Lisa F
is a very wise woman
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Well after seeing the wonderful results of some people on the WISH boards who managed to document their journey, I wanted to also. I have a very long road ahead of me but in the spirit of positive thinking I thought a year from now it might be kind of nice to take a look back over the past year and see where I've been and how I got to where I will be a year from now. That must sound kind of confusing but since this is a journal I guess it really only needs to make sense to me.
I started a post here a few days ago outlining how I got to where I am today (basically yoyo dieting) but my computer crashed and I lost it. I wonder if that is a hint to not focus on the past so much but rather focus on the future.
Here are the basic facts. I have to lose more than half of my current body weight. I'm not sure I can say my current weight out loud just yet, maybe one of these days. I was diagnosed with hypothyroidism about 3 months ago after spending 3 long years trying to lose weight (on and off, but mostly on) without any results at all and many doctors who blew me off. I FEEL so much better on my synthroid that now I have hope that I will also be able to lose weight.
I joined in on WISH in January but then got busy with other stuff but recommitted to myself on Feb 15, the day after Valentine's day. My first week I lost 5.2 lbs, mostly water weight I'm sure, but it was encouraging. Tuesday is a weird weigh in day but I was ready to start THEN and I didn't want to wait until a "good" weigh in day. Ha! The highlight of my first week was a birthday party for my sister in which I managed to control my portions for dinner (turkey dinner with all the trimmings) and dessert (I had about a 1" sliver of birthday cake). These are all signs pointing to a good start in making a lifestyle change. I know that I have crossed from being in the "diet mode" to "this is just my lifestyle" mode when it happens almost without thinking and you don't feel like you are giving anything up. But the problem with that is getting too complacent and feeling like you can just go on autopilot. I know I can't, I have to think about this stuff all the time.
Anyway that's my first entry. I have a wedding to be in in approximately 15 weeks from tomorrow and my goal is to lose 30 lbs by then. That's 1.7 lbs/week on average after my first week weight loss. I also have a cruise in about 25 weeks and I figure I will shoot for a cool 50 by then. That's 1.8 lbs/week on average. Who knows if I will make these goals as my endocrinologist warned me that while the synthroid may make weight loss POSSIBLE it certainly won't make it EASY. I will be happy just to be good to myself for 6 months.
My other goal is to exercise for a half hour every day. I sort of faltered in that for two day because I had an awful cold. The next two days I still had a cold and I exercised anyway. It knocked the heck out of me for the rest of the evening but I was glad I did it. Finally the cold is on its way out. So every day, barring a physical reason that makes me feel that I can't, I want to do a half hour workout. Either curves or my 2 mile walk away the pounds tape. In the spring taking a bikeride will count too.
My other big goal is that I would like to walk the half marathon in 2007. Why not 2006 you ask? I have a lot of weight to lose and my family has a history of arthritis. My mother is a young woman (53) and had a double hip replacement a couple of years ago and now needs a knee replacement. I don't want to put my body under the kind of stress it will take to train an obese person to walk 13 miles at a 16 minute pace. I know I can do it, I'm actually rather fit in general for my size, but I want to at least have the "overweight" category in sights before I start training. For my height the border between obese and overweight is 180 lbs so I guess if I am firmly in onederland (meaning 190 lbs or so) I will feel comfortable training for such a thing.
So that's my first entry. I hope a year from now I can look back and smile and see that I hit some mini goals along the way, but also that I am closer to my bigger goals.
I started a post here a few days ago outlining how I got to where I am today (basically yoyo dieting) but my computer crashed and I lost it. I wonder if that is a hint to not focus on the past so much but rather focus on the future.
Here are the basic facts. I have to lose more than half of my current body weight. I'm not sure I can say my current weight out loud just yet, maybe one of these days. I was diagnosed with hypothyroidism about 3 months ago after spending 3 long years trying to lose weight (on and off, but mostly on) without any results at all and many doctors who blew me off. I FEEL so much better on my synthroid that now I have hope that I will also be able to lose weight.
I joined in on WISH in January but then got busy with other stuff but recommitted to myself on Feb 15, the day after Valentine's day. My first week I lost 5.2 lbs, mostly water weight I'm sure, but it was encouraging. Tuesday is a weird weigh in day but I was ready to start THEN and I didn't want to wait until a "good" weigh in day. Ha! The highlight of my first week was a birthday party for my sister in which I managed to control my portions for dinner (turkey dinner with all the trimmings) and dessert (I had about a 1" sliver of birthday cake). These are all signs pointing to a good start in making a lifestyle change. I know that I have crossed from being in the "diet mode" to "this is just my lifestyle" mode when it happens almost without thinking and you don't feel like you are giving anything up. But the problem with that is getting too complacent and feeling like you can just go on autopilot. I know I can't, I have to think about this stuff all the time.
Anyway that's my first entry. I have a wedding to be in in approximately 15 weeks from tomorrow and my goal is to lose 30 lbs by then. That's 1.7 lbs/week on average after my first week weight loss. I also have a cruise in about 25 weeks and I figure I will shoot for a cool 50 by then. That's 1.8 lbs/week on average. Who knows if I will make these goals as my endocrinologist warned me that while the synthroid may make weight loss POSSIBLE it certainly won't make it EASY. I will be happy just to be good to myself for 6 months.
My other goal is to exercise for a half hour every day. I sort of faltered in that for two day because I had an awful cold. The next two days I still had a cold and I exercised anyway. It knocked the heck out of me for the rest of the evening but I was glad I did it. Finally the cold is on its way out. So every day, barring a physical reason that makes me feel that I can't, I want to do a half hour workout. Either curves or my 2 mile walk away the pounds tape. In the spring taking a bikeride will count too.
My other big goal is that I would like to walk the half marathon in 2007. Why not 2006 you ask? I have a lot of weight to lose and my family has a history of arthritis. My mother is a young woman (53) and had a double hip replacement a couple of years ago and now needs a knee replacement. I don't want to put my body under the kind of stress it will take to train an obese person to walk 13 miles at a 16 minute pace. I know I can do it, I'm actually rather fit in general for my size, but I want to at least have the "overweight" category in sights before I start training. For my height the border between obese and overweight is 180 lbs so I guess if I am firmly in onederland (meaning 190 lbs or so) I will feel comfortable training for such a thing.
So that's my first entry. I hope a year from now I can look back and smile and see that I hit some mini goals along the way, but also that I am closer to my bigger goals.
to you for a quick recovery!
