Tuesday, January 2, 2007
1st day back on program
Today I joined Weight Watchers. Again! This time I will make it. I get 27 points a day plus 35 flex points a week to use as I see fit. Also, exercise pts. If I exercise, I can use those exercise points for food. I have to use them that day though, or I lose them. Hope it's that easy to lose the weight. I've done really well today. I got in all my water, ate fruit and vegetables and I still have 4 1/2 pts for tonight, if I decide to use them. Losing weight really is all in your head. Stay positive, girls!
2007 My Journey
Day 1
Well, today was relatively good. I'm not sure because I have self control or because I haven't been feeling well.
Either way, my eating was much better, but still need to work on my water intake. The doctor can't see me until Friday, so I'll just have to tough it out until then.
But, I still made it into the gym, even if it was only to walk.......
Well, today was relatively good. I'm not sure because I have self control or because I haven't been feeling well.
Either way, my eating was much better, but still need to work on my water intake. The doctor can't see me until Friday, so I'll just have to tough it out until then.
But, I still made it into the gym, even if it was only to walk.......
2007 My Journey
Day 1
Well, today was relatively good. I'm not sure because I have self control or because I haven't been feeling well.
Either way, my eating was much better, but still need to work on my water intake. The doctor can't see me until Friday, so I'll just have to tough it out until then.
But, I still made it into the gym, even if it was only to walk.......
Well, today was relatively good. I'm not sure because I have self control or because I haven't been feeling well.
Either way, my eating was much better, but still need to work on my water intake. The doctor can't see me until Friday, so I'll just have to tough it out until then.
But, I still made it into the gym, even if it was only to walk.......
Admitting the problem is . . .
The first step to recovery and much easier to say than to do anything about it. Hello, my name is Megan. I am 21 years old and I'm sick of having to shop at the reject outlet store just to buy a pair of jeans that might fit. Since, (and appearently I never got this memo) anyone size 12 and up doesn't deserve to wear anything remotely "fashionable". Okay, that's my agony in a nutshell.
Almost four years ago I graduated from high school, upon doing so I was a size ten and it was because of my wide hips. At my lowest in 10th grade I was a size 8. Since graduating I have gained 60 pounds (my highest was 222 and I'm 5'2 1/2"). I did manage to lose eleven of those beastly things, but since June I have not lost or gained and ounce ( currently 211). I was quite heavy from the age of 9 on. I've had a few big life changing experiences and I used to eat to feel better. I would blame everything and everyone in my life for my weight, except for myself. How could I possibly be to blame?
Well, in about Sept of 2006 (seems like yesterday) I realized that I was to blame for my weight and all the other "problems" I thought I had. At that point I thought I was doing good. I had accepeted responsibility and admitted my problem: I'm fat and I'm the one who let myself get fat. Okay, step one done, step two do something about it. Oh, me? I have to actually do something? I thought I already did something!
Well, now I am doing something. Even if it is a small something. I've tried weight watches before and I wasn't fond of the program. Turns out you have to follow the program to get results (news flash). I'm hoping that I get inspired my all of you lovely ladies who are on weight watchers, since I know the program it might be easire to cath on. Since my mom will be preparing weight watchers meals, it will be easier at home for me to stay on track with food, at work is another story. Did I metion I work at Starbucks? yeah it's #1 on Weight Watchers "no no" list. I've been doing pilates for 15-20 min a day and I take my dog out for a walk/run, not everyday though. So, I plan to keep up with the pilates as it feels great, and switch off my days of walking the pooch with days I drag my lazy bum to the gym.
Like I said earlier it's easier said than done. But step one down. 10% to go (my fist goal is 21 pounds).
Almost four years ago I graduated from high school, upon doing so I was a size ten and it was because of my wide hips. At my lowest in 10th grade I was a size 8. Since graduating I have gained 60 pounds (my highest was 222 and I'm 5'2 1/2"). I did manage to lose eleven of those beastly things, but since June I have not lost or gained and ounce ( currently 211). I was quite heavy from the age of 9 on. I've had a few big life changing experiences and I used to eat to feel better. I would blame everything and everyone in my life for my weight, except for myself. How could I possibly be to blame?
