Exercising and Losing Weight

For the past two and a half weeks weeks I have been exercising and dieting to lose some weight. Since I moved to Virginia from Maryland in 2006 I had somehow managed to put on about 18 pounds. Yikes! I think most of it was added in the last year when I started suffering from depression. This has happened to me so many times in my life. It is exasperating that I keep going through this cycle of putting on weight and then having to bust my ass to take it off. Comparatively to other incidences, eighteen pounds is not really not that bad, though.

Two and a half weeks ago I started my new yoga class, started riding my bike to get lunch at work, started going to the gym to do cardio and swim twice or three times a week, and hike on the weekends.

Things are going well as of this morning, as I have lost five pounds. Yay! That means I have thirteen to go before I get back to where I started a year or two ago.

If I am really motivated to go further, I might be able lose six or seven more punds to get back to the kind of shape I was in when I lived in Philadelpia. That would be really awesome - as technically that was medically my "ideal" weight, as well as when I felt and looked my best.