Hi everyone!
I have recently lost 21 pounds on my own.
I am very excited of course and for some reason, not everyone shares my excitement and they have not emmersed themselves in health, exercise, and nutrition like I have. I figured it was time to surround myself with like-minded people with the same goals and issues that I have.
For the past 10 years I have fluctuated around 250 pounds. Apparently doctors in the United States consider that weight morbidly obese on a 5'5 frame. It never bothered me until I went to the doctors and weighed in at 277 pounds. Do you think I did anything about it? Nope. I did manage to drop back down to 265 but I think that was just because I was chasing my kids around because it certainly was not because I was watching what I was putting in my mouth.
I have always had long hair. I have always hid behind my hair and never worried about my weight because people were so obsessed with my hair. Well for some reason I was at the hair dresser one day and decided to cut my hair off. All of it. My husband cried when he first saw me. I liked the short hair, but every time I looked in the mirror I realized how fat my neck and face were. I couldn't hide anymore. I am glad the short hair fairy took a few lessons from cupid and shot me in the butt because it helped to do the trick.
I also met a few wonderful woman that are into belly dancing. I wondered what all the fuss was about so I decided to try it. As you may realize from the beginning of my post, I was the biggest girl in class. I was so embarrassed to walk in the class, but I did it. When I started learning how to belly dance being self conscious didn't matter. I had a blast. I looked at my body and even though I was fatter then everyone else, I had rhythm. You can get skinny, but you can't 'get' rhythm. I don't know what it is about belly dancing, but I fell in love with it. I researched the history, the types, the costumes, the music, you name it. Some day I am going to be on stage shimmying and look darn good doing it.
After getting shot by the short hair fairy and the belly dancing fairy, I somehow found the motivation to start losing weight. I have waited 10 years to find that motivation. If I could bottle it, I would be rich. I am doing a modified version of the diabetic diet along with cutting out bad carbs, fried, fatty, red, and white, you get the picture. I am educating myself about things like high fructose corn syrup, sodium, refined starches, and all the wonderful things people put in our food. I have cut out processed foods and changed to whole and organic foods. My body went into shock. Lol. In a good way though.
I am here to learn from all of you about what has and hasn't worked. I still have a long way to go. I have lost over two 10 pound bags of potatoes. That amazes me when I think about it. I can finally put my hands behind my back and interlace my fingers again. Its the little things you know? I am going to do this. I am doing it. No fancy diets, no drugs, nothing. Just exercise and eating right. You put out more then what you put in and wha la! There it goes. Funny how that works. Simple math. Why is it so hard though?
I finally had the courage to put one of those tickers at the bottom of my name. I run my own message board that deals with researching the paranormal. Thats my other passion. I have dreaded putting a ticker on because I didn't want people to realize how big I am. Well guess what. I am going to do it to keep me honest and to keep me going. I am going to do it and hopefully I can motivate others to get healthy along the way. For the past 10 years I have hardly been the poster child for health, but someday I will be.
I look forward to making some friends. It will be nice to come here on my hard days and get the support and motivation that I need. I hope I can in turn be that for someone else.
I have recently lost 21 pounds on my own.
I am very excited of course and for some reason, not everyone shares my excitement and they have not emmersed themselves in health, exercise, and nutrition like I have. I figured it was time to surround myself with like-minded people with the same goals and issues that I have. For the past 10 years I have fluctuated around 250 pounds. Apparently doctors in the United States consider that weight morbidly obese on a 5'5 frame. It never bothered me until I went to the doctors and weighed in at 277 pounds. Do you think I did anything about it? Nope. I did manage to drop back down to 265 but I think that was just because I was chasing my kids around because it certainly was not because I was watching what I was putting in my mouth.
I have always had long hair. I have always hid behind my hair and never worried about my weight because people were so obsessed with my hair. Well for some reason I was at the hair dresser one day and decided to cut my hair off. All of it.
My husband cried when he first saw me. I liked the short hair, but every time I looked in the mirror I realized how fat my neck and face were. I couldn't hide anymore. I am glad the short hair fairy took a few lessons from cupid and shot me in the butt because it helped to do the trick. I also met a few wonderful woman that are into belly dancing. I wondered what all the fuss was about so I decided to try it. As you may realize from the beginning of my post, I was the biggest girl in class. I was so embarrassed to walk in the class, but I did it. When I started learning how to belly dance being self conscious didn't matter. I had a blast. I looked at my body and even though I was fatter then everyone else, I had rhythm. You can get skinny, but you can't 'get' rhythm.
I don't know what it is about belly dancing, but I fell in love with it. I researched the history, the types, the costumes, the music, you name it. Some day I am going to be on stage shimmying and look darn good doing it. After getting shot by the short hair fairy and the belly dancing fairy, I somehow found the motivation to start losing weight. I have waited 10 years to find that motivation. If I could bottle it, I would be rich. I am doing a modified version of the diabetic diet along with cutting out bad carbs, fried, fatty, red, and white, you get the picture. I am educating myself about things like high fructose corn syrup, sodium, refined starches, and all the wonderful things people put in our food. I have cut out processed foods and changed to whole and organic foods. My body went into shock. Lol. In a good way though.
I am here to learn from all of you about what has and hasn't worked. I still have a long way to go. I have lost over two 10 pound bags of potatoes. That amazes me when I think about it. I can finally put my hands behind my back and interlace my fingers again. Its the little things you know?
I am going to do this. I am doing it. No fancy diets, no drugs, nothing. Just exercise and eating right. You put out more then what you put in and wha la! There it goes. Funny how that works. Simple math. Why is it so hard though? I finally had the courage to put one of those tickers at the bottom of my name. I run my own message board that deals with researching the paranormal. Thats my other passion.
I have dreaded putting a ticker on because I didn't want people to realize how big I am. Well guess what. I am going to do it to keep me honest and to keep me going. I am going to do it and hopefully I can motivate others to get healthy along the way. For the past 10 years I have hardly been the poster child for health, but someday I will be. I look forward to making some friends. It will be nice to come here on my hard days and get the support and motivation that I need. I hope I can in turn be that for someone else.
