SO....crazy yet fun weekend. Spent too much money and ate too much bad food. :( extra gym time required this week!!! And here is the result from Saturdays official weekly weigh in:
Wahoo!!! I moved some things yesterday and made sure my scale was one of them. I obsess over it too much! So it's outta sight for about a week. This means I need to kick major ass!
Happy Monday everyone! To end this quick blog, here's a few random pics from this weekend of my mama and I...
After the waterpark
Downtown trolley- Posted using BlogPress from my iPhone
Packing up my apartment a little tonight...kinda sad. :( I may be moving a little more quickly than anticipated. Prayers are appreciated.
Weight this morning was 210.4 this morning. So 2.2 loss! Sorry I didn't get a pic but I was in a mad dash. No pic or it didnt happen right? haha I'll get one at the OFFICIAL weigh in tomorrow. I may a little delayed in posting it because my mama is coming down for the weekend.
So much craziness going on!
Oh splendid! My pal recommended this app. Gonna be so much easier to blog now!
This is me!!!!
Right friggin on
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Quick blog!
I went to the gym tonight and hit the elliptical first as usual. I've only been able to do about 20 min before I'm dying. But tonight, ten minutes in, it just seemed so much easier. I checked my incline and resistance to make sure it all was right and sure enough it was. So i trekked on for 35 min burning 310 calories! It's amazing to see how only less than a week of consistency is already paying off in the form of my body adapting. Hopefully the scale will be as kind Saturday lol!
Other than that, today was a dull work day. I did get a new hair do though! I'm posting from my phone though so I'll have to upload a pic in the next post! That way at least you cam have a face to pair my blogs with as well!
Random thought: I think all my old pics of me at my largest are at my exes still. I need to scope out my parents house...
Hey there everyone! I am quite upset with myself....
My job brought us in food today. BBQ, coleslaw, beans, chip and dip...ya know...all that good, greasy stuff that's just hard for a southern girl to resist. I sat there at my desk watching everyone pass with their plates and I tried...oh how I tried to ignore that fragrant, mouth watering aroma coming down the stairs. I finally gave in and got a plate. :(
BUT IT'S NOT THE END OF THE WORLD! Right? Yes...right. Haha that just means extra time in the gym tonight. (I so slept through my alarm this morning.... :/ ) I'm looking at the fact that I'm beating myself up as good though because that means this time I care. So yay for the small victories!
My mama is coming down this weekend to enjoy downtown before I head back home. She is one of those people who just never eats out so she has already let me know that shes excited about all the different restaurants around here. I don't look forward to how tough that's gonna be. BUT it'll be good times. I'll be sure to post lots of pics!
So as far as working out, I've been doing about 30 min on an elliptical, 10 on the treadmill (really want this number to climb), and then climbing 7 flights of stairs home. I know it'll become easier over time and I'll be able to bump up my times. Looking forward to that :)
By the way, to all my new readers, hello and thanks for joining me on my journey! Feel free to leave a comment with your info and I'll be happy to be an extra support system for you.
FINALLY! It allowed my pic to upload! This is from Saturday the 20th. My starting weight. I'm really trying only to allow myself to weigh once a week. I think, for myself anyways, it'll be better mentally and better motivation not to be obsessing over the scale. I have lost 13 pounds since the last time I weighed...so this was definitely a pleasant surprise. My initial goal is 150. I'd like to be at 195 by the 23rd of next month. My pal and I are hitting Dallas to see Maroon 5 and Train (YAY) so it'd be nice to be making headway by then.
Until next time....
keep on rockin in the free world
Well hello again.
I haven't been here since March! That's flipping depressing. What's happened in my life?
Well I have had a lot of fun, met a lot of new people, had some hard spots, and even took a new job. But now its all about to change again! I have wanted to go to cosmetology school for the longest time. Long story short, school is 9k cheaper back in my home town and my parents have offered to let me live with them for free while I go. Which means I could go full time and just work at night to pay basic bills. As much as I hate to leave "the big city", I know its for a happier career and life in the long run. PLUS its not even for a full year.
SOOOOOOOOO I have played yoyo diet here a few times I believe but still haven't accomplished shiz. That's changing now. I am so incredibly determined!! I have just absolutely had it with my body and all the hang ups I have because of it. So with one pretty expensive shopping trip down today, I have gotten all I need to get going seriously. I'll be in LR for about another month so I'll take advantage of my apartment's gym during that time. Once back in my hometown, I plan on joining my bff's gym and working out with her in the mornings. Not to be mushy but she's an incredible inspiration!!! Happy almost 100 girl!
So I have starting pics but it keeps rejecting them. I'll try to upload those later!!! But ultimately, my starting weight is 212.6.
Hey everyone. I havent done that great of a job here I'm afraid! :/ Ive really got to get pics up tonight!!!
I ordered a new pair of running shoes. I'm SO excited!! This is about the time of year that I started running at the healthiest point in my life and I'm STOKED to get back to that! They should be in tomorrow.