Well, in about Sept of 2006 (seems like yesterday) I realized that I was to blame for my weight and all the other "problems" I thought I had. At that point I thought I was doing good. I had accepeted responsibility and admitted my problem: I'm fat and I'm the one who let myself get fat. Okay, step one done, step two do something about it. Oh, me? I have to actually do something? I thought I already did something!
Well, now I am doing something. Even if it is a small something. I've tried weight watches before and I wasn't fond of the program. Turns out you have to follow the program to get results (news flash). I'm hoping that I get inspired my all of you lovely ladies who are on weight watchers, since I know the program it might be easire to cath on. Since my mom will be preparing weight watchers meals, it will be easier at home for me to stay on track with food, at work is another story. Did I metion I work at Starbucks? yeah it's #1 on Weight Watchers "no no" list. I've been doing pilates for 15-20 min a day and I take my dog out for a walk/run, not everyday though. So, I plan to keep up with the pilates as it feels great, and switch off my days of walking the pooch with days I drag my lazy bum to the gym.
Like I said earlier it's easier said than done. But step one down. 10% to go (my fist goal is 21 pounds).
Monday, January 1, 2007
I'm fat.
Plain and simple, I'm fat. I always have been. I'm 28, 5'4", and as of this morning 270 pounds. Told you I was fat.
I've always been overweight - I can't remember a time when I wasn't. Looking back at my school pictures, I can see the time when I "porked out" - it was about 3rd grade. Up until then I looked like a normal kid, but then it's like I just got huge. I can remember my mom taking me to the doctor for some tests, but he just said it was genetics. My senior year I lost some weight and the smallest I got was a size 14 - and I still thought I was so huge! *insert eye roll here*
Then there was college - I just gained, and gained, and gained. My last year of college I managed to eat better and exercise, but I just maintained. The last 5 years or so that I've been out of school I've gone through periods of maintaining, then gaining 5-10 pounds, then maintaining, rinse and repeat.
I hit my highest sometime last year at 275 and finally said enough is enough. I've been pretty steady at 268 for the last several months now (until PMS + last nights overindulging). I've made little efforts towards losing, got a WW at home kit, started working out sporadically...now I just have to put it all together and KEEP AT IT! See, the thing is I'm a certified athletic trainer - I have a degree in exercises science. I work with athletes every day. I KNOW what I have to do and how to do it - I just don't. And it's funny, because I really DO LIKE to exercise. I just have a lot of excuses of why I shouldn't on a particular day.
Eating right is really hard too. It doesn't help that my boyfriend (of 9 years) doesn't like to eat healthy. He's pretty much anti-vegetable. It's hard enough to cook a meal for 2 people, but to cook 2-1person meals is even tougher so I just try to make something that is OK-healthy wise but he'll still eat. I'm definitely an emotional eater too, and at times a binge eater - although I've been able to get some control over that.
I'm hoping by blogging here with you all it will help keep me accountable. My first goal is to lose 10% - so 27 pounds. yikes. But it's better than being discouraged by the 140 or so pounds I want to lose overall.
I'm starting to use my WW stuff again, and will give exercising another shot. I was doing pretty good before x-mas, but the last 2 weeks haven't done anything. I have no excuse - I have free access to the weight/cardio rooms at the school and they're in the balcony above the gym, right outside my training room door.
Here's my points for today from 5pm on: (I've found that if I start my points "day" at 5, I don't have as much of a problem with going over - Dinner is my main meal, so I have an easier time with not worrying all day if I'll have enough points for dinner, and thus I'm not worrying/thinking about food constantly.)
