Date: 06/06/2011
Starting weight: 184.9
Current weight: 176
Final Goal: 155
Loss since last weigh in: 6.5
Total Loss: 8.9
Pounds left to lose: 21
Well today is the start of week three. This has been a lot easier than I thought it would be. Sure some days are harder than others but I have a goal in mind and I mean buisness! For some reason though I remember it coming off a bit quicker the first time. Maybe it's in my head, but i'm on a mission that's for sure. Two full weeks completed and just shy of nine pounds down.
My first goal is a six week "no cheating" goal. If I continute the way I have been losing, then I might possibly reach my goal weight by then. I really want to let loose and have a good time for Fourth of July, but if i'm not close to where I want to be I will be stricter than ever. My first fitting for my bridesmaid dress will be middle of July. I want to have the dress taken in. Then the first week in Augest is my fitting for my wedding dress for September.
The weekends have proven to be the hardest. Spending a lot of time with my fiance Daniel who is a string bean. At first I was a bit sensitive to his eatting. He has been really supportive and always seems to pause before making some tater tots or something he knows I really would like to indulge in. Luckily, I just don't feel the temptation. I have found that inner voice of strength and determination that I used to have. It feels good to have her back. The most difficult part for me is staying on track with my eatting schedule on the weekends. The mornings when I like to laze in bed and stay in my PJ's a little too long. Now I just need to be prepared and set my alarm and go back to sleep if id like.
This week I am starting my "slow" starting work out routine. I don't want to get in over my head and make commitments that I can't stick to. So I am going to do my Abs DVD at least three times a week and walk three laps around my neighborhood three times a week. Every two weeks I am going to add a lap onto my walk routine.
Wish me luck and thanks for staying tuned! Until next time!
Monday, June 6, 2011
Wednesday, May 25, 2011
Here we go again..
Date: 5/25/2011
Starting Weight: 184.9
Current Weight: 182.5
Final Goal Weight: 155
Loss since Last Weigh in: 2.4
Total Weight Loss: 2.4
Pounds left to lose: 27.5
Well this blog is a bit embarrassing. End of story. I'm dissappointed in myself and it shows on the outside and inside. I have gained quite a bit of weight back since my last blog post. I am starting my Medifast journey and transformation all over again from square one. Sure i'm not starting out at 220 and far from my heaviest weight at 265 but I might as welll be. I feel that way.
Back story/ Playing catch up:
While I have always tried to be transparent to my blog followers, at this time I'm not comfortable with full disclosure. but, I will try my hardest to explain how I got to where I am today.
I have had a tremendous amount of stress in my life. I have gotten engaged, bought a house, struggled with intense back pain, and probably the most trying of all.. had some female problems. For the last 5 months especially, I have been going to frequent doctors appointments that are very emotionally draining. I have been on hormone pills that seem to make me gain weight like it's going out of style. I also have been emotionally eatting. My medical issues slowly took away all the self confidence I had built up while getting in shape. So, I went back to the old stand by: I feel like a failure, I eat and forgetabout everything else that used to matter to me personally. I have let my personal problems be the center of my focus and energy. Until one morning I looked in the mirror and hated what I saw. I had to go buy a bigger pants size and none of my clothes seem to fit. I started crying frequently about my apperance and honestly I've been embarassed for people to see me. Don't get me wrong. I am not making excuses. Life has been rough, but I made the big mistake of forgetting how great it felt to be thing and healthy.
A new start:
My wedding is less than four months away, September 3rd. I am also a bridesmaid in a wedding in early August. I hate the idea that after all that hard work I would be unhappy with my body on our wedding day. So last week I emailed my coach looking for some inspiration. Here are the parts in her respoinse that really inspired me.
"Change, it's a part of life and you need to figure out how to fit all the new things in with the old things that are important to you. Soon you will be a new home owner, then a new wife, then a mother, then a soccer mom, then a mom of a teen ager, then the mother of the bride, and then a Grandma. The importance in this scenario is that you want to feel good about yourself regardless of things changing in your life."
