Getting going

[sunburst_strength]

I have a lot of issues/problems with trying to get fit, eat healthier, lose weight, etc. I totally believe in health at any size and in the beauty of people of size, so it often feels like a kind of betrayal of that to work on losing weight. OTOH, my goal is NOT to be thin, just to be more of a smaller/moderate plus-size rather than barely still fitting in plus-size. And I'd like to have the energy to do more things in general.

Another problem I tend to run into is that I'm Little Miss Muffet. I'm either working on this thing full-on and thinking of little else and being nearly perfect or I'm eating whatever the fuck I want and never purposely exercising. I need to find a balance, a middle ground. I need to find a way to make this work that's sustainable so I don't burn out. I usually go to walking for exercise, but between cold, rain and our sticky hot summers I have excuses more days than not. I do live in a great neighborhood for walking, so I do plan to keep it as an option--I just need other options.

I don't really have room for exercise equipment, and I definitely don't have the money for the kind of equipment that would accommodate my weight without crapping out. So I bought a Wii, my first video game system ever. I don't have a Wii fit, partially because the boards are scarce and partially because I've heard that the game itself scolds you for tiny weight fluctuations. I got the EA Sports Active, and Just Dance, plus of course the sports games. I'm keeping an eye on craigslist to get the Wii Fit board without the game.

I know what I need to do food-wise. What I like to do is focus on whole grains, veggies, fruits and beans with low-fat dairy and eggs because I do like those things and they fill me up and make me feel good in the long-term. Of course, what I *want* a lot of the time is pizza and ice cream and fried tofu, so I need to have those sometimes, too. I'm vegetarian, but I've been experimenting with adding fish/seafood back into my diet. That's as far as I would go--the thought of eating poultry or red meat is *bad*. Plus, there are good substitutes for those things, but fish and seafood can't be copied well.

So, I'm trying. Again. And I'm not expecting myself to be perfect.

Comments

[astrothsknot]

look at it this way - you don't want to get into pretty clothes (nice as they are). You just want to live your life to full and not die before your time from something preventable. It's such a shame that being fit and healthy has been warped by society into the journey to beauty, rather than the destination.

Could I also reccommend you get the Woman's Home Fitness Bible? It's got resistance exercises and home gym ideas for every budget and space consideration, eg resistance bands that can fold away into drawers in your dressing table when you don't use them

[sunburst_strength]

Thanks! I do have a set of resistance bands (must go find them in the garage) and a book on using them. It's just actually *using* them that's the problem. ;)