Backstory Part II

"2 years is not a plateau...its a you problem"

2 years of frustration

284...that was the number that the scale read, give or take a pound or two for roughly a year and a half. I can't explain to you how frustrating that was. I guess deep down I knew that I needed to increase my activity level and I had tried (half heartedly at best to do so) through a number of avenues. I tried different routines at the gym, bought a mountain bike and embarassed myself.

No matter what I tried nothing stuck...every time it was a case of start, stop and repeat. Frustrating...then something happened...I stopped caring.

This was possibly the worst thing that could have happened at the time. We had our food intake as a family in a good place (at least in regard to maintaining weight)...but I just stopped caring...all together. Sold the Mountain Bike, pretty much wrote off the gym as a waste of time and settled on the fact that this was the way I was and always would be...

In June of '09 we decided to make a huge change. We decided to move our family from Leavenworth back 'home' to Western Washington. In doing this we had to uproot everything, come up with new routines, routes, shopping patterns, etc. It was a stressful/hectic time to say the least.

It happened almost immediately after the move...I started feeling like a huge piece of crap. There was almost no activity...the control we had over our food had lost a bit of focus and I felt the pounds slowly creeping back on...about 1 pound every 2 weeks or so...

Frustration doesn't even begin to describe how I felt...disappointed, angry, unfulfilled.

See, I have a habit of starting things and not finishing them, and I felt I was on a path to the same result here.

Then I had another one of those 'aha' moments like when I originally stood in front of the mirror 2 years earlier.

This wasn't a plateau issue...this was a me problem.

Life's a different ballgame when you take responsibility for your situation, and this was the 2nd time in 2 years I had chosen to address it head on.

What was my next step...let me explain (soon)

SRR