themightymissm
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Hello everyone! 
So, my name is Mariah - I'm 29 years old with a 20 month old daughter. I've been lurking in the shadows of the many topics here - trying to inspire myself with pics of people's success photos - and learning about programs. Sadly, I have been weighing myself with a very cheap scale I purchased a few weeks ago.
While I realize there is such a thing as water weight and such, I have managed to go from 190 to 220. Depending on where the scale sits in my house. There couldn't possibly be a 30lb difference from taking a few steps! lol
If it were that easy to gain/lose weight we'd either ALL be skinny 
or really heavy 
in NO TIME!
So, on with lil' ol' mesers: As of Monday, I began working out to Core Rhythms and added the push-up/sit-up 100 challenge I stumbled upon here...somewhere....
I'm 5'8" or 5'7" (different places tell me different things) and weigh between 190-220, according to my crazy-scale! I had intended only on using it to monitor my daughters weight gain - I have always been anti-scale as a form of weight monitoring personally. Simply because a scale cannot tell you how much of the body weight is actually fat - never made sense to me and it never will. Each person is built differently...take me for instance. My blood lines are full of Irish/German/Native American - three of the most STURDY kinds of women. So, underneath it all, I am built like a brick ** house!
Yet there it sits - beckoning me to step on it.
When it said a whopping 220 I said "WHAT THE...."
We live in a house that was built in 1912...so the floor has its "good" spots and its "bad" spots. I move the scale, and it says 190 - more like it (I mean...of course I would rather weigh less by about 30-40lbs) - but I can live with 190 as a starting point.
Goals...everyone talks about them...
My goal is to maintain a healthy lifestyle. Good, healthy food. Stronger - leaner - happier. Movement - without movement, we die. I don't intend on being negative in any aspect of this mission - so I won't use the nasty "D" word unless referencing of course. It has such a negative connotation to it!!
Even when the latest, greatest pill/program/etc is on the market they always seem to reference all the OTHER "DIETs" as failures. Our minds connect things in such strange ways. My theory is that MOST people have associated the word DIET with negative words like: failed/can't/won't/doesn't - no matter what the "positive" message is in the selling power - it still carries negativity with it.
Still following?
Didn't think so...lol One thing you will notice about me is that it sometimes takes me a minute or two to get to my point - but I usually have one that is neutral to folks on all sides. Trying to bridge the gap in differences, you see!
So...this is me...and my daughter (as she loves to dance with mommy)...and my scale! Nice to meet you all as well!What a ride we'll have!
So, my name is Mariah - I'm 29 years old with a 20 month old daughter. I've been lurking in the shadows of the many topics here - trying to inspire myself with pics of people's success photos - and learning about programs. Sadly, I have been weighing myself with a very cheap scale I purchased a few weeks ago.
While I realize there is such a thing as water weight and such, I have managed to go from 190 to 220. Depending on where the scale sits in my house. There couldn't possibly be a 30lb difference from taking a few steps! lol
If it were that easy to gain/lose weight we'd either ALL be skinny or really heavy in NO TIME! So, on with lil' ol' mesers: As of Monday, I began working out to Core Rhythms and added the push-up/sit-up 100 challenge I stumbled upon here...somewhere....
I'm 5'8" or 5'7" (different places tell me different things) and weigh between 190-220, according to my crazy-scale! I had intended only on using it to monitor my daughters weight gain - I have always been anti-scale as a form of weight monitoring personally. Simply because a scale cannot tell you how much of the body weight is actually fat - never made sense to me and it never will. Each person is built differently...take me for instance. My blood lines are full of Irish/German/Native American - three of the most STURDY kinds of women. So, underneath it all, I am built like a brick ** house!
Yet there it sits - beckoning me to step on it.
When it said a whopping 220 I said "WHAT THE...."
We live in a house that was built in 1912...so the floor has its "good" spots and its "bad" spots. I move the scale, and it says 190 - more like it (I mean...of course I would rather weigh less by about 30-40lbs) - but I can live with 190 as a starting point.Goals...everyone talks about them...
My goal is to maintain a healthy lifestyle. Good, healthy food. Stronger - leaner - happier. Movement - without movement, we die. I don't intend on being negative in any aspect of this mission - so I won't use the nasty "D" word unless referencing of course. It has such a negative connotation to it!!
Even when the latest, greatest pill/program/etc is on the market they always seem to reference all the OTHER "DIETs" as failures. Our minds connect things in such strange ways. My theory is that MOST people have associated the word DIET with negative words like: failed/can't/won't/doesn't - no matter what the "positive" message is in the selling power - it still carries negativity with it.
Still following?
Didn't think so...lol One thing you will notice about me is that it sometimes takes me a minute or two to get to my point - but I usually have one that is neutral to folks on all sides. Trying to bridge the gap in differences, you see!
So...this is me...and my daughter (as she loves to dance with mommy)...and my scale! Nice to meet you all as well!
What a ride we'll have!
