New Beginnings...

Wow, I'd just about given this blog up for the ghost, when two things happened yesterday.

First I want to put forth a huge thank you to Stace from Piffel Drivel and Fluff, for encouraging me to keep this blog going, by giving it a new spin. I love the idea!

She has a wonderful food philosophy that I can totally relate to. And stick with! What is it you say? It's simple.

Instead of focusing on dieting, which as we all know, I can't stick to any, I'm going to focus on the pleasures of food. Enjoy your food, without any worries or guilt. The idea is feel happy about what you eat without beating yourself up for eating something like say, a pizza. If you are mentally cool with it, than physically you probably will be too.

Few. Finally something I know something about!

I know! So easy.

Now, this doesn't mean that I don't need to loose weight or be healthier. But I'm not going to make myself miserable dieting either.

This brings me to the other thing that happened.

Yesterday was a lovely spring day. The sun was shining, the birds were singing. In short it was the perfect day for a motorcycle ride.

Everything was set. Good weather? Check. Motorcycle? Check. Day off? Check.

The hitch? I couldn't fit into my riding pants! I was too fat! The horror. Because I'm a stickler for safety, I refused to ride in my stretchy pants.

Call me crazy, but if we should happen to fall (not that I don't trust you sweetie!), I didn't want a thin layer of cotton to be the only thing between me and the pavement.

To say my husband was disappointed is an understatement, and believe me I felt horrible. He was really sweet about the whole thing, but still. How embarrassing that we couldn't ride, because I was too fat.


We ended up having a nice, relaxing day, but we also had a long talk.

Both of us agree things need to change. Not just for me, but him too. We have unfortunately started to lead a very sedentary life style. Instead of doing all the fun things we used to, we have taken to spending almost all our time at home on the computer. Him working, and me blogging or surfing the internet.

Obviously this is not good. So we decided that both of us would start doing a bit of exercise each day. If we can't get out of the house, then at least we will make an effort to do sit ups and such at home.

Also? We are giving up desserts. Yes giving them up. I know this sounds drastic, but we both feel it is a huge contributor to our weight gain.

So of course I went around the kitchen last night finding all the yummies, and asking my husband but what about the cake I just bought, or the ice cream, or the Cadbury cream eggs? Too bad we had just gone shopping the day before.

Cutting out desserts is something we both should do even if we weren't trying to loose weight, since we both need to be careful about diabetes, as it runs in our families.

Instead of feeling sad about this, I actually feel encouraged. Like I said earlier I'm not dieting. I will still eat and enjoy my foods, even if they aren't low fat. I will not worry about that. In fact I'm not making an effort at all to make low fat meals.

If I choose to make dinner low fat, than fine, but I don't have to.

It helps that my husband is doing this with me, so we can hold each other accountable. With the exercising, and cutting out desserts, I feel this will help on the weight front a little.

I also believe that by at least getting some exercise my body will tone, and then I'll feel more comfortable with it, even if I do weigh more than the 118 lbs I wanted to get down to. Those days are long gone, I'm afraid.

The main thing is, is to be comfortable and enjoy myself. It's mostly about having a positive mentality. If you feel good mentally, you will feel good physically. Thank you Stace!

So it it with a good conscience that I can honestly say, that Easter Dinner tonight was wonderful! In fact it was so good, I had seconds. Mmm Mmm.