Posted by zazu on January 24th, 2008
I have not had the greatest start to the new year.. although it was my intent to have a fresh start, I haven’t exactly made any progress. In fact, if you have read my blog, you know I resigned myself to just maintaining last semester because of my crazy schedule and the stress. I did make smart choices and maintained - even through Christmas. Now that my schedule is a little lighter, I am recommitting to losing, but I haven’t lost a single pound yet in 2008. 
I started back to Irish Dance after a month off and I can definitely tell my slacking off in December was not a good idea. I felt lethargic and had a hard time keeping up. I never want to go back to what I weighed and how I felt before, but sometimes my shoulder devil tries to tell me that losing 20 lbs is good enough. The h#$@ it is! I do feel great about my successes, but I’m not going to just say that being 25 lbs overweight is good enough because it’s less than I was before! I feel like a rant .. but mainly at myself because I know I can do it. I have done it before.
Stupid things are stressing me out, like trying to finish up my M.Ed project so I can graduate in May, and preparing for a play I’m interpreting next week (I’ve never interpreted a play before) and staying on top of the 6 classes I am teaching and 3 classes I interpret this semester. I do love my life, but sometimes I just feel tired thinking about what I have to do, when I haven’t even started it yet 
Trying to lose weight in the middle of it all is just an added wrench and I struggle to figure out how to balance it all. I have no idea how you all do it when you’re this busy PLUS have children. Although I really want a family, I have no idea how I’d manage a child in addition to all this.
January 24th, 2008 at 10:11 pm
You can do it. This is a journey, not a destination. As long as you are committed and working towards your goal, the speed at which you get there does not matter. I feel like post-Christmas is almost more busy than pre-Christmas, but keep your head above water. YOU CAN DO THIS!
January 24th, 2008 at 11:12 pm
Don’t be too hard on yourself… and you’re right… 20 lbs isn’t enough! Just like 17 isn’t enough for me! Keep it up girl! and I’ll keep going too… We CAN DO THIS!
January 26th, 2008 at 7:03 pm
AMEN SISTER! I’ve been struggling this month too. I’ve been down then up then down then up… It is frustrating and I feel the same way that you do that you are trying to lose weight in the middle of a busy life already…and I don’t even have kids! This past week I just couldn’t work out so I just decided after talking to myself a lot that I just couldn’t do it and I wasn’t going to be hard on myself. But then sometimes I wonder if I’m making excuses… I guess all we can do is continue to give it our best and not be hard on ourselves. As Danielle says…WE CAN DO THIS! Hang in there.