The Power of Two

I wanted to go shopping this week for new clothes. How silly of me knowing that I own a consignment store along with my other businesses and should be using my own facility really to find great deals. At least I think I should be anyways. So after hours I went through some of the quality used items that were in my office on the intake rack. Some lovely pieces actually and I decided that I would go through them and see what I may actually be able to do in terms of saving some money myself by just buying the items myself.
Problem, problem, problem these dresses and suits are for big girls and why I am able to fit them? I mean ok yeah they are still too big in some places on my body but for me to be able to fit into some of these outfits absolutely mortified me. Didn't I just say that I was working out to get myself together for a new album project and photo shoot?
Well at this point it was not going to happen anytime soon. But this time without that sense of urgency that I normally get where I go through my home gym and "say" what I am going to do, I resolved to work out and eat right and that was it. Nothing else. No more ordering stuff I'm not going to use. No more diet pills, none of that cause one thing was for sure after all of that, I was still a bigger size. I have actually gained weight since KJ was born and not the other way around!
So I know I work a lot I have a lot on my plate. I literally wake up early and go to bed late making the strides I want to have my life on track. I don't have time to workout but you know what. looks like I had better make time. I don't even want to know what my cholesterol level looks like or my blood pressure. Oh and lets not forget that I am a short woman only five feet four inches so I should weigh at my height 130 lbs.
So I started looking back on all the times I said I was going to fit working out into my schedule per day and how many times I had to say no I can't because of this or that.
Time is my biggest problem, I just don't have it. Do I wake up at 4 now or do I wait til late at night and workout at 2 in the morning? But then when would I sleep?
I know there are loads of folks out there that know exactly what I am talking about. But now I have to do it. This is not cute by any means. All of a sudden I looked like Madea or... or worse Big Mama and saw how those wonderful women went from fabulous sisters in their day to heavy, women that loved their families. Life just started happening and they did what they had to do to survive and make it happen putting their lives and their health on hold.
So I have resorted to just this and only this.
Two pounds. That's it no more. I don't want to lose ten or twenty or drink a shake and think that I will be slim in a month that is not going to happen. I am just going to eat right and have some exercise time even if it is thirty minutes. I mean come on my workout bench is right next to my bed literally along with my stepper.
Two pounds per week no more than that. They say that is the healthiest weight loss anyway so you are less likely to gain it back.
So there you have it in a nutshell, my new goal. Two pounds. That's it.



Care to join me?

Til Next Time

Mamma