So I put my Medifast order in right away. I started on Monday and have commited myself to getting back on track. I want to lose enough to be back at my old weight before I felt like I had lost control. Looking back at those older pictures I am just fawning over how beautiful my figure was and how great I looked. Thinking back, I never REALLY felt beautiful. It was always "I need to lose ten more pounds." Don't you have looking back to pictures of your past and thinking "Man, I was crazy not to know how gorgeous I was?" Well I am making a goal right now to never underestimate my accomplishments and let myself be happy and feel beautiful. I guess from what happened it shows, I don't have it all together. Even though I thought I did. So, here I go starting from square one. One day at a time, one pound at a time. Take it from me. You do not want to let yourself slip and fall and have to start all over again. Enjoy your weight loss success and make sure when you lose a pound say goodbye to it forever.
Thanks for the support and cheers to new goals and always striving to be a better you.
Starting Weight: 184.9
Current Weight: 182.5
Final Goal Weight: 155
Loss since Last Weigh in: 2.4
Total Weight Loss: 2.4
Pounds left to lose: 27.5
Well this blog is a bit embarrassing. End of story. I'm dissappointed in myself and it shows on the outside and inside. I have gained quite a bit of weight back since my last blog post. I am starting my Medifast journey and transformation all over again from square one. Sure i'm not starting out at 220 and far from my heaviest weight at 265 but I might as welll be. I feel that way.
Back story/ Playing catch up:
While I have always tried to be transparent to my blog followers, at this time I'm not comfortable with full disclosure. but, I will try my hardest to explain how I got to where I am today.
I have had a tremendous amount of stress in my life. I have gotten engaged, bought a house, struggled with intense back pain, and probably the most trying of all.. had some female problems. For the last 5 months especially, I have been going to frequent doctors appointments that are very emotionally draining. I have been on hormone pills that seem to make me gain weight like it's going out of style. I also have been emotionally eatting. My medical issues slowly took away all the self confidence I had built up while getting in shape. So, I went back to the old stand by: I feel like a failure, I eat and forgetabout everything else that used to matter to me personally. I have let my personal problems be the center of my focus and energy. Until one morning I looked in the mirror and hated what I saw. I had to go buy a bigger pants size and none of my clothes seem to fit. I started crying frequently about my apperance and honestly I've been embarassed for people to see me. Don't get me wrong. I am not making excuses. Life has been rough, but I made the big mistake of forgetting how great it felt to be thing and healthy.
A new start:
My wedding is less than four months away, September 3rd. I am also a bridesmaid in a wedding in early August. I hate the idea that after all that hard work I would be unhappy with my body on our wedding day. So last week I emailed my coach looking for some inspiration. Here are the parts in her respoinse that really inspired me.
"Change, it's a part of life and you need to figure out how to fit all the new things in with the old things that are important to you. Soon you will be a new home owner, then a new wife, then a mother, then a soccer mom, then a mom of a teen ager, then the mother of the bride, and then a Grandma. The importance in this scenario is that you want to feel good about yourself regardless of things changing in your life."
So I put my Medifast order in right away. I started on Monday and have commited myself to getting back on track. I want to lose enough to be back at my old weight before I felt like I had lost control. Looking back at those older pictures I am just fawning over how beautiful my figure was and how great I looked. Thinking back, I never REALLY felt beautiful. It was always "I need to lose ten more pounds." Don't you have looking back to pictures of your past and thinking "Man, I was crazy not to know how gorgeous I was?" Well I am making a goal right now to never underestimate my accomplishments and let myself be happy and feel beautiful. I guess from what happened it shows, I don't have it all together. Even though I thought I did. So, here I go starting from square one. One day at a time, one pound at a time. Take it from me. You do not want to let yourself slip and fall and have to start all over again. Enjoy your weight loss success and make sure when you lose a pound say goodbye to it forever.
