Bebegirl's Diary - A dog lover's journey to becoming fit and happy

Bebegirl

Bebegirl

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I have a lot to talk about in my journal but I figured that today I would just post the answers to malificent's questions.


1. How much weight do you want to lose?
I want to lose 40 pounds

2. What is the timeframe for reaching your target weight?
Losing around 1-2 pounds a week means about 6 months, but knowing me, longer.

3. How do you want to accomplish your goal (what methods do you want to use)?
I need to learn to eat properly and become more active.

4. Who or what can support you in reaching your goal?
I am hoping that this website will help support me.

5. How realistic is your goal?
I feel that this is the ideal spot for my weight based on bmi and the way my body is built.

6. When will you start?
I am starting tonight with dinner.

Well, I guess that's all for my first post. :)
 
Day One

So, today is my first day to reaching my new goals and tomorrow is my first day the in August Challenge.

I just turned 25 and am originally from Ohio. I moved to Indiana with my boyfriend just over a year a go and I am still a little homesick. I own 3 dogs and a cat, which seems like a lot, but for me it's just right. I want to start doing more than sticking them in the backyard to play and hopefully can incorporate the dogs into my exercise plan. I am a dog groomer for a corporate company and hope to someday own my own business. I love my job, but it is very stressful and hard on my body. When a dog doesn't want to do something, it takes a lot of energy to get it to. I usually bring my own food to work, but most of my co-workers do not and always tempt me to get some fast food with them.

I have never weighed this much in my life. Most of it happened after the move, it was hard to manage my time and new job and I just started to eat out every day for just about every meal. On top of that large mistake, it always seems that I gain weight when I am happy and in love. Right now, I weigh 180 lbs. and am 5'9" tall. My ultimate goal weight is 140 and I hope to achieve this in 8 months. My short term goal for the month of August is 5 lbs but deep down I know that I can do much more, it's just trying to find the motivation and energy to do so. At this point I would rather underestimate and reach my goals then set the bar too high and fail.

My caloric intake yesterday was 1447
My exercise level was 0, but that gives me a great point to pass today.
 
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August Challenge

So, today is the first day of the August Challenge. Losing 1% of my weight a week seems like a reasonable challenge but now, I don't know. I was hoping to lose at least one pound in the three days between signing up for the challenge and posting my weight for August 1st but that did not happen and it worries me a little. The 1% I need to lose this week is just under 2 lbs.

On the good news front, I downloaded the FitDay program for my computer and love it. I was using the online program for a while but kept forgetting my log in info and decided buying the program to keep on my computer was worth it. Using the program I can set my short term weight goals and find the calories I need to eat to drop the pounds. Yesterday I ended up eating 1,763 calories which is right on target. I love the graphs, it reminds me of my science labs in college.

On the exercise front, I have still not started a routine. I used The Firm set with changeable weights and 4 DVDs in the past for 2 weeks and saw noticeable results but then my hectic life took back over and I started to miss one day here, then another, until I didn't do it at all anymore. I also need to start taking one dog for a walk for at least 15 min three times a week and then up it from there. I know they will love it! Speaking of dogs, does anyone watch The Greatest American Dog on CBS? It is such a cute show, I wish I could have been on it with my Standard Poodle, we would have won. :D

 
Scales, horrible scary scales

A funny thing happened in the bathroom this morning. I usually weigh myself in the mornings because I decided that is the point in the day I will be the lightest and I don't want to miss it. I have heard that weighing yourself every day is bad, or good, or doesn't matter and I picked to go with the doesn't matter people. Some background into my weight, I have been steadily climbing from the 150's into the 170's to finally reach 180 lbs. No more, no less, an exact 180 and have been there for the about a week now. Finally, this morning I weighed myself and it was 177.5 lbs. I am so happy just to see the scale move, let alone that much.

As far as calories go, I only ate 1600 calories on Saturday, and about the same today.

