I did that for about three days, but instead of eating like I normally do to get a feel for how much I eat routinely, I did the "I'm going to stick to 1500-1700 calories a day" bit and was appalled at how much less I was eating.

Now I'm back to eating bad food nonstop all day and being disgusted with myself about it. I'm not exercising because the results don't show as quickly as the damage of overeating, so why bother?

I always use my kids as an excuse to not exercise. Can't do it while they're at school because then I'll still be working when they get home (which I'm always doing anyway. What's an extra 20 or 30 minutes? Duh). Can't do it when they're home because they need supper or help with homework or interrupt me or, or, or...

And it's frustrating to feel my body getting tired after a couple of minutes of exercise hard enough to get my pulse rate up.


I need to stop making excuses if I don't want to look like my mom in the next few years. There's high BP and cholesterol in my family too. If nothing else, I need to do it for that.