Weighty Issues

Many are reporting an increase in their weight since joining the Madness. Do not fear. All is not lost. It has only been three weeks. Rome wasn't built in a day and this is much harder than building Rome!

Since we are mostly all women over 40 with the exception of TB and JZ we have many of the same weight issues. But I think the focus should be on healthier lifestyle. Changing how much we are eating, changing the rate of our exercise or the frequency.

JZ rode his bike to work up until the latest cold snap. This is a great thing for the environment and overall health and fitness.

TB is a great baker and knows how to substitute sugar and other not-so-good things in a recipe so that the outcome is healthy and lower in fat and sugar calories and contains more natural food products.

I feel like I am making strides just parking my car down by the stadium and walking from there. Remember, we are all at differnet levels of fitness and we will all have strides that we need to measure individually.

There will be things we can do collectively. Such as increase our duration of walking, watch our "bad" carbo intake. Cut down on how much television we watch or how long we sit at the computer and blog!

I hope everyone contributes their failures and successes and ideas to this blog. This is a journey, sometimes more like a fight. And the fight unfortunately is never ending. It takes energy, focus, positive self-talk, encouragement from outside, cloaking devices to keep out the button-pushing comments from our mothers or similar people, and a lot of determination and self-control.

Our bodies are miraculous organisms that will respond to these life style changes.
Lower your expectations! There is nothing more self-defeating than raising an expectation to an unattainable level and then not meeting it. Then you tend to think; "Why am I bothering!" and then the fridge opens and that leftover spaghetti falls out and into your mouth and the ice cream just leaps in after it, leaving you feeling bloated and lethargic watching the latest on Fox News about Anna Nicole Smith.