I started this blog several years ago and then abandoned it- for reasons that can all boil down to the fact that I fell off the wagon and started back to ignoring my general health and well-being. We can all admit that taking that road is far easier than actually working at being healthy and taking the steps to ensure you are doing everything to ensure you live a long and happy life. I mean, being healthy is real work! It means making time to go to the gym. It means reading labels. It means calculating amounts of calories and sodium and fat content. It means portion control and ignoring sudden cravings. Your body likes to trick you and tell you that it wants something really bad like a cheeseburger and fries, it neglects to give you the disclaimer that it will also clog your arteries and add inches to your waistline. Wouldn’t it be great if our bodies could give us disclaimers on the food we were about to eat? I’m sure our decisions on eating certain foods would certainly be different! At least we would be more mindful of what we eat.
However, we do not have that built in programming to tell us that two plates of nachos and three 32oz cups of soda is actually bad for us. We have to learn this and make the decision not to indulge. And sometimes… sometimes that’s just hard.
There are some people in this world blessed with an amazing metabolism. They can eat anything and everything and still maintain a sleek and slender physique. They have no problem with exercising and motivation and their energy levels are just top notch. I am not one of these people. Many of us are not these people. Our metabolism is just average. It does the job but we have to eat the right foods, the ones that nourish it and spike its interest. And after the age of 40, that metabolism decides its going to get cantankerous and slows down to a crawl like a decrepit old man crossing the street. You have to work even harder to shed pounds and what worked when you were 20 will take four times as long to work after you’re 40. This is frustrating and annoying and you just give up. That’s what I did. I gave up. I threw caution to the wind and decided to just let nature take its course and ate what I wanted to eat, refused to exercise and to hell with portion control. It was freeing. It was damaging.
My escape to freedom cost me. My blood pressure went out of control, my cholesterol levels shot up, my motivation become nil. This is not good! I’ll be 50 years old in the coming year, much too young to be on multiple prescriptions. So back in July of this year I made a pact with myself to do something about getting off these prescriptions. I have a workout buddy whom I will mention off and on in this blog – we hit the gym at least three to four times a week. The only difference I’ve seen so far is that my energy levels are back up. I just haven’t been trying hard enough in all areas. As a joke one morning I texted her and asked her if she was meeting me up for “Project Fix Our Fat Asses” that night. It was then that the concept of “Project FOFA” was born. Project FOFA is all about getting ourselves healthy again, both physically and mentally. Its not just about exercise and counting calories, its about girl talk and friendship and learning how to navigate in a world that makes it easy to fall of the wagon and hard to stay on.
I look forward to writing more about this project and hopefully recruiting others to join our fun as we fight the beast of being healthy!
MY ADIPOSE & ME 