Aggiesrar05's Blog

As I was walking to the bus yesterday a random person in the Texas Med Center stopped me and asked me how to get to a specific hospital.  I gave them directions to this hosptial (which happened to be all the way on the other side of TMC) and told them they could probably walk there in 20min or so.  They looked at me like I was CRAZY.

 *Note - I guess they could look at me crazy, the Texas Medical Center is the largest medical center in the world comprised of at least 6 hospitals, 3 graduate schools, and 2 medical schools (I'm sure I'm leaving something out).  My hospital alone has a quarter mile sky bridge that leads from one building to another.

Funny enough this isn't the first time I've run into these unusual stares.  I've even gotten them from friends and family.  "We're at the downtown Aquarium and you want to walk where?  Discovery Green??? That's on the *other side* of downtown!"   

Apparently my perception of what is within walking distance is slightly (or more than slightly) skewed.  

I just laugh it off and say "come on, lets go anyways!"  Most of the time we end up walking and having a good time doing it.   More than once I've heard "oh, that wasn't *that* far!"

 Here's to being active, skewed percetions, and altering other's perception of what is "far"  :-)

So this is my first ever blog post.  I hope to blog more in the near future to share my journey and possibly (maybe) some incitefullness :-)

 **Disclaimer - For those who don't know me I'm not (or try not to be) a negative person...

I'll admit it, yesterday did not start out to be a good day.  Yes, the discouragement was brought on by myself... but it ended in a "lighbulb" moment!

A little background:  I've always been overweight, that being said I've always been very active.  I've lost weight before on other programs but this time I decided to do things a little different, and here I am at MFP.  As a relatively new MFPer I did what most people do, let it set my calorie target and moved on with life.  I logged, I exercised, I weighed in once a week and I lost some weight. Then the numbers on the scale just stopped... 

At the beginning of April I started CrossFit.  For those of you who don't know what CrossFit is google/youtube it, you'll get an idea pretty quick.  It's a high intensity cardio/heavy weight workout.  There is a reason their mascot is "pukie the clown."  These people are crazy hardcore... and I LOVE IT!!

After about a week of CrossFit I got back on the scale and had gained, stepped off threw my little temper tantrum and moved on with life.  I talked to my CrossFit coach who told me to "throw away the scale," continue to log and look at how my clothes fit.  That she tells all her female clients as personally from her experience she went through the same thing.  She only lost about 5lbs but dropped 5 pants sizes.  I did exactly that, I moved the scale to a different room, continued to log and went with how I felt (Which was FANTASTIC).

That brings us to yesterday...  I couldn't help it... Wednesday is weigh in day so I got on the scale.  Again, nothing had changed.  Sadly a simple little number got me so upset that I was discouraged the entire day.  During the day I did some reading and talking to people with more experience than I have (Thank you all for that!!!) and changed up some MFP goals.  All the while trying not to be discouraged.

That evening it was CrossFit time, I was looking forward to it for the mere fact that it is something I can take my frustration out on.  It was a good WOD for that too...

WOD (workout of the day) - 3 rounds of (16 weighted step ups - 18in with 25lb KettleBell, 16 Kettlebell swings - 25lb KB, and 100m Kettlebell carry - 25lb KB).  Pretty much the KB was our baby and we didn't put it down during the entire workout.  That is when I had my lighbulb moment...

Somewhere in 100m KB carry in the 2nd round I thought, "darn lugging this sucker around is HEAVY"  The next thought proceeded to "wow, I used to be more than 25lbs heavier than I am now... how did I carry that around ALL THE TIME???" 

It was at that moment that I realized that I shouldn't be discouraged, while my journey isn't through I have made a lot of progress in living a healthier life!  In the words of my favorite cartoon fish.. "Just keep swimming, just keep swimming, just keep swimming swimming swimming."  Or in this case, just keep lugging around that KB.  :-)