Risty's Diary (Christina)

Risty

Risty

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Well, I have just joined the forum and am now starting my own diary. Hopefully, I'll write in it often! Here's a little about myself: My name is Christina, I'm 23 and I live in Canada, BC. My heaviest weight was 216 pounds. I am currently (and I weighed myself today for the March challenge) 172.4 pounds. My goal weight is around 135.

I started my weight loss journey almost a year ago... in April or May ... I'm not sure which. I have lost half the weight I wanted to but have a long way to go still. Almost a year ago I decided that enough was enough, I mean... when you get a hint of getting out of breath going up a flight of stairs, it's kind of a wake up call. Anyways, so I changed my eating but the exercise portion never really kicked off. I'd exercise here and there... maybe a couple days then nothing for a month type of thing.

I've been at a plateau at 175 for months and months and I've been really depressed about it, and that in itself would keep me from doing what I needed to continue this process... which was exercise. Just recently I gained my motivation back and I started exercising a week ago and I've done it everyday! Getting up at 5:45am to get to the gym before work is a HUGE deal because I am not a morning person. So far, because of the exercise in this week I lost almost 3 pounds and I'm excited to keep it going!
 
Hello Risty and welcome to the forum. Congrats on the weightloss so far. :) Sometimes we just need to shake our bodies up to get that scale moving again. Keep up the good work!
 
Welcome Risty! Thanks for stopping by my journal.

Congrats on your success so far! I agree, it's so hard to get up early but I find it gives me the best results as well.

And I don't know what it is about 175 that scales just refuse to budge past. Mine is behaving the same way.
 
Hey, Risty:) I am with you on not being a morning person. It is a HUGE deal for me to get up and get moving in the mornings, too. Big pats on the back to you for doing it anyway. I also just finally got past a plateau. Isn't it great when you FINALLY get to see a smaller number on that scale after weeks of the same thing. Keep on going!!
 
Yeah, it does feel great when you finally lose weight after being in a rut for so long. Thing is, I knew what I had to do, I just wasn't doing it, who knows where I could be now if I started exercising a LONG time ago.

However, there's no time for old regrets, just a very recent new one :p My bf wanted to go out for chinese food... so, here comes the chinese buffet! I hate buffets, there's just so much that look good and I feel like I have to try everything that I'll like. I just should never go to one because I know I can't control myself. I also knew on the way there that I shouldn't even be going, but temptation got the best of me. Makes me feel like whatever exercise I did today and yesterday was for nothing.

On the positive side I have exercised every single day since last monday. That's not usual for me, but I'm so motivated to keep going! Even if it is hard to get up at 5:40am. I feel so great after every workout.

Oh, and another positive... I was able to up it a level on the elliptical as well as the bike. The bike was the hardest, could only do level 1 with random bursts of level 2 (2 mins max) and now I can do level 2 for 30 mins! WOO! That, I am very proud of.
 
good job! just remember to always keep challenging yourself. now do level 2 and up it to level 3 for 3 mins at a time
 
Hey you welcome aboard - told ya I would find ya - Im fgonna put ya in my subscription list and I will check up on you regularly...
 
Risty said:
Oh, and another positive... I was able to up it a level on the elliptical as well as the bike. The bike was the hardest, could only do level 1 with random bursts of level 2 (2 mins max) and now I can do level 2 for 30 mins! WOO! That, I am very proud of.
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WOW good for you - I just started intravels on teh Elliptical so 5 mins on each level up to 5 and then I stay at 5 for 10 mins and it is hard then I level down agin in 5 min intrevals...The bike well that is a whole nother story I was thinkin abt starting to use mine agian...

Good for oyu for being proud of yourself...it is an awesoem feeling !!!
 
Hey thanks for finding me! You had mentioned something about a subscription thingy... what's that? Cause if there's a way to track certain posts that would be awesome. I'm having a hard time trying to keep track of who I posted to and then how to find it again :confused: Anyways, good job on your elliptical intervals! I don't know if I could do that, 2 is hard enough to do. About 10 mins in and I get a stitch on my side, lol.

