Colli's Diary-The Real Deal

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dragonfly23

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So, I've finally decided to loose weight. I'm going to start with a bit of my story so you all know. You see I was always the "chubby" girl in my school, always. I was usually rejected by boys with the lame excuse "If she lost weight she would be beautiful". Years went by and in High School I joined the gym. I was always 135pds for a 5' 6'' height. I was down to 112, but let me tell ya' I had muscles and everything (finally!) not those great abs you see in magazines but it was pretty nice. I found a wonderful boyfriend during those years, who loved me for who I was not by how fat or thin I looked. Actually I'm still with him. I was 15 years back then, now I'm 20.
After graduating I went to college, to study Chemical Engineering. I practically gained 15 pds the first year there, all I did was eat, eat, eat and eat some more. As if it wasn't enough I developed a profound love for cooking and believe me when I say it was not light cooking. However, my greatest passion is baking. I enjoy it so much (because I still have this crazy passion). Problem is sweets are soooo fattening, so this definetively showed in my waistline...I was 150pds now. It hit me so hard that I practically starved myself, I would only eat a 200cal soup a day and lots of water (foolishly I didn't realize the harm I was doing to my body). I lost all those 15pds by Christmas. Can you believe that? Christmas? when you practically gain weight by just smelling the food! I gained 5pds-Now I was at 140pds. I let loose and now...(drums) I'm at 160...This is my greatest weight gain ever. It has started to affect my personal life. I don't want to go to places where I could casually see some old friends, I don't want them to start saying how much weight I've gained...sooo this time I'm going to loose weight...and oh boy I'm dead serious about it... I even bought a bike. I guess I could definitely use the support so I turned to this site and ventilate all my worries, ups and downs as I go through this treacherous path. I'm set to get to 120pds and do you know what I'm planning to do? Oh yes you do! ;) I'm going to do Turbo Jam (TJ) and run. Actually I'm going to walk first then run. I'll let you all know how it is going every week. I'm gonna start tommorow, Monday January 15 (pretty date, isn't?).

Very excited to hear (read) your stories and your goals! C'mon we can do it!
 
Hi Colliea21,
Welcome to the WLF and good for you for starting a diary :) The hardest part about getting started is definitely taking those first steps - and you've done that!

It's good that you know how you lost weight before wasn't healthy - by eating too few calories, you are definitely causing your body to work against you! It really is amazing to think you need to eat in order to lose weight :)

Have you checked out or ? They are both great resources for people to track calories, nutrition and fitness. They also give you a really good idea of what you should be eating.

Best of luck to you,
 
hello colli and welcome :) vent here all you want and need i do it all the time lol and its helping me. good luck and YES we all CAN do it. Lena
 
Monday, jan 15/07

so today is the official day I started. I can't say I ate super healthy but for the first day it was pretty good. I did a 20 min jog/walk and the 20 min Turbo Jam (TJ) workout. I am following this program that I found here in site, it caught my eye 'cause it said: "from potato couch to running in 2 months" something like that...and hey I sooo want to run, so I'm going to give it a try. Is 3 days a week and you basically alternate jogging or running and walking, at first for 20min then you progressively do it for half an hour. My biggest worry now is to juggle school and excersise. in the past I have never been successful in this cause, of course, i always go with studying first. It's quite difficult to do both. Has anyone done it before? Tell me!
 
It is difficult to juggle both - but you CAN do it, and you'll find a way to make it work :)
 
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