This weekend we went to Vegas, and normally when your on vacation your healthy living goes out the door, i was very mindful of what i ate, and since it was vegas there was alot of walking and moving around. Im pretty confident to say that im very proud of myself :)
I bought the Active 2 for the Wii, and thats what i have been using. I find that its really fun, and it really does challenge you. I work out for 30 min every Mon, Tue, Thur, and Fri, I have 3 rest days on Wed, Sat, and Sun. Ive been really sore and thats a good thing, working out when your sore insures your making sure your burning fat, and your muscles will become stronger and leaner. In my workouts i am doing medium intensity, and for someone whos overweight, well it seems like its the hardest intensity ever. I figure that doing light things isnt going to do a whole lot for me, maybe just make me bored and in turn ill quit cuz im bored or im not seeing results. So my theroy is go big or go home, and since im already home i might as well go big :) LOL
With my workouts the computer chooses the ones that i do, i can customize it for myself, but whats the fun in that??? I pretty much do everything, fire ants, resistance band training, abs, pushups, running jogging, biking, lunges, aerobics, and much much more. I normally if i have time before work put in my wii fit and do some yoga after my workout so my muscles can becomer leaner.
The Active 2 for the Wii is great because it also has a heart monitor that constantly monitors your heart rate, and thats actually a really good tool to losing weight because your doctor will tell you to try and get your heart rate up to at least 160 170 and keep it there for 30 min and you will see results. It basically means that you are working your body to maximum potential :)
Im gonna try and weigh in every 2 or 3 weeks, i know weighing myself every day isnt going to do a whole lot, maybe besides discourage me when i dont see a change, but this is a life long commitment, and it will be a long long long journey but im the conductor of this train and this journey is taking me to hotness!!
Wednesday, December 8, 2010
Friday, December 3, 2010
Weigh in #1
Starting weight: 243lbs
Goal weight: 195lbs
Goal date: March 2011
I know that this isnt going to be easy, this may be the hardest thing i have to do in my life. Like they say "you didnt put it on overnight, and its not going to come off that way either" I know there is no quick fixes, and the only way to lose the weight is to eat better and exercise more. So i am going to do just that, no more crash dieting, starving myself, trying the next popular diet craze. All thats gonna make this happen is good old fashion sweat and tears.
So here is to the next 4 life changing months of my life, and if i make my goal ill set another goal, and another goal until i am healthy and happy.
~life isnt measured by the breaths you take, but by the moments that take your breath away~
Goal weight: 195lbs
Goal date: March 2011
I know that this isnt going to be easy, this may be the hardest thing i have to do in my life. Like they say "you didnt put it on overnight, and its not going to come off that way either" I know there is no quick fixes, and the only way to lose the weight is to eat better and exercise more. So i am going to do just that, no more crash dieting, starving myself, trying the next popular diet craze. All thats gonna make this happen is good old fashion sweat and tears.
So here is to the next 4 life changing months of my life, and if i make my goal ill set another goal, and another goal until i am healthy and happy.
~life isnt measured by the breaths you take, but by the moments that take your breath away~
My story.....
This is my story of my weight loss struggles, my current determination to lose weight and put an end to the struggle.
So here is a little about me and my life.
I come from a large family, we grew up in the country in a very small town in Arizona. My childhood was spent going to rodeos, I grew up riding horses and running around on 5 acres of land. I went to a very small school, and everyone that I grew up with Ive literally known since Kindergarten. I was an average child, I wasnt by any means a fat child growing up, but I used to get picked on for my weight starting in 6th grade, some of the girls would call me "twinkie" and some of the boys would tease me and call me names. You can chalk it all up to kids will be kids and boys make fun of the girls that they like, I can actually say that the things they said to me never bothered me because I knew better so as an adult I harbor no bitter feelings.
After my 8th grade graduation we moved away from our small town, under circumstances that were beyond our control. I can honestly say that going from a small town and knowing everyone for all your life, and moving to a big city where you know noone and everything seems foreign is the scariest thing. I lost contact with most of my childhood friends, and i made alot of new friends over the years in high school. For me high school wasnt horrible, but i know that i could have made it alot better of an experience. We live and we learn, but in the end i am me for all of the decions that i have made. I was pretty active in high school, I took dance classes and I fell in love with it, for me it was a place i could take myself and forget about all the things that were happening with my family and just be myself. I was by no means part of the popular crowd, and i never really hung out with a certain group of people i had friends that were on the football team, that were cheerleaders, stoners, skaters, in band, and part of theatre. I had a few boyfriends, but never anything serious, I lost many friends in high school ansd I still to this day mourn the loss of them. They say time will heal all wounds but its been some 10-12 years later and they still feel like the day it happened sometimes.
