It is so easy to recognize when other people have issues, but when it comes to self I sometimes have problems recognizing my issues. I can tell my friends and family how they should exercise and what they should and should not eat so that they do not develop health issues. I give them all kinds of advice. “You should start out walking an 18 minute mile everyday. This will get you started. Then you can work your way up to 3 mile in 3 weeks. Be sure you eat breakfast. Do not skip meals, eat 6 small meals. You don’t want your body to think it is in starvation. If it thinks it is in starvation it will begin to store fat cells and you will actually gain instead of losing.” I go on and on about adding strength training. I get all excited about telling others how they should get into shape; all the while I am 40 pounds over weight and keep yo-yoing 5 to 10 pounds.
I keep fighting my way to 145 hitting a wall at 177. I am not enlisting my own advice I keep telling myself this is the first day of a new journey but it keeps feeling like the movie Ground Hogs Day. If you have not seen the movie I’ll make a long story short. In the movie the same day is repeated over and over again. Hmm, can I enlist my own advice?
Well, we shall see over the next month I will be keeping track of my efforts and being more accountable. In order to make change I must admit I have a problem.
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