A New Beginning

I got to 154.0 today, yay. I can’t wait to play some rock band to celebrate! I am all about the Beatles edition that is coming out soon. 148, here I come!

I haven’t posted in awhile because life has been crazy busy lately.  I am basically just maintaining my weight lately, which is kind of annoying, but oh well.  At least I’m not gaining out of control or anything.  I keep wanting to make a serious push to start losing again, but then I don’t do it.  I guess there are just other things on my mind lately.  That’s a total understatement, actually, I have way too much on my mind!

Topping the list is that I started my real estate brokerage, finally.  It’s called The Property Shop, LLC and so far has not made any money for me.  But, my mom, who is my only agent besides myself, has two buyers that are actively looking.  I’ve got one rental listing and one house, though it happens to be my own house.  Oh well!  I hope to get some clients soon, but at the moment am more concerned with getting my own house staged and the rest of this initial paperwork done.  There is a lot of red tape in the real estate business, let me tell you…

In addition to that there is the problem that I have zero interest in my actual job anymore.  I just cannot get motivated to do anything lately.  If I don’t have real estate stuff to do when I’m here, I go nuts.  You’d think I’d be posting on here all the time because I have nothing else to do, yet somehow I don’t have the motivation to even do that!  It is nuts.  I need to find a way to be interested in this; at the very least interested enough that I don’t end up actually losing my job, you know?  I just hate this stuff, I really do.

Back to the topic at hand, did anyone else see that Time magazine article about how exercise doesn’t mean weight loss?  Well, I read it and I don’t really know what to think about it.   I know first hand that if you have bad eating habits, no amount of exercise is going to make you lose weight.  At least it doesn’t for me.  But, I also think that without my strong commitment to exercise I would not have lost nearly as much weight and probably would have lost muscle instead of gained it.  So, I basically think the article is hogwash.  At the same time, one of the points the author made did resonate with me; the idea he mentioned that we can only exert so much during a day.  I definitely have noticed that when I work out hard in the morning (which I do 4 or 5 mornings a week before work) I don’t have the energy to do much after work.  But, when I don’t work out, I usually am more active in the evening.  Of course, calorie-wise, I’m sure I burn more on the days I work out anyway it’s just that I’ve noticed I’m more lethargic in the evenings.

The thing that really annoys me though, is just how much misinformation there is out there about weight loss.  Really, it is just insane.  First they’re telling me alcohol and caffeine are health hazards, then next week they’re actually good for your heart, but they’re bad for weight loss, good for thyroid function, good for something else, yada, yada, yada.  Just so we’re clear, I made up those good/bad qualities, I’m no doctor and I’m just as confused as everyone else about this stuff.  I tend to avoid reading the nutrition articles in Shape/Self/Health now because I hate all the conflicting information.  Plus, have you ever noticed that when they tell you about the benefits of a certain food or drink (they love to tout the benefits of green tea, for example) the quantity of whatever miracle food it is that you have to consume in order to get any benefit is insane?  Seriously, I saw one that said you get some benefit, I forget what it is, by drinking 4 cups of coffee a day.  That same magazine talked about the miracle powers of about 15 other foods in the issue, yet, if I were to eat the quantities they described to get the benefits, I could only eat about 3 of them a day and that would require every calorie I’m allotted.  Somehow I doubt a diet dominated by 2 or 3 foods is really all that great for anyone over a long period…

I know everyone is different and I think that we probably all lose weight in slightly different ways.  But, even so, how is it that we can get such totally conflicting messages from “experts?”  I mean, someone saying exercise won’t lead to weight loss seems pretty insane.  How that even got to become a cover story for Time Magazine is actually worrisome.  If they’ll report that, what wouldn’t they report?

Blah! That pretty much sums up my mood lately.