Date: 11-19-09
Starting Weight: 219.6
Current Weight: 184.9
Goal Weight: 175
Loss Since Last Weigh In: 0.1
Total Weight loss: 35
Pounds left to lose: 9.9
I made it back from vacation. I arrived home sometime around 1 am on Tuesday the 17th. I am only one day late from my projected blog date, by my standards that it pretty awesome!
I started back on Medifast yesterday, which was one hundred times easier than I ever imagined. All the foods I thought I was missing really weren’t as satisfying as I remembered. I ended up with quite a few tummy aches along the way. I only gained a little over a pound on vacation. I have no idea how that is even possible. I start my blog down 0.1 pounds from my last blog. Still making progress and that couldn’t make me happier.
Vacation was wonderful to say the very least. I started off to the Airport with the mindset that I would try and eat as healthy as I could that way I wouldn’t feel guilty about how much alcohol I was going to have. (Now there’s a 22 year olds plan in action!). By the first night I totally blew my plan out of the water. I had a breakfast sandwich from the Wendy’s at the airport (I felt guilty about it so I shared with my cousin and sister and ended up eating only the bottom half of the biscuit). We had pizza that night. After that I just decided I would eat what I wanted and just stop when I felt full. Let’s say I probably consumed more calories in liquor than food. I wasn’t the biggest fan of buffet style food and most of the time I felt sick to my stomach after eating. I always used the stairs no matter what, and damn did I dance my butt off. All in all after the first day I wasn’t so worried about gaining weight anymore. I just let my hair down and had some fun. I knew I had the capability to lose whatever I gained.
I found out that I can’t let my weight consume me. I think that will help me to lose more weight and stay at a healthy weight once I reach my goals. I found some confidence along this trip and think that will only improve my attitude about my weight loss goals. Hell, I am happy just the way I am right now. Anything else is just frosting on the figurative cake. I guess the message I am always trying to learn and put out there with my blog is: Love yourself no matter what. The rest will come in time. Be proud of who you are and if you want to make changes in your life, don’t be scared to!
Blogging onward next Monday at weigh in. Turns out I am still in fourth place without even weighing-in these past two weeks. Two more weigh-ins left to go. I had a favorite quote this week but didn’t write it down. I will be on the hunt and maybe edit to add it in later. Also, don't ask me where I get my titles from. haha. I just write my blog and title it last. This is for all you padawan learners out there.
<3 Tiffany
Thursday, November 19, 2009
Wednesday, November 4, 2009
Wish Me Luck and Lots Of Sun!
Date: 11-4-09
Starting Weight: 219.6
Current Weight: 185
Goal Weight: 175
Loss Since Last Weigh In: 2.5
Total Weight loss: 34.6
Pounds left to lose: 10
Can you say last minute update? I don’t even recognize myself right now! Like my mother I am a meticulous planner and claim the title of all star worry wart as well. I have less than 24 hours before I am in the car on the way to the airport. I’m not even packed yet.
I have a pretty decent to-do list and have eventually made my way down it this past week. I only have a few small things to pick up at the store, pack, and grab some shoes from my aunt’s house. I have felt the stress of leaving and not being prepared every now and then. Mostly I have vacation-itis.
As of tomorrow I will no longer be on Medifast for the twelve days I am gone. I have already put in my next order to be shipped and waiting for me when I get back. I have never been more dedicated to anything else in my life (other than relationships). I have refused to cheat time and time again even though I know deep down one little nibble here or there wouldn’t kill me, it’s just not how I have stuck through it this long. Why test the waters?
I am very nervous to say the least. It has been over two months of having a strict plan. A time schedule and specific items and how much I should be eating. I am only ten pounds away from my first goal weight and I still don’t feel confident in my ability to know how much to eat. I feel like a baby bird trying to fly for the first time. I plan on staying away from all sweets on this vacation (I don’t care for sweets very much). That is at least one step in the right direction. I also plan on swimming quite a bit and only taking the stairs, never the elevator. I don’t see myself going too overboard. I know how hard I have worked and seriously considered staying on Medifast during my vacation. After lots of thinking it over, I know this vacation is not the type of vacation I can do often. I need to enjoy it to the fullest while I am gone. Everything in life is better in moderation and I know that.
