Community Week 7

Well I've started working out with weights as of Saturday.   I'm an apple shape so hold a lot of weight in my abdomen, sides, back, shoulders and arms.  There is no way to spot reduce I'm told.   Well that's not going to stop me from trying. 

Ok, yes I will keep reducing what I eat aiming for less than 1200 calories a day.  Ok I will keep trying to reduce my appetite, reduce my portion sizes, fight binge eating when I'm feeling stressed.  Yes last week I stress ate a lot; and this week I paid for it by gaining weight.  GRRRRRR!!!

So anyway I've started going to a gym to work out my upper body on weight machines. Discovered the the new inspirtion of seeing slim women with small bottoms working out and telling myself I'm gong to look more like that by next year.  That's great inspiration.  Thank you all small bottomed women who work out at the gym!

I started a pilates class this morning.  I'm enjoying activity for maybe the first time in my life.  I'm excited to see what changes I can create in my body.   With the knowledge that my body will lose where it wants to lose and I just have to keep eating less -- to a reaasonable point that is.

Omron weight 170.2 lbs, 29.2 BMI 44.7% fat, 9 visceral fat, 23.6% muscle, need 1466 kcal to maintain weight.

Weight 170.5.!!! Grrrrr!
Bust 45"
Rib 35"
Waist 38.5"
Hip 41.25"
Bicep 13" right

Thigh 22" right

July 1, 2012 addendum: Community Weight Race 172 lbs, waist 37.5".

Challenge

A friend sent this very motivating video:  23 and 1/2 hours: What is the single best thing we can do for our health?

Doctor Mike Evans cleverly poses a personal challenge to combat sitting disease:  Can you limit your sleeping and sitting to just 23 and 1/2 hours per day?

This fall I have been walking with friends at lunchtime and it was fun while we talked, very fun.  But when my walking partners had other things to do, then I'd go by myself and felt bored just walking around the track.

I've been collecting motivating pictures about running on the Pinterest website.  These pictures mentally offered  a new challenge.  So I started by just trying to run half way around the track.  I did it twice the first day.  I was so proud of myself!  So the next time I ran all the way around the track!  It really was an effort and cleared out my lungs.

Then I'd walk one, run one, etc. running a little more each time.  Well yesterday I finally worked up to running 1 mile steady!!!! Thats 8 laps!   I walked 2 laps, ran 8 laps, walked 2 laps, ran 8 laps, walked 2 laps.  It makes me feel like an athlete, and my lungs feel cleaner than they have ever felt in my life and that is what keeps me going back.  I love that feeling!

Today I finally reached the 160s also - 169.5 lbs so that is reason to celebrate too. (Update:  18 Dec - 168.5.)

Overall Plan

My initial goal weight is 130 pounds.

As of the last week of December 2010 I finally reached 199 pounds, just under 200.

The first time I dieted was when I was 17 years old. For two weeks I weighed and measured everything I ate, and had 900 calories per day which included a small sliver of chocolate walnut fudge as my daily dessert. I rode my bicycle and walked all day. For two weeks my weight remained unchanged then one morning I woke up and had lost 10 pounds. So for the first time in my high school years I weighed less than 130 pounds. I weighed 125 pounds! And when I went clothes shopping I could fit into a size 34B bra instead of a 34C. I was in heaven. Other people noticed and remarked on how nice I looked.

When I was in college I joined Weight Watchers when I'd gotten as high as 145 pounds. It took 3 months to get down to 130 pounds. It was not the weight I wanted to reach but it was as long as I could maintain the obsessive writing down of everything I ate. The Weight Watchers leader was very influential, I still remember what she taught, she was intelligent and sensative and I respect her very much. She taught me that as a vegetarian cheese is my equivalent to red meat, the food I have to be most careful to use sparingly.

Since then every time I wanted to lose weight I felt I needed to rely on Weight Watchers so I joined and rejoined time and time again. I do respect the program and what I learned from them.

This time I do not want to rely on Weight Watchers, going to a gym, or anything else. This time I want to come up with a program where I am completely self-reliant. I do not want to have my success or failure influenced by whether or not I go to meetings, I want it to be based on how I consistently return to my plan.

So this plan is based on things I've learned from Weight Watchers and from what I can cull from internet sources.

I hope to lose 1 pound per week on average. Therefore I expect it to take 2 years to lose 100 pounds. My initial goal weight is 130 pounds, but hopefully I will be able to comfortably maintain 120 pounds, we'll see.

I started losing weight in August 2010, starting weight 221 pounds. So in 5 months I've lost 20 pounds! That's exciting!

My next goal is to lose another 20 pounds by the end of April 2011. Let's see how I do.