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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.

Movin’, movin’, movin’!

Published September 8, 2011 by mydiettherapy

Ok, day 2….the hardest day of any plan in my opinion.

I woke up later today and I almost talked myself out of it.  My shoulders, my legs, and yes, my ass hurt.

But I prevailed.

Started out slow and picked up the pace.  I walk in a very busy neighbor hood and I always am worried about traffic and being hit by cars.  Today I have a new worry, being eaten alive by dogs.  Yesterday I was face to face with only a chain link fence between me and a very angry dog.  Apparently he was not a fan of my new-found motivation and wanted me off his sidewalk  Scared me so bad I jump off the sidewalk and into the street.  Pretty sure I burned a few extra calories just on that little encounter.

So today I decided I would be smart.  I walked on the opposite side of the street and decided that it would be a safer bet. I was attached by a pug puppy, but his only motive was for me to pet him.

At this point I am actually smiling at the other side of the street because I made a smart move.  Walking next to  a very tall wall.  Next thing I know a huge dog is attempted to jump over it.  It had to be at least seven feet tall and half of his body was over it!  Again, jumped into the street and screamed.  I’m sure someone was getting a chuckle out of this if they where watching both days from their living room!

So tomorrow, I’m changing routes all together.  Hopefully I’ll find one with only friendly dogs like the pug.

Day 2, 30 minutes 1.2 miles…moving a little slower today, but still moving.

2 miles and I think my heart is in my ass.

Published September 7, 2011 by mydiettherapy

So I wanted to stick to my word.  So this morning I got up and the first thing I did was map out a 2 mile path around my house.  I figued I could at least walk 2 miles in 3o minutes at 15 minutes a mile.

 

Oh, Hell, No.  My lard butt did two miles in 47 minutes and 17 seconds.  At first I started off going slightly uphill, this was not terrible.  It actually was pleasant.  Then I think I got to about mile two…I started to sweat a little more and I could feel my heart rate increasing.  I got a little twinged in my chest, but I think that had more to do with my breathing.  At 422 lbs you’re not exactly flat chested if you know what I mean so even breathing is a chore with theses potato sacks on my chest.  The as I was rounding the corner for home I started to slow down a bit.  And I finished, I was so proud till I looked at my stopwatch…but still a little proud that I did it. As I cooled down at home I could feel my heart beating in my ass, thighs, ankles, and feet.  I felt like my whole body was twitching, but a good twitch.  A twitch that will lead to more good things.

 

Wow.  That 5k I signed up for is going to be…well, I don’t know how it will be, but hopefully I won’t have to have an oxygen taken and the ambulance (waaaaambulance 🙂 lol) at the end up it.

 

At least I have a starting point now and I can only get better from here.  So tomorrow, 30 minutes to myself just walking.  I downloaded Pandora to my blackberry so that helped and the fact that I didn’t walk on a track help.  Sometimes when I used to walk on the high school track in the neighborhood I just couldn’t do more than a mile because it bored me to tears.  This was a little better and I’ve lived in my neighborhood for almost 4 years, and saw streets today that I never noticed.  So that’s a bonus.

 

Now for a protien filled breakfast.

 

 

Happy days 🙂

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….

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.