Melody's Diary

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drywit

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My name is Melody and well I've been dealing with weight gain and management for about 4 years (I'm 21). Right now I'm at a point where losing 5 pounds has become a battle of mass proportions (really, mass). Just as I can see the "mission accomplished" sign waving in the wind in the near future, I also am completely frustrated with it all. I dont deserve what I'm doing to myself by keeping this weight on, and need a kick in the butt to keep moving forward.

My hobbies range from making tiles to coming up with script ideas, with my friend, for a make believe sitcom. I also love being a bit of a geek and laughing :D

Right now I'm trying to find an exercise routine to get into (and stay in) and more great vegetarian recipes to make.


weight:174
goal for now:155
 
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First of all welcome to the forum and starting a diary!

Second of all, thank you for stopping by mine :)

In my diary you had said you know you needed to exercise but the only time you had was in the morning however you're not a morning person. Now, that sounds EXACTLY like me when I was at my 175 plateau. I knew I needed to exercise but I just couldn't go after work I was too tired, and I am not a morning person either. After months of being depressed about the situation I finally realized that the only person who was gonna be able to change me was me and I needed to do what had to be done. So I started going to the gym at 6am. Now for not being a morning person that was quite the accomplishment.

What I didn't expect was finding that going to the gym in the morning was great! It got me completely woken up for work and it get me feeling awesome for the rest of the day! Just knowing that I had got up early and did my workout just gave me this great mood boost plus got me going for my work day!

I know it's hard to start something like that, it took me forever to finally get myself to do it, but you should just try it and see how it is. You'll never know what it's like and if you can do it, if you never try in the first place.

Good luck with everything!
 
Thanks so much!

When it comes to being awake in the morning, I love it, but when it comes to getting me *out* of *bed*, well that takes an act of God. I'm going to try it on monday and continue it for the week. I'm hoping forcing myself to do it no matter what will shock me into making it less painful for me and my dearly beloved pillow later on.

I think I'm just going to start out by walking and jogging in the area every morning for an hour, and I'm going to get myself a pedometer. I think that if I set a goal that I can concretely beat (do X amount of steps a day), that will help motivate me.

Aww and thank you so much for the reply, your words are truly helping push me to get this done. Ive even started a "workout to the x-treme" music playlist haha. If anyone has suggestions of songs to put on it I'd be happy to hear them!! Right now it's all Electric Six:eek: .
 
today I stopped procrastinating and just went and got a hair cut. I feel great!

I wonder if there's a karate place I could join nearbye, that might be fun. If there were some sort of star wars lightsaber workout (complete with vooommm), I'd join in a second.
 
drywit said:
today I stopped procrastinating and just went and got a hair cut. I feel great!

I wonder if there's a karate place I could join nearbye, that might be fun. If there were some sort of star wars lightsaber workout (complete with vooommm), I'd join in a second.
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If you find one, let me know. I'm so in!!
 
if you're looking for a really good workout taekwondo is amazing... it's like your cardio and strength training all in one...
 
I must say that joining a class is just awesome! Like the one I'm doing, cardio kickboxing plus strength training (10 weeks) and then just cardio kickboxing after that. It's really motivating, fun, and by having to follow along instructions you really get a great workout! I find it pushes me harder than I ever would have pushed myself at the gym! I mean, I had one lower body (on thurs) and upper body (yesterday - sat) my legs still feel the effects, thank goodness they don't hurt much anymore, and my arms are definately feel sore today from yesterday. To be honest, I have never felt so many diff muscles sore ever. So I KNOW that by doing what I'm doing, it'll definately tone me and help me lose weight for sure! So if you can find a class like that, or something similar, I know it'll work and work great if you commit to it!

If not, stick to the morning thing! I know it's hard to get out of that comfy bed, but just force yourself like I did and once you're out and you get exercising, you just feel absolutely wonderful afterwards!

Oh and I'll try to think of songs for your playlist!
 
ready set...

jog

Okay tomorrow morning it is! I'm going jogging in the a.m. (yes I am...*yes* I am). Hope it isnt too cold, it's been misting here. I'm expecting a package which always lifts my spirits. I'll be hopping around in joy and trying on my fresh purchases with new clothes scent, being extra girly and lovin' it. Ah it'll be a good day.


Oh, Ajna and Risty, I'll be checking out some classes too. Taekwondo sounds really fun and so does cardio kickboxing but I'm on a budget and will have to hunt the best price down(and they double as anger management!).

Good night you guys!!!
 
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Good luck on your search! That kinda stuff can be expensive, but it is well worth it. I do agree that it can double as anger management. I love punching and kicking the bags, definately relieves stress!
 
Glad you found WLF. Keep us posted.

You don't have that much weight to lose comparatively speaking and I'm sure you will be able to reach your goal. Just keep making those little changes and wait for fulfillment.

Good luck.
 
he he yeah Risty, and I know I need some stress relief! I'm one of those people who *always* stress about everything and nothing, which could be contributing to this weight staying on. Hold me back before I stress about stress!

Happychubette: Ah it's been a long road down to this weight though! I topped off around 215 but just a little more to go!

