Hiddennode

Thanksgiving has come and gone. The past four days were glorious moments of family, friends, and of course, food. We’re entering December and the heart of the holiday season and frankly, I think my diet has already had it. This morning I threw away an apple fritter from Friday, some pumpkin bread from turkey day itself, and tonight I’m tossing out the mini-cupcakes and cookie cake from Saturday. Far too many sweets in my house. Don’t get me wrong, I know I’ll be eating bad again come 25 days from now, but I can do my best to not during the three and a half weeks in-between.

That said, I’m going to also need to start burning these calories if I’m expecting to actually still lose weight this holiday season. I’m off to a bad start but it’s never too late to turn that around. First I’m going to start walking during one of my breaks at work. Second, I’m going to try to add in walking either in the morning or the evening at home. Likely in the morning because by the time I get home the chill will already be heavy in the air. That and it’ll be bad for my sleep schedule to get worked up that soon before heading to bed.

I’m still near 400 pounds and frankly, I’m tired of it.

Hey, are the rest of you trying to balance the tastiness of the holidays with staying healthy and eating right? It’s not an easy feat, especially with the scores of temptations out there. Let me know what ways you’re cutting back and staying active.

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Ah misleading titles, how you do nothing for my audience.

Oh wait, no, this one is actually relevant.

Last week I mentioned in twitter that I would be heading to doctor. Well, I went and returned not a few hours later. I come bearing something important from that fated meeting. Except for the whole “being morbidly obese” thing, I’m in perfect health. Well, at least my heart and cardio system is. Doc gives me a gold star rating on heart health and doesn’t want to see my mug for another year. For someone who is a Marfan’s Syndrome paitent, that long of a span is an amazing thing and it really points to a happy healthy heart.

That in mind, I need to work on getting the rest of the body healthy. This means one thing. Diet. Yup, time to get back on that horse. It’s time to take Raven’s advice and just try the cut carbs approach. The heart doctor suggested the same thing and well, stubborn as I am, I’m inclined to start listening. Only now I need support from Raven. This isn’t a line of “oh it’s her fault” thing, but just a mention I need her help in my cause to get thin but not suggesting some of the foods stuff that I really don’t need (like awesome but bad for me pizza). I need to get that whole willpower thing to turn it down, but it does help to not even have the temptation in the first place.

Speaking of, Raven’s back in town. Picked her and her friend up from the airport Friday night. Nice drive there, not so nice on the way back. I crashed hard that night too (Sleep wise). Got home around midnight and slept until 10. I guess the week caught up to me. Or maybe it was waking up at 5:20 Friday morning.

I want my weekend back.

jdiehl