I just discovered something awesome. First of all I'll tell you about my work. I work as a medical office assistant and so I wear scrubs to work. When I first started to work there I had to wear XL. For my b-day (Jan 13) I got new scrubs cause the others were falling off me constantly, so then I was wearing L. But even those seemed big. A while back I had tried on my scrubs from when I was taking my Nursing (rn) course and it was way too tight (I had thought they were L but they were actually m.. and I was like well no wonder.) So today I got curious and I put them on and I can so wear them! I'm so excited.

By the way when I started on this forum I was 175 and now I'm changing my ticker to 169.6! I have to credit my consitent exercise to that!
 
Excellent way to go on the scrubs - it is a great feeling isnt it - as for the subscription thingy - at the top of each post it says permalink - just click on that and then to find the link go to usercp and all your subscriptions are in there :):):)
 
Thanks! That is a lot easier! I'll have to look up your diary!

Well, yesterday I blew it with my eating. Went over to my bf's mom's house for dinner. Of course she actually cooks things (things that we don't take the time to cook :p ) so I'm like MMM, I want it all! There was cabbage rolls and cheesy toast and caesar salad for dinner. Then for dessert there was this yummy cake with strawberries (and she had added sugar to them). So my cals for that dinner was quite extensive.

She likes to buy junk and snacks for her house and she tends to buy a lot and so she gives us a bunch of stuff everytime we go over, so last night we got 2 boxes of mint chocolates and bags of chips, along with a handful of candy. Of course I'm like no no no! And my bf says no, then he agrees because she gives it to us anyways. So here I am... sitting here typing this and thinking... mmm.. chips! So I'm trying to avoid that!

On a better note, today I went out and bought a juicer! I definately don't get in enough vegetables and I've always wanted a juicer, so my bf and I tried this celery and carrot juice as soon as we got home. Of course it's not like a tropical mango juice or anything, but hey, it's much easier to have veggies that way, at least for me. So I'm excited about that.

I didn't exercise this weekend. Saturday we were running around doing stuff and then going to his parent's for dinner. Then today we were running around doing stuff and when we were done we were going to go swimming, but by the time we got back the pool was closed. I couldn't believe it closed at 4 on the weekend! So that really sucked. I just ate dinner so hopefully in a couple hours I'll do some DDR or something. But I'm definately going to the gym tom morning.
 
will power!! you can do it!

if you monitor your intake with a program, you can keep track and factor in little snacks like that in moderation. its all about keeping a balance.

Its very hard to completly eliminate the sweets, depriving yourself for so long may cause a binge when you finally give in.

Girl scout cookies have brought this on in the past :)

Thats why i love my fitday! if i do have something that maybe i shouldnt have had, i can plan the remainder of my meals accordingly, maybe, use only half as much butter, skip the barbecue sauce, use a smaller potato, less milk in my protein shake, etc.

whats ddr?

oh by the way awesome in the clothes reduction!

on a similar note, at work, i broke my belt somehow, and my shorts like almost dropped a couple of times... i think its a time for a size down in my shorts as well :D plus.. a new belt.
 
I love ddr - :):):) I should dust it off adn start doing it agin wiht the girls - make a regular night of it...

We all have off days of indulging a bit and not gettin in exercise - sometimes lfe does get in the way of exercising and eating right...

You've got it together you've made it this far and you will continue to succeed
 
Yeah I have started to use fitday, it's so helpful. Helps me see if I'm eating enough or too much. One day I was way too low on cals, but I never even noticed because I never felt 'hungry'. I ate every meal, with snacks in between, but I guess it just wasn't enough.

DDR is a dance game. It's full name is Dance Dance Revolution, you'd see it in arcades and such. You can get it for the PS2 or Xbox. So basically it's a game where you have a dance pad with up, down, left and right arrows, and on the screen these arrows will scroll up and you have to step on them at the right time when it reaches the top. Now that may not sound hard, but once you learn it and you do the harder levels, it's such a workout! When you get into the harder songs they can be so fast, with so many steps, not to mention some have tons of jumps! Sometimes I can barely make it to the end of a song cause my legs are just dead! RJAZ you should look up a video on google, they have some pretty nuts people on there who can do it... just... nuts! It's amazing... I'm of course not that good, but I can hold my own ;)

Daiseeangel, thanks for the encouragement, you're doing great yourself! You'll lose the weight in no time!