Thanks for all the support:)
 
Yeah I'm the exact same way, I stress about everything, even if I shouldn't! I mean I was so stressed about my first CK class that I woke up at 5am and couldn't get back so sleep so I got up and did dishes :confused: lol. But yeah, punching and kicking bags does wonders!

With your weight loss, I can see where your coming from, being at 216 highest myself and it was a long process for me as well. We're so close to our goals it's awesome! I know we can both do it, it's great to have someone who's been at the same weight, is around the same weight now, and has similar goals! It just makes me feel like I'm not alone :D
 
Haha yeah, I've been trying to catch myself with stress. I either stop and take a big breath to calm down, or rate how stressed I am from 1 to 5 (1 being nothing big and 5 being an attack from a 3 headed woman eating tiger).

Yeah Risty, it's been a long road but we can certainly do it though! It's like some kind of buddy system to see someone else is going through those same touchstones and it really helps :). Aww now I feel all warm and fuzzy:eek:

To top off that warm and fuzziness I received my package today! I love mail when it isnt bills!
 
YAY! Warm and fuzzy is good! I find it is like a buddy system for sure.

OH, and today at work, I nearly was a three headed woman eating tiger... as you put it, lol. I swear, some people ... don't even get me started! I work in an x-ray/ultrasound/mammorgram/file room ... depending on which office I work at. Today was the x-ray office and I swear people get so mad to have to wait a week for an appointment. I mean really, it's ONLY a week. Besides an x-ray won't cure their problem, especially if they're checking up on a 5 year old injury or arthritis or something. We do take broken bones and things like that as emergency walk-in's but other than that they need an appointment. The reaction by people is just inbelievable sometimes! It just drives me up the wall. Today was especially horrible since it was the long weekend and we didn't work fri or mon. So there was A LOT of people wanting appointments and a lot of angry people because they couldn't get in right away, lol.

ANYWAYS, enough about work! I get to have my measurements taken and my fitness test done today for my program. I'm excited to see my new measurements and compare them to my old ones that my mom did for me :D

Oh and I happened to re-read your first entry about wanting vegetarian recipe's. I might have some good ones you may like (I have a book). If you want them maybe PM me your email and I can't send them your way :)
 
I made a post before but it decided to go missing. Eh...

Yes, I'd love some recipes my food has been kinda bland lately and I need to put some spice back into it.

Ah I'm sorry for the jack-arses at your work. Just the idea of "doctors" and "x-rays" turns peoples blood red (which they should get checked out). Today while out for my walk a driver decided that "walk" didnt mean *I* was supposed to walk it meant that *they* were supposed to drive and nearly hit me. The yelling Spanish fury came out of me after that and luckily it helped me get even more into my walk.

Oh and on fitness I'm sure your measurements will be getting smaller and smaller, you've been working hard! I on the other hand have decided that morning workouts wont workout for me since I go to sleep at 3am every night. I've moved them to the evenings and I'll just have to make room for them wherever I can. I called LA Fitness to aska bout their rates and they were so pushy! They kepy pushing and I pushed back. It sounded as though the guy had never had a customer act that way because he had no idea what to do. Needless to say, I won't be going there.


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Yeah, like mentioned in my diary, the whole measurements thing didn't happen, so hopefully thurs!

I'll look for some recipes for ones that you may like and then send 'em to ya.

Oh, and why do you stay up until 3am? I'm tired just thinking about going to bed that late. I mean it's close to midnight now and half of me is like get to bed NOW! And the other half is like.. but my hair needs to dry more before I get to bed, let me use some of this time to post, lol.

It's too bad that you can't workout in the morning, I would gladly do mine in the morning but the classes are at 9:30 and I always have work.

Stupid people driving! I'm glad you didn't get hit, geeze. Man there's just dumb people wherever you go whether it's at my work or nearly hitting you in the street, you just can't hide from them!

Good luck with trying to fit in exercise into your day! I know you can do it!
 
Fiance works late (till 2 am-ish) and since we're doing the long distance for a bit we like to stay up and chat about our day, keeping the love fresh. Which now makes me think of my relationship as being lettuce.

Well I had a great day yesterday, my art had nothing but praise in my tough as nails class and *and* I really like the new piece I'm working on. Nothing like getting your hands dirty and having some fun.:)

I went jogging yesterday and I've been trying to throw in some working out wherever I can. Got an extra five minutes? Time for jumping jacks. Listening to music? Time to kickbox my heart out to ac/dc.

just wanted to check in! have some work to do
 
Ahhh, yeah I know how the whole LD thing goes. I used to be in a relationship like that. I just hope you're getting enough sleep, that's really important.

I think it's fantastic that if you have a spare 5 mins you do a lil burst of activity! I really do think that's awesome!

How's the jogging coming? I think after my 10 week program I'll start to jog. I know right now it would be too much, but when I just have my CK (and not the UBC part of it) I can jog on the inbetween days. I really hate jogging/running because I'm really out of shape and it causes lung pain :p So, please let me know how you're doing! The info would help me once I get into it.
 
Oh it burns! The jogging is like 10,000 little knives poking at my lungs but I keep going because I know if I keep to it that will eventaully go away. I really can't jog all that far, it's a bit embarassing how out of shape I am, but I am ( and you are and we all are) trying to make a change in life and there's no shame in that!

:D

-wheezy mcgee
 
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