The Diet
I’ve been trying to lose weight since my son was born January of 2002, and again since my daughter was born January of this year, and now a good amount of bloggers have started a diet competition of sorts, so I will be adding my name to that list.
For the record, even though a lot of times I may talk about how happy I am, and put on a happy face about my current body… it’s a big fat lie. Literally.
Let’s start from the beginning. I’m a thick Irish girl, :) but I was never fat. I have always had thick legs, but other than that I have been thin. And even though my legs were bigger, they weren’t fat… nowadays that’s not so. Then I had my son when I was 18, and while pregnant I gained 50lbs. After the majority of the weight was lost from my son I was about 150-155lbs, and I still wasn’t really fat, even though before having him I weighed in at about 130. Nowadays, I’m depressed (and I really mean depressed) to admit that I am tipping the scale at 160/165lbs (yes, I just had ababy 5 months ago… but still!!)…
It’s my own fault of course. I try to exercise but I always get sidetracked with projects, and for a while there I was stressed out and binging on beer, pepsi, and snackfoods (damn you graham crackers! damn you to hell!). And now I’m putting a stop to a bad spat of 3 weeks of not really eating at all… Yes, terribly dumb I know! I would not eat all day, but a piece of cheese and a glass of chocolate milk… and then have a normal dinner… thn drink…. Starting Monday though (got to finish off that beer!) it will be back on a healthy track.
The obiligatory 2am pajama-ed “before” shot. Better ones tommorrow:
I don’t have my measurements right yet, and I’m too lazy to do it now, but I will post them tommorrow. My plan is as follows:
1. Eat breakfast. Everyone proclaims this is one of the #1 ways to lose weight… we’ll see!
2. No sweets. I’ve already cut sweets out, but just reiterating that. (And by sweets I mean candy & junk snack food. I cannot give up my OJ)
3. No more beer. :(
4. No more soda (also already nixed for 3 weeks, but better to include it here).
5. Veggies all the way! (I don’t really eat meat to begin with)
6. Um, excersize? I hate to do it, and I always feel that I’m loosing time when I do it, but I promise myself 30 minutes to 1 hour of walking everyday around the block (which is about 10ish laps I think, possibly more).
7. Smaller meals more often.
8. Start utilizing Fitday again! If you are interested check out my stats which I will start using again ASAP!
My goal weight is 130lbs, which may be a little unrealistic after 2 kids… I’d settle for 140lb. So I need to loose between 20-30lbs. I have no real set goal date, but for shits and giggles I put in September 1st 2006 as my goal date on FitDay. According to their calculations I need to lose 2.67 lb per week. Which seems doable, no?
The evile! monsters who’ve corrupted my body (kidding!):
And in the words of my son’s beloved Bob the Builder - “Can we fix it!? YES WE CAN” … I think!
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