A little about me and this diary
2004-02-28 @ 11:53 a.m.
I'd just like to start by saying I know I am not "FAT". But I am overweight. I desparately want to change that.

A little over three years ago, before I became pregnant with my son, I was pretty damn thin. Maybe a little too thin, but not skeletal by any means. At 5'5" I weighed about 125. Then I got pregnant. I gained quite a bit of weight during my pregnancy, and I breast fed my son which seemed to double my apetite.

However, the wonderful metabolism I used to have had changed. I could no longer eat whatever I wanted, and I was just never able to take off the pregnancy weight.

I've tried several times to lose weight, and failed miserably several times too. So this will be a log off my acheivements and goals as well as my feelings about my curviness and such.

I don't want to get back to my previous weight... I've grown to like my curves. I'd just like my curves to be less numerous and only in the right places.

Also, I plan on doing this healthily. I hope to start with dieting, then start an exercise program. Whenever I've done it the other way around or started bith at the same time I'd feel like I had no energy whatsoever, and I'd give up. So I'll try it this way.

I guess that's it. Wish me luck.

Stats

TOTAL loss to date: 17 lbs

I had the hardest time figuring out this percentage. I'm awful with math. But with this calculator I enter in the amount of weight I originally needed to lose (42) in the first box, how much weight I need to lose now in the second box (as of now, 25) and hit "calculate" and it gave me the correct percentage (40.5). I figured if there was anyone else out there as bad with math as me they might like that.

Before and after

172 lbs

This is my "before" appearance. Yeah right, I only wish I looked this good at this weight. In truth, my weight is not so evenly distributed. I'm a bit more.... lumpy. Ew.




















130 lbs

And this is what I hope to look like. I do have some pictures of myself at this weight from before I got pregnant and became a cow. *ahem* Anyway, I thought about posting them... but I decided I want to post pictures of me at this weight when I AM that weight.

















And here's an actual "before" pic of me. Not sure of the exact weight, but it's certainly too big. Incidentally, Chooch loves this pic.

Chart

Beginning weight: 172lbs
Target weightloss: 42lbs.

Date	Body Fat	Weight	Gain/ Loss	Total Loss	Notes
start	-	172	0	0 lbs	my heaviest. ew
2004-06-19	-	165	-7	7 lbs	not sure exactly how much I weighed when I started officially
2004-06-26	-	162	-3	10 lbs	yay! Three down is nice
2004-07-02	-	160	-2	12 lbs	Can't wait to see those 150's
2004-07-10	-	160	0	12 lbs	After 4th of July weekend I'm very happy just to see a maintain
2004-07-17	-	158	-2	14 lbs	Even after I pigged out last night! Sweet!
2004-07-24	30%	158.0	0	14 lbs	No change, but this is my first week with an accurate scale, so maybe the old one was off? Also the start of tracking my body fat %
2004-11-02	not sure	155.0	-3	17 lbs	It's been a while! I hadn't weighed myself since I last wrote, but I was not dieting or excersizing at all, so I know I gained weight back. However, I just started a job that means being on my feet 8 hours at a time, 4 or 5 times a week, and I'm too busy to eat out of boredom. So I somehow managed to lose weight! Yay!

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