My biggest worries lie with being in situations where fast food is the only option available. I have planned to gain at least 5 pounds while I am gone. I know there will be plenty of drinking too, which is one of the biggest factors in my past weight gain. I will just try and use my best judgment and see where that gets me. Wish me luck and not too much to gain. I will do a trip update the first day I’m back. Should be around the 17th or 18th. Don’t miss me too much!
<3 Tiff
Starting Weight: 219.6
Current Weight: 185
Goal Weight: 175
Loss Since Last Weigh In: 2.5
Total Weight loss: 34.6
Pounds left to lose: 10
Can you say last minute update? I don’t even recognize myself right now! Like my mother I am a meticulous planner and claim the title of all star worry wart as well. I have less than 24 hours before I am in the car on the way to the airport. I’m not even packed yet.
I have a pretty decent to-do list and have eventually made my way down it this past week. I only have a few small things to pick up at the store, pack, and grab some shoes from my aunt’s house. I have felt the stress of leaving and not being prepared every now and then. Mostly I have vacation-itis.
As of tomorrow I will no longer be on Medifast for the twelve days I am gone. I have already put in my next order to be shipped and waiting for me when I get back. I have never been more dedicated to anything else in my life (other than relationships). I have refused to cheat time and time again even though I know deep down one little nibble here or there wouldn’t kill me, it’s just not how I have stuck through it this long. Why test the waters?
I am very nervous to say the least. It has been over two months of having a strict plan. A time schedule and specific items and how much I should be eating. I am only ten pounds away from my first goal weight and I still don’t feel confident in my ability to know how much to eat. I feel like a baby bird trying to fly for the first time. I plan on staying away from all sweets on this vacation (I don’t care for sweets very much). That is at least one step in the right direction. I also plan on swimming quite a bit and only taking the stairs, never the elevator. I don’t see myself going too overboard. I know how hard I have worked and seriously considered staying on Medifast during my vacation. After lots of thinking it over, I know this vacation is not the type of vacation I can do often. I need to enjoy it to the fullest while I am gone. Everything in life is better in moderation and I know that.
My biggest worries lie with being in situations where fast food is the only option available. I have planned to gain at least 5 pounds while I am gone. I know there will be plenty of drinking too, which is one of the biggest factors in my past weight gain. I will just try and use my best judgment and see where that gets me. Wish me luck and not too much to gain. I will do a trip update the first day I’m back. Should be around the 17th or 18th. Don’t miss me too much!
<3 Tiff
Wednesday, October 28, 2009
Bare Minimum Blog Syndrome
Date: 10-26-09
Starting Weight: 219.6
Current Weight: 187.5 (188.2)
Goal Weight: 175
Loss Since Last Weigh In: 1.3 (2.6)
Total Weight loss: 32.1 (31.4)
Pounds left to lose: 12.5 (13.2)
These are my stats from Monday the 26th. I am all out of energy lately. I’m flat out exhausted. 8 more days and one last weigh in until I set sail for my 10 day vacation. This week I was the biggest loser again and get to claim my prize on the upcoming Monday. I am still holding strong in fourth place in the overall standings, but fighting hard for the third spot. Keeping up with my normal pace as usual.
I will update again before I head out for vacation with details of where my diet stands and my plans for not gaining while on vacation. I just wanted to keep my stats current and weekly. Sorry for the skimmed details.
Stay tuned and keep up the good work.
<3 Tiffany
Starting Weight: 219.6
Current Weight: 187.5 (188.2)
Goal Weight: 175
Loss Since Last Weigh In: 1.3 (2.6)
Total Weight loss: 32.1 (31.4)
Pounds left to lose: 12.5 (13.2)
These are my stats from Monday the 26th. I am all out of energy lately. I’m flat out exhausted. 8 more days and one last weigh in until I set sail for my 10 day vacation. This week I was the biggest loser again and get to claim my prize on the upcoming Monday. I am still holding strong in fourth place in the overall standings, but fighting hard for the third spot. Keeping up with my normal pace as usual.
I will update again before I head out for vacation with details of where my diet stands and my plans for not gaining while on vacation. I just wanted to keep my stats current and weekly. Sorry for the skimmed details.
Stay tuned and keep up the good work.
<3 Tiffany
Monday, October 19, 2009
Keep up the good work.
