Tomorrow is the day!

Let me introduce myself.  My name is Kate.  I am a 33-year-old mother and wife.  I work from home as a medical transcriptionist.  I have many health problems, the biggest of all being my type 1 diabetes, which, due to my not taking as good care of myself as a I should, has had many complications. 

My son is completing first grade in just shy of three days.  Last Thursday, one of the other mom's at his school passed away suddenly of a massive heart attack.  I did not know this mother well, and while it is mean to say, I am sure that her heart attack was at least partly due to her obesity.  I also have to say, that my heart breaks for this woman's family.  She has two young children, in addition to her husband.  I don't want that to be my history.  I don't want that to happen to me.  I don't want my son to grow up without his mother when there is something that I can do to help myself be healthier.  I don't want my husband to have to live his life without me.  I don't want to miss out on seeing things like graduations, weddings, grandchildren, etc.  It is because of all of the things listed above, that I have chosen to start a new way of thinking.  A new way of living.

I am starting this new way of thinking and living tomorrow morning, bright and early!  I have been getting myself psyched up this weekend, and having my last hurrah.  I am going to be starting tomorrow on the 17 day diet.  This is a diet that has been featured on the Dr. Phil show.  If you know me, and at this point you probably don't, you know that I LOVE DR. PHIL!  My friend Jen started the 17 day diet approximately 2 months ago.  She is a skinny little minnie, so I was unsure of why she was starting this program, but she wants her clothes to fit better, and as long as she maintains a healthy weight, I say more power to her.  This program is about eating healthy, cleansing your system of toxins and CUTTING OUT THE SUGAR!  Again, anyone out there who is reading this knows, I am a big fan of both carbs and sugar, so this could be interesting.  I definitely do not envy the hubs or the kiddo for the next couple of weeks! 

I also am not a fan of exercise or the outdoors.  I am hoping to change that as well.  I am starting the Couch 2 5K program as well tomorrow.  It promises that it can take a total couch potato (that's me!) and get them to run either a 5K, or 30 minutes (without stopping) in 9 weeks.  I think that I am up for the challenge.  To further get myself psyched about this, I got a new pair of running shoes today (and some sports bras!)  I think that I am ready to go.  My friend is organizing a 5K in a town close to where I live at the end of August in memory of her baby who passed away last August.  I had originally volunteered to work it, because I thought to myself, "There is no way in heck I am going to run in it!  Are you kidding?!?"  Well, now I want to set that as a goal for myself. 

I am going to try to blog daily about how I am doing with this whole thing.  I think maybe it will help me to vent my frustrations, and hopefully keep me on track.  I would like to lose about 90 pounds, which is a lot.  It is a daunting task.  I want to do it.  I need to do it.  I would like to get off my blood pressure medicine.  I would like to get my hemoglobin A1C down below a 6.  It feels like a lot of really lofty goals right now.  It is possible, right?  I can do this, can't I?  I deserve better.  I need to hold myself to a higher standard.  There is no reason that I should have let this happen to my body. 

Okay.  So, I will update tomorrow after I complete my first 25 minutes or so of exercise.  I think the last time that I truly exercised was when I ran the mile as a freshman in high school for the Presidential Fitness Challenge (or whatever it was!)

Kate