James Brown claims that “nothing beats a try but a fail.” I won’t say that I failed since I am back at it, on this journey of weight loss and life improvement. I have grown complacent since my last post over two years ago. Many things have happened since then some I may get into at a later date. The brief update for now is we are in the mist of a pandemic and I am still a New Yorker. I have been living in the stay home, stop the spread, save lives of the past 10 weeks. In this time I gained the 20 pounds I had lost back, I can make excuse but the truth is I just wasn’t prioritizing my goal of weight loss and haven’t yet conquered my emotional eating triggers. This is my new priority. Thus I have restarted my blog and accountability. Please continue to support me on this journey of life, love and weight loss.

The past 10 weeks have been a blur and yet some how super long. I miss people and going places. I miss even the things that annoyed me like traffic. I feel terrible about all the people that I know that have passed away from Covid-19. I have friends of my family pass away, members of people who I love families pass away and a member of my family pass away with this pandemic. Knowing one of the main risk factor still to survival from Covid-19 is your BMI, the higher your BMI the more likely you are to have complications with this illness. Honestly, since there is still no cure or vaccine I figured I need to focus on what I can do. With that said, I have to focus back on how I lost the weight before and continue with those steps in a sustainable way that will not lead to gain back all that I have lost. Although I have no place to really go and no students to actually pick up from class since I am giving speech and language services through tele-therapy. I need to find ways to get my steps in and social distance from my kitchen. I’m open to any ideas and suggestion you may have.

Finally, I’m feeling like my mindset is in the game. I have fortunately or unfortunately settled into the fact that this is the new normal. I will be working from home for the foreseeable future. I will wear a mask in public. I don’t know the next time I will hug a friend or go out for dinner or even book club. I have discovered some great things in social distancing that have kept me from completely losing it and the refrigerator. Here’s my list so far:

• Verzzus Battles on IG streamed to the Apple TV
• Twerkout classes on google meets
• Live Life Anyway classes online with CeCe
• Poem writing and mediation with BK Yoga Club
• Open mic events on IG and Zoom
• Podcasts
• SLP Memes on IG
• Music on loud that you can dance or sing along to

I also have been journaling and I bought a couple of adult coloring books. My level of anxiety and depression was/is at an all time high. Changes daily depending on what news I hear or what energy I allow in my space. I just have been finding it difficult to concrete on day to day activities especially during the time that every day it seemed like someone I knew was hospitalized or worse had died. My first comforter has always been food and I just ate whatever because it felt like the world was ending so why bother. Thankfully, I want to bother and the world isn’t ending. I have scheduled at the time of writing this post an online cardio dance class for myself tonight, a Twerkout class also online this weekend and I’m starting a 10 minutes a day 30 day fitness challenge June 1st. I want to feel good going into my birthday so I am focusing on aspects of live that I enjoy that have limited to do with food and still allow me to learn, grow, and excel.

Love, Light, and Peace,

SimsSlims

PS Thanks for joining me again!