MagicalMom
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Let me tell you a bit about me. I'm a 33 yo mother of 3. I am about 5'3" & 180 lbs. After having my last child, 4 years ago, I was quite shocked when the weight didn't fall off. I mean really shocked. So, I thought I'd give it some time. A year later, it was still there. By this point, I'd already bought all new clothes & figured "Oh well, guess I'm fat." I never really did anything about it, just wondered why it was still there.
So, this past June some friends & I became fed up & decided to form a little support group. No real plan, just trying to move some & eat less. I tried watching FIT TV, but it did nothing for me. I considered trying some of the exercises they were doing, but that soft, couch was calling my name again. I've only lost 5 lbs since then.
We decided to kick it up a notch, since no one was really losing much weight. We now set a monthly goal & must pay $1.00 for every lb. we did not lose to meet our goal. For some silly reason, I set my goal at 5 lbs. Why I thought I could lose 5lbs in a month when it took me 3 lbs to lose the last 5lbs is beyond me.
Next, I joined the YMCA. I had my first orientation yesterday. What an exhausting expereince! You should have seen me! I was pulling, tugging, sweating. I jumped up & down, stretched as far as I could! I pulled & tugged & squeezed & cried. Then I jumped, I squirmed, I wiggled & rolled. I huffed, I puffed & sweated some more. Then finally, finally I was dressed & ready to head to the gym! It wasn't as bad as I thought it would be.
The trainer demonstrated the weight equipment & then I demonstrated that I could use it. When I woke up this morning I could barely get my Tshirt on because my arms hurt so bad! Can you tell I'm not used to mych physical activity??
As far as diet, well, I'm going to try a few things first. When my children come home from school & I get out their after school snacks, I'm going to skip mine, cause I don't even go to school anyways! Also, when we are down to the last snack, I'm not going to eat it myself just to stop the "he aate the last one!' arguement. Yep, it's a sacrifice I must make. I bought some lean cuisine meals for my lunches, so that even saves the "what am I going to have for lunch?" mid-day stress. I'm also going to lay off of the Pop-Tarts for breakfast. I mean I had one this morning, but from this point on I'm going to lay off of them. I'm not going to try a real structured diet just yet. Too lazy to plan meals & I really, really love carbs!! So, we'll see how this goes.
Today I bought a Total Circuit Training DVD at Walmart. I'm going to try to put it in one day soon (not committing to a day yet) & see how it goes. I bought a ton of really cute gym clothes to help motivate me to move more.
Wish me luck! I'm going to have to take this weight off myself since it's obviously not going to just fall off!
So, this past June some friends & I became fed up & decided to form a little support group. No real plan, just trying to move some & eat less. I tried watching FIT TV, but it did nothing for me. I considered trying some of the exercises they were doing, but that soft, couch was calling my name again. I've only lost 5 lbs since then.
We decided to kick it up a notch, since no one was really losing much weight. We now set a monthly goal & must pay $1.00 for every lb. we did not lose to meet our goal. For some silly reason, I set my goal at 5 lbs. Why I thought I could lose 5lbs in a month when it took me 3 lbs to lose the last 5lbs is beyond me.
Next, I joined the YMCA. I had my first orientation yesterday. What an exhausting expereince! You should have seen me! I was pulling, tugging, sweating. I jumped up & down, stretched as far as I could! I pulled & tugged & squeezed & cried. Then I jumped, I squirmed, I wiggled & rolled. I huffed, I puffed & sweated some more. Then finally, finally I was dressed & ready to head to the gym! It wasn't as bad as I thought it would be.
The trainer demonstrated the weight equipment & then I demonstrated that I could use it. When I woke up this morning I could barely get my Tshirt on because my arms hurt so bad! Can you tell I'm not used to mych physical activity?? As far as diet, well, I'm going to try a few things first. When my children come home from school & I get out their after school snacks, I'm going to skip mine, cause I don't even go to school anyways! Also, when we are down to the last snack, I'm not going to eat it myself just to stop the "he aate the last one!' arguement. Yep, it's a sacrifice I must make. I bought some lean cuisine meals for my lunches, so that even saves the "what am I going to have for lunch?" mid-day stress. I'm also going to lay off of the Pop-Tarts for breakfast. I mean I had one this morning, but from this point on I'm going to lay off of them. I'm not going to try a real structured diet just yet. Too lazy to plan meals & I really, really love carbs!! So, we'll see how this goes.
Today I bought a Total Circuit Training DVD at Walmart. I'm going to try to put it in one day soon (not committing to a day yet) & see how it goes. I bought a ton of really cute gym clothes to help motivate me to move more.
Wish me luck! I'm going to have to take this weight off myself since it's obviously not going to just fall off!
I went ahead & tried the DVD for 20 minutes. It wasn't so bad. much easier to keep up with then the work-outs I've seen on FIT TV. I think I'll be able to do this a few times a week. I heading back to the YMCA tomorrow. My DS, 4 goes there for preschool 3 days a week, so I really have no excuse for not going now huh? I'm getting really excited! 
You are headed in the right direction, sounds like you have a good plan in place!
When passing out the daily after school snacks, I accidently grabbed a nutty buddy for myself! Then I stopped & looked it over real good. I thought "MagicalMom, now after eating this how will you feel?" I looked at it closer. At one point I even began to put it in my pocket for "just in case I want it in a bit" but luckily it quickly occured to me that it would melt. I took one mmore look at that darn nutty Buddy & decided that it would probably void out all of the hard work I had done with that work out DVD today. Then I put it back in the box & admitted to myself that I actually wasn't even hungry. Amazing huh? 
them, whoever invented them should win a Nobel Prize of some sort...
I was eating all the right foods and exercising like a fiend, but my portion sizes were way too big. When I started measuring my food and putting everything on FitDay (I try to stay between 1200-1300 calories per day), those 2 lbs came off the first week!
