Diane

It’s so simple - eat the right amount of healthy foods and exercise.  How much easier could it be?  Then why is it so damn hard?  I look in the mirror and vow to change what I see.  I have the healthy food in the house.  I have the exercise DVD’s that I like; I have Wii Fit.  I’ve two functioning legs and plenty of walking routes.  So why do I not lose weight?! 

How do I get beyond the excuses?  Some are real.  It’s hard to exercise when just breathing causes coughing so painful it feels like a lung is going to come up.  But I haven’t been that sick for a week now.  Getting my migraines under control has forced me to accept that getting up earlier is not a good idea.  But let’s see, I still have 16 plus hours a day to get in 60 minutes of exercise.  Eating healthy isn’t hard - I don’t keep much junk food around.  So why do I mess up a perfectly good banana with peanut butter and chocolate syrup? 

I’ve tried over analyzing, under analyzing, planning, not planning, calorie counting, no counting, excessive exercise, excessive food control.  I get so freakin’ tired of it all.  I want to quit sometimes, until I see my reflection in the mirror.  Oh, and having my darling 5 yo daughter say I need to shrink to fit into a shirt . . .  Well, I am not going to quit.  I just need to figure out how to get moving forward again.