JerseyBallerina
Mouseketeer
- Joined
- Dec 6, 2003
- Messages
- 230
I've been reading some of your journals and I am very impressed with all of your hard work and determination. I just need somewhere to come everyday to make myself accountable for what I've done and what I've eaten. I can promise myself that I'm gonna change my lifestyle but if I don't have to report it to anyone, I find myself cheating most of the time (who am I kidding? I cheat all the time).
Okay, so here's my background info:
- age 21, leading a basically sedatary life and eating the basic college junk food while living away at school
- 5'3, about 125 lbs
- I don't plan on losing much weight, I just want to firm up and gain muscle, especially in my stomach and arms.
- My family also has a history of heart disease and diabetes so I want to try to prevent that. My cholesterol is not high according to the standards, but it is high for someone of my age, weight, and height.
- I was a pretty serious dancer between the ages of 4 to 18, but once I went away to school I stopped. I was also exercised 6 days a week and ate a pretty healthy diet. But once I went away to school, it became harder to find the time to exercise and the resources to eat healthy.
- I don't live on campus so I don't have access to the school's gym so I'm gonna try to do as many exercises I can in my apartment without any equipment. I found a routine that I'm gonna try to start to do three times a week and then work up from there.
- My goals are:
- drink 2.5 liters of water a day
- take a multivitamin every day (very easy to forget)
- reduce my carb intake (which is the majority of my diet)
- limit snacks and eat three meals a day (usually, I just eat snacks all day, not having any real meals)
- not eat after 8 PM (when I do most of my snacking)
- do exercise routine
I have a pair of jeans that fit me perfectly in August and now cause me to have the very attractive "muffin top"
. I hope to fit back into those jeans and that will be my first real goal.
Overall, I just want to become healthier so please no flames for my starting weight. People think that just because I'm thin, I'm healthy, but I'm not. I have little to no endurance and I'm tired all the time. And as my mother points out every time I'm home, my metabolism won't be like this forever.
So, tomorrow is my starting day and hopefully this won't be the last you'll see me.
Okay, so here's my background info:
- age 21, leading a basically sedatary life and eating the basic college junk food while living away at school
- 5'3, about 125 lbs
- I don't plan on losing much weight, I just want to firm up and gain muscle, especially in my stomach and arms.
- My family also has a history of heart disease and diabetes so I want to try to prevent that. My cholesterol is not high according to the standards, but it is high for someone of my age, weight, and height.
- I was a pretty serious dancer between the ages of 4 to 18, but once I went away to school I stopped. I was also exercised 6 days a week and ate a pretty healthy diet. But once I went away to school, it became harder to find the time to exercise and the resources to eat healthy.
- I don't live on campus so I don't have access to the school's gym so I'm gonna try to do as many exercises I can in my apartment without any equipment. I found a routine that I'm gonna try to start to do three times a week and then work up from there.
- My goals are:
- drink 2.5 liters of water a day
- take a multivitamin every day (very easy to forget)
- reduce my carb intake (which is the majority of my diet)
- limit snacks and eat three meals a day (usually, I just eat snacks all day, not having any real meals)
- not eat after 8 PM (when I do most of my snacking)
- do exercise routine
I have a pair of jeans that fit me perfectly in August and now cause me to have the very attractive "muffin top"
. I hope to fit back into those jeans and that will be my first real goal. Overall, I just want to become healthier so please no flames for my starting weight. People think that just because I'm thin, I'm healthy, but I'm not. I have little to no endurance and I'm tired all the time. And as my mother points out every time I'm home, my metabolism won't be like this forever.
So, tomorrow is my starting day and hopefully this won't be the last you'll see me.
