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About Me:: I am 27. I teach 7th grade life science. I am happily married to the love of my life, Raul.

I am an overweight food-addict and have the goal of changing my thinking from food to life. I believe that losing weight and a healthy lifestyle is a process and not just a short-term goal. At one point, I weighed 300 lbs, but now weigh 251 lbs.

Here's my story: I have been overweight as long as I can remember! My mom always struggled with weight and she would go on diets and I never would follow. Perhaps I knew that I wasn't ready to deal with the issues keeping me overweight? Anyway... here's how I got to my first breaking point. I was 300 lbs (size 26W) by the age of 24 years. In my mind, I began to see myself as helpless against food and my weight. I figured that I'd always been overweight and I always would be overweight and there was NOTHING I could do about it. After a few days (or weeks or months?) of this, I came to the realization that, NO! I did not have stay like this and I COULD do something about it! Within a few days of this realization, a friend called and asked me to be in her wedding in 7 months. So, that was the kicker and the start signal that said, "Now!"

So it started. I exercised daily, ate well, tracked my calories, and focused on me and my health. It was great! In the first month I lost 20 lbs and after 6 months, I had lost 84 lbs! This brought me to my lowest weight as an adult of 216 lbs. As I lost weight and treated my body well, I found a new sense of self-assurance. (This probably helped lead me to develop my relationship with Raul). During the summer of 2006, I was in my friend's wedding (size 16 instead of 26! My aunt had to cut up my dress and take it down 10 sizes!!!), and I had my own wedding. Life was great and I was feeling at my best!

Then came marriage! Marriage was great! However, I had not spent a lot of time physically near my fiancee' before we were married (we had a quick marriage because we both just knew! This is a crazy story and out of my character so I'll save this story for another time...). Since we were getting used to each other's habits (including eating), I made a lot of mistakes! At first, I was still keeping with my plan of exercising and eating OK. It was so hard though! I saw what he would get for meals and think, "Man, I want what he's eating". I also started cooking for the two of us and was trying to find a balance. I also was finishing grad school and starting a new teaching job. Well, before I knew it, I had totally lost it and was enveloping ALL of my old patterns, plus new ones. I had also started drinking alcohol more frequently (which I found out is a HUGE TRIGGER for me to overindulge in eating). And, thus, my weight went from 216 lbs back up to 260! Yikes!!! How could I forget all I had learned?

So, my next breaking point came. I had been going up and down in weight, but not totally motivated to lose. I basically got back to the idea of helplessness. I had always been overweight. I always would be. I would always be thinking about food. I would always give in to temptations. I could not be helped. And then I came back to the realization of, "No, I am not helpless. I can do this".

And so here I am. I figured blogging would help me to stay accountable and would also be therapeutic. It is so nice to share with others who have the same joys and struggles with food and weight loss. I am so thankful to have found this site and all of these incredible people.

Here I am. I am changing. I am learning. I am getting help and helping others. I can be a different person and I already am in mind! My body will soon follow!

Plan of Choice:: Low Fat, High Fiber

Website/Blog:: http://tanieshealthjourney.blogspot.com

Workout Philiosophy:: I'm new to exercise, I only exercise because I have to

Here is my short-term goal (just over 10%, a person goal):

Here is my long-term goal progress:

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I started swimming lessons :) Wahoo!

So, first off let me just say that I am starting into my 4th week of school and CAN NOT believe that I have not blogged for more than 3 weeks. Craziness! All of my destressing plans at work never became of anything, and I was stressed up to the wazoo until a few hours ago. So, I decided that my weight has held me back from many, MANY things in this life and it WILL NOT any longer! So, one of the things that I have been craving and really wanting to get into was swimming. I loved swimming as a k… Continue

Posted on August 25th, 2008 at 10:25pm — 6 Comments (Add)

School starts tomorrow!!!

Crazy, right? We start school tomorrow, so I'll get to see my little 7th grader angels. I am actually pretty ready to go. I've got a few weeks of plans done already. I need to submit copies still and make quizzes and all that jazz... but I'm so much better off than I was last year. I am so much less stressed too, it is nice. Unfortunately, last week we had in-service days and I knew that I would hardly get to see many of my co-workers in the coming days (due to the craziness of school), so I we… Continue

Posted on August 4th, 2008 at 8:41pm — 6 Comments (Add)

I feel off the wagon yesterday :(

I am so frustrated with myself!!! I am writing about my binge (falling of the wagon) in order to put it out there and to move on. So, here goes: I've been running out of food at my house and I've been having to pack a cold lunch all week for this workshop I'm in. So, I thought that yesterday I could just eat out and be good. Yeah, I totally sabataged myself. I went with my collegues to the student union and all they had were fried sandwhiches. So, I went for one of them. I didn't want to have t… Continue

Posted on July 25th, 2008 at 8:36am — 12 Comments (Add)

Starting to crave bad foods!

I've been going to a workshop this whole week and they've had a whole bunch of snacks in the back the whole time (chips, donuts, chocolate, soda pop, some good fruit), but I've resisted until today. I was able to resist all but grapes the first 2 days, but today I just kept wanting some of that food back there. I am trying to figure out why! Was it the slight lack of sleep? Was it the increased stress of getting ready to start a new school year? Was is the fact that I had less safe snacks along… Continue

Posted on July 23rd, 2008 at 7:37pm — 5 Comments (Add)

I love the routine of weekdays!

I love weekends too, of course, but it's so much easier to stay on target with my weight-loss when I'm in the safety of my home where everything I eat has a known amount of calories. I hate having to guess at how many calories are in the food choices I eat outside of the house. It's easy when I know ahead of time what we're eating or where we're going to eat so I can scout ahead and get the nutritional info ahead of time. I'm sure this is the same for many of you! I had a guest in town from Thu… Continue

Posted on July 21st, 2008 at 6:57pm — 9 Comments (Add)

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At 11:45pm on September 1st, 2008, krista said…: good to see you this weekend, hope your stress level goes down from last week
take good care of yourself! i love ya

At 1:48pm on September 1st, 2008, Cintia EUA said…: thanks for the lovely comment on my page. congrats on the awesome work on weight loss! God bless you, Cintia

At 5:06pm on August 28th, 2008, krista said…: hey sis! I decided to join you, I wonder if I can join the teacher group? see you this weekend at the engagement party :) and dont be so hard on yourself, take things one day at a time
love ya!!!!

At 5:51pm on August 16th, 2008, Brandy said…: School doesn't start for me until Thursday. I'm getting ready and going to meetings, which has been keeping me really busy! I'm hoping I have a great first day.

At 9:25pm on August 14th, 2008, Brandy said…: How's school going?

At 11:50pm on August 13th, 2008, JillianBean said…: Hi Tanie!! How is everything going? How is school?

At 8:04pm on August 12th, 2008, Cindy said…: How's it going?

At 10:51pm on August 11th, 2008, HungryHippos said…: I read about your first week on the teacher's group. I'm glad you're doing well. I will be waiting on a blog update to hear all about it!

At 5:52pm on August 11th, 2008, Brandy said…: How's school going? Hope the first day was fantastic!

At 10:27am on August 11th, 2008, dd said…: How's school going for you? Are the 7th graders all you imagined? Hope you got off to an amazingly smooth start!