Hey guys, I know it's been a while but I swear I've been doing very well! I'm currently down to 132lbs! that's 12 pounds less than I was two months ago!
Last year I was 165 pounds, roughly. After gaining and maintaining the freshman 30 from being around 130-135 in highschool.
I was soon hospitalized because I had somehow [the cause is still unknown] developed a chronic autoimmune disease called Ulcerative Colitis.
After spending about two weeks in the hospital, I had dropped down to 153 pounds.
Because Ulcerative Colitis restricts what foods I can and can't eat [like foods heavy in fat and most alcohol...sad, I know] my modified diet and moderate [but not as frequent as it should have been] excersize has gotten me down to 132 as of 3 days ago [I don't keep a scale in my house or I'd drive myself insane.]
Today, a Junior in college, I am finally 12 pounds away from my goal weight of 120, instead of 20 and even 40 pounds away, and I feel incredible.
My boyfriend, bestfriend, and her boyfriend and I just researved our hotel on the beach for spring break and this will be the first time in well over 5 years that I will be in a swim suit and I can't wait :]
Ladies, we can do this. I used to think I'd never loose weight, that it was impossible...and now I'm so close I can taste it!!
Just to give me that extra boost before spring break, I started Alliyesterday and Natural Water Pills to reduce excess water weight because if I have more than 100mg of sodium a day I swell up like a balloon. Just doing something extra makes me even more aware of the foods I am putting in my body.
I guess I will report back in a few days any side-effects or noticable difference in how much weight I am losing. I hope it works because it sure wasn't cheap...but it's the only "weight-loss pill" I feel comfortable being on because it's not an appetite supressant or a crazy stimulant.
so it's been forever since i have written in this but my boyfriend came into town for a while and my bestfriend just flew in from minnesota so i have been super busy. I haven't been able to run in what seems an eternity but i have been making heathlier than usual eating choices...which is particularly hard after the holidays :]
as for today...it's christmas. i figured i'd give myself a little break from the treadmill today.
but tomorrow, game on ladies :]
i hope you are all dong wonderful and have had/are having a very happy holiday!
I ate beauftifully, excercised this morning [even though i didn't want to, yuck] and went out to drink with friend...and this is where things would start to go downhill, buttttttttttttttt I only had TWO glasses of wine. TWO. for me, that is a miracle. All I could think was "empty calories". I'm just so amazed with myself that I'm almost speech-less....almost ;]. Gosh...I'm on my way to a new me...I can just feel it....spring break in a bikini...BRING IT ON! lol
I just thought I would write a quick success story
I went to the movies this evening...and instead of the usual nachos and dr. pepper...I opted for a few twizzlers [low fat mind you] and a diet coke. I even parked the car as far away as I could so we would have to walk.
I feel really good about today. I slept in late [which was excellent ] and waited until I excercised before I ate breakfast, which is always something that has really worked for me in the past.
tredmill cardio for 38 minutes
2.25 miles
307 calories burned
96.1 calories from fat
50 crunches
today's caloric intake:
400: sandwhich & snacking
I need to find a way of forcing myself to eat more...but this birth control I'm on plus my stomach ulcer make it to where I'm never ever hungry...which I guess can account for my loss of 10 pounds in the last 2 months.
hopefully I'll squeeze something in before 7
but I did really well avoiding all the cookies and candies that were spread all over my kitchen...oh diets, how devistating.
So I feel delicious...my body aches all over which means I actually did something last night. All I can hear downstairs is the sound of pancakes being made for breakfast...yikes. Plus, it's also a family tradition that all day will be spent making cookies & biscotti......I swear, losing weight in an Italian household just seems so impossible. Well, I'm about to go do my 30 minutes of cardio before I walk into a kitchen designed to watch me fail. Good luck to everyone this morning, the holidays are so rough for us thick ladies :]
So I just got finished working out and figured I'd chart it here [of course that being the purpose of this blog] so I can chart the odds and ends of each workout.
755 calories for the day.
10 minute leg routine
35 minute cardio tredmill
303 calories
94.1 fat calories
2.21 miles
50 crunches
For as far back as I can remember I have always been the heavy friend. I don't remember a time when I've ever been able to put anything on and look good in it. I've always had to pick out my outfits the night before to make sure I would be wearing something that i looked smaller in...and this started in Jr. High. Gross. My 8th grade dance dress was a size 6 while all my friends pranced around in 0's and 1's. I've still kept the same group of friends...and while I matured to a size 12, my current size, my lovely ladies remain at size 2-3. Whenever we go out, I'm always the "big one"...always the one trying to escape as many pictures as I can...and as far as I can recall..I've always been that way. Always been the one who takes hours to get ready because nothing looks right on me...and I always seem to end up breaking down into tears out of frustration because each outfit makes sure to remind me that I have enormous arms and a tubby stomach. Now I am in no way saying that I am fat...but I am saying that my size plays a considerable toll on my self-esteem. Being in a sorority constantly surrounded by ladies 1/4th the size of me is not the best boost.
I guess the turning point was when I started dating my current boyfriend... when everything hit rock bottom. Now there was someone who I couldn't hide my body from behind t-shirts and jackets...here was someone that was going to see every imperfection that I have....and that tore me apart...being so vulnerable. I can't even count the number of nights I cried myself to sleep because I felt so utterly disgusting....like it was any second now that my beau would realize what a heffer I am and leave me for some skinny beauty.
So now it's my time. Time to stop feeling sorry for myself while continuing to eat awful and not excersize. It's time to be my own thinspirtation.
] and waited until I excercised before I ate breakfast, which is always something that has really worked for me in the past.