Hey ladies,
I just wanted to give all of you some love, support and encouragement in your weightloss/healthy hair journey. I know it's tough to hang in there, especially when it comes to exercising and eating right on a CONSISTENT basis....AND when it seems like that scale just WON'T BUDGE!
Keep the faith and stay the course....even when you get frustrated with the movement(or lack thereof) of numbers on the scale, or you ate a bunch of crap one day, or u realised you skipped a couple days of exercising. The key is to take a deep breath and REFOCUS....and go again. Remind yourself of your goals, and WHY you are doing all of this. Use that as motivation to get back on track.
As a child I was always short and skinny, never the athletic type tho. Was never interested in any physical activity of any kind. I gained a bit of weight in college, but was never bothered much about it. But university was the killer. In my final year of school I was so stressed over my exams, and my way of getting thru a killer study session was to eat. I'd eat mindlessly, hand carrying food to mouth. Over and over again. Once i realised the bowl was empty....more snacks. I gained about 25 lbs.
Now I know some ppl may scoff at that number...but when you are 5 feet 3".....25 lbs extra is not okay. I was officially in the overweight category when i calculated by BMI.
I knew I had gained weight, but I wasn't aware of exactly how much initially (I found out at a doc's visit), all I knew was that my face was getting rounder and rounder, my thighs constantly rubbed together, I went from wearing small tops and size 6-8 pants, to wearing large tops and size 12-14 pants. I was just tired of being uncomfortable in my own body. I saw some pics of me.....and said HELL NO. that was my A-ha! moment
I don't know how many of you know of
sparkpeople.com. If not check it out. There are no special diets to follow, no tricks. Just tools which allow you to hold yourself accountable for what you eat, and how much exercise you did for a day. You have a wide range of exercises (with demos
) that you can make a list of what u will do at the gym, or at home. and when u are finished that exercise session, you enter it in. And it will tell you how much calories you burned, how much minutes u did. Same thing with food. You can enter what you eat, it will tell you how many calories you ingested. There are graphs to give u a visual image of your weight loss. So many tools. I loved it.
I ended up becoming a gym rat. Me, who would barely run a lap around the playing field for school, would run 40 minutes on treadmill, then 20 mins on elliptical, then a weights session for an hr. Me!!! I couldn't believe it. The days i felt lazy, I'd still go to the gym and change, so then i'd say, 'i'm already here, might as well do my session'...or i'd go home and pop in a exercise dvd. No excuses.
If i had a craving for a chocolate bar...i'd say that snickers is 270 calories, that means at least 25 minutes on the elliptical. i.e. NOT WORTH it!!
I tried not to get too caught up with the number on the scale. Don't get discouraged by a 1lb gain....say to yourself, muscle is heavier than fat. Too many people throw in the towel for a 1-2lb gain. And focus of goals like increasing the speed that you could manage on the treadmill. Sometimes those changes happen BEFORE the scale changes. And when I saw that I could buy a size 10 dress, then a size 8, then size 6....I was in heaven! If I had caved in those numerous times I felt lazy, or discouraged...I wouldn't have made it to this point.
So.....YOU CAN DO IT!!! trust me. Don't focus on the big number you have to lose, don't look for any quick fixes. Celebrate small goals. Slow and steady wins the race. So keep on, keeping on.
Lots of luv guys.
P.s. Sorry its so long, and that I rambled.
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But I guess it's cool. I'm gonna hit the track/treadmill tomorrow!
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