July 9th, 2010

A Weigh to Go: I’m Still Here

It’s has been so long since I’ve written here. Longer than I would have liked. So let me catch you up.

I mentioned in my last post that I would continue working out as much as my knees could handle. Unfortunately, as soon as I published that entry an old enemy sneaked up on me and caused my workouts to halt. I suffer from the residual injuries of having been an athlete in my younger years. I played various sports including, basketball, volleyball, and softball, all of which are very hard on the knees. In my junior year of high school I suffered Patellar dislocation in which my kneecap was pushed to the side. For years it would pop in and out of position and caused me to give up on my dream of making it to the [W]NBA. I also shattered my other kneecap about a year later and had to have fragments removed. Needless to say, the added weight has not helped my knees one bit. And so, after a pretty decent workout in May, I hurt my knee so badly that even sitting was painful. No surgery needed, but was required to stop with the cardio/aerobic exercises until my knees were no longer swollen. {Read the whole entry here}

May 23rd, 2010

Mamavation Monday: Me. Only Healthier. With a Recipe

I wrote before about this jour­ney being about more than weight loss. While I need to lose weight, I also want my lifestyle to be health­ier. I want to focus on cre­at­ing healthy habits and mak­ing healthy choices. The bot­tom line is that this is for my fam­ily. So, I have been spend­ing so much time out of the house get­ting active and in the Kitchen cook­ing more. And when I say that I have been cook­ing, I have really been cook­ing (read more here).

April 12th, 2010

A Weigh to Go: The Aftermath

Well by now you probably know that I am not one of the Mamavation Moms. I would be lying if I said that I wasn’t highly disappointed. Of course, I am happy for the new moms, but the fact is that losing is a big blow in a long line of blows when it comes to my health. As motivated as I am to get healthy it often feels like every attempt that I make to do so fails.

At any rate, this is not about getting anyone to feel sorry for me. I am just being honest which is something I have always done while blogging.  The point of this post it to put in writing (type) that I am on a mission to fix things in my life and that nothing will stop me…

Read more at A Weigh to Go

April 11th, 2010

Mamavation Monday: The Road Ahead

I often think that I am afraid to succeed. When I start doing well I almost sabotage myself. The problem is that I find it very hard to recover from that self-defeating behavior. Take this week for example. Since February 10, 2010 I was down 12 pounds as of this past Monday. I was on a roll. My successes the previous week got me so psyched and despite the failures, I stayed mamavated!

Read the rest here at A Weight to Go!