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This time it’s gonna stick

Posted T-chan on September 26th, 2008 | Filed under Uncategorized

It’s been sixth months since my son was born and frankly I haven’t lost a thing.  Always had trouble with weight, mainly due to a love of junk food and a fear of exercise.  I finally started trying to lose weight seriously and then… pregnant.  For years I had managed to keep to about 215 lbs ish, my all time high (during highschool) was 235.  So now here I am post baby at 230.  My son was 3 months early and only 2 lbs at birth so needless to say there wasnt a lot of post partum weight to lose.  So now after months feeling like crap looking at all the tiny Japanese mothers around here wondering how a baby even fit into their stomachs let alone pass through thier hips, and months of my husband being disappointed that I haven’t taken off even a little I’ve decided it’s time that I try to do something.

So yesterday on a whim I walked over to the closest electronics store and picked up a pedometer.  Yep I walked.  Actually I walk everywhere, I don’t have a Japanese drivers’ license and even if I did  with gas at nearly the equivalent of $8 a gallon I’d be crazy to be driving everywhere.  And  since I walk everywhere  the grocery is a 3 times a week trip.  But the days I don’t  go to the grocery I sit home with the baby and do nothing… 

So anyhow back to the pedomiter.  It’s about 1 km (.6 miles) to the grocery and back home again, so I’ve decided (weather and baby permitting of course) to strap the baby into the carrier and make a daily walk of a minimum 1 km.    I started yesterday  and (not counting the trip to the electronics shop)  I managed to get in a 1.01km walk.  Today we made it 1.96km. 

Gonna do my best to make this one stick this time 



2 Responses to “This time it’s gonna stick”

  1. etherence Says:
    October 3rd, 2008 at 5:03 pm

    Wow! Good luck. That must be hard in a foreign country! What is there over there in terms of nutritious choices?

  2. T-chan Says:
    October 3rd, 2008 at 8:16 pm

    Thanks! You can get most anything here that you would in the states (^^) tofu, fish, meats, vegetables… the fruit here is the best but expensive so fruit is a rare treat. I’ve been working on my Japanese cooking skills, which also makes hubby happy (^.<)v

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