Happy New Year, everyone! I resolve to eat better/less and exercise more. I plan on doing a modified version of the South Beach Diet. Working out will include using DH's Bowflex and walking.
I'm off to a so-so start. Did the exercise, but the eating changes will have to wait until my coffee-lovers' ice-cream birthday cake is gone. So unfair, having 12/31 birthday!
Is there anything to that stress-cortisol link they talk about in infomercials? I think so. I don't know much about how their product works, but I do know that crying at my desk, eating chocolate at 3:00 AM as I pulled yet another all-nighter certainly wasn't helping the cause. So another part of my WISH plan is to either find a new job or make drastic changes to my current position. I have applied for a new job and have made some suggestions to the VP at my current one, so maybe some progress will be made soon.
To quantify my fitness goals, I hope to lose maybe 10-15 pounds, but I'm not picky. If muscle weighs more than fat as they say, I'm OK with the weight staying and the cellulite going! My BMI, even now at my heaviest (outside of my 2 pregnancies), is within the "normal" range. But I think if the folks who designed that BMI chart ever saw me in a bikini, they would revamp their numbers immediately! I must tone, shape, and firm -- stat!
I've been lying about being 28 for years now. (Why 28? The truth is too depressing, and 29 is too suspicious.) But if things don't change, I will have to turn "32" on my next birthday. It's getting harder and harder to pass for 28...
So please WISH me luck. And good luck to all of you. I will check in soon!