Dinner:
6 oz. boneless skinless chicken breast fried in about 1 tsp margarine: 7 pts
1/2 cup couscous: 1.5 pts
1 cup mixed veggies: 1 pt
Snack:
orange 1.5 pts (it was kinda big)
Total so far = 11 points
Daily Target 30 points
Water: 60 oz
I've always been overweight - I can't remember a time when I wasn't. Looking back at my school pictures, I can see the time when I "porked out" - it was about 3rd grade. Up until then I looked like a normal kid, but then it's like I just got huge. I can remember my mom taking me to the doctor for some tests, but he just said it was genetics. My senior year I lost some weight and the smallest I got was a size 14 - and I still thought I was so huge! *insert eye roll here*
Then there was college - I just gained, and gained, and gained. My last year of college I managed to eat better and exercise, but I just maintained. The last 5 years or so that I've been out of school I've gone through periods of maintaining, then gaining 5-10 pounds, then maintaining, rinse and repeat.
I hit my highest sometime last year at 275 and finally said enough is enough. I've been pretty steady at 268 for the last several months now (until PMS + last nights overindulging). I've made little efforts towards losing, got a WW at home kit, started working out sporadically...now I just have to put it all together and KEEP AT IT! See, the thing is I'm a certified athletic trainer - I have a degree in exercises science. I work with athletes every day. I KNOW what I have to do and how to do it - I just don't. And it's funny, because I really DO LIKE to exercise. I just have a lot of excuses of why I shouldn't on a particular day.
Eating right is really hard too. It doesn't help that my boyfriend (of 9 years) doesn't like to eat healthy. He's pretty much anti-vegetable. It's hard enough to cook a meal for 2 people, but to cook 2-1person meals is even tougher so I just try to make something that is OK-healthy wise but he'll still eat. I'm definitely an emotional eater too, and at times a binge eater - although I've been able to get some control over that.
I'm hoping by blogging here with you all it will help keep me accountable. My first goal is to lose 10% - so 27 pounds. yikes. But it's better than being discouraged by the 140 or so pounds I want to lose overall.
I'm starting to use my WW stuff again, and will give exercising another shot. I was doing pretty good before x-mas, but the last 2 weeks haven't done anything. I have no excuse - I have free access to the weight/cardio rooms at the school and they're in the balcony above the gym, right outside my training room door.
Here's my points for today from 5pm on: (I've found that if I start my points "day" at 5, I don't have as much of a problem with going over - Dinner is my main meal, so I have an easier time with not worrying all day if I'll have enough points for dinner, and thus I'm not worrying/thinking about food constantly.)
Dinner:
6 oz. boneless skinless chicken breast fried in about 1 tsp margarine: 7 pts
1/2 cup couscous: 1.5 pts
1 cup mixed veggies: 1 pt
Snack:
orange 1.5 pts (it was kinda big)
Total so far = 11 points
Daily Target 30 points
Water: 60 oz
The very first rule....
of weight loss/life change/whatever you want to call it is NEVER GO TO THE GROCERY STORE HUNGRY!!! Do I listen to this rule? Most days yes but this is the first day of my diet so what do I do? Go to the grocery store at 5:30PM with a hungry baby. Our first stop of course was the bakery for an oatmeal raisin cookie for my son. Not too bad so far. We go through soda aisle and I get Diet Coke and Coke Zero (Diet Coke for Men) and have to pass all of the candy and chocolate. I am strong and pass all of that up. We go down the cookie aisle looking for 100 calorie packs and what do I see? Why Biscoff cookies of course. This is the first time I have seen them at a store. I have eaten them American Airlines before and have wondered when I could get my hands on them. Do I pass them up....by this point all sense of willpower has gone out the window. I stuck them in the cart. I did get some 1 point Weight Watcher Smoothies and 1 point Giant Fudge Bars for snacks. Not doing too bad so far, Only one outlawed item in the cart then I see the Kit Kat Bites near the register. I think "If I eat these in the car no one will know..." I passed them up. That is huge for me because I LOVE Kit Kat Bites.
The plan was for me to go to the grocery store get fruits and veggies and come home and have a salad. Instead I ate a Mcdonalds Cheeseburger. I passed on the fries though and now I am home. I went over points today. It is the first day of the new year and I couldn't stay in my points....what does that say for tomorrow? Hopefully, now that we have fruits and veggies in the house I will be able to make better choices for the rest of the week.
