I'm Mad as H - E - Double Hockey Sticks...

Okay. I'll admit that at Thursday meeting, I wasn't happy. I was 1.4 pounds of unhappy. I gained back the 1.4 I lost last week. I'm eating way less, and exercising, and yet the loss is not there. There are 4 components two my weight loss journey. Exercise, get healthier, eat better, and LOSE WEIGHT!! What do you do when you are doing 3 out of the 4? For me, it was simple. Whine and complain, throw my little tantrum and be done with it. But what do you do when the tantrum is over? Do you just quit? Sit there and pout? For me the answer is simple. Surround yourself with good friends and a loving family. These "peeps" are my posse, my entourage, or you might say inner circle. You won't see these people filling my head with thoughts of how great I am and causing my head to swell so much, that the next thing you now I'm running on stage of The Biggest Loser to proclaim Beyoncé lost the most weight and she should have won it. No that's not what kind of people these are. These are the people who lift me up when I'm down, speaking the encouraging thoughts, the hugs and prayers when I need them, or the tongue lashing when I screw up. These people help me stay on track and keep me focused. They did an excellent job last week! While I'm frustrated, I must still understand, I'm not going to lose all 200 lbs. overnight. It has taken me along time to get fat, and it's going to take a while to get healthy again. I'm on a healthy lifestyle roller coaster you could say. There are going to be times when I'm having fun and enjoying things, and other times, it going to be absolutely miserable and I want to get off. I'm am going to track every good and horrible thing I eat, and look at the changes I can make and straighten it out. I have to be doing something right. I am breathing better. I'm getting around better. The exercise is really helping, no matter how bad I hate step-ups on Thursdays! Thank you everyone for your support!

Okay, now my biggest complaint about making these changes, is the price of healthier food. It doesn't make sense how a cheeseburger should be more expensive than a salad. How can a can of green beans cost less than the same amount of fresh green beans. Why can I have a pack of carrots cost $1.98, but a organic carrot cost $3.25? Stuff like this isn't making sense to me. I was telling my wife how for lunch I would go and get 3 cheeseburgers and a Dr. Pepper from McDonald's for lunch and spend around $4, but if I bought a salad and a water from there, it would cost me 2 to 3 dollars more! Why should eating healthy be such a burden on one's wallet? Michelle Obama passed really strict laws on healthy foods in schools. Should the same thing be done for food producers, grocery stores, or restaurants? A greasy, double cheeseburger with all the vegetables on it, shouldn't cost less than just the vegetables. So far the only thing around here that is losing weight really fast on our healthy lifestyle change is my wallet. I can see how easy things mount up. You work all day and the last thing you want to do is cook dinner. You zip in to the grocery store and find something cheap and easy to make. You run to the frozen aisle and grab a Patio TV dinner for under $1. You grab them and feed your family of 5 for about $5, but if you wanted to eat something healthier, you grab a Healthy Choice meal and it would cost you up to $5 for just a single meal! So you buy the cheaper meal. That should be the other way around!

I guess the bright side in all of this is you got to work at being healthy and that's a good thing. You may be tired after working hard all day, and the last thing you want to do is cook dinner. It also may cost a little more, but the reassurance you have that your doing something healthy will fill you better than a corn dog did. Plus, you can add some activity points too! After all, it took me 3 hours at an exhausting pace to make that salad. Now I can add that to my daily total, and have ice cream and chocolate syrup for desert.

Okay, my feet are sore standing up here on my soap box. Now to not trip while I'm getting down.