So I am beginning a new blog, one that I am desperately going to try to keep up. Hopefully we will have regular updates, and maybe even bilingual ones! In this journal I am going to record my weight loss journey for all the world to see, and I am going to be brutally honest. If you are choosing to read, please let me know!
I want to lose weight. I want to lose weight this year, and I want you to join me on this journey. Why blog, especially when I know I am notorious for starting things I do not finish? First, I want to finish something! In addition to losing weight, I hope to learn some discipline! I would like to establish a work out routine, and manage to keep this blog on a fairly regular schedule.
Second, I think this is the only way I can diet on my on. I have 0 motivation, and by doing this I would be held accountable. I really want to feel like there are people watching me, and people wanting me to succeed. This is where commenting comes in! Leave me a comment and let me know if you think I'm doing well, or if you see me slacking off. You could be my army!
This is my weight loss journey thus far:
I joined Weight Watchers for the first time in the summer of 2010. When I joined, I weighed 215 pounds. I got down to 195 that summer, and manage to lose a little more over the next few months. The Wednesday before Thanksgiving that year I weighed 189. Thanksgiving was something of the end point for me, or rather, the beginning of the end. My weight yoyo'd up and down over the next several months, at most going up to 198 and down to the coveted 189. I experimented with Atkins and I Weight Watched on my own. I also went to college, which I don't know if you know this, but all school sponsored gatherings are totally based around food. More specifically, pizza. I sorta kinda made in through, because I avoided the freshman 15, but I have stalled.
My current weight hovers somewhere around 198. I wear a size 14-16 pant, and normally a large up top. I used to could do 40 situps in a minute, but a tailbone injury put me out of commission.
I like my body, but I also like to not base my life around food. I also hate looking up and realizing I am the heaviest person in the room. Oh, and the guy I am “talking to” (which should totally be a relationship option on facebook) weighs less than me. Let's change that!
I have tried Weight Watchers online, and it really has not worked for me. Not to say that is a flawed program or site, I just think it is better suited toward people who have smart phones (not me!) I need public humiliation. I need fear and embarrassment.
Writing down what I weighed was really hard for me to do. Weighing so much isn't feminine, it is shameful. On this blog, I will post my real and true weight * gulp *. Once a week I will update letting you know my progress. I am going take pictures of myself so you to can see what I see in the mirror. Together, we are going to conquer this battle, and maybe figure out why weight is such a struggle to me. I am going to confront my past, look at the pressures society places on me and hopefully lose some weight in the process! I hope you join me because I need allies!
I believe that you can do it! I think that the background is appropriate for the blog, but it is a bit hard to read the words over the blue "err" and i had to highlight a few times. Also, a gym near my house has a machine called Jacob's Ladder. I don't know if you've heard of it, but its basically a combination of climbing a slanted ladder with a stairmaster. AFter 5 minutes of using it, I was sweating so hard and after 15 min I lost a pound. Check into it, it be a great tool for those looking to lose weight and to get into shape.
ReplyDeleteWhat a great idea! I hope this works for you. I'd love to help you lose those nasty, nasty pounds. I did it at 50, and you can do it too.
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