So, let's start with the easy stuff. My starting weight is roughly 170 lbs, height 5'8", BMI 25 = Overweight! A healthy BMI is around 22. My first goal is 150 lbs, my second goal after that is back to size 6 (currently size 10/12). Now to the long part where I may ramble.
Why I am overweight:
Genetics: Both my parents are, scratch that, were overweight. I've got aunts, uncles & cousins on both sides of the family that are overweight
Lazy; overeat; no love life (when i'm interested in a guy, i am more conscious of maintaining a healthy weight); stress; emotional eater....and i'm sure more!
We will start with my weight issue history. I was a dancer from the age 3 until my senior year of college. (yeah, I was an idiot and drunkly did the splits and tore my hamstring the week before classes my senior year, ending my dance career) During high school I of course wanted to be skinnier, but never really had an issue with my weight. My main issues started in college. My first semester I started around 150 lbs, and ended the semester at 170. Yes, I gained 20 lbs in about 4 months. When I realized that I can't the weight, I decided to do something about it. I started the South Beach Diet - which my dad did and lost about 50-75 lbs- and I lost those 20 lbs second semester. Sophomore & Junior year I still maintained my weight in the 150s. Senior year, after my hamstring healed, I started training for a half marathon, which promptly ended b/c when I went home for Christmas break and had no desire to run in the snow. Plus I hate running anyways. Second semester I got a personal trainer and did my best to stay in shape. I love lifting weights fyi. Then.....law school.
Law school ruins lives. My weight has been up and down during law school and I don't think there is 1 specific thing I can point to as the cause of my weight loss. My law school low was when I fit into NY & Co size 6 pants (NY&C runs large) and my high weight is now....roughly 170. (roughly= at least) At one point it was low b/c I wanted things to work out w/Stephen. I made sure to eat well, do my work out videos, whitened my teeth etc. b/c I was so body conscious around him. That didn't work, and I think this past spring semester was when the weight started packing on. I'm not really sure what I'm gonna do now do get the weight off, and keep the weight off.
Here's how I've attempted to lose weight in the past:
South Beach Diet: lost 20 pounds in 4 months, but that was also eating on campus at the dining hall where I could easily eat healthy options that tasted good and didn't cost me anything.
My own diet: Average 7,000 calories per week, no more than 1500 in 1 day, no pop, 64 oz. of water per day, no food after 9pm. This worked, but was impossible to maintain. Its pretty much what I did in the stephen weightloss era.
Eat in moderation: Psh. Epic fail.
Oh I forgot to mention I can become obsessed about learning how to lose weight. I can tell you how many calories you are eating, how much sodium, what food choices are good, which ones are bad, which restaurants have the best/worst food and what those are...etc. What vitamins/supplements are good/bad....I mean I can tell you a lot. Not saying I follow it, but I know it.
Anyways, I was toying around with either doing Weight Watchers or Jenny Craig. I've got 7 months to drop weight before my sister's wedding. I figured it would be a healthy way to lose the weight, instead of my create-your-own diet (being excited b/c you had 900 cals 3 days in a row is not healthy when you need about 1900ish per day), but it would be costly. I could do South Beach, but it is so easy to not follow through, and that diet you have to follow. If you cheat at all, it doesn't work. Ugh I hate that I have so much weight to lose, but I've gotta do it. Then maybe my love live will pick up lol. I need to buy a digital scale (I have the non-digital kind) so I can accurately track my weight!
One last thing, my mom had gastric bypass surgery and I am very bitter about that. I would write about that now, but I'm sleepy, and this post is long enough as is!
~KR
I need a scale too KRimm. Perhaps a shopping trip is in order later this evening.-EC
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