I'm Kinda' Fat

If you've been reading my blog you know by all of my annoying complaints about being fat,  that I've been trying to lose the same 20 pounds for what seems like forever and a freakin' day.  I'm so tired of this fat stage and it's gotta' hit the road.  

Here's how I got in this boat to begin with:

1. In 2009 I got engaged--of course a gained a few pounds.  Instead of starving myself & working out excessively, I was hangin' with my new man.

2. That same year I got married--gained a few more pounds

3. That VERY SAME year I moved to "small town" KY where I was bored to death with no friends and a bad habit of feelin' sorry for myself--soooo....I gained a few more pounds.

4. In 2010 I had a baby--I was a freakin' elephant when I left the hospital AFTER giving birth...I stayed home with my son for the first 6 weeks and had very good intentions of losing weight quickly. I started walking and doing exercise videos...BUT I started too soon.  I tore my stomach muscles and hurt my back during second week.  Before you rush to comment that I'm supposed to wait several weeks before I exercising after having a child, I will tell you that I do, in fact realize that, but I don't always follow the rules. MOST OF THE TIME I make up my own rules.  So, this little mistake set my hot body goal back awhile and the doctor told me to wait another month before exercising---I waited alot longer than that.  Big mistake.

5. Since then, I've lost a few pounds, gained a few pounds, taken diet pills, gone the the gym, started running, walked alot....quit working, became a stay at home mom...never lost the baby weight...or the marriage weight.  Now I'm just kinda' fat.

Ok, I'm NOT obese.  I know this.  I don't eat horribly.  I'm not lazy.  If the weather's nice, I exercise.  If presented with the option of grilled or fried, I always choose the grilled.  I eat my veggies.  I drink my green power smoothies.  I don't drink milk.  I rarely eat red meat or french fries.

BUT here's my list of problems--I make excuses, I don't exercise in cold weather, I eat sweets--chocolate, cake, pie...you get it, I EAT TOO MUCH, I eat late at night, I eat when I'm depressed or bored.  I eat Mexican food....ALOT. 

I'm a crybaby.  I make excuses and whine about why I can't lose weight.  Here are some of my favorite excuses:

1. I can't go to the gym because I don't have a babysitter & my husband's work schedule doesn't allow anytime for him to babysit while I work out....AKA I'm too tired & too lazy to go to the gym at 8pm when he gets home, AND too lazy during those short amounts of time when I should be working my butt off

2. There aren't any healthy places to eat around here....AKA I'm too lazy to keep my fridge stocked with quick healthy options for those nights when I don't cook dinner

3. It's too cold to walk outside & I've had bad luck with exercise videos...AKA I'm very lazy in cold weather because I can't get motivated to do anything.

4. There are no healthy grocery stores like Whole Foods, Fresh Market or Trader Joes within 2 hours of where I live....AKA I would like to shop at Whole Foods because it would make me feel really healthy and since we don't have one close by, I will complain about it instead of looking for the healthier/organic options available at Walmart.

5. I can no longer revert to my vegetarian starvation techniques and strict dieting of my younger years because my husband likes to eat meat at dinnertime.  He can't eat raw veggies and he can't eat raw fruits & he likes to have "SNACK FOOD" in our house....I CAN'T have snack food around!  AKA....an excuse to have chips and junk food in our house...and an excuse for me to eat it.

Yep.  I'm a big excuse maker.

I'm tired of being kinda' fat so the first thing I'm going to do this week is to trash my excuses.  I'm gonna' go to the gym, stop eating cake and erase Mexican food from my life--for awhile.

So this is my first week of victoriously trashing my old excuses....

Each week I will be updating y'all on my progress.  I won't be posting pictures until AFTER I lose some weight because I aint showin' off this heffer body for nothin'!

Also linking up below to show off my victory: