Avoidance Behavior

While sitting on the couch with a belly full of dinner, mindlessly munching on something sweet .. a cookie, a piece of pie, a pastry, it doesn't matter ... I had an epiphany.  Just like I've been ignoring my bathroom scale and my reflection in the mirror, so have I been ignoring the blog.  Whyyyy?  Because they are all reminders of my stalled-nay-negative progress.  It's the same ol' story and I know exactly what to do to be successful, and yet... here I am.  ~sigh~

So what to do, what to do?  I have to do something.  I have to do something for more than one week in a row.  I'm getting reeeeally thick around the middle.  Mannnnnn.  tsk.  See?  There's nothing to say.

It's not surprising that I'm gaining weight... but I'm bothered by where the weight is settling.  I used to be a hips and thigh girl, gaining weight from the bottom up, losing it from the top down.  But this time, I'm starting to resemble the middle-aged, apple-shaped, menopausal woman I'm pretending NOT to be.  Harrumph!!!

I have a memory of saying "I plan on aging gracefully".  That was when I thought all I had to worry about were crow's feet and gray hair.  How wonderfully naïve I was.

Okay... I feel a little better now.  Thanks for listening to me grumble.  (grumble grumble freakin' grumble.)

I have been eating moderately, although late night has been a challenge (note aforementioned cookies and pastries) and I have been exercising regularly, though not vigorously.  I'll step it up.  I'll get more sleep.  I'll stop the late night dessert binges.  I'll be a big girl, stop my b*tchin, stop this avoidance behavior (but I'm so good at it!), suck it up and just do what needs to be done.  Right?  Can I do that?  D'ja think so? 

My goal: to be this trim and fit again within 6 months.