To A Healthy Happy Me

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Dear A Healthy, Slimmer, Happy Me:

I’m writing to you now, in hopes that when you look back and read this, you would have already have became a better you. Today is December 31, 2009. The last day of the year…remember in December 31, 2008? When you vowed to finally loose it all? To work out, eat right and be stress free? Gee, what the hell happen? lol and I’m sure that made you laugh, but here is something that won’t. December 31, 2007 you made the exact same vow and you did in 2006, 2005, and 2004. That’s five years of broken promises, promises that you didn’t make to others, but promises that you made to yourself, promises that should have been kept because your life depended it on it. You let yourself down not just for five years, but for nearly two decades. And you know what I’m talking about. Those nights you spent crying, how hurt you felt when all your friends got complements and dates but you didn’t, those horrible doctor visit filled with on bad news. Yea…tough to think about and I hope you’ll never have to relive them. This has been a completely new year for you right? Because you allowed yourself to do a 180 and transform into the beautiful person that you deserve to be. Remember this day, because unlike all of those other days, you chose today to turn your life around. Today you’ve set a goal for yourself. A goal that I know you have achieved.

 

[countessrim]

Dear A Heathy, Slimmer, Happy Me:

It's still New Years Eve and so far this morning you epically fail! lol So your original plan was to wake up at 7:30 start your 25 min of weight training and 35 min of cardio at 8 o' clock, but Noooooo! When that alram went off what did you do? You smacked it across the head and rolled back over to sleep. tsk tsk tsk. Not the way we wanted to start off our new begining eh? It's now 10:23 am and Breakfast (according to McDonalds anyway) is pretty much over grrr! YOU DO NOT WANT TO SKIP MEALS! So here is the deal, you're going to eat breakfast ( a very small one!!!) and we're going to push back all of our meals by 2 hrs and then guess what!?!?!?! YOU'RE GOING TO WORK OUT THE FULL 1hr and 45 min THAT YOU PLANNED ALL AT ONCE! And you're going to finish it too. Think of it as displince and an innentive to WAKE UP ON TIME lol You'll thank yourself in the future!

Happy Early New Years
-The Old Me

 

[Veronica2]

Hey, we've all been there. It's all to easy to push things off until tomorrow or this afternoon or in 5 minutes. Take it easy on yourself and start with small changes which will eventually lead to larger ones. Rome wasn't built in a day and the new you will not transform overnight.

 

[countessrim]

Thanks for the words of wisdom Veronica!!!!


Dear A Healthy, Slimmer, Happy Me:

You started this diary of sorts, but you didn't include what you're working with! How on earth are you going to be able to reference this without the inital stats? List Away-

Age: 19
Sex: Female
Height: 5'7 (you think anyways lol)
Weight: 195 lbs (this is an estimation and you'll explain why in a mintue!)
Goal Weight: 145 lbs

Dare you post your inches on here??? Hmmm, you'll think about it! But a before picture would be nice!

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So what your working with isn't so bad! Remember when you weighed 225??? Yea, that was a truely devestating time, but some how you magically lost 30 lbs (and by magic, you really mean magic) and now you're stuck here stranded between the thin line of being obese or overweight (BMI is the worst invention ever)

SCALES ARE JUST LOONEY!
Speaking of worst inventions, lets talk about the devil contraption that we call scales! You want know something funny? You have 4 scales in your house, 2 digital and 2 analog and every last single one of them gives you a completely different weight. One says you weigh 200 lbs, one says you weigh 195 lbs, one says you 193.1 and the others say 178.3 (hahaha you laughed out loud on that one)

You weigh yourself the same time, same place everyday (as soon as you wake up)! This forced you to guess and you think you're around the 195 area, it feels right and seems to be the median between all of those values, so we'll go with that!

Oh and breakfast went great by the way! 3 slices of Canadian Bacon and 1 large hard boil white egg only 53 calories in total with virtually no fat or carbs, but 9.6 awesome grams of protien!

