I need motivation and discipline .... and I do love to gamble so ...

I am a 36 year old attorney, wife and mom to an adorable 6 year old girl. I have always been active and "normal" in weight - not perfect, got my fat rolls and but shelf, but in the healthy range of weight. I teach Zumba and love it and don't have a problem finding motivation to go to Zumba because it's fun, but I do have a problem finding motivation and discipline in my eating. And you can't outdance a bad diet. I have always ate whatever I wanted ... and I mean that. I eat a wide variety of food, and I eat all day. It's out of control (the good thing is there is a ton of room for improvement). But my body always maintained with it but since I hit 35 I think my metabolism has slowed a bit, and since my body is used to Zumba now, I've creeped up. I've never been perfectly skinny; I've always been a little bit ... wishing I looked a little different (like a lot of us). But I'm a happy person and I'm fairly confident on a great clothes day. Also I love clothes and don't want to lose a huge investment by going up a size!!!

So that brings me to diet bet. I've tried to lose weight many times in the last year and always start for about 2-3 days and then fail. But I do love to gamble! My husband and I go to Vegas once a year and our families play poker every Sunday. I don't play big stakes - I'm a $5.00 craps and blackjack, maybe $10.00 pai gow poker kind of gal .. but I love the thrill of gambling. Everyone knows this about me. And when I told people I had signed up for diet bet, without fail every one of them started chuckling. My coworker was the first person to point out that OF COURSE I would be the one to have to make weight loss into gambling. But hey! We have to find our motivation! And I don't have self discipline - I need outside influence. Up to now I haven't found it, but maybe this is it??!!!! I've had a pretty good weekend, which did include pizza and a doughnut for desert last night, but overall, I did better than I had before and I'm down 1.5lbs in 4 days - so maybe it's working??!!!

My goal is to get my $30.00 bet, over the course of a few diet bets, into $100.00 which I will then use to buy clothes guilt free - clothes that will then look better!

Here's to gambling on myself!

Happy To Be V

10/12/2015 3:29PM

You are my kind of gal! I love to gamble, though maybe not as much you! I prefer cards black jack in particular, but I enjoy playing poker with the family (if I get the chance...I'm normally the only one requesting poker). I also go good on dares. Something about taking someone on their word just makes victory that much sweeter. Coca-cola is my weakness. Like you I'm active, but have a horrible diet. It was depression that got me down and without the change in diet plus the medley of trial and error prescriptions I went through a HUGE weight gain. When I can figure out how to post a "before" picture in the right orientation, I'll add that to my blog. Thank you for sharing your story and I look forward to sharing in the glory with you.

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