So every summer my friends go biking and we go to the park, i never went biking with them because i didn't want to hold them back. I didn't them to wait for the slow girl huffing and puffing. and i always went to the park but i never enjoyed it when we played sports. I'm extremely uncoordinated and i suck at any sports but i still went even tho i was the slowest one on the field.
Beginning of last summer (May, i consider the summer once the semester ends ;P) i decided i had enough, i wanted to be more active, so i started biking with my other friend. we made (What i thought was far then) about a couple miles away from my house and i was proud, i started going further and further.
i heard my friends were biking and i went with them, oh man was i exhausted, we biked like 10 miles.(double what i was used to) next day i was just tired, not sore, but just drained of all energy possible. i cut down what i ate, and i just started making some small changes.
I continued to bike to that place it started to get cold and i got bit by a dog and i was like ok i think this is it for the season, i missed biking, but i couldn't go anymore, the temperature just dropped, i got sick blah blah it sucked
but i started a new college in January and my friend and i started to go to the gym.
thats when the changed really started, we started off slow, did some cardio and i knew i needed to boost my metabolism so i did a lot of weight training. arms, back, legs, mostly arms and legs, and i focus more on the arms. i hate my arms. its not even the size of them that bothers me but the fact that i have a roll. like wth... a roll on my arm... (and its not even both but my left one) so i tend to wear hoodies or long sleeve shirts. short sleeves make my arms look bigger. so i wanted to trim that fat fast.
lets just say i went from starting off doing 20 minutes of cardio to doing cardio for a whole hour. i don't remember how many calories i was burning then (yea i know that the calories the machines say you burn aren't accurate but if i'm burning 300 on one machine and burning 700 on another i know which one is giving me a better workout) now i burn over 1000 calories per work out (just doing cardio) i use the arc trainer... man that thing is GOOD u sweat like CRAZYYYYYY i got to thank my other friend for showing me it.
anyway so i'd say since April, I've been burning about 1000 calories per work out and i go at least 3 times a week. occasionally if i got hit hard with school work i might not make it 3 times a week. but for the most part i did.
summer came and i was going like 4 days a week. i'd wake up and just go. i was biking everywhere, i rarely drove anymore, i went to the park, played soccer, definitely my most active summer ever. i would have never been able to do this before.
now its about over a year since i first attempted (made a real attempt) to start working out. my first reason was so i can keep up with my friends. i didnt want to be that slow one anymore. weight lose was just something that is happening along with it. or so i thought. those lbs were not comming off. my family never ate bad. once in a while we'd have sweets for a special occasion. the thing was we ate a lot of pasta. so i cut that out of my diet. my parents found it frustrating but i was just like uhh no... i know we do need some carbs but i get those from peas and other veggies.
i always have a piece of meat/fish and my veggies
the pounds should have been comming off right? well i only lost about 10 lbs since February?
now i can keep up with my friends. well at least better than before. but come on only 10 lbs!? i figured that its probably because ive gained muscle mass as well. i wish i knew how many lbs of fat i burned. my pants were starting to fall off and today i went shopping with some friends. pretty exciting too like YAY I CAN GET SMALLER PANTS! man did i feel like shit when that size 14 did not fit. i had to buy a size 16. ok big whoop im chubby, size 16... w.e.. heres the thing i was a size 16 last year when i bought the exact same pair of pants before i started going to the gym...
i bought them cuz the pants i have were too loose.... and i compared the size the ones that i had were about 2 inches larger? i also had another pair (same ones, when u rarely find pants that fit u buy more than one pair) of pants that just came out of the dryer, i held the new pair up to those, same size. to its not that i shrank? but that my clothes stretched out?
i guess im feeling pretty unmotivated. everyone tells me that i look like i lost weight, especially the ones that rarely see me.. but how come i didnt go down a size in pants.... the belt i have that i wore in january im going to have to make a new hole in it. cuz its so loose now...
i dont want to make the excuse and say, "oh they changed the sizes" i've been saying that since i was 15 and when i was a size 15 (juniors) and i then i truely believed that. in retrospect i was in denial. but now? is it possible that they actually changed the sizes or the material doesnt stretch as much?
i bought a hoodie and i got it in a size large, (was an xl) and shirts i was always an xl but they were the ones that stretched out so i bought them in a medium in hopes the stay fitted... last year i bought some shirts in xl and they looked like garbage bags on me.
i guess this was my little vent session. when i came home my mom asked me oh so what size pants are you. and i said the same... she said thats impossible and i just started crying.
i want to lose this weight. i want to find clothes that fit. i want to actually like shopping. i was hoping by this semester i would have been a couple sizes down and im just disappointed and frustrated. Im going to buy a measuring tape and im going to measure inches instead of lbs.... thats the only way i feel like im going to actually be able to see if i am shrinking. the scale doesnt show if i burned fat and gained muscle. size of pants threw me off.
ive been thinking about joining a weight loss forum. maybe its the support i need and motivation i can get. im sort of competitive. i like to try and work harder than other people, if i succeed i like people to know it. mostly cuz everything i do try i fail at. (not actually fail but come in second best to someone else) so when i actually succeed i'm proud
tell me your stories! how you lost weight! i want to know!