Gotta love the protien

Later! (don't you dare forget about that workout!)
-The Old Me

 

[countessrim]

Dear A Healthy,Slimmer, Happy Me:

Ok so today is day 4 on the new you plan!!! To bad you botched on day 2 lol you're grandmother insisted that she'd cook a huge new years dinner to your dismay because she NEVER cooks healthy! The woman hates vegetables for God's sake and couldn't make anything without butter to save her! But it's kind of ok, only because you love her. Yet still that fear that her cooking will indefinatly sabattoge your weightloss is still lurking on your shoulders. The food is very, very good but not good for you and thankfully you fully understand this!!! You just don't have the heart to tell her to STOP COOKING BECAUSE IT'S MAKING BOTH OF YOU FAT!!! You definatly don't want to hurt her feelings, especially since she took the time to cook everything (and too much of it) for you and once again you love her!!!

GRRRrR! You hate it when you don't know what to do!

Anyways, today (well technically yesterday because it's 12:30 am) was the first day of "eating right" (we hate the word diet) while at work. You know this is the most difficult thing because you work at a grocery store up front with aisles beyond aisles of junk food, straight crap, and carbs!!! Luckly, you worked self checkout so you didn't have to stare at the wall of candy in the cashiers lane, but watching the customers stuff their bags with chips, soda, ice cream and mark down holiday cake all day was a stuggle. Plus standing next to the fried chicken warmer didn't help much either...Yet...

YOU PREVAILED! You didn't cheat not one bit today and you've never been prouder! You even got on the treadmil for 40 min after standing on your feet all day! But there is one bothersome fact that you came to realize today...

YOU ONLY ATE 300 calories today?!?!?!?!???? Which you burned off on the treadmill! Wow thats super low! But you weren't hungrey at all, just satified...Plus you ate a lot today:



Breakfast:
4 slices Canadian Bacon
1 Hard Boil Egg White
------------------------- 67 calories

Lunch:
Salad w/ Bacon Bits & Tbs Sunflower Seeds
2 Tbs of Oil Free Vinergertte Salad Dressing (Homemade)
---------------------------------------------------------111 calories

Diner:
Same Salad as Lunch only Bigger (2 cups)
Spoonful (literaly) of Black Eye Peas
Spoonful of Chopped Cabbage
----------------------------------------------- 166

Grand Total: 344 calories

Yep, you checked the math several times and made sure you checked the nutrional value on everything you ate, and it all add up to barely the amount of one meal. Sad, very sad!

We need to work on add more calories before people start thinking you're anorexic (sooo not the case)

Plus we don't want to loose muscle mass or waste away...ewww!

We'll try harder today!
Off to bed
-The Old Me

 

[countessrim]

Dear A Healthy, Slimmer, Happy Me:

YOU LOST FIVE POUNDS TODAY!!! WooHoo! Even though it's just water, it's five pounds gone and you couldn't be happier!

Nice! Now you have motaviation to do your morning workout <----Whoa What? That's right you also woke up on time today without feeling drowsy too!

So some weight is gone, and your back to your morning workouts!!! Ahhh, today feels like it's going to be an awesome day!

Plus you get to update your Ticker! hehehe!

Off to do some weight lifting!
-The Old Me

 

[DustinB]

From experience. In January 2005, my half-sister began to lose weight, eating between 250 and 500 calories a day. It became obsessive after a while. In January 2006, I attended her memorial service (she was 28). Died from malnutrition. Don't let it become a habit, and it's safer to maintain a higher amount of calories or else that "splurge" day will cause the scale to really get whacky.

 

[countessrim]

Thank you Dustin B for your insight! Thats exactly why I was worried about my low calorie intake because it was so easy to do! I'm still struggling to eat more, but for some reason after eating my salad (during lunch) I'm stuffed for the rest of the day! Like super full! But I'm working on it!

To Healthy, Slimmer, Happy Me:

Ok today was an akward day. First of all, your Aunt Flo came for a visit and you know how that always go! Massive craving attacks!!! You swear you'd think you were pregnant if you didn't know other wise. Since you've still been eating under 500 calories a day (an improvement from the 300 calories but still needs to be higher) you figured it would be ok to give in just a little, especially if it would help you get to atleast 1,200 calories a day....so you did, BIG TIME! It started off ok, you had your high protien breakfast and salad for lunch and for snacks you had grapfruit, sunflower seeds and low carb yogurt, but for Dinner...MAN DID YOU F*CK Up lol You Had a Hungrey Man Frozen Dinner! You didn't realize what you had done until you picked the box out of the trash to log your calories for it. 900 calories!!!! for one meal! And 78 carbs and God only knows how much fat! Uggh...this is a let down, but it will never happen again!!!

Be more careful!!!!
-The Old Me