Thanks for the support and cheers to new goals and always striving to be a better you.
Tuesday, October 5, 2010
Update!
Date: 10/05/2010
Starting Weight: 219.6
Current Weight: 150
Final Goal Weight: 145
Loss Since Last Weigh In: 3.5
Total Weight loss: 69.6
Pounds left to lose: 5
Well it’s been quite a while since my last blog post. 5 months. Wow, I can’t believe that much time has gone by. I figured I would give some updates and share some light on the things going on in my life. First, I am no longer a brunette! I have crossed over to the lighter side of life and I love it. I felt that after such a transformation, I needed one last big change.
I have found myself at a slow losing standstill. You can look at it two ways. Most days I stay right where I am. I have only lost a little over three pounds in five months. The way I look at it, is many of my fears have been conquered. I always feared the time I would be satisfied with myself and start to deter away from the program. Five months ago I also met my boyfriend (whom I live with now, and cook for every night). There’s always fear of that “comfort weight” we tend to gain when we are settled and cozy in a relationship. He also is pretty fit and athletic and eats pretty much whatever he wants whenever he wants. Five months I have made it. Cooking for him, feeling comfortable with my body, and taking most weekends to completely go off Medifast. Not only have I made that transition I have managed to lose a bit along the way.
I still need to do some internal work. Some days I wake up and I have the same self esteem as I did at the beginning of all this. It really is hard for me to see myself the way I really look. I know that is all mental and something I really need to work on. I should be beaming with pride and love for myself. That is going to be a daily process and not something that I like to admit. I felt it was something I should share, in case someone else out there is struggling with the same thing.
I do stay pretty strict on Medifast during the weekdays. I like how it fits in with my schedule and keeps our meals pretty rounded out and healthy during the weekdays. I also have continued on my journey of being a health coach for Medifast. I like staying close to the program. It makes it easier to relate to my clients. My business is growing slowly but every time I sign a client up, I smile and cross my fingers that this is the start of a new life for them.
Here’s some more updated pictures! I promise my next blog post will be sooner than five months apart! Keep up the great work everyone. Like I tell all my clients and myself regularly. Any goal you set out for yourself is attainable.
Friday, May 14, 2010
Testimonial
Date: 05/14/2010
Starting Weight: 219.6
Current Weight: 153.5
Final Goal Weight: 145
Loss Since Last Weigh In: 2
Total Weight loss: 66.1
Pounds left to lose: 8.5
Well, hell yeah! I made it past my second goal weight! Now, for my third and final goal weight. Only 8.5 pounds to go and that feels amazing. When I started this journey I thought first, and foremost that the weight I am at now was an impossibility. I was going to save all the mushy blogs for when I actually had succeeded the final goal I had set for myself in the beginning. Lately I have been talking with my boyfriend about Medifast and answering questions about it because it is my lifestyle. Talking about lately has really opened my eyes to how thankful I am for this program and what it has done for me and my family. He asked me some pretty deep questions this weekend. I thought I would take this blog to reflect on my journey as a whole.
I was asked, well how did you end up gaining so much weight in the first place? I thought this would be a great place to answer considering I have never really shared my “testimonial” before. When I was in high school, I always felt out of place and overweight. Looking back now, I was a crazy girl! I wore a size 12 and was in decent shape. So many times I wish I could write a letter to myself and tell 17 year old me that I was beautiful and to cherish my body and keep it that way! Graduating high school and leaving for college was a really hard time for me. My long time boyfriend (who I was moving in with)ended up being un-faithful. That completely broke whatever self esteem that I had. I ended up staying with him and moving three hours away from my family to a town that I hated. We were struggling college students living on fast food, hot dogs, and baked potatoes. I was depressed and very un-happy. As I have stated in other blogs eating has always been such a huge outlet for emotion in my life and in my family. Slowly I started eating my way to obesity. I already felt ugly on the inside and out, I didn’t really notice the 80 pound weight gain. I know that sounds crazy, but when I looked at myself I didn’t see anyone different than I always had. Slowly over time, we moved and I started feeling happy again. Although, our poor eating habits stayed the same. My boyfriend at the time was VERY skinny and ate a lot of food. Whenever he ate, so did I. I seemed to put on the pounds for both of us.
