bluewonder
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Hey!!
I started off in the 'weigh yourself everyday club' but saw that most people weren't updating daily, or had stopped entirely, so I thought, "I'm just going to start my own journal". Here's my deets:
Age: 33
Height: 5'4"
Build: small frame
Ideal weight from the past that I'm shooting for: 120
'Largest' weight: 135 (I put 'largest' in quotes because I know it's not large)
Current weight: will be tracked below in my daily weigh-in diary
I know I'm not too old to get back to 120 - I know I have lots of time in my schedule. I like healthy food. I'm an almost-vegetarian. This shouldn't be so difficult, but it is, because of 'late-snacking fiancee' and just because of liking food and liking life!
But I'm tired of my clothes being too tight and of feeling so 'soft'.
What has worked in the past and seems to still work when I do it, is... fruit til noon, a healthy lunch, a healthy snack, dinner (whatever the hubby makes or whatever there is - also fairly healthy - but smaller portion than in the past, i.e. no seconds). and then a healthy snack between dinner & bedtime (an orange, rather than a bowl of cereal or toast, as in the past). Alcohol? Er, that's a toughy because it seems to mess things up. Junk food? Same thing. I haven't made rules for booze and junk food yet, other than 'avoid for the most part'.
Exercise plan right now is 30 min of cardio, 5 days per week. I know, I know, I need to add in weight training, and I will - that's what will make the difference (soft to hard bod) but for now I need to establish the discipline to at least show up 5 days a week and get on that treadmill/bike/stepper, and once I hit 129 pounds and I reach that level of discipline, I will start making my workout 'harder' by adding in more weight training. That's the plan anyway!
And so here's my diary...I will continue to edit this one email rather than re-posting. I will only re-post if I have something new to say or pictures to share (eventually!)....
April 8 - 134.8 (after a big glass of juice. will do this first-thing from now on)
April 9 - 133.0 (fruit til noon and fruit post-dinner)
April 10 - 134.2 (meal-sized midnight snack. argh.)
April 11-14 - no idea...whoops.
April 15 - 134.2
April 16 - 133.4
April 17 - 132.8 (fruit-til-noon and controlled nighttime snacking + cardio so far working)
April 18 - 133.0
April 19 - ?
April 20 - 134.4 (ARGH, weekends keep setting me back!)
April 21 - 135.2 (Oh, so I have to starve myself, is THAT it?)
April 22-24 - ? (Dark abyss where I didn't want to know the truth)
April 25 - 133.0
April 26-May 5 - scale ran out of battery, I had panic attacks and totally forgot about this diet!
I started off in the 'weigh yourself everyday club' but saw that most people weren't updating daily, or had stopped entirely, so I thought, "I'm just going to start my own journal". Here's my deets:
Age: 33
Height: 5'4"
Build: small frame
Ideal weight from the past that I'm shooting for: 120
'Largest' weight: 135 (I put 'largest' in quotes because I know it's not large)
Current weight: will be tracked below in my daily weigh-in diary
I know I'm not too old to get back to 120 - I know I have lots of time in my schedule. I like healthy food. I'm an almost-vegetarian. This shouldn't be so difficult, but it is, because of 'late-snacking fiancee' and just because of liking food and liking life!
But I'm tired of my clothes being too tight and of feeling so 'soft'.What has worked in the past and seems to still work when I do it, is... fruit til noon, a healthy lunch, a healthy snack, dinner (whatever the hubby makes or whatever there is - also fairly healthy - but smaller portion than in the past, i.e. no seconds). and then a healthy snack between dinner & bedtime (an orange, rather than a bowl of cereal or toast, as in the past). Alcohol? Er, that's a toughy because it seems to mess things up. Junk food? Same thing. I haven't made rules for booze and junk food yet, other than 'avoid for the most part'.
Exercise plan right now is 30 min of cardio, 5 days per week. I know, I know, I need to add in weight training, and I will - that's what will make the difference (soft to hard bod) but for now I need to establish the discipline to at least show up 5 days a week and get on that treadmill/bike/stepper, and once I hit 129 pounds and I reach that level of discipline, I will start making my workout 'harder' by adding in more weight training. That's the plan anyway!
And so here's my diary...I will continue to edit this one email rather than re-posting. I will only re-post if I have something new to say or pictures to share (eventually!)....
April 8 - 134.8 (after a big glass of juice. will do this first-thing from now on)
April 9 - 133.0 (fruit til noon and fruit post-dinner)
April 10 - 134.2 (meal-sized midnight snack. argh.)
April 11-14 - no idea...whoops.
April 15 - 134.2
April 16 - 133.4
April 17 - 132.8 (fruit-til-noon and controlled nighttime snacking + cardio so far working)
April 18 - 133.0
April 19 - ?
April 20 - 134.4 (ARGH, weekends keep setting me back!)
April 21 - 135.2 (Oh, so I have to starve myself, is THAT it?)
April 22-24 - ? (Dark abyss where I didn't want to know the truth)
April 25 - 133.0
April 26-May 5 - scale ran out of battery, I had panic attacks and totally forgot about this diet!
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