Date: 10-19-09
Starting Weight: 219.6
Current Weight: 188.6 (190.8)
Goal Weight: 175
Loss Since Last Weigh In: 1.3 (2.2)
Total Weight loss: 31 (28.8)
Pounds left to lose: 13.6 (15.8)
I decided to do my stats a little differently from now on. The stubborn side of me can’t choose to post Biggest Loser stats or my own from home. I feel like I want to have honest numbers up for the contest but I also don’t want to discredit the main scale I have been weighing on since day one. Well day one after the big scale fiasco of 09’ I blogged about. Anyways the stats in black are my stats from home and I decided to change the color and put my Biggest Loser stats in parentheses. I will do it this way from now on.
I didn’t update because of a lack of time and motivation last week after the Biggest Loser results came back in. I won top Loser for the week! Whoop. I also moved up to third place in the overall standings. I don’t count on staying there because of how close the others are, but only time will tell. Another 2.2 pounds down this week. My prize was also a choice of a few certificates. I ended up choosing one for a free t-shirt from Cleanline. I am sure I will just give it to my sister, I can’t imagine shopping there. I think I would feel too out of place.
Seventeen more days left until my cruise. I am taking a ten day or so break from the Medifast diet. I think it will be a good test to see how I will do when I am ready to really transition off of it. Although, free food, room service, and endless amount of time for drinking isn’t exactly a real world situation test. It’s sort of a drastic test and one that I am concerned about. I am worried about how much I will gain back and about how difficult it will be to start up again after I am back in my normal swing of things. My family just wants me to relax and have a good time and not worry about it. I think after a couple days I will be able to. Seventeen more days to slim down a little bit more for the fitted dress I got. I will post a few pictures when I get back.
Lately I have been using my aunt as an even bigger motivation. She is looking so great and only a few pounds away from my second goal of 155. I couldn’t imagine getting down to that size but I believe that anything is possible if I try hard enough.
My goal this week is to learn a healthier way to deal with the random “snack attacks” I get on the weekends, or when I have a lot of down time. I have been obsessing (that maybe too strong a word) with food and watching the clock for when I can eat next. I am not usually hungry let alone starving to the point of staring at the clock. I am just bored and use food as a way to occupy my time. This is such a negative habit to have and even more dangerous for after I am finished with Medifast. I haven’t found a good way to deal with this yet. I am defiantly interested in some feedback from people who have found constructive ways of dealing with it. Sometimes that extra bottle of water just doesn’t cut it! I have managed to still stick to Medifast to the T, but am just searching for something to ease my way a little bit.
Quote for today by an unknown author. Remember this as we are on our journey to loving ourselves Inside and out!
“It's not who you are that holds you back, it's who you think you're not.”
<3 Tiffany
Starting Weight: 219.6
Current Weight: 188.6 (190.8)
Goal Weight: 175
Loss Since Last Weigh In: 1.3 (2.2)
Total Weight loss: 31 (28.8)
Pounds left to lose: 13.6 (15.8)
I decided to do my stats a little differently from now on. The stubborn side of me can’t choose to post Biggest Loser stats or my own from home. I feel like I want to have honest numbers up for the contest but I also don’t want to discredit the main scale I have been weighing on since day one. Well day one after the big scale fiasco of 09’ I blogged about. Anyways the stats in black are my stats from home and I decided to change the color and put my Biggest Loser stats in parentheses. I will do it this way from now on.
I didn’t update because of a lack of time and motivation last week after the Biggest Loser results came back in. I won top Loser for the week! Whoop. I also moved up to third place in the overall standings. I don’t count on staying there because of how close the others are, but only time will tell. Another 2.2 pounds down this week. My prize was also a choice of a few certificates. I ended up choosing one for a free t-shirt from Cleanline. I am sure I will just give it to my sister, I can’t imagine shopping there. I think I would feel too out of place.
Seventeen more days left until my cruise. I am taking a ten day or so break from the Medifast diet. I think it will be a good test to see how I will do when I am ready to really transition off of it. Although, free food, room service, and endless amount of time for drinking isn’t exactly a real world situation test. It’s sort of a drastic test and one that I am concerned about. I am worried about how much I will gain back and about how difficult it will be to start up again after I am back in my normal swing of things. My family just wants me to relax and have a good time and not worry about it. I think after a couple days I will be able to. Seventeen more days to slim down a little bit more for the fitted dress I got. I will post a few pictures when I get back.