It wasn’t until after we got married and he joined the Air Force that I started losing the weight. This was summer of 2007. He was away for about 7 months in training and I had that time to start finding myself. I cooked my own meals and ate when I felt hungry. Easily I dropped from 265 pounds to 220. Just by eating less and cooking my own meals. We were stationed in the UK for our first duty station and after moving there, three months later I was coming home heading towards a divorce and a very rough year.
At first I was trying to figure out how to put my life back together and I wasn’t really worried about my appearance. I felt so deeply sad and worthless, it wouldn’t have mattered at that point if I looked like a playmate, I felt like the ugliest person in the world. I put my life back together a lot quicker than I had expected. I found a great job, my own place, and car. Really, all the essentials of surviving. Lastly I needed to put myself back together. I went to counseling and support group every week and found out that building your self esteem back up is a very important step in moving on. I started going to the gym and got myself down to 200 pounds. After the routine set in and I started healing emotionally I moved away from that appearance step. I found myself slowly gaining back the weight and when I found myself back up to 219 pounds I made a decision that I wasn’t going to allow myself to be that way anymore. That’s when I decided to start Medifast. Nearly 2 years has gone by since my trek back home from the UK and 9 months of being on Medifast and I am literally a new woman. I love my body and I love the person I am. I am a woman I can be proud of. I have shed all the old baggage off, along with the pounds. I am so happy and have found someone who makes me feel even more beautiful than I already do.
The major point I want to make is there is never a right time for making life changing decisions. There is always going to be a reason to put it off. I hope that people will start making these healthy choices earlier on, rather than when you hit rock bottom and have nowhere else to go like I did. You can do it and you will thank yourself for it. Chances are, it will make you feel better than you have for a very long time.
Keep up the good work!
Starting Weight: 219.6
Current Weight: 153.5
Final Goal Weight: 145
Loss Since Last Weigh In: 2
Total Weight loss: 66.1
Pounds left to lose: 8.5
Well, hell yeah! I made it past my second goal weight! Now, for my third and final goal weight. Only 8.5 pounds to go and that feels amazing. When I started this journey I thought first, and foremost that the weight I am at now was an impossibility. I was going to save all the mushy blogs for when I actually had succeeded the final goal I had set for myself in the beginning. Lately I have been talking with my boyfriend about Medifast and answering questions about it because it is my lifestyle. Talking about lately has really opened my eyes to how thankful I am for this program and what it has done for me and my family. He asked me some pretty deep questions this weekend. I thought I would take this blog to reflect on my journey as a whole.
I was asked, well how did you end up gaining so much weight in the first place? I thought this would be a great place to answer considering I have never really shared my “testimonial” before. When I was in high school, I always felt out of place and overweight. Looking back now, I was a crazy girl! I wore a size 12 and was in decent shape. So many times I wish I could write a letter to myself and tell 17 year old me that I was beautiful and to cherish my body and keep it that way! Graduating high school and leaving for college was a really hard time for me. My long time boyfriend (who I was moving in with)ended up being un-faithful. That completely broke whatever self esteem that I had. I ended up staying with him and moving three hours away from my family to a town that I hated. We were struggling college students living on fast food, hot dogs, and baked potatoes. I was depressed and very un-happy. As I have stated in other blogs eating has always been such a huge outlet for emotion in my life and in my family. Slowly I started eating my way to obesity. I already felt ugly on the inside and out, I didn’t really notice the 80 pound weight gain. I know that sounds crazy, but when I looked at myself I didn’t see anyone different than I always had. Slowly over time, we moved and I started feeling happy again. Although, our poor eating habits stayed the same. My boyfriend at the time was VERY skinny and ate a lot of food. Whenever he ate, so did I. I seemed to put on the pounds for both of us.
