The beginning...

My weight loss journey.

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  • Name: christinet
  • City: Herndon
  • Region: Virginia
  • Country: United States

My Weight Loss

Height: 152.4cm
Start weight: 193.50lb
Current weight: 189.00lb
Goal weight: 125.00lb
Lost to date: 4.50lb
Remaining: 64.00lb

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Before After

I have already hit a bump in the road...

but I am determined to keep on going! I was up a pound from the other day, but down 4.5 since last week. I have been out of whack since I got my allergy testing done on Thursday, so I am wondering if that is why my weight jumped up a bit. At any rate, I am still less than I was last week, and hopefully more than I will be next week!

4 pounds, 4 days and a little irritability to boot!

The upside of taking my prescription diet pill is that I have lost 4 pounds in just 4 days. The downside? I nice dose of short temper and irritability. I am usually a fairly calm, even tempered person. Not today. My patience was shot, my poor daughter was annoying me and she wasn't even doing anything all that bad...ok, she was crying because I accidentally gave her library book to her friends mother, but normally I would have reacted alot nicer than I did. I hope this side effect will eventually work itself out, because right now, the good is definitely outweighing the bad!

The end of day 2

Well, today was my second day on my diet with the help of a prescription diet pill. So far, so good. I have already lost 3.5 pounds. I know I will likely have a huge drop this first week and then it will slow down. I'm just so happy to be heading in the right direction.
 
I have been doing quite a bit of soul searching the past few days. Wondering how I got to such an unhealthy weight, and wondering how I can use my experiences to help others. I had been thin my whole life and then it all went down hill after I gained weight with my pregnancy...now that was almost 11 years ago, so I know I can't use that as an excuse forever. I have to face up to the choices I have made and learn from them. I know what I SHOULD be eating and that I SHOULD be exercising more, it's just getting in the right frame of mind to do it. I feel like I am finally to that point.

The Beginning...

So I have finally reached my wits end. I have resorted to prescription weight loss drugs to lose the extra weight. I have struggled with my weight since I was about 12. I have always been on the other end of it though. Until I was 22 I had never been above 120 pounds. One baby and many, many bags of chips later I am a lovely 193.5 and I am miserable. I am hoping that blogging my weight loss journey will be good for me and maybe I will be able to inspire and help others going through the same thing.

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