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Michael: June 9, 2015: 285 pounds
It has been almost two weeks since I decided to be "just friends" with food, and, I am happy to report, it seems to be working. Yes, I know that "working" is not something that one can determine after two weeks, or even two months. This is a lifetime commitment. But still, I have probably eaten more sensibly over the past two weeks than I ever have. I have neither eaten nor dieted compulsively, and I generally feel good. (And did I mention the ten pounds I have already lost?)
In the same two weeks, however, I have only managed to exercise twice--both times were 20 minute walks that I took on my lunch hour.
It's not that I don't want to exercise. I just don't have time. I'm a busy person. A lot of people depend on me. I just can't take 20 minutes off all the time to go walking around, you know. I'm an important guy.
Or so I like to tell myself. Somehow, though, I manage to find the time to spend an hour a day on Facebook and another hour obsessively checking my blog stats and Amazon rankings. And to write for two different blogs. And to spend an average of three hours a day working on one of the six or so writing and editing projects I have taken on.
And there is that forty five minutes every evening after I get home that I lie in bed and read a mystery novel, just to wind down.
And, of course, commenting on blogs and e-mail discussion threads (making sure that nobody on the Internet is wrong).
And then there is the half hour or so that I usually just spend surfing from one web site to another because I just don't want to get out of my chair.
But I'm too busy to exercise. I am a busy administrator with a full life and a lot of people who depend on me. Really. It's just not possible, no matter how much would love to do it.
One has to have priorities, you know.
It has been almost two weeks since I decided to be "just friends" with food, and, I am happy to report, it seems to be working. Yes, I know that "working" is not something that one can determine after two weeks, or even two months. This is a lifetime commitment. But still, I have probably eaten more sensibly over the past two weeks than I ever have. I have neither eaten nor dieted compulsively, and I generally feel good. (And did I mention the ten pounds I have already lost?)
In the same two weeks, however, I have only managed to exercise twice--both times were 20 minute walks that I took on my lunch hour.
It's not that I don't want to exercise. I just don't have time. I'm a busy person. A lot of people depend on me. I just can't take 20 minutes off all the time to go walking around, you know. I'm an important guy.
Or so I like to tell myself. Somehow, though, I manage to find the time to spend an hour a day on Facebook and another hour obsessively checking my blog stats and Amazon rankings. And to write for two different blogs. And to spend an average of three hours a day working on one of the six or so writing and editing projects I have taken on.
And there is that forty five minutes every evening after I get home that I lie in bed and read a mystery novel, just to wind down.
And, of course, commenting on blogs and e-mail discussion threads (making sure that nobody on the Internet is wrong).
And then there is the half hour or so that I usually just spend surfing from one web site to another because I just don't want to get out of my chair.
But I'm too busy to exercise. I am a busy administrator with a full life and a lot of people who depend on me. Really. It's just not possible, no matter how much would love to do it.
One has to have priorities, you know.
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