Lately I have been using my aunt as an even bigger motivation. She is looking so great and only a few pounds away from my second goal of 155. I couldn’t imagine getting down to that size but I believe that anything is possible if I try hard enough.
My goal this week is to learn a healthier way to deal with the random “snack attacks” I get on the weekends, or when I have a lot of down time. I have been obsessing (that maybe too strong a word) with food and watching the clock for when I can eat next. I am not usually hungry let alone starving to the point of staring at the clock. I am just bored and use food as a way to occupy my time. This is such a negative habit to have and even more dangerous for after I am finished with Medifast. I haven’t found a good way to deal with this yet. I am defiantly interested in some feedback from people who have found constructive ways of dealing with it. Sometimes that extra bottle of water just doesn’t cut it! I have managed to still stick to Medifast to the T, but am just searching for something to ease my way a little bit.
Quote for today by an unknown author. Remember this as we are on our journey to loving ourselves Inside and out!
“It's not who you are that holds you back, it's who you think you're not.”
<3 Tiffany
Tuesday, October 13, 2009
A Few Firsts
Date: 10-13-09
Starting Weight: 219.6
Current Weight: 189.9
Goal Weight: 175
Loss Since Last Weigh In: 8.3
Total Weight loss: 29.7
Pounds left to lose: 14.9
This blog entry is going against the grain a little bit. I am going by my scale at home which I have noticed is about two pounds lighter than the biggest loser scale. I will post my biggest loser stats as of yesterday.
Date: 10-12-09
Starting Weight: 219.6
Current Weight: 193
Goal Weight: 175
Loss Since Last Weigh In: 5.2
Total Weight loss: 26.6
Pounds left to lose: 18
It has been two weeks since I posted. The day before last Monday’s weigh in, I came down with the local flu bug around here. I barely got through work on Dayquil and luck. After work I was straight to pajamas and bed. Blogging was not on my priority list (sorry!). I severely went off the plan but not in the worst way. I didn’t cheat at all. I didn’t eat anything that went against the plan. I just simply didn’t eat much. My appetite went away completely. Eating every two hours was simply not an option. I managed to get my morning shake in everyday and one other Medifast meal. For dinner I had to eat something because by that time at night the Dayquil/Nyquil was making me nauseous and giving me the shakes. I scrambled up three eggs and no green serving. Choked it down and called it good. I also would throw in a sugar free popsicle sometimes at night to help soothe my throat and give me some extra calories. I also found sugar free cough drops too. With the extra calories of the cold medicine (yep you heard me!) I wasn’t really as high on my intake as I needed to be but I that is how I managed. So far I am only a few days back on my schedule and no issues. I thought this might mess me up a bit and planned on gaining back a few of the pounds I shed but so far no gain. I will keep you posted as I keep up with my regular intake. Guess being sick didn’t affect it as much as I imagined.
Another first for me this weekend was an overnight trip and my first dining out experience. I was pretty worried about having to be a little picky about where we could go out to eat. I brought a variety of food just in case I got a craving for a certain Medifast meal. I continued with my morning shake each day and found it to be easier to live off the bars mostly. On the go it’s a little difficult to have oatmeal or some soup although not impossible. I just found the bars and honey mustard pretzels to be the most practical.
I found eating out to be rather easy and nice change to my previous restaurant habits. The breakfast skillets did look delicious, and the honey BBQ boneless wings were hard to stare at. Over all I enjoyed my dinner just as much, than if I had ordered something fattening. Most important lessons:
· It’s okay to be picky. If you see something in a dish you know won’t be good for you, order it on the side or ask them to exclude it.
· Always order any dressings or toppings on the side. This leaves the portion in your control. Normally on my mixed salads I just eat the amount of dressing they top my salad with. This time I knew how much I was drizzling over top and didn’t go overboard. I also knew I was within the right amount of dressing that I should use.
· That crispy fried chicken topper looks so good for a salad. Make it grilled. I promise it will taste just as good!
Keep up the good work. I know I am starting to feel more confident every day about my ability to stick with this. I still have my moments of overstress and anxiety. Let’s all just keep taking it one day at a time.