It wasn’t until after we got married and he joined the Air Force that I started losing the weight. This was summer of 2007. He was away for about 7 months in training and I had that time to start finding myself. I cooked my own meals and ate when I felt hungry. Easily I dropped from 265 pounds to 220. Just by eating less and cooking my own meals. We were stationed in the UK for our first duty station and after moving there, three months later I was coming home heading towards a divorce and a very rough year.
At first I was trying to figure out how to put my life back together and I wasn’t really worried about my appearance. I felt so deeply sad and worthless, it wouldn’t have mattered at that point if I looked like a playmate, I felt like the ugliest person in the world. I put my life back together a lot quicker than I had expected. I found a great job, my own place, and car. Really, all the essentials of surviving. Lastly I needed to put myself back together. I went to counseling and support group every week and found out that building your self esteem back up is a very important step in moving on. I started going to the gym and got myself down to 200 pounds. After the routine set in and I started healing emotionally I moved away from that appearance step. I found myself slowly gaining back the weight and when I found myself back up to 219 pounds I made a decision that I wasn’t going to allow myself to be that way anymore. That’s when I decided to start Medifast. Nearly 2 years has gone by since my trek back home from the UK and 9 months of being on Medifast and I am literally a new woman. I love my body and I love the person I am. I am a woman I can be proud of. I have shed all the old baggage off, along with the pounds. I am so happy and have found someone who makes me feel even more beautiful than I already do.
The major point I want to make is there is never a right time for making life changing decisions. There is always going to be a reason to put it off. I hope that people will start making these healthy choices earlier on, rather than when you hit rock bottom and have nowhere else to go like I did. You can do it and you will thank yourself for it. Chances are, it will make you feel better than you have for a very long time.
Keep up the good work!
Thursday, May 6, 2010
Too lazy to think of a title :)
Date: 05/06/2010
Starting Weight: 219.6
Current Weight: 155.5
Goal Weight2: 155
Final Goal Weight: 145-150
Loss Since Last Weigh In: 1.3
Total Weight loss: 64.1
Pounds left to lose: 0.5
I’m making steady progress still. Seeing 0.5 pounds left to lose, until I reach my second goal is a hard pill to swallow. I just want to be there! 10.5 pounds until I have made my final goal. I am so excited and pushing myself harder than ever. I have just started running on my own and cut out the walk with my parents. I do enjoy the time with them and encouraging them, but it just wasn’t enough of a challenge and I need to start pushing myself athletically. This is a whole new world and experience to me. I actually like running more and more every day. It’s a nice little time where I can push myself mentally and physically. I won’t claim to be an all star runner, but I am already a long way from where I started a week and a half ago. I can only imagine with the right training tools where I could be a few months from now. Let’s not forget the old school 80’s abs DVD after my run. It’s a nice little cool down for my heart rate and that extra something I need to really tone my body.
Now let’s touch on a little subject that sadly I am just experiencing! It’s one thing or another to have a roommate or family members in your life that aren’t doing the diet (Medifast) that you are. That is a hurdle that I had to overcome, just the added temptation of having food in the house you can’t have but are forced to look at. It takes a lot of constant mental reminders of why you are making the commitment in the first place.
I recently just started dating, now that’s a whole new world. How do you tell someone about this big thing in your life that is a sensitive subject? On your dates do you come off as high maintenance and be picky about sticking to the diet? In the end there are no right answers. What worked for me was on the first date to order the most “health conscious” thing I could without coming off as one of those women who will only order a salad. I am the type of person who likes to put all my cards on the table. I have already told him about Medifast, also the fact that I am a health coach makes it an even bigger part of my life. If you feel comfortable with your date, open up to them. Maybe don’t go into all the gory details of how overweight you used to, but if this man or woman is worth your time they will embrace your new lifestyle and try their hardest to accommodate it. Hopefully I will be a good few pounds below my second goal weight by next blog. Keep up the good work! Oh I also thought I would update with a couple pictures I took this morning.