I've done REALLY good with eating!!! I'm limiting myself to 1300 calories and I'm trying to eat at least a small snack every 3-4 hours. I don't have a scale at home so I can't weigh myself. I like 2fivefive's idea of posting weights every Friday. BUT, just so I'm not entirely copying off of her, wuhaha, I'll go with Saturdays. :) I can't wait to get out and exercise though!! That's when the weight really starts coming off.
I'm going to try my hardest to pour myself into this journey, new job, and new city! I'd be lying if I said every day wasn't a battle dealing with heartache and all the change going on...but, as one of my favorite songs says, "Sometimes goodbye is a second chance". I refuse to be broken. Conquering this weight loss will just prove to me that I'm still that independent girl who is perfectly capable of taking care of herself.
Keep on rockin
Well. Hi. I haven't blogged in a VERY long time. So why now? Why a weight loss blog? Well, my friend has been on this amazing weight loss journey for several months now. She has completely changed her way of life to ensure that she ultimately has a better one by eating good food and exercising regularly. She's been quite the inspiration and ultimately encouraged me to do this blog. So a little about me...
I've always been overweight as far back as I can remember. And for what I can't remember, I have photo proof of in my family's photo albums. I was always content being overweight I guess. I went to a school that didn't have too much pressure and I didn't have a social life due to overbearing parents. It wasn't until I got out of high school and into college that I realized I had a problem but accepted it as "I was big boned" and went on with life. I think those were my biggest days, where I weighed about 300 pounds. I moved out of my parents for the first time. I was able to eat anything I wanted! Midnight fast food runs were just the norm for me and little by little, more weight inched on. I wasn't social at all and preferred the TV and computer as friends. I was rocking a size 24 at my biggest. I still don't remember thinking I had a problem at this point though. It was just life for me.
I first lost weight on complete accident. I was living in an apartment that was beyond my means and I was broke. Bills had taken over and I literally had no money left for food. I started taking a hoodia supplement about that time as well. A mixture of practically starving and those pills made me drop a lot of weight. I'm not for sure on an exact number amount but I went down to a 16-18 size pants. I started to feel a lot better and got some amazing self confidence. And then...I realized that I had a choice. I could either just call myself "big boned" and be a homebody or I could go out with my self confidence and live life. And thus began the struggle that I only ever attempted half ass at this point.
The next year was up and down but I maintained the same size mostly. On a whim, I up and moved to a town about 30 minutes away to get away from the home town I hated so much. It was a little town but had this certain flair to it. They had a walking trail that pretty much went through the whole town and was well lit so it was fun to walk at night. I dont really remember how I got started or what motivated me but I began walking every night. That walking turned into jogging. That jogging turned into running. I couldn't go a single day without exercising or I felt like crap. My weight just started falling off like crazy! I didn't eat like I should have but by the end of about 4 months, I was to around 180 pounds! I hadn't weighed myself in almost a year so I was absolutely shocked. It was the smallest I'd ever been!! I was rocking a size 9 pants and LOVED life!! Then...I moved back to my home town and fell in love.
I started off exercising when I moved back. I kept up with it for a good little while actually. Then enter Boy. Boy and I were pretty much head over heels in love and spent all of our free time together. He didn't particularly like me jogging late at night due to safety (neither did my close friends or family) but that was when I liked to go. So with Boy being worried about safety and me being worried about spending time with him, I just quit. I took on some of his bad habits like eating out a lot and my body, once again, began packing on the weight. I went through a couple of "I GOTTA GET HEALTHY AGAIN" spurts but none of them lasted. I was miserable in my job and my relationship had a lot of issues. So I turned into a homebody again and ate lots of crap. I got back up to 225 pounds and was disgusted with myself but still didn't do much about it.
That brings us to about the beginning of this February. I got a GREAT job in a town about 45 minutes away that I love. It's an office job so I have to dress cute...and I found that to be tough with my, once again, poor self confidence. I figured I'd do something about it soon but yet again pushed it to the side. Then, Boy and I broke up. I was (and still am) heartbroken! But, through those first couple of rough weeks, I dropped 10 pounds. I figured it was pointless to keep on living in a town I hated when I wasn't with Boy anymore and having to drive such a long distance to work every day, so I rented a loft apartment in the best part of the capital city which makes my commute MUCH more short. I'm staying at my parents until it's ready mid-March. That area of town is BOOMING and because of that I'll be walking a lot. I won't be able to just open the door and let my dogs out anymore either. They will require long walks several times a day and that makes me happy. I'll be FORCED to get out! I want to go above and beyond too though. Jogging just to jog or utilizing the free gym membership that comes with my rent. But, suffice it to say, my life has changed IMMENSELY in a short month. There's not much I can control in my life right now but I can control my weight. I want to get back to that point where I feel I NEED to exercise and where I reek of self confidence. What better time is there than now when my life is going in all the right directions?
So here I start at a weight of 215. My first initial goal is 175. I'm going to get there through a lot of exercise and eating right. Luckily, I've got my bff to assist me through all these transitions. She's like a walking diet book and the proof is written all over her amazing journey the past few months. I'm going to have no shame and post pictures and try to blog every day about all the trials and tribulations I encountered. Like I'm doing with a lot of things in my life right now, I want to leave my unhealthy and overweight body behind. So...here we go.
Keep on rockin everyone.
