So, I was thinking today (as I was stuffing just “one more” Tostitos Hint of Lime chip in my mouth) about my great motivation to lose weight at this time last year. It was the first time I was super motivated to get healthy, and I lost 30 pounds by May. 30 pounds!!! I’d never done anything like that before and was super proud.
Last May was the last time I lost any appreciable amount of weight, and I’ve gained 15 of it back. Half of all that work for nothing! Nothing really lost since last May.
Guess what else I started doing last May? Give up? Blogging!!!! Yep, this little blog here started having posts published last May. The last month I really started losing any weight. Coincidence? I think not. All the time I used to hang out in front of the TV doing aerobics, lifting weights and doing crunches, I now sit getting a face tan from the gleam of the laptop monitor.
Blogger’s butt. That’s what I’m calling what I have now. I’ve got to find a way to balance this whole blogging thing with getting back to that healthy lifestyle. Otherwise, I’ll get to this May and will have gained back every one of those hard won poundage losses. And I’ll be ticked. And fat. And sad. And I don’t want to be.
You’re funny–I knew there was a name for what I’ve developed.
Great. Now I have a name for it. I could ignore it when I didn’t have a name for it!
Dammit.
Michelle: Thanks.
I’m all about naming my most attractive features. 
Sheila: A butt by any other name would…well…never mind.
I think I already told you about Green Tea, but hear me out! Some doctor on Oprah said you don’t need to change anything in your lifestyle or eating habits except drink a cup of green tea everyday and within a month you will lose 10 pounds! So of course I ran out and bought green tea! That was about 7 months ago. Did I lose anything? No, nothing! Several weeks ago Patrick told me that he heard, if you put milk in your green tea, or sugar, lemon, honey, etc. it takes away the benefits of the tea and destroys the anti-oxidants. Funny thing, in 3 weeks I’ve lost 8 pounds without even trying. I’ve changed nothing else in the way I eat or exercise except I drink my cup of green tea every morning “au naturel”! (Even my butt has gotten smaller!)
Yes.
I am sad too.
I am trying to think of ways to get my life back from my blog and my stomach will thank me.
Thanks for the honesty.
Hey Lynn! First of all, it’s not as if your butt was big to begin with.
I actually did try the green tea right after you told me about it. Yucky. :p I may try it again with Splenda. That shouldn’t negate the effects of it, should it? And good for you, by the way, on the 8 pounds!! woohoo!
Kate: Honest I can be, just hoping readers don’t get tired of hearing about my good/bad weightloss journey. But what needs to be said must be said, right? I’m on day 3 of getting back on calorie counting and exercise. I hate it, but I know it will be worth it, if I can just stick with it. I feel another post coming on….
You know that Oprah started being a start because all the women wanted to see how her latest diet was doing. Now look at her. People are saying, “I heard it on Oprah, it must be true.” I think that even holds more authority than, “I read it on the internet, it must be true.”
One idea to combine the two (blogging and exercising) is to sit on one of those exercise balls and do some crunches while you ponder the correct word to use to describe your hatrid for me.
Rantz: Hatrid? Is that a combination of hatred and putrid? I could never use one of those exercise balls, not nearly coordinated enough. I’d fall on my butt. Hmm…which would quite possible smash it all down, thus making it appear smaller. You may have something there after all.
Yeah, Oprah has become a messiah-type figure for many people, whether or not she ever intended it.
I’ve said before that she has the biggest church in America bar none!
I kept thinking, blogger’s butt… biggest church… What? Run for your life Baldy! Then it finally sank in, Oprah… Yes, Oprah has HUGE influence, and it just scares me the way she uses it.