5 pound mark!!

I am super excited I have reached my 5 pound mark!! Yay! Now....I know I've said it before but this time I'm honeslty starting the exercising side of my life style change. I am well aware of all the health benefits and I know what I need to do, its just to actually do it now.
I have decides to sign up for a 5K to support our volunteer firemen in the community. Its in May so I have a good 2 months to get my ass in gear so I don't die while trying to do this!
I am also participating in the National Multiple Sclerosis "Walk for MS" in honor of my very best friend, Michelle. That's at the end of March. Its a leisure walk and I am more than confident that I can handle it.

If you're having a hard time getting motivated, keep in mind, slow and steady wins the race.

YOU CAN DO THIS!!!

Katie

Slow but Steady

I've made some weight loss progress in the last 2 weeks. This week I lost 2.6 pounds making it a total of 4.8 for the past 2 weeks. Its been a slow but steady weight loss. I know I'm only just starting on week 3 and I have found myself wanting chocolatey treats lately. I've maintained my composure though. But, if I felt it was too much, I did have a few M&M's. I am not going to deprive myself of something only to revert back into eating an entire BIG bag of M&M's. This way I got my chocolate fix and didn't jepordize my entire life style change.
The next month I am a little fearful of though. We will be moving into a new house and I am already stressed about it. I need to start working on a plan to devert myself from wanting to "snack" to cope with the stress!

Hope everyone is doing well!!

Katie

Week One DONE!!

YAY!! I completed week one of my new lifestyle change! Notice I didn't say "diet"!! I have lost 2 pounds and am completely satisfied with it. I've had some cravings for yummy treats but nothing detrimental to my plan. So week one was definitely not as difficult as I had it in my mind to be!

Exercising started this week and YIKES....I knew I was out of shape but thought I could make it through a 25 minute work out....NOT!! I used to love doing my exercise/stability ball routine. It was something I could do in my house, with no one watching, and made me feel good when I was done. Well, rolling around on a ball at 256 pounds in not nearly as pleasant as it was when I was 180 pounds! Geez....I'm just glad I couldn't see myself! All I know is, 11 minutes into it, I thought I was going to die! My knees were shaking, I was sweating, my heart felt like it was going to beat out of my chest. I tried to keep going but I just couldn't. I know I probably should have kept going but instead I stopped and just kind of marched in place and did a more modified version of what they were doing on the DVD. I figured 11 minutes was better than nothing at all. That afternoon while waiting to pick up my son from school I took my daughter in the stroller and went walk for 25 minutes. I don't know how many miles, if I even made a mile, but I know I walked for 25 minutes. My legs were hurting, but it was that good hurt.

I know I won't be able to run a marathon tomorrow, but I'm setting a goal for myself to at least walk a 5K in 3 months to support our community Volunteer Fireman. Who knows...maybe I will be able to run it!

Katie

Whew.....

Well, I made it through my first "holiday" event without feeling guilty that I ate something I wasn't supposed to! I only ate the things that I knew how many weight watchers points it was and if I wasn't sure I calculated them so I would know. I tracked everything that I ate tonight and I was satisfied with my choices. That's the good thing about weight watchers, I was able to still eat good food without having to feel bad about it.

When food is layed out like a buffet where you can graze like a cow, you more than likely will. Having a plan before putting yourself in that situation helps. I knew there'd be a vegetable tray and sandwich trays so I had already planned what I would eat before I left my house. Of course there were those yummy desserts, like King Cake, store bought and home made. Good thing I'm a picky eater and don't like filling in my king cake. That helped that temptation of wanting something sweet.

So, you see, there really is a such thing as will power and apparently I do have it! I always thought that was something skinny folks made up to make fat people feel bad! Guess not. What excites me about this new found will power is that my 10 year old son, Peyton, went to a birthday party today and when I went to pick him up a random mom pulled me to the side and said how proud I would be of him. She then told me that when the cake was being handed out, Peyton said he didn't want any because our family was now eating healthier and trying to stay away from junk food and he wouldn't feel right having a piece knowing how hard I was trying to lose weight!! She said he then turned around and walked away. How awesome is that! Of course he could have had a piece of a cake. But the fact that he, being 10 years old, had the will power to turn the cake down, at a friends birthday party is proof that anyone can and should be able to just walk away.

I know there will be many more temptations thrown my way, but making smart, healthy decisions is just what I will have to do!

Have a great weekend

Katie

My motivational quote for the day!



And so it begins....

I can't help but wonder how I got here. Well, that's really not true, I know exactly how I got here. I've struggled with my weight my entire life. I've gained a lot, then lost a lot, then gained it all back again. I have no one to blame but myself. I can say it was stress related, or it was because I had babies but the real reason for most of the fluctuation in weight was because of ME! I have taken diet pills, starved myself, did every diet under the sun for that "quick" fix but the weight always found itself right back on me and usually brought a couple friends with it. And by a couple I mean at least 50 or more!!

I never really saw myself as being the "F" word (fat). I still felt like I was the skinny girl. I would avoid full length mirrors if at all possible. When I would see a picture of myself I would stop and think, "that's not what I really look like". Talk about denial.

I am starting this blog mainly as an outlet for myself to keep track of this new journey towards losing weight and keeping it off. I am bound and determined this time to make the right choices and lose weight the right way. No diet pills or gimmick diets. Just a total eating habit/exercising transformation. I want to be healthy, I want to enjoy playing with my kids, I want to be able to say no to the junk food, I want my kids to have me around for a long time, but most of all I want to do this for ME!
I realize that the weight gain didn't happen over night and will not go away over night. I realize I am only hurting myself by thinking it will. It is never too late to get in shape.

On Monday, February 6, 2012 I started Weight Watchers http://www.weightwatchers.com/. I went to my first weigh in that night and although I have gotten on the scale at home and knew how much I weighed, it was totally different to have a stranger tell me. I am more motivated now than ever to do this. I don't really know what "clicked" for me but I am glad it finally did! This is where I will be held accountable for my actions during my journey. I will post pictures and weights. If I lie on here I will only be lying to myself.
If I can inspire just 1 person to do the same then I have done my job here.

So, let the journey begin!

Katie


Starting Weight 258