Just A Comment...

My roomie & I have been dealing with a lot of things lately.  One of those is our ongoing endeavor to exercise & lose weight.  It's been a regular part of life since last February.  Things we've noted.

1st, you have to admit how & why you got there to begin with.  Did you just over eat?  Was there a reason for the over eating?  Do you have a medical issue?  Is it some combination of things?  Regardless, this answer is vastly important for you succeeding in your goal.

When you've figured out how you got to the point that you feel the need to lose weight, you've got a surprise coming.  There are literally 100's of websites, books & opinions on how to lose weight.  Guess what?  You're going have to try a lot of them until you figure out what works for you.  1 singular point of importance here, nobody else gets to be the authority of your body or weight loss.  How much you cut back on calories or food types is up to you.   Your body will tell you how much exercise it can handle.  Listen to it, even if it isn't very much in the beginning.  If you keep at it, you'll become stronger & more endurant. 

Finally, weight loss is weird.  It doesn't come off like it went on.  My weight went on fairly evenly.   It isn't coming off that way.  My legs & arms are slimming fairly quickly.  My chest & upper legs are starting to catch up.  However, the upper thighs, rear & gut are liking watching some odd ice cube melt.  At least it is coming off slowly.

Often we get ourselves into the messes strewn through our lives.  It's up to us to clean them up.  Sure you can get advice, but you're who's going to have to do the work.

Cya...

Trying, Sometimes It's The Hardest Thing To Do

I dabble with a lot of things; fixing faucets, taking out overgrown shrubs & concocting my own recipes.  I do most of this out of necessity.  I don't have the $ to pay someone else to do it.  I'm never fond of the process to begin with, there's all that uncertainty.  Can I do this?  How much worse will I make the situation? Eventually, I usually concede & at least try.  It's not always pretty, but I did put forth an effort.

Most of what I dabble with, other people know how to do.  Usually their parents taught them how.  I did not have the luxury of parents willing to teach me anything, with he exception of drinking. I have had to go through almost everything most people take for granted & try to do it by trial & error.  There are more often errors than successes, but eventually I get to something that works for me.  Then one day someone walks up & does it the right way &  I have V8 moment & face-palm myself.  The way they did it made so much sense, it was so much easier, but I never knew how to do it, until that moment.

Past that, I've had to learn to adjust somethings to my life.  Like realizing I don't have to do all the dishes, laundry or other cleaning at once.  It's OK, if I can only mow a bit of the yard at a time.   It will still get done.  I don't have to do any of my household chores on anyone else's schedule other than my own.  I can take all day Sunday and cook tons of stuff up in case I don't feel up to cooking later in the week.  I can clean one part of the kitchen a day and keep it fairly clean.  This is my house & my life & I will learn to do it my way and accept it as being OK.

I do dabble with recipes.  Dabbling with recipes is a process of evolution.  It takes time.  I've told a few people online about my recipes, but not until today did I post them.  Today I posted four of my recipes on Allrecipes.com.  I'll have to wait to see if they accept them for general viewing.  If they do I'll post the links.  Until now I never did it, I didn't want the recipes to be rejected.  Finally I accepted the worse thing they could  do was to say "No" & that there were other sites to submit to if they did reject my submissions.  Most of all I had to realize they would be rejecting my recipes, not me.

Go ahead try, try something.  So what if you fail.  You just might enjoy it and learn something along the way.