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Mayday in May.

Published May 27, 2012 by mydiettherapy

I’m starting to think this is impossible. I make plans and the crumble. I skip one day and feel like a failure. I weighed myself a couple of weeks ago and I was down to 409 lbs. Weighed my self last week and I was at 413. I know only 4lbs  isn’t a lot when I’m trying to loose 200 + lbs. I sometimes think I need a combination life coach/fitness trainer/therapist.

Week 4: -1lbs (421)

Published September 14, 2011 by mydiettherapy

Well, I made it 4 out of the 7 days this week trying to make a goal of walking 30 minutes each day or taking 30 minutes to myself each day to do something.  I still walked the other days it just wasn’t all 30 minutes at once.

I think I’ll take before pictures sometime this week so that as I go along I can have a visual of where I am, and where I hope to not go back to.

I made a huge step this week in something that I think was hindering my weight loss goal.  I currently have a career that required me to work nights.  As anybody who has ever worked nights before knows, it’s hard to sleep, get good sleep, when you sleep during the day.  I felt like I was just not going to be able to better myself if I continued on this path.  Also, everything I’ve ever read about weight loss usually has something about getting quality sleep.

So I got a regular day job.  I thought this my also help with being able to schedule myself better for workout time and hopefully I can do some more cooking so that each day I can eat better.

As usual, I’m disappointed in myself for it being the 4th week and not having a huge progress, but then again, I’m sure anybody that observed me probably would think I’m not doing anything different.  The walking alone is not going to be enough.  I’m going to have to do some changing in the way I think, eat, and move.  But even just thinking about that is exhausting to me.

 

It’s 17 weeks till the end of the year, if I only lost 2 lbs a week that would put me at 34 pounds by then. This seems doable, but I need to be accountable to my own actions to achieve this.

So that is it for this week.  Not a stellar week, but at least there was a loss…I guess.

Week 3….holding pattern. (422)

Published September 6, 2011 by mydiettherapy

So week three didn’t go as I planned.  I guess the only thing that is positive is that I didn’t gain back the other 4 lbs that I lost 2 weeks ago.

I started back to school this week,  so I really didn’t make time for myself to even do 30 min walks.

But then again, now that I sit here and think about it making time for myself to make myself better is a  huge issue for me.  My whole life I have had trouble making time for myself.  I usually have something to do for work, some club, some friend, some family member, or I think I have things that are more important then working on my self.

I have a hard time with not doing for others because I start to feel guilty for some reason.  I have a  lot of family members that have had various issues, illness, financial issues and mental issues, that I feel like if I do something for me rather then help them then I’m not a very good person.

I know, crazzzzzy person thinking, right.  :/

So I’m going to keep my goal of walking, but I’m going to up it to at least 20-30 minutes each day starting today.  I may just blog everyday what I do so that I can keep track of what it was.

In other news….signed up for a 5k because I’ve lost my damn mind…more to come on that….

First three pounds…419

Published July 24, 2011 by mydiettherapy

So I cheated a bit today and weighed myself a little bit early.  I’m down 3 pounds. Only 7 more pounds till my mini goal.  Very excited.

 

I’ve decided that a huge problem that I have that has contributed to my weight gain has to be my portion sizes.  I feel like getting this issue under control will kind of be killing 2 birds with 1 stone.

If I take control of my food and control my food portions I will avoid eating places that I dont’ have control of the potion sizes, hence I’ll eliminate eating out. I’m thinking the will not be too hard to accomplish, mainly because a lot of the fast food that I had been eating was making me feel ill. I just would rather have food I prepare.

My biggest problem and huge downfall will to stay out of the cafe at work.  I’m not even sure what they put in a lot of the food, so it will be hard to decide how many calories I’ve consumed.  I just know I have to stay out of there.

And my next hurdle will be to get some exercise.  I figure doing something, even if its small amount of exercise it will be better than not doing anything at all. I know this will be hard to believe but I’m definitely not totally sedentary as most will probably think. Only a few years ago I had a job that I walk probably 10 hours out of my 12 hour shift.  I gained almost 60 pounds in a year when I went to a job that I probably only walk 3-4 hours out of a 12 hour shift.

So first the portion control, then a little walking for exercise and hopefully goodbye to those next 7 pounds.

 

But first, I need some sleepy.

 

🙂

Time for a new start…

Published July 21, 2011 by mydiettherapy

and to find a new me.

I’m overweight.

Correction, I am morbidly obese.  This is not something I say lightly (ha ha).  I am in serious trouble and need to find a way out on my own.   I know that I don’t want to do surgery, which is not the right path for me.  I’m not sure what path is right for me, but I’m positive surgical intervention will not fix the mental part of me that got me to this point.  This is kind of the point of this blog among with a few other points.  I want to hold myself more accountable for my actions and document my progress (fingers crossed).

So let’s see where to begin.

Weight: 422 lbs.

Height: 5 foot 10 inches.

BMI (according to a website calculator): 60.6%

I decided to break things down into mini goals, halfway goal and overall goal.  According to a handy little online calculator, I’m supposed to be between 132-174lbs.  To be honest I’ll be happy at 180. Plus, I like the round number.

Overall goal: 180 lbs. (242 lbs. loss-that’s right a full grown overweight man is what I have to lose…yikes L.

Midway goal: 301 lbs. (a loss of 121lbs)

Mini goal: 412 by August 1st   (10 lbs. loss)

I think for my next check in I’m going to hunt down a measuring tape and take some measurements of the limbs and my waist.