I'll introduce myself in a minute!
I should warn everyone that I have a tendancy to share
everything when I'm on a long term chat like this so I'm warning you, you will know me very well by the end of this. Some stuff you may not even want to know but I'll tell you anyway
Kim
I'm like that too!
I am only five pounds overweight but those pounds have been hard for me to get ride of! I'm only 5 foot 3" so even a couple of pounds makes a huge difference on me. I am very excited to get in shape.
Same height. And since I've been up and down and so close to goal, and so far...I swear, those last pounds are SO hard! I keep giving up 5 lbs from where I want to be and gaining so much more. I wish you all the luck I've never had with it!
I sit at a desk for 9+ hours a day and it totally screws with my metabolism not to mention that by the time I get home after an hour commute, i'm so drained. But NO MORE EXCUSES!!.
I found that working out before work/school worked best for me. It's painful if you're not a morning person, but can definitely be worth it! Plus your metabolism is raised a bit during the day thanks to the early exercise.
I have struggled with weight my whole life - I remember going on my first "diet" in 2nd grade. I imagine I will always struggle to some degree, but I am taking action now, before it gets too out of hand and for that, I am proud.
3rd grade here. I was a basically normal-sized kid surrounded by "bean pole" girls. And those girls hated their bodies, too (though I didn't know it then). We all wanted what we couldn't have. My mom always said that if we could have worn saris we would have looked great...but wearing clothes with waistbands and difficult inseams, etc...it's just hard when you're short and curvy.
I had a nasty comment made about me to my husband from DS8's teacher so instead of focusing my efforts on the 240 kids in the building, I'm working on me for a change. We'll see how long they can live without me.
Am picturing the Pretty Woman scene with that teacher...you saying "mistake. BIG mistake."
I also have a quick question. I do not have a high posting count and tried to send a pm to join and received a message that I can only pm certain people because my count is only at 4. How should I send my weight since I can't PM?
POst more. It's 10 or 15 or something like that posts before you can PM.
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Looks like my name got lost in the thread move. I'll PM soon.
I'm Molly. Just turned 40, have been out of control, off and on, for a good 10 years. It's NOT good. I eat a basically good diet, and I don't really overeat, but I'm a person who just NEEDS exercise. Have to have it. But I'd been jogging since I was 10 (when jogging was all the rage), PE in high school, runs with my big dog the rest of my teen years...took a year off as a freshman in college, but joined Crew for the last 3 years. Worked out like crazy while in grad school, got into GREAT shape but I refused to believe it! Couldn't see how great I looked. Worked out hard another year out of school, moved back to WA, and it all fell to pieces. I was just so TIRED of working out and still *feeling* fat. What I needed was a big smack from my friends, but they were never very complimentary. Too competitive, I guess. Weird, to have friends like that.
With my degrees, I *know* what I should be doing. I could get a job as a trainer (but no one would listen to me right now, LOL). I just...don't do it.
But we joined a gym back in Sept, and exercise is now a habit (a habit I can forget about, like I did last week, but today I'm working out in a few hours). Plus DS is signed up for all these classes at the Y, so I work out before or after his classes. I'm there anyway, right?
So my focus is the exercise, b/c it works so so so well for me. In my silly scale nonsense I described in the other thread, I did figure out that I'd already lost upwards of 15 lbs (though I gained about 3 back last week) since starting at the Y. So that's exciting and encouraging!
Beyond living longer and healthier, feeling better, staving off knee replacements (horrible joints on both sides of my family; all but one of my uncle/aunts on my dad's side have had something replaced already), and being able to keep up with my son, I want to be healthy for a future pregnancy (still trying!) b/c I was NOT healthy with my first one and it was miserable. And I'm much heavier now than where I started that one... And also, I want to be able to have a great WDW trip next year, without dying from the heat (if there's heat next year December) or exertion (planning a LONG trip to Orlando).
Lots of reasons to drop this fat!