cherrygarcia
New member
hello everyone,
i'm new on here, i've been overweight all my life and now morbidly obese for the past few years. it's gotten me down in the dumps and have decided enough is enough. for the past year or so i completely shut the world and lived like a hermit and just ate anything in site, i had pizza hut, dominoes and chinese takeaway all on speed dial. i could barely walk more than 2 minutes without huffing and puffing and breaking into a sweat, or climb more than 5 steps at a time without having to take a long breather. but this is my new beginning.
about 2 months ago i found a long lost friend from high school who's weight has also ballooned more or less at the same rate as mine and we just talked and talked and talked some more about how much we HATED it all and how we needed to change. this inspired me to then open up to my mother whom i have fought most about my weight with, and thereafter opened up to the rest of my family friends and my 2 closest friends. these are the people who i love and love me back. and once i unloaded all that emotional baggage that had built up over all these years, i was now ready to tackle the physical aspect of my weight loss.
so for almost 2 months now i've been eating healthy, and i'm now on week 3 of a rigorous exercise regime. my diet currently consists of small portions of carbs/proteins with lots of fresh raw veges on top, and my meals are spread out every 3 hours. as for my exercise, i'm now on week 3, my programme consists of 45min treadmill, then some lunges and weights, then finish of with 45min either on the treadmill or in an aerobic class.
ideally i'd like to do the gym 5 days a week, but you can imagine i've been inactive for over a year and so my exercise regime is very hard on my joints so have taken a few days off. but i'm trying to build it up to the 5 times a week.
i just started a gym programme that's in 6 week blocks. every 6 weeks they weigh you at the beginning and at the end. I'm 5 feet in height and my starting weight is 146.1kg (BMI 61)....i've been working my behind off and trying to eat good as best i can, so i'm not expecting a miracle but at least know i'll definitely have lost a few kgs by week 6. So i have 3 more weeks before my next weigh in and i can't wait. I don't own a weighing scale because i know i'd weigh myself every two seconds which could be discouraging. So trying to be patient to know my weight at week 6.
I also need to go and buy a tape measure from a hardware shop, since the standard 60inch tape measure can't go round my hips.
My target for this year, 2009, is to at least loose 45kgs by the end of december (at a rate of 5kgs per month). If i loose more that would be absolutely fantastic, but i'm thinking i have to have realistic goals for now...afterall, the journey of a thousand miles begins with one step right? And hopefully next year i can loose another 45kgs....so my target by december 2010 is to be 55kgs which i guess would be fine since i'm 5feet in height.
As soon as i get weighed in 3 weeks time will report to the forum (unless i cave into buying a weighing scale before then).
Challenges: Currently i'm averaging 3 days a week at the gym but would like to bring it up to 5 times a week. The other majore challenge is my diet, currently i would say i'm eating healthy about 90% of the time, however i need to take that up to 100%. What happens is i have one cheat day every one and a half weeks where i get to eat anything i want. I'll be very good and eat right prior to the cheat day. But on the cheat day i'll eat everything in sight, and the day after instead of beginning again, will have any remaining unhealthy food leftover from the day before, then afterwards clean up my act. To cut a long story short, my cheat day is just supposed to be one, but sometimes ends up being 2...and at my worst was 3. But the difference this time round is when i fall, i get up, dust myself off and try again...i'm not giving up this time round. But just need the will power to be stricter in my diet.
I hope i can make some weight loss buddies and we can help support each other.
i'm new on here, i've been overweight all my life and now morbidly obese for the past few years. it's gotten me down in the dumps and have decided enough is enough. for the past year or so i completely shut the world and lived like a hermit and just ate anything in site, i had pizza hut, dominoes and chinese takeaway all on speed dial. i could barely walk more than 2 minutes without huffing and puffing and breaking into a sweat, or climb more than 5 steps at a time without having to take a long breather. but this is my new beginning.
about 2 months ago i found a long lost friend from high school who's weight has also ballooned more or less at the same rate as mine and we just talked and talked and talked some more about how much we HATED it all and how we needed to change. this inspired me to then open up to my mother whom i have fought most about my weight with, and thereafter opened up to the rest of my family friends and my 2 closest friends. these are the people who i love and love me back. and once i unloaded all that emotional baggage that had built up over all these years, i was now ready to tackle the physical aspect of my weight loss.
so for almost 2 months now i've been eating healthy, and i'm now on week 3 of a rigorous exercise regime. my diet currently consists of small portions of carbs/proteins with lots of fresh raw veges on top, and my meals are spread out every 3 hours. as for my exercise, i'm now on week 3, my programme consists of 45min treadmill, then some lunges and weights, then finish of with 45min either on the treadmill or in an aerobic class.
ideally i'd like to do the gym 5 days a week, but you can imagine i've been inactive for over a year and so my exercise regime is very hard on my joints so have taken a few days off. but i'm trying to build it up to the 5 times a week.
i just started a gym programme that's in 6 week blocks. every 6 weeks they weigh you at the beginning and at the end. I'm 5 feet in height and my starting weight is 146.1kg (BMI 61)....i've been working my behind off and trying to eat good as best i can, so i'm not expecting a miracle but at least know i'll definitely have lost a few kgs by week 6. So i have 3 more weeks before my next weigh in and i can't wait. I don't own a weighing scale because i know i'd weigh myself every two seconds which could be discouraging. So trying to be patient to know my weight at week 6.
I also need to go and buy a tape measure from a hardware shop, since the standard 60inch tape measure can't go round my hips.
My target for this year, 2009, is to at least loose 45kgs by the end of december (at a rate of 5kgs per month). If i loose more that would be absolutely fantastic, but i'm thinking i have to have realistic goals for now...afterall, the journey of a thousand miles begins with one step right? And hopefully next year i can loose another 45kgs....so my target by december 2010 is to be 55kgs which i guess would be fine since i'm 5feet in height.
As soon as i get weighed in 3 weeks time will report to the forum (unless i cave into buying a weighing scale before then).
Challenges: Currently i'm averaging 3 days a week at the gym but would like to bring it up to 5 times a week. The other majore challenge is my diet, currently i would say i'm eating healthy about 90% of the time, however i need to take that up to 100%. What happens is i have one cheat day every one and a half weeks where i get to eat anything i want. I'll be very good and eat right prior to the cheat day. But on the cheat day i'll eat everything in sight, and the day after instead of beginning again, will have any remaining unhealthy food leftover from the day before, then afterwards clean up my act. To cut a long story short, my cheat day is just supposed to be one, but sometimes ends up being 2...and at my worst was 3. But the difference this time round is when i fall, i get up, dust myself off and try again...i'm not giving up this time round. But just need the will power to be stricter in my diet.
I hope i can make some weight loss buddies and we can help support each other.
