I started blogging when I started Body for Life last year. I want to review what has happened in my “weight conscious” world. What started me on BFL were two things:

1. A book called “A Very Hungry Girl: How I Filled Up on Life and How You Can, Too” and
2. therapy, because I read the book, “A Very Hungry Girl”.

My therapist suggested that I try to find a regime that had a following so that I would be able to reap the benefits of a support group. I completed one challenge, but half-assed. I could do the working out. In fact, I love lifting weights. It takes a lot of effort to get myself into cardio, and that area was quite lacking during the workout portion of the program. I also had a terribly hard time eating 6 times a day. It just isn’t for me. And so I learned a lot about myself while trying to do the challenge.

Before all of the book reading and therapy, I had been diagnosed with PCOS, which I gather (based on what my doctors tell me) is when there is something wrong with your hormonal balance, but they have tested just about everything and can’t figure it out. In fact, cysts are not even a prerequisit for poly-cystic ovarian syndrom. Imagine that. But it is one way to explain why I can consume 1,000 less (consistently) than what my body requires to maintain it’s weight and not see a change in my weight, shape, or general health.

So recently, I have decided to get back “on the wagon” of sorts. I think it is because I can see Yogagirl having killer days at the gym and still find time to write about it. I see Skwigg’s batman back. I mean, come on! I can do this, right?

So I have started. But I am doing it a little differently. I am just going to start breaking it up into steps. So my first step was to increase the amount of cardio I do per week. I now do two focused 20 minute workouts and 2 intensity-fluxuating 1.5 hour workouts a week. I lift weights at least once, but sometimes twice a week. And now I have started cutting as much sugar out of my diet as possible, which is hard because I am addicted to chocolate and Winemonkey likes dessert with almost every dinner when he and I eat together. My next step is to start going to the gym a little more often and lifting weights twice a week regularly instead of occassionally. If I don’t see a weight loss/muscle gain in the next few weeks, I will need some advice on how to change my approach.

Thank you fitness bloggers for helping keep me inspired!

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