Thursday, April 29, 2010
Almost at the finish line!
Date: 04/29/2010
Starting Weight: 219.6
Current Weight: 156.8
Goal Weight2: 155
Final Goal Weight: 145-150
Loss Since Last Weigh In: 4.2
Total Weight loss: 62.8
Pounds left to lose: 1.8
Well my weekly blog turned into more of a “whenever I have time” blog. I am going to try my hardest to post more often. I want this blog to be a reliable source of information and encouragement to those on Medifast. I also don’t want it to end up being dull because I have some sort of deadline to meet. I am hoping to find a happy medium.
A little update on my past month. It has been sort of a rollercoaster for me in many different areas of my life. I pictured April and May to be more of a downtime, when I could really dig my heels into my goals and get there. I still am not doubting myself or my ability to get to my final goal by June 3rd. Rather rolling with the punches and coming out the other side confident and still making progress.
I did go off the program for five days while on vacation to California. I will admit again I went a little crazy and just ate and drank whatever I wanted. I didn’t gain an un-godly amount of weight, but by the time I was flying home my body felt like complete crap. I was bloated and the way I felt when I looked at myself, in the mirror was drastically different. I am sure being around the glitz and glam of the beautiful plastic that surrounds you everywhere in California didn’t help. I will admit I was flying home in pity party mode. I got back to work my first day back. I made a plan for a new exercise routine and some stricter guidelines to follow by. I find when I let myself go so far off what I know is right for my body, strict guidelines are a good way to jump start my attitude and satisfy my need for a schedule and some order.
Medifast isn’t just about eating some diet food and losing weight. It’s about learning to live and entire healthy lifestyle. Complete body heath, not just what goes into your stomach. You might notice that I often blog about leg pain and how it restricts my life. I decided while in California that living a year with this pain, enough is enough. I scheduled and appointment with a neurologist. After some tests it revealed I have a herniated disc in my back that is causing the pain in my leg. Insurance problems are keeping me from getting surgery right away. I will have to go to a different neurosurgeon that is “in-network” with my insurance provider. This will take until probably September time to get worked out. Everything is in god’s timing and I am okay with that. This affects my work out routine. Until then, I am trying to keep to lower intensity work outs. I stopped going the actual gym, but I might resume in a few weeks. I sure do miss Spin Class and Circuit training. For now I am doing nightly walks with my parents (who are on their second month of Medifast). It’s a pretty steep straight incline up a hill and then down hill the other half. Right now they are only able to do one loop, so to keep it challenging for me I run 5 blocks to their house from my apartment before we start the walk. Once we get to the bottom of the hill I try my best to jog back to my apartment. Once I get home I do a 7-10 minute abs routine from the 5 day abs dvd. It’s important when you feel ready, to add in an exercise program. It’s just a fact of life. You need exercise in your life, even if it is something small like a walk once a day. Don’t be afraid to push yourself. Trust me that five block job to and from home feels like death. Lol
Lastly, I encourage everyone to take a look at their past lives as they take steps toward a new one. Identify the negative habits and reasons that lead you to that breaking point of being overweight or even obesity. I was faced head on with mine on Monday, although I identified it early on in this process. I’m and emotional eater. When I feel hurt and broken I want to fix it with food.
If you don’t face those demons now they might come back to haunt you later. You will find yourself falling into old patterns. It’s all a part of learning and growing to be a better you that you can love and be proud of. Keep up the good work everyone! 1.8 pounds to go until my second goal and 11.8 pounds until my final goal. I never thought I would get to this point, but I am. I’m here, the door is open and all that’s left is for me to take the final steps and walk through it! If I can do it. You can too.
