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Tired Of Being Overweight
by Chris Peterson
I was so tired of being overweight that I motivated myself to take action! Not too long ago ( Well o.k -10 years ago), Everbody I knew called me bean pole. I was 6` tall and I weighed about 150 pounds soaking wet....But man did I have the energy to go and go and go....just like the energizer bunny.
Than suddenly....it happened! I settled down and got married and lucky me, my new wife was a pastry chef! Need I say more? Everyday she was baking me cakes and pies and you name it anything that tasted so darn good! Wow man!!!! married life was great, I used to eat one meal a day, cooking for myself and now I was eating delicious junk food non-stop!
Before I knew what hit me...my weight had increased by 50 pounds in 6 month`s. 'Holy Cow' I thought, well hey that`s good everyone always told me I was too skinny anyway and needed to pack on some weight to my skinny frame. My friend tried to tell me, to go on a diet
My friend had the #@%#@ to tell me that I was getting kind of overweight and I should go on a diet. My reply to him was simply 'Yeah..well I feel stronger now than I did at 150 pounds so that should be something positive about my weight gain , I told myself and him.
By this time, I was adding about seven packets of sugar to every cup of coffee that I drank and man do I drink coffee. Better yet, my wife was now stocking our freezer with about 5 differant flavors of ice cream every time she went grocery shopping. 'To Hell with being overweight I said...This food is Great'
After about a year of being overweight, I started to realize that I was feeling tired all the time and I had such low energy. I would go to work and eat fattening foods laced with sugar and than come home and 'Go nut`s on every sweet that we had in our kitchen'.
I couldn`t get enough...and than I would be tired and want to go directly to bed.Do you think my low energy levels have something to do with all of the sugar, cakes, pies, ice cream I would ask myself? Because I really don`t like feeling tired all the time. But, I would quickly shoo away anything that meant I would have to start dieting and excercising...'I mean come on, Im just too tired and I have no stinking energy for working out....Jeez! 'I am overweight...I finally decided'
After I ripped another pair of jeans at work ' Man, I just bought those work jeans, those are the 5th pair in 3 months! What is going on here I thought as my overweight belly blocked my view of my rip in my jeans? Than It hit me like a ton of bricks (Duh!)...I am overweight!!!!
Than my mind started going ' Wow, maybee this is why I am so tired feeling and I have '0' energy all the time...Maybee, Just Maybee it`s my diet! AAAHHHHH! Right than and there I started my mental plan of action- I will start eating better, cutting out the sugar in my coffee, the cakes, the pies and yes I will even cool it on the Ice Cream!!!!! Walking Away My Pounds
So, I was on a self imposed diet...'This will be great, I told myself'. I said self 'you will eat better to lose weight and regain my old..Younger...Funner..Energy back'! So I dieted and I dieted and I dieted and my weight started dropping, quickly at first! I was starting to feel a little bit more energy. I Am Still Overweight, I Thought To Myself
I had lost 20 pounds pretty quickly by dieting strictly, My diet consisited of cutting out all the sugar. But, my weight loss seemed to be slowing down and I was feeling like I was stuck in this Overweight, Diet, little bit more energy but not enough He!!.
I needed that extra 'Umph or Boost' to help me shed pounds, so Im not overweight anymore, than again it hit me 'I need to excercise'. Yes, Yes, excercising will help me lose the rest of the weight that I want.
But what kind of excercise I thought? Weight Lifting?Maybee, jogging? Sounds like alot of work I thought and pretty rough on the knees. Ha Haa!! Walking, walking will be my excercise of choice ' Heck it`s free isn`t it'. I will walk away my extra pounds to lose weight and regain my energy!
And so I went out and bought a MP3 and downloaded my favorite pick me up and cut loose song`s that I could think of. And I walked and I walked and week after week I religously walked. I walked uphill to lose weight, I walked downhill to lose weight and you know what? I started loosing weight and now I was feeling 'Great', I was noticing energy that I had`nt had in so long. This is so cool I thought as I was admiring my new physique in the mirror. I look great, I feel great and I am not consumed by sugary foods anymore. I Am Not OverWeight Anymore
Now, if you can relate to my story and are feeling overwight and have no energy,I srongly suggest that you first disect your daily diet and the types of food that you are eating.
Than you`re next step to escape being overweight is to change you`re eating habits and qauntities of these unhealthy foods you are eating. Than you have to pick an excercise of choice, It doesn`t matter if it`s swimming, running, shuffle board...well, not shuffle board. Than just start excercising a little bit every day and every other day if you can`t fit it into your schedule. But excercise religously.
Your energy levels will start to come back and your body will thank you for it. Your diet and excercise will help you if you are overweight, you just have to be tired with being overweight and your mind will lead you in the right direction.
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