Beginning of last summer (May, i consider the summer once the semester ends ;P) i decided i had enough, i wanted to be more active, so i started biking with my other friend. we made (What i thought was far then) about a couple miles away from my house and i was proud, i started going further and further.
i heard my friends were biking and i went with them, oh man was i exhausted, we biked like 10 miles.(double what i was used to) next day i was just tired, not sore, but just drained of all energy possible. i cut down what i ate, and i just started making some small changes.
I continued to bike to that place it started to get cold and i got bit by a dog and i was like ok i think this is it for the season, i missed biking, but i couldn't go anymore, the temperature just dropped, i got sick blah blah it sucked
but i started a new college in January and my friend and i started to go to the gym.
thats when the changed really started, we started off slow, did some cardio and i knew i needed to boost my metabolism so i did a lot of weight training. arms, back, legs, mostly arms and legs, and i focus more on the arms. i hate my arms. its not even the size of them that bothers me but the fact that i have a roll. like wth... a roll on my arm... (and its not even both but my left one) so i tend to wear hoodies or long sleeve shirts. short sleeves make my arms look bigger. so i wanted to trim that fat fast.
lets just say i went from starting off doing 20 minutes of cardio to doing cardio for a whole hour. i don't remember how many calories i was burning then (yea i know that the calories the machines say you burn aren't accurate but if i'm burning 300 on one machine and burning 700 on another i know which one is giving me a better workout) now i burn over 1000 calories per work out (just doing cardio) i use the arc trainer... man that thing is GOOD u sweat like CRAZYYYYYY i got to thank my other friend for showing me it.
anyway so i'd say since April, I've been burning about 1000 calories per work out and i go at least 3 times a week. occasionally if i got hit hard with school work i might not make it 3 times a week. but for the most part i did.
summer came and i was going like 4 days a week. i'd wake up and just go. i was biking everywhere, i rarely drove anymore, i went to the park, played soccer, definitely my most active summer ever. i would have never been able to do this before.
now its about over a year since i first attempted (made a real attempt) to start working out. my first reason was so i can keep up with my friends. i didnt want to be that slow one anymore. weight lose was just something that is happening along with it. or so i thought. those lbs were not comming off. my family never ate bad. once in a while we'd have sweets for a special occasion. the thing was we ate a lot of pasta. so i cut that out of my diet. my parents found it frustrating but i was just like uhh no... i know we do need some carbs but i get those from peas and other veggies.
i always have a piece of meat/fish and my veggies
the pounds should have been comming off right? well i only lost about 10 lbs since February?
now i can keep up with my friends. well at least better than before. but come on only 10 lbs!? i figured that its probably because ive gained muscle mass as well. i wish i knew how many lbs of fat i burned. my pants were starting to fall off and today i went shopping with some friends. pretty exciting too like YAY I CAN GET SMALLER PANTS! man did i feel like shit when that size 14 did not fit. i had to buy a size 16. ok big whoop im chubby, size 16... w.e.. heres the thing i was a size 16 last year when i bought the exact same pair of pants before i started going to the gym...
i bought them cuz the pants i have were too loose.... and i compared the size the ones that i had were about 2 inches larger? i also had another pair (same ones, when u rarely find pants that fit u buy more than one pair) of pants that just came out of the dryer, i held the new pair up to those, same size. to its not that i shrank? but that my clothes stretched out?
i guess im feeling pretty unmotivated. everyone tells me that i look like i lost weight, especially the ones that rarely see me.. but how come i didnt go down a size in pants.... the belt i have that i wore in january im going to have to make a new hole in it. cuz its so loose now...
i dont want to make the excuse and say, "oh they changed the sizes" i've been saying that since i was 15 and when i was a size 15 (juniors) and i then i truely believed that. in retrospect i was in denial. but now? is it possible that they actually changed the sizes or the material doesnt stretch as much?
i bought a hoodie and i got it in a size large, (was an xl) and shirts i was always an xl but they were the ones that stretched out so i bought them in a medium in hopes the stay fitted... last year i bought some shirts in xl and they looked like garbage bags on me.
i guess this was my little vent session. when i came home my mom asked me oh so what size pants are you. and i said the same... she said thats impossible and i just started crying.
i want to lose this weight. i want to find clothes that fit. i want to actually like shopping. i was hoping by this semester i would have been a couple sizes down and im just disappointed and frustrated. Im going to buy a measuring tape and im going to measure inches instead of lbs.... thats the only way i feel like im going to actually be able to see if i am shrinking. the scale doesnt show if i burned fat and gained muscle. size of pants threw me off.
ive been thinking about joining a weight loss forum. maybe its the support i need and motivation i can get. im sort of competitive. i like to try and work harder than other people, if i succeed i like people to know it. mostly cuz everything i do try i fail at. (not actually fail but come in second best to someone else) so when i actually succeed i'm proud
tell me your stories! how you lost weight! i want to know!