Sunday, January 7, 2007

Round two for a new beginning

Hello... My Nickname is Lorien, and I am an emotional eater who has been riding the diet roller coaster almost all my life!

Though I had few weblogs in the past (including a diet blog named "Dancing towards a healthy lifestyle"), it still feels strange to write the very first post, since I don't have any idea if anyone is going to read it. What the hell... let's hope someone will *s*. So... here we go.

This whole thing is not about new year's resolution. True, I'm starting this blog after the new year has started, but I've been doing it since November 7, 2006 off-line. Now, it seems the right time to start logging something about it online. I've been at it before and stopped... It'll be interesting to see what will happen this time around, because quite frankly, I hope this time is sssooo different!

So... What made this elusive need for a change surf at this time?

On May/June 2006 I took a visit trip to Israel. I had the greatest time with my family and friends, but also a very stressful time with my dad, who has Alzheimer's for the last 13 years. While there, my dad went through a hip surgery, an ordeal which put my mom, brother and myself on an edge filled with worries and sorrow.

After coming back home I had some hard time readjusting - yet again - to life without my family close by, plus I've found out my blood pressure went sky high - yet again - and needed to be taken care of pronto, with pills. For a while I felt quite depressed and down, without really knowing how to pull myself up and out of it all.

Sometime around October 2006 I came upon the RealAge site (I think it was few weeks before the first time I've watched Dr. Oz on Oprah, talking about his new book YOU: On a Diet). After reading a bit around the site, I've decided to take The RealAge test... and I got the slap of the year: My test results said my real age was 61! yeap, never mind I was 47... according to this test, my real age was 61!

Seeing that ridiculous test result in front of my eyes had become a turning point in my mind. Though shocked, I wasn't really surprised. I did feel old and empty for a while, with no idea what I was to do from there. The sharp-stab-in-the-ego test result pushed me to do lots of thinking... then reading... then thinking some more...

"Girl, you're going to be 50 in 3 years", I thought. "At that time, you'll be probably entering menopause, and then try to shape up and lose weight. You know very well that losing weight has become harder and harder for you with each passing year, so... what are you going to do about that???".

But that wasn't all that went through my mind. I knew I had to get rid of another nasty habit of mine - smoking (Yea, guilty as hell), get control of my high blood pressure, start eating healthy again, start working out again, get enough sleep, drink enough water, get rid of an unhealthy and unnecessary stress in my life, try and reach out more to people, try to become the best possible me I can be...

Lots of neglected work to be done - three years to do it.

That's the shape and time frame things have taken in my mind...

... and I started walking a new path... on November 7, 2006.

This is the written testimony of it.

Lorien @ 2:30 pm MT

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2 Comments

Anne @ 04.18.pm | January 08, 2007

Beautiful colors, lovely blog!

I saw Dr. Oz someplace else, and his insight is why i recently got an elliptical machine. Fingers crossed for both of us that this year is the beginning of a permanently healthier lifestyle.

Lorien @ 08.05.pm | January 08, 2007

Hey, girl... Glad to see you here.

Yes, this guy had some positive effect on me too... this is going to be our year for sure!!! ;-)

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