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February 07 trudgin alongWell..this week I lost one pound. I'm rather disappointed. I accomplished my goal and worked out atleast 30 minutes 6 days last week. I even went beyond. One day I did 45, another an hour and another almost 2 hours. It's so hard to work to lose it like that and barely lose anything. It makes me not want to work out and I haven't since Monday. People keep telling me I'm gaining muscle and I won't lose a whole lot at first but eventually it will catch up. I've had a few people say they can notice that I am losing weight in my stomach of all places. That is one place i feel is not moving fast enough. My stomach has always been where I carry most of my weight.
Hopefully next week is better. Monday I decided to start drinking 3 eight ounce glasses of milk a day and I was so excited when they talked about it on the biggest lose this week. Michael and I both are trying to cut back on how many frozen meals we eat and preparing our own plus trying not to eat so many 100 calorie packs. We are limiting those to about 2 or 3 a day. With drinking milk I have less calories that I can actually eat a day so I can't eat too much as far as snacks go, but I needed to cut down on those.
We have began to work out together in the evenings which i am surprised that we are actually working out together we used to work out independently or not at all but by the grace of Motivation that God has given us me especially we are able to do this together...The Healthy Choice Meals are Great along with the lean gourmet meals are working but the only downfall to that is that its packed with salt. And we all know what salt does. Retains water, it keeps us from losing more than what we should and that may be a lil discouraging. We weigh ourselves everyday when we get up and not seeing a drastic change is a lil bit discouraging as well but as i stated before we did not gain this weight overnight. But yeah I’m actually down to 340.5 since last week. I’m so ready to get out of the 300's last week i jumped back up to 344, I’m wanting to definantly work hard and try to keep the weight coming off slowly and surely.. January 31 clothes shopping ?!I feel like typing large because I feel large right now...why is it that every store that has plus size clothing thinks that those clothes have to look like bright colored busy patterned tents. It gets so frustrating when I want to get some clothing and I can find nothing that I like. And besides that, have the clothes they say are extra large are really like a medium. I pick up the small shirt and I am wondering what it is doing in the women's section because there is no way an adult could fit into it. Can someone out there just figure it out that there are women out there that are not a size two and who want decent clothes to wear.
And is it just me or is Old Navy getting rid of their plus clothes because it seems like the one here no longer has a plus sized section.
I'm just so frustrated. Yes, I am losing weight but I do need to wear clothes now and I will never be small. I may get to a size 9 at the smallest but I can't hope for much beyond that.
Well, anyways, I hope everyone is enjoying their weight loss. I know I am. January 30 one month into itThis week has been the best week for us as far as following our diet day after day. I lost 1.2 pounds and Michael gained 1. Seeing such a low number for me is a set back, especially since I tried. At times it makes you want to give up, but you know you can't. It was very hard for Michael to see a gain especially after working so hard to stick to his plan, since that is what he struggles with most.
We both got some exercise in this week with some kickboxing and I also did some cardio dance. We are hoping to do atleast a half hour of exercise 6 days this week.
Well, I am down 10.2 pounds this month and Michael is at 9.2 pounds for a total team weight loss of 19.4 bringing our team weight loss goal down to 238.8. That is 7.5% of our goal.
I have lost 4% of my body weight and Michael has lost 2.59% of his body weight
We would like to get a video blog up...can anyone tell me how to do it?.
It's a good start but we hope to do much better this month.
Here are our first pictures and our new pictures. Let me know any differences you see :D
Aimee's week 1 pictures
Aimee's week 4 pics
Michael's week 1
Michael's week 4
January 23 Week 3!!!Well it has been a long week again and I'm happy to say that as a team we are down 19.6 pounds in just 3 weeks. This takes us from a total weight of 603.8 pounds to 584.2. That seems so huge!!!!
On an individual basis I(Aimee) lost 2.8 pounds this week which bring my grand total up to 9 pounds even. That is an average of about 3 pounds a week. I think I could do more though, If I was to actually exercise. That is my hugest struggle right now. Eating right is the simplest part for me.
I kind of wanted to give a personal history of my struggle with my weight. Starting from the time I was little I always thought I was fat. If someone liked me I asked them "why do you like me? I am fat." But the truth of the matter is, I never got fat until about the 2nd or third grade. I have always believed I was overweight, even if I wasnt. Part of that stems from difficulties I have had in my life with feeling as though I am not wanted and don't deserve to be wanted because of abuse I endured as a very small child. Not matter where I go and what I have done, that abuse is always in my mind and always tells me that I am not good enough, so why take care of myself.
I can remember going to school and getting weighed in and weighing 130-140 pounds in the 3rd grade. From there it just gradually got worse. By the 8th grade I was up to 190 pounds. I had stopped growing so I could not use the excuse that I would grow into it. The summer after eighth grade I used weight watchers and lost 30 pounds. At 160 I was a size 11. Being 160 only put me about 15-20 pounds overweight for my height, which really is not that bad. I was back though, in that same spot I was when I was younger just convinced I was fat. During the next few years of high school, I slowly gained all that weight back due partially to having to eat school lunches, which in general are unhealthy.
By the time I graduated high school I had exceeded 190 pounds but never broke 200. I went to work at a camp the summer after that, and gained nearly 30 pounds through out the summer because I could eat whatever I wanted and it was all free.
I started college around 225 pounds. I tried to lose weight here and there and even at one point went from not even being able to run a quarter of a mile to being able to run 3/4 of a mile...and this all was in about 2 weeks. But the running didn't really help my weight and I slowly ballooned up to 245 pounds.
I met my husband (who was not my husband at the time) and after several months of dating we decided to try to lose the weight together. At this pount I weighed 247 pounds. After many months of trying I got down to 200 pounds in september of 2006. We got married the end of that month and from that point I regained every pound plus ten more back in less than a year.
After Thanksgiving of this year I was at 257 pounds. In the weeks before the new year is when Michael and I really began our healthy eating. We had a lot of struggles but I did manage to lose 7 pounds before this challenge began. So as far as I am concerned I have lost 17 pounds since beginning my "battle of the bulge."
I think being who I am and what I have struggled with, I am always going to have a hard time with my weight, no matter what size I am. I struggle to accept myself and until I come to terms with that, I will never be able to keep the weight off. This is going to be my year to let go of the baggage, become healthy, and love myself!!!
My heart goes out to all of you with similar emotional attachments. Being overweight truly is emotional protection. There is something about us that we need to deal with before we can show the world who we really are.
My husband helps me so much every day and I am so glad to have someone like him to support me and join me in this journey.
On another note, Michael lost 2 pounds this week. We are both struggling with the exercise, as i have said before. He is really hoping to get underneath 340 next week.
Our goal for next week is to make time for exercise. January 20 ahhhhI feel like the contestants on week 2 of this seasons biggest loser. I have such a hard time taking the weight off. It seems like I plateau very easily. I'll lose a few pounds and then I will not lose anything. Or I will lose and then go up a couple and then go down and then go up. I'm not sure what to do and it gets very frustrating.
I think I need bob and jillian to kick my butt into gear. I just can't seem to get myself to exercise in the slightest. I have everything I need to weight train and aerobicize(is that even a word?) but I just can't get into it. I need new ideas... |
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