Hi Everyone! I am new here. 
I haven't actually started on my journey yet. I am setting a start date of December 1. My husband and I are going to get a pass to the Y and start working out on that date. I plan to work out 5 days a week with 3 days of 30 mins of cardio, 3 days of 30 mins of resistance training, and 2 days of 1 hour of cardio. I have been working out on and off my whole life but never on a consistent basis and it seems like I am always much happier when I do work out.
My weight has sky-rocketed the past 10 years. I used to be a size 9 and 140 pounds. I am 5 foot 9 inches tall. Now I am 335 pounds. I have had 2 kids and have had ups and downs with depression, deaths in the family, etc. I am also a food addict.
It has taken me a long while to make this decision to start a new lifestyle but I think I needed that time to figure myself out. I am an emotional eater. I eat for any emotion that gets to be too much for me to feel. I eat when I'm happy , sad , mad , frustrated, impatient, bored.. you name it, I eat because of it. I have found also that I tend to obsess about food when I don't plan ahead what I will eat that day. I also obsess and end up binging when I try to cut something completely out of my diet. I am doing it this time, gradually, slowly and I refuse to say I will "never" eat a certain food again. It just doesn't work and it's not practical for me. I go into survival mode when I tell myself those things and it's just defeating at the end of the day.
So, this time, now that I feel I know myself better, I am starting out on a new journey. What I find along the way is yet to be seen but I know I need this and I want to be healthier... not skinnier or better or prettier or any of those other things I have wanted in the past, but just healthier. I want to be able to run and jump and skip and play with my kids in the park and not sit and worry and gripe and complain about this or that aching or hurting anymore. I am ready to LIVE again!!!
So, here I am! I am starting soon! Please feel free to message me or talk to me or mentor me, anything you feel will be of help to me is greatly appreciated!
Julie
AGE: 32
HEIGHT: 5'9"
SW: 335
CW: 335
My weight is really yet to be determined... I am guessing from my last Dr.'s appointment from about a month ago. I will post my correct weight on Dec. 1 when I start working out at the Y!
I haven't actually started on my journey yet. I am setting a start date of December 1. My husband and I are going to get a pass to the Y and start working out on that date. I plan to work out 5 days a week with 3 days of 30 mins of cardio, 3 days of 30 mins of resistance training, and 2 days of 1 hour of cardio. I have been working out on and off my whole life but never on a consistent basis and it seems like I am always much happier when I do work out. My weight has sky-rocketed the past 10 years.
I used to be a size 9 and 140 pounds. I am 5 foot 9 inches tall. Now I am 335 pounds. I have had 2 kids and have had ups and downs with depression, deaths in the family, etc. I am also a food addict. It has taken me a long while to make this decision to start a new lifestyle but I think I needed that time to figure myself out. I am an emotional eater. I eat for any emotion that gets to be too much for me to feel. I eat when I'm happy
, sad , mad , frustrated, impatient, bored.. you name it, I eat because of it. I have found also that I tend to obsess about food when I don't plan ahead what I will eat that day. I also obsess and end up binging when I try to cut something completely out of my diet. I am doing it this time, gradually, slowly and I refuse to say I will "never" eat a certain food again. It just doesn't work and it's not practical for me. I go into survival mode when I tell myself those things and it's just defeating at the end of the day. So, this time, now that I feel I know myself better, I am starting out on a new journey. What I find along the way is yet to be seen but I know I need this and I want to be healthier... not skinnier or better or prettier or any of those other things I have wanted in the past, but just healthier. I want to be able to run and jump and skip and play with my kids in the park
and not sit and worry and gripe and complain about this or that aching or hurting anymore. I am ready to LIVE again!!! So, here I am! I am starting soon! Please feel free to message me or talk to me or mentor me, anything you feel will be of help to me is greatly appreciated!
Julie
AGE: 32
HEIGHT: 5'9"
SW: 335
CW: 335
My weight is really yet to be determined... I am guessing from my last Dr.'s appointment from about a month ago. I will post my correct weight on Dec. 1 when I start working out at the Y!
