Agatha - Day 1

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Agatha

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Dear all:

I am very happy to start this diary. First, because I really want to lose weight and any help I can get it is very well appreciated. I want to interact with people that are in the same journey of getting healthy. I used to be fit and healthy. Unfortunately after giving birth to my son ten years ago I never got back to my weight and figure. I got a divorce and remarried. I changed my job to dedicate more time to my son.
I had so many complications and find myself always making excuses to not do the right thing to become healthy. I am turning 35 on June. If you ask me what the thing I want the most is, it would be lose weight. It is so hard to be overweight when your spirit is young and worst to have a fit husband that you don’t want to fail. He supports me in all of my intents to lose weight. I feel that I let him down. He still loves me and we have the best time together but I know that he is worried about my health. Also my son is active and I need to be strong to do activities with him.
Being fat hold you from doing things that you love. It is like a depressive state of mind. I am in my heaviest point. My starting weight is 216 pounds. My first due date is June 11, my birth date. It is almost three months from now. My goal weight for December is 150 pounds. I started today with a detox of seven days. I will start an exercise video at least three days per week. Today I start forcing myself to drink water. I do not have coke for breakfast for the first time in almost a year!!!!!

Yess, Coke Cola is my addiction and Mc Donald’s to!!! Oh God I feel better now that I confess it!!!

Please feel free to suggest me with anything that had work for you. Please I need tons of encouragement and I really want to make some partners in this journey.

Sincerely,

Agatha
 
Welcome to the forum!

Good idea to start a diary! Good luck and keep us updated!

You cand do it! :hurray:
 
Thanks for your reply

Hello!!

Thanks for your reply. It means a lot to me. I need the encouragement and support to go thru this. The Detox is disgusting . It is based on natural things but it do not taste good. I spend $39, so I should finish with it. It is a 7 day thing.

I drinked 68 oz of water already. It is a lot to me, since I never drink water :-( shame on me. No coke during the day.

Breakfast boiled egg
cup of coffee

snack vanilla yougurt

Lunch chicken breast and steam potatoes

snack strawberries and black coffee

So far this is my menu today. Please keep reading and posting.

Thanks,

Agatha
 
Well you are doing better than me. I still had to have my MTN Dew with breakfast but i am drinking water with it too. I have replaced at least 3 cans with water so far and no caffine headache. I smelled my sisters detox stuff and decided there was no way i could drink it but more power to you for keeping on drinking it.
Gook Luck on this first week my husband swears if we make it past the first week it gets easier!!!!!
 
First Week Recap

Hi!!!

I am so happy that I started this process. Here is my progress on the first week.

The Detox - I did it for two day but that was totally insane and disgusting. I decided to just stick with the diet and to start in a gym.

Coke addiction - I just drank 3 cokes in the whole week :hurray: !! Instead I drank lots of water. It is crazy since I never drink water. I can tell the diference in your body to drink water. I don't know what I was thinking!!!

Diet - I just start eating healthy. I cut carbs, bad carbs. I eat everything green, vegetables, salads, ect. I had tuna and chicken. Eggs in the morning, omellets with vegetables and snacks every three hours. I have to say it is not easy to eat healthy and to snack every three hours. I don't have time at work and I have to be consious that I need to eat to loose weight. It is hardest to stop bad habbits like mc donnalds and Coke. My promise to myself is to keep going no matter what. If I eat a wrong food I will stick back to the diet. It is not easy!! It is a lifestyle change.

Excersise!! - I enrolled to a gym near home. I just like it a lot. I did not think I was going to like it at all. This week I went three times and did 20 minutes in the elliptical machine and 40 minutes in the treadmill every day.

THE RESULTS - I LOST 4 POUNDS IN ONE WEEK. MY CURRENT WEIGHT IS 212. I AM SO PROUD AND SO HAPPY ABOUT THIS FIRST WEEK RESULTS.

Please let me know how to post the weightloss with the thing you post at the end of every post. I want to track my weightloss.

HI POINT OF THE WEEK: EVERYTIME I FINISH DOING MY WORKOUT. IT FEELS AMAZING.

LO POINT OF THE WEEK: I AM THE FAT GIRL AT THE GYM. EVERYONE IS IN SHAPE OR OLD PEOPLE. EVERY PERSON MY AGE IS FIT AND BEAUTIFUL. I JUST IGNORE THE FACT AND DID MY WORKOUT. IT WAS SAD TO ME, BUT IT IS A REALLITY CHECK FOR ME THAT THIS IS WHAT I AM SUPPOSED TO DO AND THAT FAILLURE IS NOT AN OPTION. I HAVE TO STICK WITH IT UNTIL I REACH MY GOAL.

Thanks for reading and keep posting!!!

