BansheeBabe
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Alrighty... let's get crackin'! 
Ok, so, I've been doing this healthy lifestyle thing since Oct. 2008. Granted, it was really hard to even GET STARTED, but hey, for some people it takes time. Before that date, I ate out at Restaurants or Fast Food at least 4 times a week, with my husband, and didn't think there would be any repercussions to those actions. Needless to say, within the first 6 months of graduating high school (2004) I gained 45 pounds. I didn't really care because my family didn't say a word because they were all overweight and my husband was getting fat right along with me. I was silly to think by not working out or getting SOME exercise and still eating all those calories weren't going to do anyting made me look like a fool.
Before Oct. 2008, I still played fast-pitch softball with my girls from high school (some that didn't play college and some that had finished playing) and so to me, that was my workout for the WEEK. I only had 1 game a week from Spring to Fall but in my eyes, that should be enough. Once again, I am such an idiot. Finally, I decided to watch my calories (1200-1500 a day) workout at least 1 hour a day (30 min. of cardio and 30 min of lifting weights) and only eat out once a month, as long as it was sushi or salad. I am happy to say that I have been doing this faithfully since then and have cheated a couple of times. It has been hard, but I know that I will be so much happier in the end.....
I am 5' 7"
I started out weighing 190... my highest was 198.
I currently weigh 174
I want to weigh 145
Now to yesterday.....
Well, my job is quite stressful: I do work in an office, but I'm a personal assistant and get busy and always tend to forget to eat, which I know, is a major key to weight loss. I had string cheese, yogurt and an apple for breakfast; soup, more string cheese and a peanut butter rice cake thing for lunch and a chicken quesadilla for dinner. I don't think I got enough water in but I try and make up for it at the gym so when I sweat, I know it's doing it magic!
The gym was pleasant as always and I pretty much feel like a gym rat. I see all the same people there and I love how it makes me feel. I love coming home and being completed exhausted so that I can get a good nights rest and not try and fall asleep by the t.v.
So a crazy side note: Because I didn't ever care about what I weighed when I was younger, I decided to get my medical records from way back when (2003) to see what I actually did weigh. My logic suggests that in high school, I was a normal size 6-8 and I was happy and didn't have a shady self image. Well, I got them and come to find out that my weight was 152 when I was 18! That makes me so happy because now I feel like I'm not far off what is comfortable to me and there actually may be a light at the end of the tunnel! Yesssss!!
Hallelujiah! Well of course, we will just have to see when I get there, and what my goals will be then.
I'll try to post some pictures so everyone can see what I am talking about....
AHH, that felt good..
Ok, so, I've been doing this healthy lifestyle thing since Oct. 2008. Granted, it was really hard to even GET STARTED, but hey, for some people it takes time. Before that date, I ate out at Restaurants or Fast Food at least 4 times a week, with my husband, and didn't think there would be any repercussions to those actions. Needless to say, within the first 6 months of graduating high school (2004) I gained 45 pounds. I didn't really care because my family didn't say a word because they were all overweight and my husband was getting fat right along with me. I was silly to think by not working out or getting SOME exercise and still eating all those calories weren't going to do anyting made me look like a fool.
Before Oct. 2008, I still played fast-pitch softball with my girls from high school (some that didn't play college and some that had finished playing) and so to me, that was my workout for the WEEK. I only had 1 game a week from Spring to Fall but in my eyes, that should be enough. Once again, I am such an idiot. Finally, I decided to watch my calories (1200-1500 a day) workout at least 1 hour a day (30 min. of cardio and 30 min of lifting weights) and only eat out once a month, as long as it was sushi or salad. I am happy to say that I have been doing this faithfully since then and have cheated a couple of times. It has been hard, but I know that I will be so much happier in the end.....
I am 5' 7"
I started out weighing 190... my highest was 198.
I currently weigh 174
I want to weigh 145
Now to yesterday.....
Well, my job is quite stressful: I do work in an office, but I'm a personal assistant and get busy and always tend to forget to eat, which I know, is a major key to weight loss. I had string cheese, yogurt and an apple for breakfast; soup, more string cheese and a peanut butter rice cake thing for lunch and a chicken quesadilla for dinner. I don't think I got enough water in but I try and make up for it at the gym so when I sweat, I know it's doing it magic!
The gym was pleasant as always and I pretty much feel like a gym rat. I see all the same people there and I love how it makes me feel. I love coming home and being completed exhausted so that I can get a good nights rest and not try and fall asleep by the t.v.
So a crazy side note: Because I didn't ever care about what I weighed when I was younger, I decided to get my medical records from way back when (2003) to see what I actually did weigh. My logic suggests that in high school, I was a normal size 6-8 and I was happy and didn't have a shady self image. Well, I got them and come to find out that my weight was 152 when I was 18! That makes me so happy because now I feel like I'm not far off what is comfortable to me and there actually may be a light at the end of the tunnel! Yesssss!!
Hallelujiah! Well of course, we will just have to see when I get there, and what my goals will be then. I'll try to post some pictures so everyone can see what I am talking about....
AHH, that felt good..
Thanks for stopping by my diary. I figured id check yours out. How big of a bummer is it in the beginning before you meet peeps and you pretty much are writing to yourself! hehe. Anyways, congrats on the new rack!!! hehe. If you dont mind me asking how big did ya go? Anyways hope ur boobies feel better soon!
Congrats on staying healthy - that is definitely an achievment! I am sure that as the swelling goes out of your body from the surgery the weight will just melt off - keep us updated!
I know that was something weird to put in but gosh, what is with the correlation between softball and lesbians? I don't get it....
I look forward to getting to know you better
I sat helplessly and watched my husband do vigorus exercise on the elliptical for 20 minutes and go lift weights for 30 minutes. I was so jealous because I love lifting weights, which I still can't do until the 18th of April. I am still eating pretty well, keeping my calories pretty low, around 1500 a day. I didn't gain any weight while recooperating but I didn't lose any either. I really just want to get back on that saddle and really hit it hard but I know it will take time. I think tonight I'll try the elliptical without using my arms or do the arc trainer, just so I can burn more calories. I still have a ways to go and I want to start losing sooner rather than later... June is coming really quick and I want to look great for summer! Actually, I'm going down to Havasu for Memorial Weekend to visit my sister and for mine and my husbands' anniversary, so I want to look really, really good!
I am so sick of the snow and honestly, where was all this snow back in February? I am so bugged because this weekend would have been the perfect weekend to go snowmobiling and can't go because of my, ahem, surgery. Oh well.... I want it to be spring so badly!