I can't post any pictures from 2nd grade to 9th grade due to being stuck with some pretty horrible teeth that required many years of braces to fix. Hey I know I looked pretty scary and I would have made fun of me too but that does not make it right! So here is a skinny shot from senior week:
So as you can see I started out nice and slim. I could always eat whatever I wanted and as much as I wanted and not ever gain a pound. We all know sooner or later this is something you "outgrow".
As the years went by I gained a pound here and a pound there. According to a notebook I found from 1995 it looks like I was about 125 pounds. I must have made a New Years resolution to lose some weight. Perhaps I thought 125 was a little too much for me to weigh. It looks like I stopped tracking my weight that year on Feb 4th where the last entry made was 119 pounds fully dressed. Another entry marked "1997 diet" shows my weight at 120 pounds on Feb. 21st and down to 118 pounds on March 27th. Nothing is noted in the book after that. It looks like I was trying to stay below 120 pounds. If I recall correctly both times I used Slim Fast and counting calories to lose the weight. I remember being hungry while using Slim Fast.
I went on another diet in 2003 around the time I filed for divorce. By the time the divorce was final I had lost over 200 pounds!!! Now that's success. Ok- I will be serious now. I went back on the Slim Fast again. On April 5th I weighed 127 pounds. By June 1st I was down to 121 pounds. It looks like I decided to weigh myself again on December 29th and I was back up to 125 pounds. So I lost 6 pounds but gained back 4 pounds six months later. I will not call that one a success.
In early December 2005 a guy we will call Brian (because that is his name) introduced himself to me on myspace and we started dating. He likes to cook but for some reason only cooks food that is BAD for you. Well I married him on May 5, 2007. I continued to eat his cooking while he admired my butt as it got larger and he seemed to like it that way. So I kept buying larger pants and eating his food. I would go to the doctor and they would have me step on the scale. The scale would say I weighed 130 something and I would tell myself it was ok as long as it did not go over 135. When the scale went over 135 it was okay as long as it stayed below 140. Then when the scale started going over 140 I would convince myself it was ok as long as it was below 145. Then came the big day- December 14, 2009. I went to the doctor and got on the scale. It said I weighed 145 and a HALF. I panicked. That was way too close to 150 and I was NOT going to ever weigh over 150. Nope- that was NOT going to happen!
I had started exercising semi- regularly a couple of months earlier because my cholesterol was too high again (that is a whole other story) but had been slacking a couple of weeks before this appointment. I had on my DVR several episodes of Total Body Sculpt with Gilad and I had been doing those workouts. I went on a cruise with my Mom in October 2009 and you can tell I had gained weight as seen in these pictures:
OMG! My butt is HUGE in this picture.
So I probably should have started this blog thingy at the beginning of 2010. My 2010 New Years resolution was to eat healthy foods and exercise more. I know that is not very specific but I had started listening to several Health & Fitness podcasts while I was at work and I was getting a lot of ideas about changing the way I eat. The first part of the plan was to stop eating high fructose corn syrup.
So my plan for this blog thingy is to first recap my transformation from the beginning of the year. Once I have caught up to date I will continue to track my progress in hopes that by making this public I will stick to my lifestyle change permanently.
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