Wednesday 16 July 2014

Is too much reflection bad for you? It is if you are feeling sorry for yourself. Time to stop with the PITY PARTY!!

My last post was over a year ago.  WOW! Time does fly by, and sometimes, Life doesn't fly by the way you envisioned it would.  I am not sure why I am writing in this blog now, especially after so much time since I last wrote, but I suppose it is to reflect on better times and times that I wish I had back.  Maybe I am trying to put the past year's events and even events further than just a year ago, behind me.

Lately, I seem to generate more excuses for myself than solutions. I am starting to realize how important it is to leave the past exactly where it is, in the past, and stop making excuses for myself and just start LIVING the way I know I should.

I could go into detail after detail of the issues that I have went through with my fitness levels and how busy my life has become, but I guarantee there are people that have had to deal with my exact (and even worse) situation(s) and don't make excuses AND keep their fitness levels where they need. Knowing that fact makes this past year that much more pathetic and even more the reason to move on and focus on the future.
So if anyone is wondering (which I doubt anyone is even reading anymore); I have gained some of my weight back because I have been making excuses and genuinely just feeling sorry for myself. I guess I have been throwing myself a "pity party" and enjoying the cake and ice cream way too much. I originally lost about 170 lbs. and since that time, I have gained back at least 60 lbs. (and that is on a really good day!)

It's not that I am eating fast food and sitting on the couch all day long, I still eat rather healthy (whole grains, vegetables, not a lot of enriched or processed foods, only water and coffee).  I also work on my house after being at work all day, so I am fairly active all day long.  The main thing I have stopped doing is exercising. Other than walking the dog around the block, I have ran very little, biked even less and a big FAT zero for lifting weights or attending exercise classes over the past four to five months. So when you hear the experts say that you have to exercise AND eat right in order to consistently maintain a healthy lifestyle, they aren't making that stuff up.

So, with all that "boohooing" and "pity partying" hopefully out of my system, I am excited to try something new for a change - looking forward instead of behind me; focusing on a healthier future and not getting frustrated and pissed on how far I have regressed.

It's time for me to quit making excuses and just do what I KNOW I am capable of doing!

Hopefully, the next time I post, it will be less than year and I will be chipping away at that 60 lbs. I gained. That way I won't have to change the name of my blog to "Jason's Weight Gain Journey."

Until then, let's focus on getting leaner and healthier and let the rest fall where they may...