly surprised at all the compliments, but in my mind I still had about 20 pounds to go. Sitting here, right at this very moment, staring at a picture from “back in the day”, I realize that I couldn’t see what I really looked when I just looked at myself in the mirror. Staring at this picture, I realized I truly was skinny. Not anorexic skinny, mind you, but definitely slender enough to be mistaken for a runway model.
I guess that’s what truly keeps me going, the idea of being that slim again. If I ever do get back down to that particular weight, I know that I’d still see myself as overweight while looking in a mirror, but I’d know that I wasn’t and roll with it. That’s the goal — get back down to that weight. What’s kicking my ass is the amount of time it’s taking. I’ve been dancing again for nearly 3 months and I haven’t lost anything — okay, maybe 5 pounds. Better than nothing so I’d better stop complaining.
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