AGATHA
 
HI :D

GOOD JOB on the 4lbs!!! From here on out youll only see a smaller and smaller weight.
The key to weightloss I have found out to be is patience. Do not make yourself believe that you will lose weight in 2-3months, all of it I mean. It takes time, and the slower it takes the better and healthier it is and infact the harder it will be to gain back. Do not even worry about the skinny gym people. I just tell myself "well that is why they are skinny" lol because they are in the gym, so you shall get there as well my dear, do not fear. Keep pushing yourself and don't give up. Slowly try cutting back all the pop completely and I will promise you you'll not only feel much better but you'll see a better weightloss. Mcdonalds used to be my addiction, and not gonna lie it took me a good month to not want it, it was a battle, but it is a battle that I'd fight all over again because I feel so good and I feel so in control of myself now. When I say "NO!" to myself about a certain food I know that I will listen. It's self-discipline, we have to reteach ourselves the good and bad things. So my advise is be patient, take it day by day and if you make one oopsie one day, get right back up and keep fighting.

Best of luck with everything :)
 
Hi Justina and Nevergiveup!!

Thanks for reading my diary and posting. I just need all the support I can get from this forum. I see you lost 30 pounds, that is awesome. I will keep pushing my self and posting in this diary. That helps me a lot, it is like a commitment and a way to track my progress. I will read also and post every day in other journals. I think that helps!!

Thanks again, Agatha
 
If you're having trouble giving up coca cola+ McDonalds - look into how unethical both those corporations are - they are associated with some extremely dubious and immoral practices in the pursuit of making a ridiculous amount of money off products that are terrible for anyone who consumes them.
d'you really wanna give people like that your money??
 
Fetterless:

You are so right!! I am getting better and improving my water intake instead. Thanks for your comment.

Agatha
 
Great job do far!! Don't stress about the people at the gym... You are awesome for being there and a lot of people probably felt the same way when they started going. Keep drinking that water!!
 
Hard week

Hi!!

Thanks to all the people who read my thread and to all the people that took from their time to reply to me. It is very rewarding and motivating for me. This week was very hard. I started a new class at the university and my trainer started to teach me the strength routine at the gym.

It was so embarrassing to do a Plank on the gym with all the fat I have around my middle section. It was horrible. Lucky for me there was this lady that came to cheer me up. The trainer ask me to go to the Plank position and just stand there for 30 seconds. I can tell I was shaking all over. I manage to just stay and push thru it. The lady was cheerleading me and giving me positive comments about how strong and brave I am and that I can do this. And guess what?? I did three 30 seconds sets on two variations of the exercise. I also learned that day seven other exercises that belongs to my routine.

I went to a Zumba class for the first time and it was amazing. I worked all my muscles and had a lot of fun. I went to the gym Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, Friday and Saturday. Five days !!!!! Every day I struggle to get there but I just force myself and think about how I want to feel, how I want to look and I just put my tennis shoes and just get out of my house.

Food is another dimension of my plan. It is the hardest part for me to control. I manage to stay with my plan of high protein, good crabs and snacking. I did not had any sweets, any cheats only two cokes. So I guess is not that bad. I decided not to weight myself until next week. I want my body to get used to all this changes.

Best auto encouragement of the week, a lot of good music in my iPod to go along in the treadmill and watching Biggest Losers and Heavy TV's shows. It always give me a sense that if they do it I can do it too!!!

Best song of the week for cardio, On the Floor from Jennifer Lopez and Pit-bull. The beat is amazing!!!!! Please reply to me your thoughts and recommendations. Thanks for reading me.

Agatha
 
Hi!!! Hi lowgirl!!! This was a bad week for me. I went to the gym only two times. Hard work week. I am preparing myself to work hard this new week on gym and diet. Let's see what happens!!
 
Hi Agatha. I have found reading your first posts very motivating. I applaud you dumping that stupid detox disgusting thing. I am totally against making yourself eat disgusting foods. I am very much for promoting healthy delicious foods. Its amazing how delicious simple food can be.

As to the coke and mcdonalds. I am a believer in cold turkey. Just give it up totally and for good. I did htat with cigarettes. Its much easiser. I am doing it now for hte second time with sugar and its all its variations. Its just to easy to keep sneaking in the bad stuff when you are in a low spot. And its easier to keep your resolve if you have gone without for longer. Then if you have a blip its easier to get over. That's what i believe and have found anyway.

Its great you are enjoying the gym and you are being courageous for going outside your comfort zone.

I personally am not convinced about the snacking thing. I mean snacking helps if you are bored but if you are not hungry then i don't think its a good thing. I just believe in three satisfying meals a day.

In between i drink coffee with milk. But you may not like coffee. I haven't been doing the water thing. I hate peeing all the time but perhaps i should try drinking more water.

When i read your first post about what you ate, i didn't think it looked like very much food. I wonder if its not enough to keep you from being hungry. I have found its when we get hungry that we are prone to breaking our diets. If i get hungry i quickly go and eat somethign healthy. Something that will take away the hunger so it depends how hungry i am to start with. Sometimes a piece of fruit will be enough. Sometimes i will need a salad sandwich. it depends.

Keep going. You can do this.
 
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