Getting going
Feb. 12th, 2010 10:03 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
sunburst_strengthI 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.
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.
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Date: 2010-02-13 09:18 pm (UTC)