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Just in case…
some fellow readers over here were looking for me but couldn’t find me, I’ve long been over at the new website Blog To Lose and I’m loving it.
Come check me out at the new website because I don’t want to leave anyone behind!! Also, leave me a message if you are still blogging over here [...]
Monday, Monday…
Another Monday, my how time absolutely flies! I had an excellent weekend - and I actually was able to eat EXTREMELY well over the weekend too, despite the deliciously yummy food that was cooked. My Uncle is a phenomenal cook and it’s like the biggest treat to get to eat his cooking whenever we visit. [...]
I can’t wait…
until I can wake up in the morning and NOT think about food! I’ve been wanting to blog about this for some time but just put it off for some reason or always had something else more pertinent to write about. A fellow blogger’s post got me thinking about this again and I decided it [...]
QOTW: What causes me to (over)eat?
EMOTIONS! You name the emotion, it’ll probably give me the desire to eat. Well that’s not entirely true. I don’t eat on my OWN (by myself) when I am happy or some form of happy, positive emotion. I only really eat when I am WITH people and feeling happy, positive emotions. However, I’ll eat on [...]
This is gonna be quick…
but I just wanted to say THANK YOU for all the support from this community, both on here and from weightwatchen.com! I was terribly frustrated the other day and with the help, advice, guidance, encouragement and support from y’all I have completely re-grouped - I feel stronger than ever with a plan that I feel [...]
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- About Me:
- Hi, my name is Kristi and I’m a 23 y.o graduate of the University of Texas. I’m that classic girl that has always struggled with her weight. I reached my highest weight my senior year of high school, weighing in at around 230 lbs. Large, I know. I strangely had no idea exactly how large I was until I started to lose weight (this was a blessing AND a curse). Through the help of a diet pill, strict food diet and exercise I managed to get myself down to 200 lbs. I was very proud of myself and ready to continue on the war path but freshmen year of college was calling my name and so were the freshman 15. Yup, I gained that. Put me at 215 lbs end of freshman year and yoyoing between 205 - 215 lbs all the way through my second year of college. This was when I first decided to join Weight Watchers. My mother proposed we do it together. It was summer, I figured why not try it out. The weight literally fell off of me! I didn’t feel like I was doing anything, just counting those points and it was so easy and the weight just fell off. It was amazing! I was almost to my 40 lb marker (169.4lbs, giving me a grand total of almost 65 lbs on my total weight loss journey) when I had to change migraine medications. Suddenly I couldn’t lose that last .4 lbs, I couldn’t lose anything. I was eating the same exact meals, working out 5 days a week, hadn’t changed a single thing about my diet and exercise and I was gaining weight. It was the most frustrating and depressing experience. First 5 lbs came back on, then 10 lbs and eventually with the pressures of my last year of college, my performance choir, my job and facing graduation, I stopped attending meetings and even really trying to count points. I am now back up to 190 lbs and I will not allow myself to gain any more weight than this. I have already taken the first steps toward gaining back my health, smaller body and ultimately reaching my final goal (135-140lbs). I joined 24 Hr Fitness as I was not able to attend the university gym anymore, have got myself a personal trainer to get back into the swing of things and am trying to squeeze that (second) first WW meeting back into my schedule. Well I did join 24 Hr Fitness, hired a personal trainer and promptly herniated two discs in my lower back while working out with my trainer :( This put me out of commission for 4 1/2 months! I am just now getting back into the swing of things. I am only now able to start walking around the block for exercise but I have started attending meetings regularly again!
I really have come to LOVE blogging. I blog for several reasons but I think the main reason I blog is to keep me accountable. I know that one of my main weaknesses is emotional eating, namely bored eating. I do fine with normal meal portion sizes, its when I am by myself with nothing to do that the food sabotage begins. I am hoping that instead of eating, I will bring myself to the computer and blog it out, write out my boredom.
I also hope that through blogging and reading other people’s blogs I will gain some of my confidence back. I was the MOST confident large girl around and due to that, I didn’t know my size other than I was “a little overweight.” Losing weight made me the most body conscious person and I absolutely hate it! I mean, I have confidence for sure I still have confidence to the point that I will go to the pool or the beach in a bikini, no problems. But I am constantly aware of myself now. The funny thing is, looking back at pictures of myself from 2 years ago when I was at my lowest weight, at that time I was so not satisfied and I couldn’t wait to lose more, now I look back and say “Damn, I looked good!” So I hope this time around I will really see myself, see the progress I’ve made, use the body consciousness to a positive degree.
Finally, like the title says, I am doing this for me. In the past something has always fueled the weight loss. Be it graduation and going off to college or I’m sad to say, looking good for that special someone. It’s not about any of that this time around. It’s about me loving myself, being comfortable and happy with myself. Afterall, if you don’t love yourself, no one can and no one can love you the way you can love yourself. So all of this is what I hope to achieve. Today IS a new day, and I WILL become a new lady!
Kristi's Stats
Age: 23
Height: 5'7"
Highest Weight: 230
Start Weight: 191.6
Current Weight: 192.2
Total Weight Loss: 37.8 lbs
- Plan of Choice:
- Weight Watchers
- Website/Blog:
- http://blogs.weightwatchen.com/ladykris/
- Workout Philiosophy:
- I'm a gym rat ALL the way
Goals/Timeline/Rewards
Ok so this page is a work in progress but I have a couple notes jotted down in my journal so I figured I’d go ahead and add them here. My goals are EXTREMELY rational, slow, taking it a step at a time. I just don’t want to set myself up for something unrealistic and then be all sad if I don’t meet them. So I did the research and I think this is a good time line for me. If I meet these goals a head of schedule, then excellent! But this is my healthy timeline.