<3
Tiffany
Starting Weight: 219.6
Current Weight: 189.9
Goal Weight: 175
Loss Since Last Weigh In: 8.3
Total Weight loss: 29.7
Pounds left to lose: 14.9
This blog entry is going against the grain a little bit. I am going by my scale at home which I have noticed is about two pounds lighter than the biggest loser scale. I will post my biggest loser stats as of yesterday.
Date: 10-12-09
Starting Weight: 219.6
Current Weight: 193
Goal Weight: 175
Loss Since Last Weigh In: 5.2
Total Weight loss: 26.6
Pounds left to lose: 18
It has been two weeks since I posted. The day before last Monday’s weigh in, I came down with the local flu bug around here. I barely got through work on Dayquil and luck. After work I was straight to pajamas and bed. Blogging was not on my priority list (sorry!). I severely went off the plan but not in the worst way. I didn’t cheat at all. I didn’t eat anything that went against the plan. I just simply didn’t eat much. My appetite went away completely. Eating every two hours was simply not an option. I managed to get my morning shake in everyday and one other Medifast meal. For dinner I had to eat something because by that time at night the Dayquil/Nyquil was making me nauseous and giving me the shakes. I scrambled up three eggs and no green serving. Choked it down and called it good. I also would throw in a sugar free popsicle sometimes at night to help soothe my throat and give me some extra calories. I also found sugar free cough drops too. With the extra calories of the cold medicine (yep you heard me!) I wasn’t really as high on my intake as I needed to be but I that is how I managed. So far I am only a few days back on my schedule and no issues. I thought this might mess me up a bit and planned on gaining back a few of the pounds I shed but so far no gain. I will keep you posted as I keep up with my regular intake. Guess being sick didn’t affect it as much as I imagined.
Another first for me this weekend was an overnight trip and my first dining out experience. I was pretty worried about having to be a little picky about where we could go out to eat. I brought a variety of food just in case I got a craving for a certain Medifast meal. I continued with my morning shake each day and found it to be easier to live off the bars mostly. On the go it’s a little difficult to have oatmeal or some soup although not impossible. I just found the bars and honey mustard pretzels to be the most practical.
I found eating out to be rather easy and nice change to my previous restaurant habits. The breakfast skillets did look delicious, and the honey BBQ boneless wings were hard to stare at. Over all I enjoyed my dinner just as much, than if I had ordered something fattening. Most important lessons:
· It’s okay to be picky. If you see something in a dish you know won’t be good for you, order it on the side or ask them to exclude it.
· Always order any dressings or toppings on the side. This leaves the portion in your control. Normally on my mixed salads I just eat the amount of dressing they top my salad with. This time I knew how much I was drizzling over top and didn’t go overboard. I also knew I was within the right amount of dressing that I should use.
· That crispy fried chicken topper looks so good for a salad. Make it grilled. I promise it will taste just as good!
Keep up the good work. I know I am starting to feel more confident every day about my ability to stick with this. I still have my moments of overstress and anxiety. Let’s all just keep taking it one day at a time.
<3
Tiffany
Monday, September 28, 2009
Staying Positive
Date: 09-28-09
Starting Weight: 219.6
Current Weight: 198.2
Goal Weight: 175
Loss Since Last Weigh In: 1.7
Total Weight loss: 21.4
Pounds left to lose: 23.2
Biggest Loser weigh in number four. I am happy about the weight loss, more than happy, ecstatic. Frustrated that I can’t just weigh in on my scale at home and take a picture for proof. Lol. My scale seems more eager to drop the pounds. I was fairly confident going in of a three or maybe even four pound loss. On weigh in Mondays I don’t even drink my water until I have weighed in. Somehow in an hour I gained back two pounds that have been off all weekend…. Like I said, I am partial to my scale. (Insert pouty face here).
Today my health coach Jackie emailed me to check up on me. She was just checking in to see if I needed any support or to me answers to any questions I might have. We sent a few emails back and forth just chit chatting about my progress. Although I didn’t say my frustrations I feel a lot better after talking with her. Who cares what the Biggest Loser scale says anyways? I feel like every Monday this common issue keeps popping up. Can’t I learn that although the numbers dropping are the main goal, but they are not the only perk of being on this diet. She also reminded me that I have only been at this for six weeks. 21 pounds is an amazing accomplishment. This shows the importance of having someone who is open ears to listen to your frustrations and celebrations along the way. I am lucky that I have so much support. Otherwise all of the good, the bad, and the ugly thoughts probably would overwhelm me. Find someone to help keep you accountable and hold your hand. There is no need to do this alone.
