Back at Classika

Greetings Classika folks, my name is Virginia and I am on a fitness journey. I will be blogging about ups and downs of health and fitness as well as writing about my progress with my trainer Tara from Classika Sport and Fitness.

Two weeks have passed, and I am 100% positive that returning to Classika was the best thing I could have done for myself. I am enjoying working with Tara, being held accountable for exercise is something that I definitely need. So in terms of exercise, I am pleased with my progress.

However, exercise is not the only component to being healthy. That is where diet enters the scene.

In terms of eating, I am pretty disappointed in myself. I play the rationalization game, I am sure that many of you are familiar with the game. I can rationalize my way into eating just about anything. The past two weeks have been full of rationalizations that revolve around the notion “I am exercising again; therefore it is OK if I eat more food”. On some level, this logic makes sense, right? I am expending more energy therefore my body needs more energy; therefore I should give my body what it wants. My other favorite rationalization is “I am not 200 pounds anymore” or “Since I am not as big as I used to be, it is OK for me to indulge”. I use my past weight loss success as a rationalization to eat more. Clearly I am not thinking about the fact that it was all my “magic” rationalizations that got me all the way up to over 200 pounds in the first place.



In a lot of ways I have come extremely far from where I was a year ago. For example, I can actually walk up a flight of stairs without getting winded, I can fasten my own bra behind my back (for a while there I needed someone to help me because I could not reach behind my back), I can cross my legs, and there are many other little milestones that I am still proud of. However, I think I got a little “big for my britches” so to speak. I was high on the weight loss and I started eating again. I started rationalizing again. Just recently I noticed that it is a bit of a challenge to cross my legs, and walking across campus is starting to wind me again. The little things that I was so proud of are starting to creep up on me again.



So it is Monday, and I am finally ready to take on my rationalizations and really take charge of my eating and my rationalizations. Hopefully this week will go better than the last two…..