A few days ago I asked (elsewhere) what I could do to stay motivated to lose weight, and some one answered and say that I should write up what my “deciding factor” to lose weight was, for example looks or health, and than use that to refer to.
Okay, so here it goes:
I used to walk/hike everywhere, than life happened, I got depressed, started binge eating, stopped walking, gained weight, and suddenly a few weeks ago discovered that I was winded and could not walk more than a quarter mile without stopping to rest. This was a shocking fact as I used to walk 13 miles a day and did heavy duty hiking, and yet now I was so out of shape, I could barely walk a thousand feet!
After I realized I was having a hard time walking, I weighed myself for the first time in many years to be shocked at the 182lbs! OMG! I spent 25 years staying between 125 to 130 and now I was 182? How did that happen without me noticing it? No wonder I was getting winded so bad!
For most of my life my weight stayed pretty steady between 125 to 130. It was only in the past 5 years that my weight has fluctuated out of that range topping out at 182. I checked the BMI and it says 128 is my ideal weight, exact reverse of the 182! I guess when I was younger I was pretty good at keeping my weight “ideal”.
My weight lose goal is to get back down to 130 and KEEP IT THERE. I both looked better and felt better back than. But the actual determining factor is, back than I used to walk 13 miles a day, no trouble at all, and today I have a hard time going 1/4 mile without stopping to rest. I want to be able to go mountain hiking, I want to be able to WALK the 14 mile hike of Mt. Washington – 20 years ago I could have walked the Mt Washington trail in a breeze, I can’t do that in the shape I’m in right now. That is my determining factor for my weight goal: to be able to walk for hours on end and hike up mountains once again. I could do it at 130, so 130 is my goal.
And that is my reward when I get done too: I’m going to celebrate by hiking up Mt. Washington. 🙂
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