Starting Weight: 219.6
Current Weight: 156.8
Goal Weight2: 155
Final Goal Weight: 145-150
Loss Since Last Weigh In: 4.2
Total Weight loss: 62.8
Pounds left to lose: 1.8
Well my weekly blog turned into more of a “whenever I have time” blog. I am going to try my hardest to post more often. I want this blog to be a reliable source of information and encouragement to those on Medifast. I also don’t want it to end up being dull because I have some sort of deadline to meet. I am hoping to find a happy medium.
A little update on my past month. It has been sort of a rollercoaster for me in many different areas of my life. I pictured April and May to be more of a downtime, when I could really dig my heels into my goals and get there. I still am not doubting myself or my ability to get to my final goal by June 3rd. Rather rolling with the punches and coming out the other side confident and still making progress.
I did go off the program for five days while on vacation to California. I will admit again I went a little crazy and just ate and drank whatever I wanted. I didn’t gain an un-godly amount of weight, but by the time I was flying home my body felt like complete crap. I was bloated and the way I felt when I looked at myself, in the mirror was drastically different. I am sure being around the glitz and glam of the beautiful plastic that surrounds you everywhere in California didn’t help. I will admit I was flying home in pity party mode. I got back to work my first day back. I made a plan for a new exercise routine and some stricter guidelines to follow by. I find when I let myself go so far off what I know is right for my body, strict guidelines are a good way to jump start my attitude and satisfy my need for a schedule and some order.
Medifast isn’t just about eating some diet food and losing weight. It’s about learning to live and entire healthy lifestyle. Complete body heath, not just what goes into your stomach. You might notice that I often blog about leg pain and how it restricts my life. I decided while in California that living a year with this pain, enough is enough. I scheduled and appointment with a neurologist. After some tests it revealed I have a herniated disc in my back that is causing the pain in my leg. Insurance problems are keeping me from getting surgery right away. I will have to go to a different neurosurgeon that is “in-network” with my insurance provider. This will take until probably September time to get worked out. Everything is in god’s timing and I am okay with that. This affects my work out routine. Until then, I am trying to keep to lower intensity work outs. I stopped going the actual gym, but I might resume in a few weeks. I sure do miss Spin Class and Circuit training. For now I am doing nightly walks with my parents (who are on their second month of Medifast). It’s a pretty steep straight incline up a hill and then down hill the other half. Right now they are only able to do one loop, so to keep it challenging for me I run 5 blocks to their house from my apartment before we start the walk. Once we get to the bottom of the hill I try my best to jog back to my apartment. Once I get home I do a 7-10 minute abs routine from the 5 day abs dvd. It’s important when you feel ready, to add in an exercise program. It’s just a fact of life. You need exercise in your life, even if it is something small like a walk once a day. Don’t be afraid to push yourself. Trust me that five block job to and from home feels like death. Lol
Lastly, I encourage everyone to take a look at their past lives as they take steps toward a new one. Identify the negative habits and reasons that lead you to that breaking point of being overweight or even obesity. I was faced head on with mine on Monday, although I identified it early on in this process. I’m and emotional eater. When I feel hurt and broken I want to fix it with food.
If you don’t face those demons now they might come back to haunt you later. You will find yourself falling into old patterns. It’s all a part of learning and growing to be a better you that you can love and be proud of. Keep up the good work everyone! 1.8 pounds to go until my second goal and 11.8 pounds until my final goal. I never thought I would get to this point, but I am. I’m here, the door is open and all that’s left is for me to take the final steps and walk through it! If I can do it. You can too.
Wednesday, March 31, 2010
Picture update 2
Here's some full body pictures that I took this morning. I am still trying to figure out the whole "adding picutres" to my blog thing. Or I would have put them all on one blog entry.
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