I posted earlier how I was struggling pretty bad with my depression and I wanted to update you all on how I'm doing. The past almost 2 weeks I have been working out daily (except Sunday) and journaling my food and I have noticed and increase in my happiness. Not that it "makes me happy", but I feel better. I know we have all been told that exercise gives us a "natural high" and I'm here to say I know it does. Am I so bubbly that I'm annoying even myself? No. But I can get through the day without wanting to give up. I'm enjoying being a mom again. I just feel better. So that's where I am right now. I just needed to post and keep record of my feelings, that way if I have a depression slump again I can look and see if there is a trend. I'm hoping if I keep up my exercise habit I will be able to better cope with things as they come at me.
The exercise program I started is POWER 90 (thanks Travis and Katie!). It is workable into any schedule. It's 40 min or 30 min a day (depending on what you are doing that particular day). I told myself last week (my first week on) that if I could just work out 5 days I didn't have to do the 6th day, but I woke up on Saturday and WANTED to exercise! CRAZY!!! Do I jump out of bed and say, "YEA!!! I get to exercise right now!!!" HECK NO! But I do feel good once I've done it! I've also been counting my POINTS again. I'm not going to post my journals because that is a lot of extra work for me in my BUSY life right now, but I am working on keeping them. I have my first measurment day on Nov 7th and I will post how much (if any) inches lost and how many pounds I have lost. Hopefully I will lose through this! I already feel much stronger than I have in awhile, so if anything I will just feel better. But I'm hoping to "be a perfect 10" by the time we go to Disneyland in Dec. That's 8 weeks of doing this. I don't know if I'll get there, but it is something to work towards! So I will post here off and on about what I'm doing. So thanks for all you who check it out and if you are on your own weight loss journey, I wish you the BEST of luck!
