kayeandjim00
<font color=purple>Now living in Onderland!<br><fo
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- Nov 10, 2002
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Hi Everyone 
I have enjoyed for so long reading everyone's journals and seeing their success and have decided that the journal will hopefully help me to stay committed and accountable for my choices. 
I joined WISH in September of 2003. I found these boards by accident and Tammy (PartyofSix) helped encourage me to come out of lurkdom and start posting which I did. I had just begun to lose weight in August and was on a 1200 calorie a day diet. DH and I were doing this together and actually started with a version of the Subway diet but soon got tired of that so we started learning how to cook and eat completely different than we had in the past. In September I also signed up for a WISH buddy who has really been a huge part of the reason I have continued on even despite gains and setbacks. At my lowest I was 185.6 (from a high of 243) That was in about Oct/Nov and has climbed steadily since then. I really gave myself too many "off days" that turned into "off weeks" during the holidays. I decided to begin the WW plan. I did lots of reading online especially here. I bought the WW points books but do not go to the meetings. I have found the switch over to WW very easy and I'm really enjoying learning about how to get the most bang for my points. 
I am finding how much I love fruit when I remember saying not even a year ago to someone that I didn't eat fruit because I didn't like it. My favorite foods at the moment are grapes and apples so that's quite a change. I actually told my DH that I'd rather have a big bowl of grapes than ice cream and he told me that was a victory in and of itself and I realized he was right. 
I hope that I'm making changes that will stick with me forever. DH is so supportive. He does anything and everything he can to help me and keep me motivated. He is completely easy going - especially about food and eats pretty much anything I cook and has become such an adventurous eater compared to the burgers and pizza guy I married. He lost 100 lbs and got to goal last year but has edged up a little over the holidays and is working on getting back to goal. He is lucky in that he doesn't have very far to go. DH is a runner and my goal is to be able to run 3 miles with him this summer in parks around town and down by the lake. I think that would be such a celebration of the changes I have made in my life to go from being the girl who parked as close to the mall as she could to the girl who's running around parks. I'd also like to run my first 5K in November. It's a local 5K that supports arthritis and is held at the zoo. My DH ran it in 2003 and I walked but this year I want to run!! I'm up to 1 mile without stopping on the treadmill and hope to be up to 3 miles by the summer and then will continue to try and improve my speed. Everything I've read about running says to concentrate first on endurance then speed so that's what I'm doing. DH and I joined a gym (the WI winters aren't very condusive to running ) on Jan 3rd and have been trying to stay committed to going. The yucky weather this week has made my motivation waver quite a bit but tomorrow I'll be there working doubly hard for skipping today My goal has been 3 days a week working on cardio and strength training but my true goal is to get this up to 4 days and maybe eventually 5. I'm additionally trying to eat a lot more organic foods. We have been trying new things every week and so far we have been really happy with all the things we have tried. I'm a big fan of a soy milk milkshake that we have found. It takes so decadent but only 3 points for a cup and has 2 g of fiber! I also want to learn more about portions so I can recognize right away when I'm served too much or have even served myself too much. I have been trying to always eat one serving of anything even if I have points for 2 servings so I can get more accustomed to what an actual serving is. I want my changes to last a lifetime. I want to continue to be healthy and take care of myself and not to ever have to lose this weight again. So that's a little about me.
As of my weigh in on Sunday I was down to 200 (down 7.8 lbs since January 3rd.
) I also lost 6" in two weeks. My goal is 144 and more importantly to be FIT! I plan to post often and to try to offer encouragement and support to all of you as well!
I have enjoyed for so long reading everyone's journals and seeing their success and have decided that the journal will hopefully help me to stay committed and accountable for my choices. I joined WISH in September of 2003. I found these boards by accident and Tammy (PartyofSix) helped encourage me to come out of lurkdom and start posting which I did. I had just begun to lose weight in August and was on a 1200 calorie a day diet. DH and I were doing this together and actually started with a version of the Subway diet but soon got tired of that so we started learning how to cook and eat completely different than we had in the past. In September I also signed up for a WISH buddy who has really been a huge part of the reason I have continued on even despite gains and setbacks. At my lowest I was 185.6 (from a high of 243) That was in about Oct/Nov and has climbed steadily since then. I really gave myself too many "off days" that turned into "off weeks" during the holidays. I decided to begin the WW plan. I did lots of reading online especially here. I bought the WW points books but do not go to the meetings. I have found the switch over to WW very easy and I'm really enjoying learning about how to get the most bang for my points. I am finding how much I love fruit when I remember saying not even a year ago to someone that I didn't eat fruit because I didn't like it. My favorite foods at the moment are grapes and apples so that's quite a change. I actually told my DH that I'd rather have a big bowl of grapes than ice cream and he told me that was a victory in and of itself and I realized he was right. I hope that I'm making changes that will stick with me forever. DH is so supportive. He does anything and everything he can to help me and keep me motivated. He is completely easy going - especially about food and eats pretty much anything I cook and has become such an adventurous eater compared to the burgers and pizza guy I married. He lost 100 lbs and got to goal last year but has edged up a little over the holidays and is working on getting back to goal. He is lucky in that he doesn't have very far to go. DH is a runner and my goal is to be able to run 3 miles with him this summer in parks around town and down by the lake. I think that would be such a celebration of the changes I have made in my life to go from being the girl who parked as close to the mall as she could to the girl who's running around parks. I'd also like to run my first 5K in November. It's a local 5K that supports arthritis and is held at the zoo. My DH ran it in 2003 and I walked but this year I want to run!! I'm up to 1 mile without stopping on the treadmill and hope to be up to 3 miles by the summer and then will continue to try and improve my speed. Everything I've read about running says to concentrate first on endurance then speed so that's what I'm doing. DH and I joined a gym (the WI winters aren't very condusive to running ) on Jan 3rd and have been trying to stay committed to going. The yucky weather this week has made my motivation waver quite a bit but tomorrow I'll be there working doubly hard for skipping today My goal has been 3 days a week working on cardio and strength training but my true goal is to get this up to 4 days and maybe eventually 5. I'm additionally trying to eat a lot more organic foods. We have been trying new things every week and so far we have been really happy with all the things we have tried. I'm a big fan of a soy milk milkshake that we have found. It takes so decadent but only 3 points for a cup and has 2 g of fiber! I also want to learn more about portions so I can recognize right away when I'm served too much or have even served myself too much. I have been trying to always eat one serving of anything even if I have points for 2 servings so I can get more accustomed to what an actual serving is. I want my changes to last a lifetime. I want to continue to be healthy and take care of myself and not to ever have to lose this weight again. So that's a little about me.As of my weigh in on Sunday I was down to 200 (down 7.8 lbs since January 3rd.
) I also lost 6" in two weeks. My goal is 144 and more importantly to be FIT! I plan to post often and to try to offer encouragement and support to all of you as well!
It seems when I get one part of my diet/exercise routine in a good groove. In this case I've been OP every day since going on WW Jan 3rd but the exercise has come harder to get into a routine for. Inspite of my goals and my brand new gym membership. If anyone has any suggestions for getting me MOTIVATED to use said gym membership I would appreciate it so much! 
Trying to get in more water as I'm way short of my goal and way short of the veggie goal as well. Working on my plan of attack for exercise next week and will update later with that! Here's a pic of my DH this morning at my inlaws. The road was not yet plowed and at 5'5" it was up to my knees! 