About my recent days... I'm thinking about joining cardio kickboxing. I used to go years back, but it was expensive. However it was an AWESOME workout and it was fun. So I think I need to do something like that, cause doing cardio at the gym is like being in hell for me. So if I joined the cardio kickboxing, I could do just 30 min at the gym on the days I have the kickboxing (instead of my hour) and at least that's bearable. Plus, the cardio kickboxing is always diff, which is something my body needs as well.

I'm trying to get my sis to join, and she does love the class (we used to go together) but the money thing is what's holding her back... plus she'd rather go in the morning but they only have 2 times (9:30am or 5:30pm) so with work, the morning isn't possible except on the weekend. So, I feel kinda alone in this whole thing. I want someone to go with me and support me, but it's hard to get people to go. I mean sometimes my sis and her husband come to the gym, and those days are nice. But now she's thinking of not doing the gym at all.

I've been listening to this one Billy Talent song and this one part of the song just reminds me of myself and my struggle. I'll post it because I think it really reflects how I feel: "I've never walked so far, on a lonely street, with no one there for me, is it worth the pain, with no one to blame for all of my insecurities, how could I ever let you go." Now this song is obviously not about weight, but that part of the song just speaks to me. I mean, I basically gave myself up for food, and instead of losing weight when it was 20 pounds to go, I had to lose 80. Even though I'm over halfway through I still feel alone, and I still wonder ... is it worth it? Now you might be thinking of course it's worth it! And yes I know it is, but when you're in one of those moods you do wonder, and sometimes I think maybe I'll be happer without the struggle, eating and enjoying it, and not suffer at the gym.

Then after a while I snap out of it and know that I wasn't happy back then either. It's just hard when you have to work so hard to get where you want to go and other people have had it their whole lives.

I'm glad for this forum because it does give the support I've been lacking. It would be nice to have that in person too though.

Wow, talk about a long post! I just needed to get that out though. :)
 
ahhh dance dance revolution.. never really my thing.. i remember when it came out. proabably cuzz it just didnt seem like a game for a fat kid :D

I'm all too familiar with the struggle and the contemplation of wether or not it is worth it. Its a little easier for me to rationalize, because i let things get out of hand to the point where it has put me at a high risk of health problems. thank god i dont have any, and its not too late.

Its so easy to fall to the wayside, due to outside influences. Belonging is a strong emotion. It can make you do funny things, you just have to dig deeper than that, and add balance to your life.

From what i hear its harder for a woman to approach a complete stranger, find a common ground and form a friendship( i dont remember where i heard that... but i did:) ) but start talking to other ladies at your gym and see if you kind find a buddy, surrounding yourself with people with similar goals and interests is a formula for success, it works with business, athletic goals, hobbies, and most definately for fitness.

Thats why i feel this group is such a tremendous asset, surrounding yourself with people in the same boat. Even if they are on the other side of the world.
 
OMG - I LOVE THAT song !!! The whole cd is excellent but that one song stood out to me right away as well-

I wanted to post lyrics in my diary I think it is the Foo Fighters - Im not sure - and I think it is called the best ... it is abt someone gettin teh best of youa dn the pain you feel - needing to hang your head somewhere with out someones noose...that is exactly how i feel...

As far as beign alone in the exercise department ya it sucks that is me - My aunt and I go to Cirves but I htink we go together so I can be her motivation to go and make her...even at that half the time it sdoesnt work out or is hard or time restricting...I had to accept that it was me exercising alone and make mysel fdo it because I hated doing it alone but it is the inly guarantee I will get it done -

However - through this site a met a woman that Ive become friends with and she lives not far from me at all in the same area pretty much and we have started meeting for walks so that is nice

You have what it takes Christina you have it together so if oyu can afford the money and have the time just take that plunge and go on your own...

I was gonna say soemthign else but it slipped my mind - lol

Oh right Tae Bo - have you ever tried his work outs - they are kicking boxing - he has tons of themand they get harder and harder as you go...they vary from 30 - 45 - 60 mins...

Anyhoo I guess I better stop writign a book in your diary - lol - and thanx for reminding me abt that song - I will go see if it is the foolk fighters - I only assume it is bv/c they were tlaking abt them when playin it...I hope I dont go 3 shades of red when I find out it isnt...LOL
 
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