Here is my point breakdown for the day:
Breakfast
2 pancakes: 6
2 Tbsp Chocolate Chips:3
Lunch:
1 Cup Campbell's Chili: 3
1 oz cheese:2
1 Oz Salt and Vinegar Chips: 4
Dinner:
Mcdonalds Cheeseburger:8
4 Biscoff Cookies:3
Giant Fudge Bar:1
Total: 30 Points 24 used and 6 flex points used. Hopefully tomorrow I can stick with the 24 points.
The plan was for me to go to the grocery store get fruits and veggies and come home and have a salad. Instead I ate a Mcdonalds Cheeseburger. I passed on the fries though and now I am home. I went over points today. It is the first day of the new year and I couldn't stay in my points....what does that say for tomorrow? Hopefully, now that we have fruits and veggies in the house I will be able to make better choices for the rest of the week.
Here is my point breakdown for the day:
Breakfast
2 pancakes: 6
2 Tbsp Chocolate Chips:3
Lunch:
1 Cup Campbell's Chili: 3
1 oz cheese:2
1 Oz Salt and Vinegar Chips: 4
Dinner:
Mcdonalds Cheeseburger:8
4 Biscoff Cookies:3
Giant Fudge Bar:1
Total: 30 Points 24 used and 6 flex points used. Hopefully tomorrow I can stick with the 24 points.
This is me.....
Hi, my name is Anissa. I am a 35 year old, SAHM who is severely overweight. I would even say obese. Yuck, I hate that word. I have never (that I can remember) said this to anyone outside of my family and doctor, but I weigh 205 lbs. I personally want to loose 75 lbs. My doctor wants me to loose 90-95lbs. Yikes!
Anyhow, I have some serious issues. Even when I was at my most fit and athletic......mountain climbing, running marathons, playing racquetball and softball (with men mind you) there was always somebody or some entity telling me I was still overweight or "FAT". Men (besides my husband) never liked me unless I was skinny and growing up my family had issues with being skinny. It was never good enough.....I was told I wasn't skinny and that my friends lied to me when they told me I looked nice. Not even good, just nice. But, according to my family, they were lying. I think those reasons are directly what led to my emotional eating problem. It's huge too!
Anyhow, those are just a few of the things I deal with. I have to say I have a wonderful husband, who doesn't neccesarily see eating the way I do and keeps chips and soda in the house, he does support me on every other level. He ensures we have enough money for the gym memberships, healthy foods, sports clothing/shoes and/or doctors.
I don't know what they mean when they say "are you ready to loose the weight". I'm always ready, who isn't? I just haven't figured out how to get over my issues yet.
Oh one more thing. I don't neccesarily need to see dramatic, fast weight loss, but would like to see consistent weightloss over the next year. I figured out if I can loose "atleast" 4lbs a month, I can loose almost 50lbs. That is over half way to my goal in one single year.
Well, this is me.......
Anyhow, I have some serious issues. Even when I was at my most fit and athletic......mountain climbing, running marathons, playing racquetball and softball (with men mind you) there was always somebody or some entity telling me I was still overweight or "FAT". Men (besides my husband) never liked me unless I was skinny and growing up my family had issues with being skinny. It was never good enough.....I was told I wasn't skinny and that my friends lied to me when they told me I looked nice. Not even good, just nice. But, according to my family, they were lying. I think those reasons are directly what led to my emotional eating problem. It's huge too!
Anyhow, those are just a few of the things I deal with. I have to say I have a wonderful husband, who doesn't neccesarily see eating the way I do and keeps chips and soda in the house, he does support me on every other level. He ensures we have enough money for the gym memberships, healthy foods, sports clothing/shoes and/or doctors.
I don't know what they mean when they say "are you ready to loose the weight". I'm always ready, who isn't? I just haven't figured out how to get over my issues yet.
Oh one more thing. I don't neccesarily need to see dramatic, fast weight loss, but would like to see consistent weightloss over the next year. I figured out if I can loose "atleast" 4lbs a month, I can loose almost 50lbs. That is over half way to my goal in one single year.
Well, this is me.......
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