My senior year of high school I became pregnant, lost my grandfather to cancer and grew up pretty fast for a 17 year old. With the stress of school, being pregnant, losing my grandfather, being kicked out of my mothers house I moved in with my boyfriend. I had a very easy pregnancy, short of having morning sickness til i was 81/2 month pregnant, it was very easy lol. I gained all of my weight being pregnant, I went from being 160lbs to 22olbs by the time I gave birth to my daughter. I had moved back to the little town I had grown up in, but everyone that i grew up with was all attending a regular high school and living their lives. I pretty much had no friends at that point, noone to hang out with and i gained alot of weight. I really had no motivation to lose the baby weight after I had my daughter, I wish that I did but i cant change that now.
So this is me almost 10 years after I had my daughter, after 1o years of struggling with my weight. 1o years of saying that Im going to lose this much this year, and never doing it, 10 years of crash dieting for me is over. I am motivated and determined to lose weight and be healthy for myself and my family, so from here on out I will chronicle the journey that I am starting, all the successes and all the failures that I will see. I hope in the end of this I become a healthier me!
So feel free to join me as I post pictures, and stories, as I chronicle every little thing that I am going thru. I hope that in the end I have inspired someone to take control of their life like I am doing mine, and that in the end I can be my own success story and not the typical failure that I was for 1o years.
So here is a little about me and my life.
I come from a large family, we grew up in the country in a very small town in Arizona. My childhood was spent going to rodeos, I grew up riding horses and running around on 5 acres of land. I went to a very small school, and everyone that I grew up with Ive literally known since Kindergarten. I was an average child, I wasnt by any means a fat child growing up, but I used to get picked on for my weight starting in 6th grade, some of the girls would call me "twinkie" and some of the boys would tease me and call me names. You can chalk it all up to kids will be kids and boys make fun of the girls that they like, I can actually say that the things they said to me never bothered me because I knew better so as an adult I harbor no bitter feelings.
After my 8th grade graduation we moved away from our small town, under circumstances that were beyond our control. I can honestly say that going from a small town and knowing everyone for all your life, and moving to a big city where you know noone and everything seems foreign is the scariest thing. I lost contact with most of my childhood friends, and i made alot of new friends over the years in high school. For me high school wasnt horrible, but i know that i could have made it alot better of an experience. We live and we learn, but in the end i am me for all of the decions that i have made. I was pretty active in high school, I took dance classes and I fell in love with it, for me it was a place i could take myself and forget about all the things that were happening with my family and just be myself. I was by no means part of the popular crowd, and i never really hung out with a certain group of people i had friends that were on the football team, that were cheerleaders, stoners, skaters, in band, and part of theatre. I had a few boyfriends, but never anything serious, I lost many friends in high school ansd I still to this day mourn the loss of them. They say time will heal all wounds but its been some 10-12 years later and they still feel like the day it happened sometimes.
My senior year of high school I became pregnant, lost my grandfather to cancer and grew up pretty fast for a 17 year old. With the stress of school, being pregnant, losing my grandfather, being kicked out of my mothers house I moved in with my boyfriend. I had a very easy pregnancy, short of having morning sickness til i was 81/2 month pregnant, it was very easy lol. I gained all of my weight being pregnant, I went from being 160lbs to 22olbs by the time I gave birth to my daughter. I had moved back to the little town I had grown up in, but everyone that i grew up with was all attending a regular high school and living their lives. I pretty much had no friends at that point, noone to hang out with and i gained alot of weight. I really had no motivation to lose the baby weight after I had my daughter, I wish that I did but i cant change that now.
So this is me almost 10 years after I had my daughter, after 1o years of struggling with my weight. 1o years of saying that Im going to lose this much this year, and never doing it, 10 years of crash dieting for me is over. I am motivated and determined to lose weight and be healthy for myself and my family, so from here on out I will chronicle the journey that I am starting, all the successes and all the failures that I will see. I hope in the end of this I become a healthier me!
So feel free to join me as I post pictures, and stories, as I chronicle every little thing that I am going thru. I hope that in the end I have inspired someone to take control of their life like I am doing mine, and that in the end I can be my own success story and not the typical failure that I was for 1o years.
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