diana's attempt to lose 80 pounds

[diana3]

hey, my name is diana, i'm seventeen and im a senior in high school.
this is my weight loss journal. in november 2009, i weighed 150 pounds. now i weigh 215 pounds now. a little background info: i gained 70 pounds over the past year, due to quitting the volleyball team and also my parents canceled my gym membership. in march i was 230 pounds, then i lost 15 pounds over the summer and now i'm still at 215 pounds. ive been cycling between 215 and 200 pounds over the past 2 months.
this is my journal. basically i eat healthy, although i tend to binge on sweet foods like popcorn and chocolate chip cookies from my school. school is boring and it makes me want to binge.

my goal is to lose 85 pounds. the exercise i do is running every evening for 45 minutes, doing push ups, crunches, squats, and wall-sits as well as planks every evening and running up and down stairs.

so ultimately
my current weight is 215 lb
my height is 5"11' 1/4
my bmi is 29.6.

my goal weight is 130 lb
my height 5"11 1/4
bmi around 16.
basically i have to lose 15 points in my bmi, in a year. this will be a year long process that will take me a long time to lose the weight.

HOW I WILL LOSE IT
im going to get a job at a 24 hr fitness which is 5 minutes away from me, so i can get a discount. maybe my parents will buy me a personal trainer for xmas, so i'll be able to lose all this fat. also ill be joining the track and field team this spring to keep myself fit in school since we dont have a gym period.
i'll be running on my own as well. and completely cutting sugary drinks ie. sodas out of my diet. i'll have dark chocolate once a week to keep my desire for chocolate happy, because i love dark chocolate (i don't like milk chocolate, like m&ms, much though).

i hope i lose 85 pounds by this time next year. 85 pounds in 12 months? i think i can do that. one of my goals is also to run a 5k.

 

[diana3]

Morning Exercise Routine
Wake up
Wear sneakers
Walk – .3 mile
Stretch 10 minutes (listening to Britney Spears, my favorite work out tune)
Walk/jog 2.5km, stretch 5 min, walk/jog 2.5km
Come home: Do jumping jacks x 20
30 sec. planks 10 reps
Situps: 2 reps of 50
Oblique crunch: 2 reps of 50
Superman – 30 sec x 5
Calf raises – 3 sets of 15
Arm curls – 3 sets of 15
Leg lifts – 3 sets of 15
Squats – 3 sets of 15
Wall sits – 45 sec x 3 reps
Stretch 5 min

Current Measurements
Bust: 43
Waist: 35
Hips: 43
Dress size: 12 (Large)

I know it's a little too early for me to be worrying about my weight. I'm 17 for chrissakes. Well obesity runs in my family. My mother, 3 aunts, and my grandmother are all fat. My entire mothers side of the family is fat, while my dad is a skinny little stick, My brother is also a thin stick. I used to be thin before I went on medications. The antidepressants I was on last year decreased my metabolism and raised my appetite, making me voracious with hunger but unfortunately I wasn't burning it. I feel really angry and sad and I think lately Ive become consumed with this anger at being fat. I always used to look down on fat people, like my mother and my grandmother, saying "oh my god please if I ever get that fat, just kill me". And even from 7th grade I'd lament how much I don't want my thighs to touch. Well now my thighs are touching and I feel like a fat donut all over the place. I feel like I can't move and when I go running my ankles and my knees hurt. I just can't take the feeling that everywhere I go someone may be looking at my butt and thinking 'shes fat'. I have such fat phobia. I have to lose the weight because I dont want to be at risk for diseases also I cant really take much more of this fatness.
I want to be a size 8 again.

 

[clever_plant]

Hey, it might be to early to like. WORRY ABOUT WEIGHT but.. its never to early to be a healthy person and hey, excess weight is excess weight no matter peoples age.

I can very very very much empathize with antidepressants fubar'ing your system. I've been lucky with mine but I've seen many a patient become overweight, underweight, bloated and whatnot from them, good on you for choosing to change, and I promise you. Loosing weight will make you thinner, but getting a lot of exercise in will do a lot of the work your antidepressants do for you.

Anyways, Best of wishes!