Hey guys! I just joined this forum like 20 minutes ago or something, but I'm really excited about getting involved and losing weight, of course, so I thought I'd jump in and get started. Looking through other people's diaries here is really inspirational!
As an intro: I go by Jim (but yes, I am a girl! it's just a nickname that stuck), and I'm a college student. Basically the reason I'm here is because I want and need to lose weight! My whole adult life, up until the last six months, I have always weighed consistently in the 110-120 pounds range. I kept track loosely, just like once every few weeks or so, and if I noticed it going up towards 120, I would just make sure to cut down a bit on extra treats for a bit, things like that. I was very slim and in great shape, almost too skinny maybe, but I always have gotten my monthlies and the doctors never had any concern for my health (maybe I've got light bones or something, idk!). I work out almost every day of the week, and my parents raised me well so that I naturally eat very healthily. I have paid attention to my diet and fitness ever since I got intrerested in it in high school and enjoyed maintaining my great figure! But something happened just in the last year.... I stopped caring! All of a sudden I stopped exercising and eating as regularly, started slacking a bit, and before I knew it, I was eating ice cream by the GALLON and running a 9-minute mile and weighing like 20 pounds more!
I realize that I'm not really fat or anything, more like average, I'd guess (I'm 5'7" and around 140 pounds), but the problem is, I don't look or feel like MYSELF. I don't recognize my reflection anymore, and I don't like the way my body feels or moves. For how much I care about fitness and nutrition (I even want to be a personal trainer!), I don't have the body that reflects it anymore since my eating habits have gotten so bad. I've tried to do like body-acceptance things, and it's helped a bit, but I still also do not plan to stay at this weight forever. I even went to the doctor to see if there was anything wrong with me, and they were worried since my weight shot up so quickly. He said that some of it may have been due to a medication that I started, but nothing else was physically wrong. So I dunno what happened, but I know I don't like it!
Sorry for the long story, if anybody even read all that. Anyway, I guess I hope I'll stay more motivated if I can come to this site and chronicle my progress and whatnot...
So my plan to start off today is, to follow a couple of guidelines, just easy ones that I used to live by without question but have somehow fallen by the wayside. I plan to try and drink water every hour. My gym isn't open today in the morning, but I plan to do my yoga workout this morning and maybe work out more in the afternoon. And I'm going to plan out my food for the day and eat every 3-4 hours, and I think shoot for 1200-1500 calories (in the past, I would have 2000 every day, but since I'm trying to lose weight to get back to that point, I cut it down a bit). That's all, hope I can stick to it again.....
As an intro: I go by Jim (but yes, I am a girl! it's just a nickname that stuck), and I'm a college student. Basically the reason I'm here is because I want and need to lose weight! My whole adult life, up until the last six months, I have always weighed consistently in the 110-120 pounds range. I kept track loosely, just like once every few weeks or so, and if I noticed it going up towards 120, I would just make sure to cut down a bit on extra treats for a bit, things like that. I was very slim and in great shape, almost too skinny maybe, but I always have gotten my monthlies and the doctors never had any concern for my health (maybe I've got light bones or something, idk!). I work out almost every day of the week, and my parents raised me well so that I naturally eat very healthily. I have paid attention to my diet and fitness ever since I got intrerested in it in high school and enjoyed maintaining my great figure! But something happened just in the last year.... I stopped caring! All of a sudden I stopped exercising and eating as regularly, started slacking a bit, and before I knew it, I was eating ice cream by the GALLON and running a 9-minute mile and weighing like 20 pounds more!
I realize that I'm not really fat or anything, more like average, I'd guess (I'm 5'7" and around 140 pounds), but the problem is, I don't look or feel like MYSELF. I don't recognize my reflection anymore, and I don't like the way my body feels or moves. For how much I care about fitness and nutrition (I even want to be a personal trainer!), I don't have the body that reflects it anymore since my eating habits have gotten so bad. I've tried to do like body-acceptance things, and it's helped a bit, but I still also do not plan to stay at this weight forever. I even went to the doctor to see if there was anything wrong with me, and they were worried since my weight shot up so quickly. He said that some of it may have been due to a medication that I started, but nothing else was physically wrong. So I dunno what happened, but I know I don't like it!
Sorry for the long story, if anybody even read all that. Anyway, I guess I hope I'll stay more motivated if I can come to this site and chronicle my progress and whatnot...
So my plan to start off today is, to follow a couple of guidelines, just easy ones that I used to live by without question but have somehow fallen by the wayside. I plan to try and drink water every hour. My gym isn't open today in the morning, but I plan to do my yoga workout this morning and maybe work out more in the afternoon. And I'm going to plan out my food for the day and eat every 3-4 hours, and I think shoot for 1200-1500 calories (in the past, I would have 2000 every day, but since I'm trying to lose weight to get back to that point, I cut it down a bit). That's all, hope I can stick to it again.....