On the lighter side of things, I love the way I am starting to look. Although I don’t see any remarkable changes I am feeling sexier than I have in ages. Thank god there isn’t a camera in my room to count how many times I am looking at myself in the mirror. Lol. I also just bought two new cocktail dresses for the cruise. I am hoping to slim down a little bit beforehand so that they look perfect. For $20.00 apiece I couldn’t turn them down. I think they look really great too. It was a confidence booster and also a great reward for all of my hard work.
Here's an encouraging quote:
"If you have made mistakes, there is always another chance for you. You may have a fresh start any moment you choose, for this thing we call 'failure' is not the falling down, but the staying down. "
-Mary Pickford
Starting Weight: 219.6
Current Weight: 198.2
Goal Weight: 175
Loss Since Last Weigh In: 1.7
Total Weight loss: 21.4
Pounds left to lose: 23.2
Biggest Loser weigh in number four. I am happy about the weight loss, more than happy, ecstatic. Frustrated that I can’t just weigh in on my scale at home and take a picture for proof. Lol. My scale seems more eager to drop the pounds. I was fairly confident going in of a three or maybe even four pound loss. On weigh in Mondays I don’t even drink my water until I have weighed in. Somehow in an hour I gained back two pounds that have been off all weekend…. Like I said, I am partial to my scale. (Insert pouty face here).
Today my health coach Jackie emailed me to check up on me. She was just checking in to see if I needed any support or to me answers to any questions I might have. We sent a few emails back and forth just chit chatting about my progress. Although I didn’t say my frustrations I feel a lot better after talking with her. Who cares what the Biggest Loser scale says anyways? I feel like every Monday this common issue keeps popping up. Can’t I learn that although the numbers dropping are the main goal, but they are not the only perk of being on this diet. She also reminded me that I have only been at this for six weeks. 21 pounds is an amazing accomplishment. This shows the importance of having someone who is open ears to listen to your frustrations and celebrations along the way. I am lucky that I have so much support. Otherwise all of the good, the bad, and the ugly thoughts probably would overwhelm me. Find someone to help keep you accountable and hold your hand. There is no need to do this alone.
On the lighter side of things, I love the way I am starting to look. Although I don’t see any remarkable changes I am feeling sexier than I have in ages. Thank god there isn’t a camera in my room to count how many times I am looking at myself in the mirror. Lol. I also just bought two new cocktail dresses for the cruise. I am hoping to slim down a little bit beforehand so that they look perfect. For $20.00 apiece I couldn’t turn them down. I think they look really great too. It was a confidence booster and also a great reward for all of my hard work.
Here's an encouraging quote:
"If you have made mistakes, there is always another chance for you. You may have a fresh start any moment you choose, for this thing we call 'failure' is not the falling down, but the staying down. "
-Mary Pickford
Monday, September 21, 2009
Self Image
Date: 09-21-2009
Starting Weight: 219.6
Current Weight: 199.9
Goal Weight: 175
Loss Since Last Weigh In: 3.2
Total Weight loss: 19.7
Pounds left to lose: 24.9
Weigh in number three. I am so close to my twenty pound mark it’s driving me crazy. I am so happy to finally be under two hundred. I can’t tell you the last time my weight started with a one. I know that it’s incredibly unhealthy and I am vowing to myself never to let it get back into the two hundreds again. With the exception of if I have kids someday.
I am thinking about my body two years ago and how I let myself get to 265. When I looked at myself in the mirror, I didn’t feel THAT overweight. Sure there were things I wanted to change, but I didn’t feel that I looked that out of shape. I was up to wearing a size 20 dress and jeans. It had a lot to do with living with my ex. He was incredibly thin and ate enough food for an entire football team in one sitting. I guess I got used to over eating. The only problem is he wouldn’t put a pound on and I was gaining for both of us without knowing it. The first 45 pounds I dropped weren’t any huge changes. I simply ate less. I stopped eating when I felt full and it fell off. Small changes can make a big difference. If you aren’t ready to take the full leap, take baby steps. Somewhere down the road you will thank yourself.
