Diets and exercise

It looks like Susan Powter is making a comeback.

I don't know anything about what she is promoting this time around, but seeing her on TV lately reminds me of my Susan Powter phase.
I remember watching her informercials with fascination! Here is a crazy woman with a flat top telling me that the diet industry was bad and didn't help anybody. This same woman told me to eat as much brown rice as I wanted and to modify my exercises to accomodate my fitness level! OMG!! I was so excited. This woman GOT IT. She understood me better than anybody else pushing a diet. I was going to lose weight, I was going to be fit and healthy!

I followed Susan's plan for a while. A couple months at least. Even though all that exercise helped me, I wasn't losing any weight and that's all I really cared about. I also know now that I get into trouble when somebody tells me I can eat as much of one thing as I want. It doesn't matter if it's brown rice, chicken breast or salads. There isn't enough of these items in the world for me to eat as much as I want.

Have I ever blogged about how happy I am that I managed to maintain a level of activity while being obese? I am very happy. I was talking to a friend last night who weighs considerably less than I do. She commented that she was afraid she wouldn't be able to get out of bed in the morning because she exercised ( I told her to do some yogi squats). I was sure she had done some hard workout, but nope. She walked. She walked around the neighborhood and was afraid that since she never does anything physical, she would be in great pain the next morning. When she was telling me this, I had a moment of shining pride and smugness. "HA! I can walk around the block, I can do an hour on an elliptical machine, I can lift heavy weights!" But, you know what? I am a very few pounds away from my body saying "uh, no." Today I can do all those things, but it's not going to last forever. I'm going to reach a point where my knees can't handle my weight, my back is going to go out for good, and my heart is going to explode.

I feel like today is not that day, though. I'm probably supposed to say something like "I can start today and change that outcome!" "I can rewrite my life!" "Today is a new beginning!"

So is tomorrow.