My Health Goals

I am currently enjoying my second UTI (urinary tract infection) in a row. What a joy! It takes something as natural and ordinary as peeing and turns it into something you dread because it's painful.  On top of that, it makes you have to pee about twenty times more often than usual and much more difficult to hold it in.  Sorry if this is too much information, but just imagine going throughout your daily activities and having to take a break every half hour at a minimum to go pee.  Yeah... not the most efficient of time for me.  However I have to marvel a little at how the body knows how to heal itself.  My body senses the infection and turns my bladder into overdrive to get it out.  It's like getting a high fever to kill a virus or getting a scab to protect the new skin that is forming underneath it.  Our bodies are miracles!

This is why I am amazed that so many people (myself included at times) put take this gift from God and abuse it so horribly.  Some go as far as using drugs that research has proven can cause severe brain damage with a single use. My weakness is sugar-loading.  I have a sweet tooth that can be compared to the hulk.  One of my goals, as I mentioned in the post before this is to cut down on my sugar intake.  The difference between this time and other tries is that I actually told people that I was doing it.  That way my people-pleasing self kicks in when I am eyeing that dessert and want it so badly, and I can't take it because people would know I am failing at my diet already.

I am having some success so far though! My rules are that I can't have any dessert except for one a week only IF there is some sort of occasion such as a party, dinner with friends, etc.  If there are two occasions I can only have dessert at one.  No candy or anything related to it (like fruit snacks or things made of pure sugar) are allowed either.  My diet is going until Christmas.  By then the sugar cravings should have depleted severely and that is my goal for when to get back to almost my pre-pregnancy weight again.  After only a week and a half of cutting back junk food I have lost almost 3 pounds. Hooray!

Of course diet must come with exercise.  I have very low amount of physical endurance right now. I think less than I have ever had in my entire life, which frustrates me very much most of the time.  So most days I just go on a walk.  This week I hope to add some strength training into it too so that when I run it won't feel as horrible.

Seven more weeks of this to go! I know I can do it, but it sure isn't easy.  I have to lose almost two pounds a week and my goal will be met. I can't wait to fit into my pants and skirts again.