Moving forward ... but standing still.

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Yesterday I sneak peeked on the scale: 78.6kg / 172.9lbs. I must be doing okay because ever since I've been tracking my food, workout and weight I'm losing every week. But I also checked my excel spreadsheet (I'm using the one which was up on Shauna's website) and I realised this:

week 1: +1.1
week 2: -6.16
week 3: -1.76
week 4: -0.44
week 5: -2.2
total loss: 9.46

The thing is that I have this bittersweet feeling. Happy for the loss but I'm starting to losing the motivation, especially towards the workout thing. However, I know this is only because I had an incredibly rough and tiring week and I haven't had a workout since Tuesday. Still, everything just seems so slow. And everything seems so far away. I honestly accepted that this losing weight getting healthy thing would be for a long term and would last months, to get rid of the extra weight which took me years to pack on, it's just some natural impatiance I guess. Until last week I was at home, no work just studying for the big exam. I had plenty of time to work out and plan those work outs. Now, with school starting, having an insane schedule, social life, presentations already, not to mention I have an other similarly huge exam ahead of me (Oct 2) I just don't find the strenght to keep the enthusiasm towards my workouts.

I'm not considering giving up, I just wish my life wouldn't be about constant deadlines right now. But I don't want to stand still while I could move forward. Balance? Maybe a new kind of workout ... maybe I stop whining about why I can't run and start doing it.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Bah, it erased my comment!

I totally understand where you're coming from. Sometimes, despite our best intentions, it just doesn't seem to fall into place.

"I'm not considering giving up" - GOOD! Sometimes things that are super worth it take a long time, and are really hard.

We can do it =D

PS - thank you for the lovely comment on my blog post.... I really appreciate it =)

PPS - I'll add you to my blogroll!

Eszter said...

thank you for the lovely words.