{"id":4,"date":"2005-05-12T14:38:00","date_gmt":"2005-05-12T14:38:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stroyan.net\/lisasblog\/?p=4"},"modified":"2008-01-28T07:42:40","modified_gmt":"2008-01-28T14:42:40","slug":"weight-obsession-or-proper-health-management","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stroyan.net\/lisasblog\/2005\/weight-obsession-or-proper-health-management\/","title":{"rendered":"Weight – obsession or proper health management?"},"content":{"rendered":"

I would really like to lose weight (again). (I say this as I have my second cup of sweetened tea, with a side of the peach cobbler I made last night, knowing full well that I was the one that would end up eating most of it…but I figured, hey, I used fructose instead of sugar, that’s got to count for something?).<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

I started this blog in order to get real about why I’m struggling with weight loss (ok, and it was a fun new thing to start, so perhaps there was a tiny bit of procrastination in there?<\/span><\/span>). A couple of years ago, I joined WW and got down to a goal weight that I and my doctor were comfortable with. She told me not to go too low because I needed the hormone production since we have been trying for a second child – yeay, what a great excuse to latch onto! Anyway, if you like, you can see my before\/after pictures and read about that journey<\/a>, though it is old now.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

However, since then, my weight has crept up…5…10…15 pounds. It’s not a constant climb…I think I’m doing fine, maintaining at a weight, though it might not be the one I want, but at least I’m maintaining, and then boom! Life happens. Vacation, fertility drugs<\/span><\/span> (well, not really but that’s the simple explanation) , stress, and I’m up a pound. I figure, well, it’s just a pound or two…I just need to eat better for a little while and it will come off…and part of it does, but at the end of the year the totals don’t lie.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

So then I justify to myself that this is just a cultural obsession; I’m reasonably healthy and shouldn’t buy into this whole focus on weight. I justify that I am a Busy Woman. I have enough on my plate. And anyway, it just doesn’t seem fair <\/span>that I have to worry about this with all of the other stuff I worry about! I work hard, I deserve my peach cobbler!<\/p>\n

However, when I really connect with my own goals, my sense of self, this is something I want to do. It may be an obsession, but gosh darn, it is my obsession. I deserve to be able to go after my goals and be successful at them. It’s not a judgment of anyone else’s goals and priorities. And my life isn’t happening to me. I don’t want to be a victim of my own life – I want to be the owner, the leader.<\/p>\n

So, I’m going to stop whining and do, or not do. Each day, each bite, is a choice I make. I may not make the same choice each time, but I have choice. I know I won’t do this alone and will need help along the way. So the next time I start whining, send me back to this post, OK?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I would really like to lose weight (again). (I say this as I have my second cup of sweetened tea, with a side of the peach cobbler I made last night, knowing full well that I was the one that would end up eating most of it…but I figured, hey, I used fructose instead of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-weight-loss"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stroyan.net\/lisasblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stroyan.net\/lisasblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stroyan.net\/lisasblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stroyan.net\/lisasblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stroyan.net\/lisasblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stroyan.net\/lisasblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stroyan.net\/lisasblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stroyan.net\/lisasblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stroyan.net\/lisasblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}