Time flies when you're old!
I can't believe September was the last time I was here!!! Wow!
Anyway, I'm doing very well. In late September, I guess the last time I was here, I was getting crazy thoughts about starving myself. More. I had kept seeing an ad for this diet e-book called Burn the Fat, Feed the Muscle. Finally I succumbed and forked over my money out of sheer desperation and not wanting to have to start doing crazy things here.
I've been doing that program since September 16th. It's the only thing that has worked consistently for me over the past almost 2 freakin years now!
Since Sept 16th, I've lost 15.5 lbs, which doesn't sound like much, but for me it definately is. Here's the best part though, when I started I was 30ish% body fat. Now I'm 20%!!!!!!! I am not longer in the overweight category. In fact, I'm BELOW, did you read that BELOW lol, what's considered (by who I dunno probably some dumb doctor who has zero clue about how to lose weight) average, or healthy.
My scale number has only gone down 15.5lbs BUT because I'm actually eating food and working out with weights (l was b4 but not eating so the weights did nothing for me) I've maintained most of my muscle. Ordinary calorie restriction diets burn a LOT of muscle. A LOT! Even if you do resistance training. I'm old. I need my muscles. More muscle means I burn more calories. And given how long and slow a road this has been I need ever bit of burning potential I can possibly get!
When I started I was carrying 49 lbs of fat and 114 lbs of muscle, or LBM as it's called. Now I've only got 27.5 lbs of fat - and some of that I need to keep lol . I've gained 6.5 or so pounds of muscle. (And no I'm not bulky with muscles, I just curvy in the right places) In fact, one trainer at my gym commented on my nice shape. It wasn't like a pickup/come-on thing. He was impressed with the work I've been doing.
So, I've only lost 15lbs on the scale but I gained of muscle which is freaking awesome!!!! AND I get to eat so much is the real kicker to all of this. In fact, in the beginiing I couldn't even eat all the food. I consume 1750-2000 calories a day. And it works!!!!!!!!!!!! I lose weight eating lots and lots of (healthy) food.
Here I was getting ready to sign up for anorexia school, I was always under 1500 calories. My average for the 15 months prior was 1350. I was starving myself to fat and getting ready to starve myself some more. Ridiculous.
I have learned so much over the past few months about the right way to lose weight, and workout. The amount of misinformation out there is mind boggling. Truly I swear I think the diet, medical and pharmacutical industries put out misinformation in order to keep our bottom lines big and their's in the red.
I recommend the Burn the Fat, Feed the muscle program to every and anyone. You can find it here:
http://ftgdotcom.burnthefat.hop.clickbank.net
Because of that program and what it's done for me, I'm now studying for the NASM-CPT. It's a personal training certification. I love being fit , well, pretty fit lol I still have work to do, and healthy. I feel awesome. Happy. I have energy, I'm excited about life. I deal with stress MUCH better now.
I want to help people learn how to treat their bodies right. I want to help people unlearn all the crap so many of us have been taught. Crap that's killing us, physically, emotionally and mentally.
I'm also toying with the idea of entering a figure competition. It's like a body building competition but not with big muscles, just pretty ones. I was looking at a picture of a recent national winner, and, well, I'm no where near where she is but for the first time my first thought when I looked at her was, pfft, I could look like that. I'm starting to see that it's actually a realistic goal. I'm 42 years old. I've never, not even when I was 19 and thin, I've never thought my body could actually look like that. Now I know it can! And it will! And I am psyched. It's gonna be a wonderful year!
Now if I could just find someone to pay for some surgery for these stupid stretch marks courtesy of my children!! Maybe next year? 