Commitment Goals
* Attend weekly meetings regardless
* Track points every day
* Blog weekly (absolute minimum)
* Positive self-talk every day
Personal Goals
* Slowly and responsibly strengthen my back
* Take a spinning class
* Run/jog on a treadmill for 30 minutes
* Run a 5K (Well I've walked a 10K (8/31/08) so that's got to count for something!)
* Become a WW leader (maybe even one geared towards young adults, but I’d love it either way!)
* Get ACE/AFAA or some comparable group fitness certification
* Teach group fitness classes at a gym
Weight Loss Timeline
* 10 lb weight loss by November 2008
* 15 lb weight loss by Christmas 2008
* 25 lb weight loss by Valentine's Day 2009
* Goal weight of 140-145 lbs - September 2009
Weight Loss Rewards
* Every 5 lbs = mani/pedi or a massage
* 10% (20 lbs) = mini shopping spree
* 30 lbs = new Coach purse
* 50lbs = FULL DAY at spa
* Goal of 65 lbs (weighing in at 140 lbs) = glorious tropical vacation
Commitment Goals
* Attend weekly meetings regardless
* Track points every day
* Blog weekly (absolute minimum)
* Positive self-talk every day
Personal Goals
* Slowly and responsibly strengthen my back
* Take a spinning class
* Run/jog on a treadmill for 30 minutes
* Run a 5K (Well I've walked a 10K (8/31/08) so that's got to count for something!)
* Become a WW leader (maybe even one geared towards young adults, but I’d love it either way!)
* Get ACE/AFAA or some comparable group fitness certification
* Teach group fitness classes at a gym
Weight Loss Timeline
* 10 lb weight loss by November 2008
* 15 lb weight loss by Christmas 2008
* 25 lb weight loss by Valentine's Day 2009
* Goal weight of 140-145 lbs - September 2009
Weight Loss Rewards
* Every 5 lbs = mani/pedi or a massage
* 10% (20 lbs) = mini shopping spree
* 30 lbs = new Coach purse
* 50lbs = FULL DAY at spa
* Goal of 65 lbs (weighing in at 140 lbs) = glorious tropical vacation
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I'm just not gonna do it!
They are having this decadent home made chocolate cake upstairs (at our sister office) celebrating September birthdays, which I am, BUT I am not going! No thank you. It sounds delicious and wonderful but I just don't want it. I don't need it. I've got two solid days of OP eating under my belt, and I just don't feel like throwing a wrench into the game plan. I'm tired of saying, "well it was a birthday, a concert, end of the summer, blah blah blah." There's ALWAYS going to be something. And I jus… Continue
Posted on September 5th, 2008 at 2:02pm —
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I'm sick :(
I had been knocking on wood but predicting it for months. There was no way for me to run around the way I was, work the way I was, play the way I was, sleep (or not get sleep) the way I was and exercise (for the last 2 weeks) the way I was without my body finally shutting down on me. But it's finally happened ladies and gentlemen. I'm sick :(
It's not absolutely horrible, yet *knocks on wood* (not that that kept me from getting sick to begin with, lol). It started with a tickle in my throat on… Continue
Posted on September 4th, 2008 at 1:15pm —
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I did it!!!!
I have officially rocked a 10K!!! The nervousness was for NOTHING y'all!!! I mean, it wasn't easy but it wasn't the hardest thing I've ever done in my life either!!! We (my best friend Bonnie and I) finished in about 1 hour and 35 minutes - avergaing about a 15 minute mile!!! Even with the hills and all (which there were WAY more than I remembered, lol) we still managed to keep to our pace. We were never in danger of not completiting with enough time AND there were easily a couple hundred people… Continue
Posted on September 1st, 2008 at 1:11pm —
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It's D DAY!!!!
Today is the (Nike + Human Race) 10K people!!!! Ahhhhh!!! I'm a bit of a nervous nilly over here! lol...it's at 6:30pm central time...8 hours until the big run!!! Oh and as if running (walking really, lol) the race wasn't nervousness enough, there are over 100,000 people running this today!!!! That's HUGE!!! But so with THAT many people, SURELY I can't be the slowest person out there! lol...that's all I keep telling myself. Then again, I also keep telling myself that a 10K is pretty serious so I… Continue
Posted on August 31st, 2008 at 11:30am —
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10K in 2 days!!
So T minus 2 days (is that right? lol) either way, my 10K is this Sunday evening. Every day I'm starting to feel a little better, a little more confident and honestly, I have YALL to thank for that! You have all been excellent and wonderful in providing me with support, words of wisdom and sharing your confidence in me. It's helped immensely and I'm not as worried as I was before! So thank you, thank you, thank you for each and every one of your comments or emails, I so appreciate them!!
This m… Continue
Posted on August 29th, 2008 at 4:45pm —
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Have so much fun...this is a major accomplishment! I know you are going to do great and I can not wait to hear all about it!
Have an awesome day!
Monica
Have a great week and I will make sure to check in asap!
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