Sometime when I feel a little more comfortable in my own skin I will post some pictures of myself from those times and compare to how I am now. Friends that weren’t around for that time in my life say that I look like a completely different person. I have to agree. It’s nice to laugh and be able to smile and know that I have come a long ways even before I started my new diet. The main reason I started in August was because I noticed my patterns were starting to be like they used to be and slowly but surely I was putting weight back on pound by pound. I refused to wake up one morning and be back in that place.
My current diet is chugging along great. I haven’t really put in that much exercise. In the next coming weeks I am hoping for my leg pain to be less and then I can add a little walk up some of the steeper hills by my house. Probably three times a week to start. Along with dropping the pounds I need to start getting back into shape too! My goal for this week, is to start eatting my meals a little slower. As this diet turns into habit, I notice myself just keeping with the schedule but I missing an important peice. A main componet of this diet is learning to pace yourself while eating and knowing proportions. I am going to work on those goals, to help better my success after I am done with Medifast.
This weekend when I finally dropped below the 200 mark, was the first time I looked in the mirror and thought to myself “you look beautiful today.” As women I really feel that we should feel and tell ourselves that every day. No matter how bloated, chubby, or grumpy we feel. If we don’t appreciate our bodies, how can we expect a man or anyone else for that matter to appreciate us? I am finally feeling like I don’t need a husband or a date to validate my self worth.
Keep up the good work everyone! A quote for the deeply poetic:
“A better self-image doesn't pay the rent or cook supper or prevent nuclear war. Feeling better about ourselves doesn't change the world by itself, but it can give us energy to do what we want and to work for change.”
-Our Bodies, Ourselves for the New Century
Starting Weight: 219.6
Current Weight: 199.9
Goal Weight: 175
Loss Since Last Weigh In: 3.2
Total Weight loss: 19.7
Pounds left to lose: 24.9
Weigh in number three. I am so close to my twenty pound mark it’s driving me crazy. I am so happy to finally be under two hundred. I can’t tell you the last time my weight started with a one. I know that it’s incredibly unhealthy and I am vowing to myself never to let it get back into the two hundreds again. With the exception of if I have kids someday.
I am thinking about my body two years ago and how I let myself get to 265. When I looked at myself in the mirror, I didn’t feel THAT overweight. Sure there were things I wanted to change, but I didn’t feel that I looked that out of shape. I was up to wearing a size 20 dress and jeans. It had a lot to do with living with my ex. He was incredibly thin and ate enough food for an entire football team in one sitting. I guess I got used to over eating. The only problem is he wouldn’t put a pound on and I was gaining for both of us without knowing it. The first 45 pounds I dropped weren’t any huge changes. I simply ate less. I stopped eating when I felt full and it fell off. Small changes can make a big difference. If you aren’t ready to take the full leap, take baby steps. Somewhere down the road you will thank yourself.
Sometime when I feel a little more comfortable in my own skin I will post some pictures of myself from those times and compare to how I am now. Friends that weren’t around for that time in my life say that I look like a completely different person. I have to agree. It’s nice to laugh and be able to smile and know that I have come a long ways even before I started my new diet. The main reason I started in August was because I noticed my patterns were starting to be like they used to be and slowly but surely I was putting weight back on pound by pound. I refused to wake up one morning and be back in that place.
My current diet is chugging along great. I haven’t really put in that much exercise. In the next coming weeks I am hoping for my leg pain to be less and then I can add a little walk up some of the steeper hills by my house. Probably three times a week to start. Along with dropping the pounds I need to start getting back into shape too! My goal for this week, is to start eatting my meals a little slower. As this diet turns into habit, I notice myself just keeping with the schedule but I missing an important peice. A main componet of this diet is learning to pace yourself while eating and knowing proportions. I am going to work on those goals, to help better my success after I am done with Medifast.
This weekend when I finally dropped below the 200 mark, was the first time I looked in the mirror and thought to myself “you look beautiful today.” As women I really feel that we should feel and tell ourselves that every day. No matter how bloated, chubby, or grumpy we feel. If we don’t appreciate our bodies, how can we expect a man or anyone else for that matter to appreciate us? I am finally feeling like I don’t need a husband or a date to validate my self worth.
Keep up the good work everyone! A quote for the deeply poetic:
“A better self-image doesn't pay the rent or cook supper or prevent nuclear war. Feeling better about ourselves doesn't change the world by itself, but it can give us energy to do what we want and to work for change.”
-Our Bodies, Ourselves for the New Century
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