August 2, 2025: Three Good Days ?

 

Since 2025 has been a horrible year so far (from a diet and exercise perspective), I decided to restart the year yesterday. Going forward I'm just going to title my blog's with the date, because I tend not to write every day and it gets hard to keep track of the days. I will still try to capture everything I've been up to when I do write.

I slept in a bit today - it was almost 10 when I finally got up ! I'm not sure what time it was when I went to sleep but it wasn't horribly late. I guess I was tired ! 

Breakfast was a 180 calorie cherry cheese roll. Still one of my Nutrisystem favorites and I was happy they brought it back ! Around 12:30 I had an 80 calorie yogurt with my second cup of coffee. 

Before I had that second cup of coffee I got myself dressed, make a protein shake, put on my treadmill shoes and plugged in my tablet to get a full charge. I have iFit on my old tablet and it doesn't charge very fast. It's 1:24 now and it's at 90%, so I'll be getting on the treadmill very soon ! LOL .. I guess it was offended by being called a slow charger .. as of 1:26 it's at 100% ! 

My inspo for today is "Don't Accept Excuses From Yourself". This is something I do ALL THE TIME !!!!! It was hot. It was cold. It was too late. I was tired. I was going out. My knee hurts. My hip hurts. My back hurts. Thing is, none of these excuses hold water. 

1. It was hot: there is a fan and an air conditioner in the office where my treadmill sits.

2. It was cold. I have plenty of space heaters.

3. It was too late. It's never too late.

4. I was tired. Don't procrastinate all day.

5. I was going out. Unless I'm going out for the entire day, that is no excuse.

6. My knee hurts. Take a Tylenol.

7. My hip hurts. See #6.

8. My back hurts. See #6.

Unless I'm sick and leave in the early morning for a day out, there is no excuse for not exercising. I don't exercise on Wednesday's because of rock & roll bingo, but I don't have to leave the house until 4:20 pm. There is plenty of time to exercise, shower and get ready to go out ! At the same time, there is no excuse for stuffing my face with a bunch of high calorie foods. I'm working on accepting that I can't control myself when it comes to ice cream. This means I can't keep it in the house. I seem to be over candy as I had the peanut M&M's once and the rest of the bag is sitting in the fridge. I do have the sandwich cookies but I'm not sitting down and eating half a bag. I do need to set a limit and just get X number of them (maybe 5) for a snack. Are the hotdogs for lunch a good idea ? Well, maybe not, but I do try to minimize the calories by having them on 40 calorie bread. My thinking is that I will do better in the long term if I don't try to deny myself everything. I did that the first few years with Nutrisystem and once I got to 160 pounds I started eating again and here I am, back at 300 pounds again ! Clearly I did not make a lifestyle change and I started regaining the weight before mom died and before I lost my job, so I can't blame those events for the start. I will say that those events might have kept me from putting in the work needed to keep the weight off.

On that note, it's 2:04 pm and I need to pee and then hit the treadmill !