Commencing Operation: Move your Keester!

[ImagineMeDisney]

Hello everyone, I'm slightly new to WISH, although I've been lurking around the boards for quite some time. I pop out every now and then to give advice and/or my opinion, and then I creep back to my lair...

Anyway, my name is Angela, I live in Ohio (Cedar Point area) and I need to change my life. I feel like I'm at a Meeting...
I'm 27 years old and I weigh 287 pounds. I like to eat, what can I say? Almost my whole family is heavy (except my skinny sisters and an aunt here or there) and Italian. Pasta is my weakness, along with any form of potato-ish substance, or brownies.

I decided to start this journal because, well, to be quite honest, I don't have any friends that are dieting, so they don't really offer me much support. My DH is trying, but he keeps saying "I love you just the way you are"...
great, fantastic.
I don't love me just the way I am!

so here's my plan: I've already lost about 16 pounds (yes, I weighed 303 a couple of weeks ago-woohoo for me!) and I guess I'll just keep doing what I'm doing to lose the weight. I've got a series of "rules" that I try to follow...I'm not around my weight loss journal right now so I can't remember them, but when I get a chance, I'll type them in.

anyway, right now I'm having a hard time with my lifestyle change (NOT a diet)...DH and I are staying at my parents' house while they're on vacation (to watch their dogs). My parents are NOT on a diet, and hence their cupboards/fridge are NOT full of diet food...you see where I'm going with this? Plus, my work-out routine is all out of whack...actually its non-existent right now. I still wear my pedometer to work, but the past few days, that's the only thing I've been doing.
So hopefully I can get back on track...all the crap food is almost gone from the house and I still haven't touched soda (3 weeks!) so I'm proud of myself for that, but I feel disappointed in myself for caving in to junk food.
I want to go home!!!
Okay, I'll post more later...

good luck, everyone!!!

 

[toystoryduo]

Welcome to WISH Journals, Angela! My name is Tracy and I live in Ohio too! (We live about halfway between Akron and Cleveland.)

That's great that you have lost 16 pounds already! Keep up the good work!

I understand how hard it can be to stay on track when your routine is changed. Just keep doing the best you can while you are at your mom and dad's.

Hope you have a great day today! Glad you've decided to join us! You will find a lot of support and encouragement here.

 

[eeyore25]

Hi Anglea,

Welcome to WISH!!! Glad you have joined us. This is a great place for support and encouragement.

Congrats on losing the 16 pounds!!! That is awesome!!! You are doing a great job!!!

Don't be too hard on yourself for the binges.....I say this to everyone, it's actually something I have come to live by. Today is a new day and you can start over. For the longest time I would fall off the wagon then I would beat myself up for days over it and then fall right back into my old habits. I don't do that anymore...it's tough not to, but I just look at it as if I can start over.

Keep up the good work!!!!

Have a great day

 

[Desiree]

Welcome to Wish Angela!

I love your "Move your Keester" mantra! Good luck starting to find the new you!

 

[eeyore25]

Hi Angela,

Just wanted to stop in and say hi Hope all is well.

Have a great day

 

[ImagineMeDisney]

Hello everyone!!

Thank you all for the well-wishes and support, its greatly appreciated.


OK, so in just a couple more days Operation:Move your keester will swing into full gear. DH and I are still at my parents' house, but they're on the road back from WDW as we speak...er...type, so by tomorrow night, I'll be back at my own home, with my healthy food and my good scale and my exercise bike. My best friend is doubtful that I'll be able to return to my healthy lifestyle (see why I chose these boards to get support?), since I only was eating right/exercising for two weeks before we came to my parents' house. She thinks the damage has been done. I'm out to prove her wrong. All I've been able to think about for the past ten days is getting home and getting back on my routine. Yes, DH and I have been eating horribly, but I look at it this way: we're away from our house for an extended period of time; in a sense, we're on vacation. You're supposed to eat badly on vacation, right?
My ADRs are made, our hotel is booked, and September is rapidly approaching (although not as rapidly as I'd like), I've got five months to lose about 50 pounds. I can do it! If I don't reach fifty, that's ok, I'll still have lost some weight...I won't be going to WDW weighing 300 pounds, and that's all that matters to me!!!

Now that my parents are coming home, I'll probably only post 1x a week, more if possible. DH and I don't have internet access, but I'll post back when I can and let you know the progress!

Again, thanks for the support, and GOOD LUCK TO EVERYONE!!!

 

[eeyore25]

Hi Angela,

You are right, you are going to prove your friend wrong....You can do this. Now that your parents are on their way home, you can get back on track!!!

You can do it....I know you can....you have a great outlook on your goal of 50 pounds by September...keep up that great attitidue

Have a great day