Accepting gradual change
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Last night I was watching “Too Fat for Fifteen,” which (by the way) is depressing. A show about how overweight and unhealthy our children are just fills me with anger. How does a parent allow their fourteen year old daughter to get to 510lbs? It’s not like it happens overnight. She would have had a lot of doctors appointments over the years showing unhealthy weight gain. I know how it happens to adults, because we don’t make the effort, and that’s your own business… what you do to your body or don’t do… it’s all up to you, but your children? They can’t do it for themselves. We have to teach them. </rant>
Sorry… that’s not where I intended to go with this. What I actually wanted to talk about was something I took away from the show. As I watched the kids weigh in at the end, the larger kids routinely lost significantly more. I thought about my own weight loss and decided something.
As long as I am sure I’m working hard, as long as I am honest with myself about the choices I’m making and know I’m continuing to aim for health, I should look at slowed weight loss as a positive thing. It seems as though the closer you get to a healthy, happy weight, the harder your body fights losing weight. So the fact that my weight loss has slowed down now just means that I am that much closer to my goal of a healthy body. So really, as long as I’m honest about my choices, slow loss is a victory!
That’s my goal for the next few weeks, to really concentrate on seeing the positives in all of this. I focus too much on the negatives, and I just don’t want to do that anymore.
That being said, can I just say something? I really hate the Disco Abs workout from On Demand. I did it once a few months ago and really couldn’t follow it at all. Although I am usually very good with dance routine type workouts and I am usually praised in BodyStep or other dance type classes for catching on quickly and having great form, I just could not follow this one. The steps came too quickly, and despite pausing the program to slow it down and try to get it, I cannot do the Funkadelic. At first I passed it off as something I’d just need to practice, but I did it again yesterday and nope, still hate it. Seriously, I can’t do the Funkadelic, and my hips? Are NOT disco hips.
So alas, dear Disco Abs. No more shall you grace my television screen. Sorry.
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Ugh there are so many bad fitness dvds out there! And speaking as a BodyStep instructor, if you can keep up with the class (and be praised for your coordination) then it is definitely NOT you. It’s the dvd.
But I’m with ya with struggling to accept slow weight loss. Sometimes I want it to all go away NOW! But its the reality of healthy living! And I’d much rather not feel deprived and lose weight slowly vs. feel weak, sluggish and hungry and lose weight quickly.
1 chase @ the chase project said this (August 17, 2010 at 12:12 pm)
I think that’s perfect. I’ve purposely taken a break in the middle of my loss. But You’re right. The closer you get to a good weight, the longer it takes to work it out with your body to lose it. But, slow is good. Slow is long term. Slow is habit building. You’re doing well. Keep it up!
2 JourneyBeyondSurvival said this (August 17, 2010 at 1:28 pm)
I totally agree. Slow and happy is just fine by me. But can we talk Disco Abs? I used to Disco my heart out as a kid. I love it! Never mind that my teenage Uncle/disco partner flung me into a full length mirror during one of the dance moves… bloodshed, tears, shards of glass, etc, etc, etc.
3 Yum Yucky said this (August 17, 2010 at 6:28 pm)
Now THAT is a good disco story. I just can’t get the moves down, which makes me all irritated!
4 skinnysushi said this (August 17, 2010 at 6:30 pm)
I just found your blog through the HLB site. Love this post. It is true that the closer you get to a goal the slower changes happen. Frustrating, but I love that you take it as a good sign. Keep consistent and things WILL happen.
And as a mother, I would have gone on that same tangent. I don’t get how parents can allow that for their children either.
5 Tina said this (August 17, 2010 at 9:47 pm)