Now I’m not extremely overweight… and SOME might say that’s there’s nothing wrong w/ me. But since I’m not happy with the way I look – I want to do something about it.
I currently weigh 173 pounds (although you may not think it by looking at me.)
(and i am holding my stomach in.. LOL)I want to get back down to 140 pounds like I was my senior year in high school.
(sorry for the bad quaility - i didnt have a digital camera then.. and I dont have a scanner)I know my problem. I like to eat… unhealthy, but great tasting food. And the better it tastes, the more I want. I work out (maybe not as much as I should, but I work out!) I attend Curves. They say as long as you go at least 3 times a week & do your two times around the circuit, you’ll see results. I noticed results in my first month there. I had lost 5 lbs., now I lose like a pound every month or so. My eating habits haven’t changed so I don’t really understand why I’m not seeing the results I want to see. They say it’s b/c first you shed the fat, and then you tone your body into muscles which is why my weight never really changes. I’m like, OK – if that’s really the case I should still see results in my body and in my clothing. I went up a size since I’ve been there. So I’m currently wearing a size 12. I want to be in a size 8.
BK I know you said to start a journal on what I eat, that way I can help to eliminate the unhealthy foods that I currently eat. Well, I bought the book – just never started writing in it. But that changes TODAY!
Honey-Libra said she noticed that when she drank a lot of water, she wasn’t as hungry as before so she drinks a lot of it to help curb her appetite… Not I! I usually skip breakfast (and I know that I shouldn’t… but I don’t have time in the morning for it.) So this past week, I’ve been drinking water all morning to try to fill me up – it makes me hungrier than when I took nothing until lunch. So there goes that theory (for me.)
When it was like 70/80 degrees outside my mom and I would walk. Now it’s like 90 degrees outside and that’s too damn hot to be walking anywhere! And the humidity ain’t no joke either… so I need to do something else.
I could go back to playing basketball with GTL but usually when he leaves to go to the gym, I’m still at Curves or have already been and don’t feel like going. I need to snap out of the latter. The reason I was 140 pounds my senior year in high school was because I played basketball all the damn time & that running up and down the courts kept me slim.
When I remember, I take the One-A-Day Weight Smart Vitamins. They do help curb my appetite a little. And I need them anyways b/c I need some vitamins to give me energy b/c my job drains me. Either I’m so bored, it makes me tired. Or I’m so busy, I’m tired. So they do come in handy.
I know what I need to do… I just got to do it! And I need to start fast!! GTL and I are going to Niagara Falls in August for out 2-year anniversary. I want this slinky black dress to where… but I can’t do that if my body’s not right.
So N1S, Insanely, GP, and everyone else… I’m joining you in your mission to lose weight!! Good luck ladies!
Suggestions welcomed…
posted by TTD at 6/26/2006 07:22:00 AM
LOL I thought, "Oh she don't even have a big gut!" Then you said you were holding it in. I do that ALL the time!