Color Me Fit: weight loss, fitness, exercise

First thing, I’m going to write that if I’ve been silent on this blog during the past two weeks, it’s not because I’ve given up, but because I’ve been involved in an activity that takes lots of time as well as efforts to understand the theories perfectly well - video making. *smiles*

Now that the parenthesis is closed, there’s something that I should talk about, for if it was a good and instructive “theory” to read it on other blogs and websites, it’s an even better thing to realize it with one’s own eyes and mind.

When battling one’s weight, it’s important to keep track of it through written works. Logging our daily food intake, writing down our thoughts and feelings, especially when on moments when we feel weak… even though other people wrote before me that this was a crucial point of keeping the weight off, I’ve known discovered by myself that it’s something I also need to do. It’s not nice theories anymore, it’s become a fact that I can’t ignore, and in a way, it’s probably better this way, for I know exactly what I have to do.

See, I haven’t “given up”. I’ve had these problems with my Inner Brat, and I need to understand and fight them off seriously. However, as I mentioned at the beginning of this post, lately I’ve been pretty busy with something that I really, really enjoy. The good side of working with video is that my mind and hands are busy, I don’t get the munchies while doing it, and I don’t go dive in the fridge or in the cupboard looking for something to gnaw on. The less than good side, though, is that lots of my free time has now been turned toward this, and if I’ve kept up with exercising as well as doing “heavy” garden activities (no need to lie: I like exercising, and my body anyway begins to complain if it hasn’t moved for a few hours!), all the rest kind of went down the drain. I haven’t really kept up with my usual logs, nor have I really cared, and thus I fell head first into the trap.

It’s not a catastrophe. It doesn’t mean that my “diet” is blown off and that I might as well give up completely. It doesn’t mean that I don’t care about losing the remaining extra pounds. Simply, I’ve come to realize that by doing so, by not carefully writing down every little thing, every little food intake and exercise log, it’s been easy to fool myself, to place another of these dangerous blindfolds on my eyes. When I don’t log what I eat, I tend to just “forget” it, and not notice when it’s been too much in a day. I don’t realize that, wow, I shouldn’t have eaten six slices of bread this morning, even if they were small ones, and by not realizing it, I also don’t act in consequence later on in the day, to “compensate” for the little mistake. Then appears the dangerous road, the one where these little mistakes pile up, day after day, and end up forming a huge mistake.

I’ll admit it, I wasn’t very keen on maintaining a log from the start, it’s the kind of thing that has always bothered me, that I’ve always found boring. Nevertheless, I have to do it, and I now know it from my own experience too. Yes, it’s still boring. Yes, I’ll do it again, if only because I’m having enough problems with my Brat and don’t want to add this to the rest.

The end result and logical conclusion to this - right now, I’m starting to keep my log again. Not tomorrow, not next Monday “because it’s the start of a new week”. Right now.

- Kery