Facing the reality and setting goals

Looks like finally I have got to the point where I am ready to accept the reality - looking after your health including weight management is a lifetime goal. I used to feel that life is unfair - why did I have to be born with the body type gaining weight easily when there are plenty of thin people who don't have to pay attention to their food nor do exercise to stay thin. Well, at the end of the day, even those naturally thin people should be eating healthy and exercise because being thin does not automatically mean being healthy and fit. So how to stay motivated?

One great piece of advise I got from Organize Yourself Skinny blog was to make weight loss (or looking after your health) your new hobby. Absolutely brilliant! Don't we all want to spend our spare minutes with our hobbies - doing it, reading about it, learning and researching about it, getting better at it, checking in with other like-minded people. It becomes priority to find time for it. When before, I was feeling guilty of "wasting time" doing anything related to my weight loss, guilty of not spending that time with my family or working more. I felt bad for all those wasted hours reading success stories of other people and never mentioned it to others. Now I understand that I needed that daily boost to keep motivated, nothing wrong with that!

In her book 150 Pounds Gone Forever Diane Carbon says that one thing she regrets is not taking her before photos and more measurements than just hips and waist at the beginning of her weight loss so I decided to start from there. It was not pleasant but it is done now

REALITY:

Weight: 85 kg

Chest: 113 cm

Waist at the thinnest point: 95 cm

Waist at navel level: 107 cm

Hips: 115 cm

Left arm: 38 cm

Left thigh 71 cm

L calf: 42 cm

LONG TERM GOALS:

• Weight down into healthy range for my height around 62 kg
• Fitness levels improved
• Energy levels improved
• Healthy eating habits developed and maintaining
• Bad habits eliminated and maintaining

I have been keeping diary for 2 weeks now and can see clearly 2 problematic situations:

1. Wanting to snack when drinking wine even when not hungry - even though we drink wine only once a week usually then until I have learned to detach the need of snacking while drinking we should not drink.
2. Sitting down to watch something on TV with hubby and going to bed too late - need to prioritize my health, nothing can be as important coming from TV. Next day I feel much better for it.

We are going on a trip in 12 weeks time, during those weeks I will commit on creating more healthy habits so that my fitness and energy levels would be improved and weight decreased.