September 22, 2009
Well, I haven’t been updating here, because there was a security hole in the old version of Wordpress that I was using and I needed to upgrade my version. I was afraid to do so, because i thought it would be a long and complicated process, complete with missing files, lost data, etc., etc.
Despite the fact that Mercury is currently Retrograde (one more week), I decided to bite the bullet and upgrade all up in heyah.
Done. It worked. Nothing lost. Take THAT, Merc.
So, my update is that I am, as I have said many times before, Back On Track. I have been consistently and faithfully been writing down everything I eat for the past two to three weeks. I am showing losses again, am back to walking again and hope to sit down and pound out a training schedule to get me running again by the end of October.
While we all know that I have a hard time with motivation, I hesitate to say that I’ve been motivated by outside sources. I know that this is supposed to be for me, but finding the reasons to try and the commitment has been difficult these past almost two years.
Thankfully, WW is holding a Lose-For-Good campaign right now. It’s basically a six week version of what I had done in 2006. Back in 2006, when I was participating in the Run to Feed the Hungry in Sacramento, I donated food to the Sacramento Food Bank that was equal to the amount of weight I’d lost at that point. Back then it was 126 pounds. So, after six weeks, this may seem a little anti-climactic to me, but at least it has done the job of getting me Back On Track. Having the food sitting out on the counter, with a little sign on it (”Week 1″, “Week 2″, etc…) is a very motivating factor and a great deterrent when the late night munchies strike.
And this isn’t to say that I’ve actually rejoined WW, because I haven’t. I’m just doing the program. My reasons for not rejoining yet have to do with both pride and finances. While I do hope to rejoin at some point, I need to come to terms with some things before doing so.
As for now, I’m doing a hell of a job on my own, if I do say so myself and I look forward to updating here more in the future.