| Another New Member Intro Post |
[Dec. 18th, 2009|10:20 am] |
Height - 5'10
HW - 325 lbs
LW - 230 lbs
Current - 310-ish lbs
LT Goal - 180 lbs
Hi everyone! I hope I'm doing this right. Christine here. I'm 36 years old, married, dog and two cats, no kids (yet). I've been overweight (or at least convinced I was overweight) for most of my life. At one point, I had lost close to 100 lbs., but I got cocky and failed to realize that when you move from a city where you're walking around to get everywhere every day, to a city where you drive everywhere and it's like the restaurant capitol of the world or something, you can't eat the same as you used to, and you HAVE to work out. So I ballooned. Then I got married to a wonderful man who loves me as I am and who eats way more than he should, which of course allows ME to eat way more than I should, so I ballooned some more. Ugghhhhh. So I'm 36 and while my last full check-up showed that I am very healthy, just fat - I don't want to keep taking that for granted. I don't want to die early of heart failure, or anything else for that matter. There are no guarantees, but why flirt with it when you could just take care of yourself and actually live life again, right? I also would *like* to have a child, and would rather be healthy in doing so.
Anyway. I've never been too great with diets - I seem to have a "thing" where the minute someone (or something) tells me what I can't eat, I want to rebel! I have done the South Beach Diet w/my husband, though. Unfortunately we did Phase I for four weeks instead of two (we're both pretty big), and that kind of destroyed my metabolism for a good long while. What I am doing now is just tracking my calories every day (militantly), keeping my intake below 1800, and cutting the junk. My work has me on the road a LOT, and that's been a big issue for me eating-wise. Fast food is such a slippery slope - one that I would justify by saying "Oh, it's not like I'm eating the Big Mac Value Meal with the large fries and Coke - look, it's just chicken strips and a milk shake!" So for me, I just have to cut it completely. The only "fast" food I'm allowing myself anymore is from Starbucks, and that's just coffee, no sugar, and their yogurt or smoothies. I am using a private Twitter account to journal my food from the road - I really like that. I'm also allowing myself one cheat day a week where I don't have to worry about it - not going hog-wild, but it really does help my self-control if I know in the back of my mind that if I wait just a couple more days, I can have something REALLY good on Saturday if I want.
Work-out wise, I've started small because I really let myself get woefully out of shape. I've been taking my dog for walks at least once a day, usually more like twice. So I'm getting a half to one and a half miles a day walking. The first few times it seemed like it took forever and what a pain in the butt, etc. But now it's taking less and less time, and I really do enjoy it. I need to add a more "real" workout into my regime now, though. I have a gym membership, but I let myself get so out of shape I've been feeling too bad about myself to go there. We have an exercise bike, Wii Fit, DDR, Wii Gold's Gym Boxing (I HIGHLY recommend this game, btw), and some other things around the house. I either need to suck it up and start going back to the gym or commit to 20 minutes a night at home.
Oh ugh - I just let myself ramble. Sorry.
So I'm really excited about a community where we can talk about what we're doing to get healthy/lose weight in a similar context. It gets a little frustrating to watch other communities where people are stressing about ten pounds. I hope one day to be that person, but right now, it's a little bit eyeroll-inspiring to see. My livejournal is an account I opened solely to track my fitness "journey" and thoughts about weight and eating and whatnot. Feel free to friend if you want, I'll friend ya back! Okay, that's it for now. |
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