On the exercise front, I did nothing yesterday, but today I finally started and did 45 min.(the whole video) of Hi-Def Sculpt from the TransFirmation series with no weights. I am very proud just to finish the video, I am notorious for giving up and have only finished a few in my life.

Hope that everyone had a great weekend, keep on reaching your goals!
 
Welcome to the boards!!!!! Where are from in Ohio?? I live in Columbus now, but I'm originally from Canton. It is always nice to see another buckeye on here!!! I use fitday and love it. Do you belong to a gym? Good luck and can't wait to hear more from you!
 
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Buckeye21 said:
Welcome to the boards!!!!! Where are from in Ohio?? I live in Columbus now, but I'm originally from Canton. It is always nice to see another buckeye on here!!! I use fitday and love it. Do you belong to a gym? Good luck and can't wait to hear more from you!
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I am originally from 45 min south of Canton, but went to YSU for many years. I do miss Ohio, which is pretty funny because when I was younger I wanted out so bad. I don't belong to a gym, they are too much $ for me right now, plus I would probably never go. It's too hard to put a DVD in my player that I can't imagine actually making myself get in my car and drive somewhere :D

I did lose another pound since yesterday, which I am happy about. I am slightly nervous that it is too much too fast, but I guess on the Biggest Loser they always seem to lose fast at first, then plateau. Plateauing is something that I am not looking forward to doing. According to Fitday, if I continue losing weight this fast, I will be 148 in 4 weeks and 92 in 12 weeks! LOL I can't even imagine myself 92 lbs. Silly Fitday!

Something that I forgot to mention is that I am a reality show junkie. I love reality shows, I don't watch everything, but I watch many so if anyone is up for a Big Brother discussion, I am the person to talk too.

Thank you so much for your support!
 
Everyone always wants out!! I want to move soon, but I still love living in Columbus with all of my friends from college. It is still like being a kid, but with obligations! Hopefully I'll get in to an out of state med school but right now, I'm loving it here!

That is so awesome you lived right by Canton! It is HOF week there right now, or as my family knows it as "GO ON VACATION WEEK" haha

Great work with the weight loss. I would be worried too about losing weight too fast. Slow and steady and keep it off. You are doing great work though, congrats!
 
Shame Shame

I haven't updated for many days, but in my pathetic defense I have been busy. I haven't exercised since the last time I posted but I am down to 173. I think that I was eating way more calories than I thought before the diet and restricting them to 1700 to 1800 a day has been amazing. I don't feel that it's too low of a calorie number, and I also don't feel starving. I usually am eating cereal for two meals a day (Kashi which I love), snacking on low fat yogurt or frozen fruit bars, and cook a dinner w/o worrying about calories. I am always convinced I over ate until I enter everything into FitDay (and I always way over estimate just in case) and it usually turns out that I could eat a cookie or some other bad snack and still be fine.

In the August monthly challenge, I weighed in at 174 on Friday and have lost 6 pounds surpassing my monthly goal. I am now hoping to be at my ultimate goal, 140, by Thanksgiving.
 
Hey girl! COngrats on the weight loss!!!!!!!!!!!! You are well on your way to get that goal. That is great that you feel full and food isn't an issue!!!!!!
 
Four Day Weekend!

Thanks Buckeye for the support, but believe me, food will always be an issue. :) I just happened that on that one day, I was being fairly optimistic. On a good note, I am currently in Ohio for tonight, then.....

Starting tomorrow morning I am heading to the Syracuse area to visit my maternal grandmother whom I haven't seen in 2 years (for good reason) to attend her 80th bday party. I have no idea what to expect food wise for this long weekend, hopefully not too bad but I am still feeling a little nervous about not preparing it myself. I weighed myself before I left and my weight has been pretty much the same for the past couple days, no loss or gain. I won't be able to weigh myself the whole trip, my grandma has no scale to use This could be a good thing, but I won't be able to weigh in tomorrow for my challenge :(

I don't think I will have internet too available so if I don't get a chance later, hope you have a great weekend everyone!
 
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