Today is a wonderful day

I woke up fairly early this morning, only having a few hours of sleep. For some reason though I haven’t been able to go back to sleep so I decided to start my day around 7:00a.m. I had a fabulous work day yesterday. I’ve just started taking on more work and it was so incredibly easy that I could just scream. This is the start of something wonderful. And this is just start of things that are going right for me this week. The great thing about this job is that it provides me two sources of income doing two things that I love. It can’t get any better than that. Well it can, but this is pretty lovely for right now .

The other thing is that for some time now I had been quite unhappy with my weight gain. It’s not that I haven’t been big, I had just become much, much, bigger. To the point where I did not want to photograph myself. That in itself was a hindrance seeing how I earn my living off of my photos. This was the first time in about 20 years that I have ever felt this out of shape, unfit, and unhealthy. I’ve struggled over the last 7 years with controlling my weight and keeping it down to the lower end of the BBW spectrum unsuccessfully. This year I topped the charts. One of my girlfriends underwent gastric bypass in November and since then she has lost enough weight of an entire person. Her body has changed drastically. At that time, I was determined to find something that I could do, whether it be financing, getting insurance, or something to get myself the same thing. Then I thought about it. I am not so sure I want to be cut open. But I kept looking, and reading, and researching. Never really taking my eye off the ball, but also not quite really going forward with plans to change my lifestyle and my body.

Last week however, I stumbled upon something hehe. I was reading an industry message board and there were a bunch of women on there talking about various ways to control insulin resistance. I am not insulin resistant nor am I diabetic. However, the info that she was sharing just struck a cord with me. There was also a brief conversation I had with another girl regarding something I had tried the last time I attempted to lose weight, 6 Week Body Makeover. BTW… I did lose the 30lbs. that they promise you will lose plus another 25lbs. more, however, I hated the plan. I hated the way food was prepared and hated that I no longer enjoyed eating simple things like vegetables. So my thinking was of combining the two plans of action with slight modifications to the way I eat. I went shopping got all the stuff I needed and started Tuesday the 17th of July. In under a week I have lost 10lbs. This morning I decided that it was time to mix in a little exercise and start on the road of getting my body more aerobically fit. I have had difficulty doing the easiest of tasks and at the age of 34 I should NOT be feeling this way at all.

So I am feeling great this week, really. The money thing is falling into place. The body thing is falling into place, and all the other things will fall into place when it is time for them to do so as well. I’ve made my decisions about things and feel good and confident about my course of action. Now it’s all a matter of keeping straight on the course which I don’t see any reason for me not to. When I see a more dramatic weight reduction I will give you a hint to my secret weapon. For now though, it’s still too early to make any firm claims. I’ll keep you post. But for now I have to go because it’s time to start my work day. Toodles.