First Weigh In

I was nervous because I didn't get the workouts in that I wanted, but.... 212lbs!

Lori's Post

This Post is for Lori...
I have a friend at work who's mom is a blog guru. Now mind you, I only know Lori in passing, but I love that she was passionate in helping me achieve my goal. She had some suggestions to make my post a little more worth while. :) So you'll notice, I have added a "ticker" to track my progress. Which was a great suggestion, I wasn't aware I could do that. (I did notice that my cousin's wife Jana had one on her blog after I heard about this). You go girl!
Second, Lori wants to know what my plan is. How am I going to do it? Well I have already had a minor set back this week... I was run over by a 100lb rotweiller, we call her Monster. She made me spin around 360 degrees and I landed on my face! In the process I hurt my neck my side and my right leg. But I didn't want this to be an excuse, so I still got on the treadmill and walked until I couldn't walk anymore... making it at least a mile before I quit. Which is not how I wanted to kick this off. Today was the first day I made it over 2 miles. Walking the whole way, but doing it none the less. I do plan on going to water aerobics tomorrow and then every Tuesday and Thursday from here on out. Hitting the treadmill every other day but Friday. I am still taking it off for myself. I would like to get up to jogging at least 3 miles a day, but like they say, "one day at a time". As far as eating goes, I am going to be realistic, I'm not going to starve myself or eat Broiled Chicken and Broccoli every meal. But I will eat in moderation, control my portions. Make better choices in what I do eat. I am a Biggest Loser fan and one of the tips was to eat Fiber One bars as snacks. They are pretty tasty. So instead of going for chips I'll grab one of those or maybe some fruit. If there is a choice in white or wheat for something, I'll eat the wheat. But if we are having pizza for dinner. I'm going to have a piece of pizza. I want this to be something that I can continue to do. But not deprive myself of everything just to gain the weight back because I'm not used to eating pizza. But I can't wait to see what happens! Lori, I hope this is what you were looking for! :)

Thank You!

So I had a huge response from sending this out. I even had people thanking me for posting it. People that feel grateful to know that someone else is going through what they are going through. My intention was purely selfish to get myself motivated but it turns out that so many others were looking for something too. And if this is it, and I can help you at all; that makes me feel great and I guess my plan worked because it let me know that I wasn’t alone. It broke my heart; one of my friends said that she bathes in the dark because of how bad she feels about herself. But I know the feeling! Crying over putting on an outfit because of the way it does or doesn’t fit. Not wanting to be seen in anything less then full coveralls! I rarely even where capris. Most men hate it when their wives go shopping because of how much money they spend. Mine hates it because I come home on the verge of tears or having already cried. I can spend a whole day looking for clothes and come home with 2 pair of shoes instead. My feet have stayed the same size and shoes never let me down. But shopping for clothes is the worst and I want to be able to enjoy it again, and not have to buy the grandma clothes because those are the only ones that fit.
But I want to thank everyone for supporting me and I hope this does help any of you that might need it.

My First Post

My sisters have blogs and asked my why I don't. Well the main reason is, what am I going to blog about? My life... pretty boring. I get up, go to work, come home, have dinner, go to bed... same routine every day.

So the question: What will I blog about? Here is the answer:

For those of you that know me well, know that I have lost some weight; I started working out over a year ago, however when summer came we were so busy heading out of town every weekend. It would start with shopping on Wednesday for all of the food for the weekend, packing up the trailer on Thursday making sure that no details were missed. Then heading out right after work on Friday. Then we would come home Sunday night exausted just wanting to relax and then we unpack everything on Monday. This leaves Tuesday to work out, then starting the routine all over again for the next weekend. So after the summer and into the fall, I hadn't really got any workouts in and I have now lost motivation. Gaining weight back! So I figure if I put it all out there for everyone to see. I might, just might keep going! So I am going to try and post pictures along the way. (Very Embarrasing)

So let's start here. This is me senior year about 130-140 pounds of solid muscle, but I had to work hard for it. I used to get up at 4:00AM to get on my health rider. Then at school I took aerobics and weight training on top of regular gym class and I was in athletics because I was on the softball team. Obviously after graduating I was going to gain weight.

But once I did graduate I still worked out 2 or 3 times a week and I was still gaining weight. When I went dress shopping for my wedding, I picked out the first dress I tried on, because it fit. It was a really sad day for me, when it should have been really fun. I went from a size 5 to a size 16 in 2 years.

Which brings me to this; this picture was in 2007, after being married 10 years I was up to 250 lbs wearing a size 22. And I was more depressed then I had ever been. Growing up I was always bigger then my friends or my sisters but this is rediculious.

So here is what I did. I started working out, I would hit the treadmill and I would go to water aerobics twice a week, only taking Friday's off for myself. And it was working until I lost motivation. I went from 250 to 208 and was feeling pretty good. I am now back up to 215 and need to do something. So as embarrasing as this is. I think I have to.

The picture on the left is me at 238 lbs and the picture on the right is 215. So here is my starting point again. My goal is to get down to 165 I haven't set a date because I want to do it right, I don't want to pressure myself and I don't really know what is realistic. But I know that I hate that you can see all my rolls and I want to get rid of them. So Good Luck to me!