Journey Updates
New Year, New Approach
January 2, 2011 @ 09:51 pm
Okay here we go again.So I fell off the wagon. No surprise there. I could probably just recycle posts from the last few times and I'd have the blog equivalent of Men's Health magazine or something. Life's been nuts. Work got super-duper busy but felt mostly like spinning my wheels. I haven't felt like cooking much, and didn't feel like I had the time to even get to the gym. The Beau and I got a dog who's simply adorable, but created a bunch of changes in our lives. I walk more than I used to now, which is good, but it hasn't done anything for weight loss with all that I've been eating. For me its always food - I simply kill my efforts by eating like a mad man.
So here we go again, again. The demands on my time are not lightening at all in the next several months. Work is staying pretty busy for a while, so is my personal life. We're getting married in early April and we have a lot to do in the mean time. So since I don't have a lot of time to devote to cooking and all that jazz, and because I need a more controlled way of handling food, I've signed up for Nutrisystem.
Over the Christmas break I saw my cousin again who's been on Nutrisystem for a while without doing any exercise - and she looks phenomenal. It was clear evidence that the approach can work, so I'm going to try it. I have a tux and honeymoon coming up, obviously. I'm not going to lose 100 pounds, but it could help me get an edge for April, especially when combined with other supplements and especially exercise.
As far as my blog is concerned, I'm going to change my approach.
When I started blogging, I'd hoped to meet and join a community of other weight loss bloggers and other guys and maybe even other gay guys on this weight loss journey. I joined Twitter and tried to follow / comment on other blogs and all that, but nothing has really panned out. It seems like a somewhat insular community that's hard for an introvert like me to break into. That's okay. I've had a few regular readers and I hope to keep hearing from you because you're all awesome, but I'm not going to blog for the sake of being a blogger or even trying to join a blogger community of any kind. This is just my journal.
So no more regular weekly features or scientific facts or advice or anything. I'll post randomly with things I'm thinking, feeling, experiencing, learning, etc.
I'm feeling good about this next stage. No promises, no big goals, no heavy expectations. I'm just going to press forward with a new strategy and keep on going.