Losing Myself

Here's a long boring post about muh lyfe. You have been warned!


A few people, especially those who follow me on My Fitness Pal, know that I have been slowly but surely trying to lose weight for the past few months. I don’t know what started it or why I decided one day that THIS was the day I would start to get healthy. I think that a big part of the change was due to me WANTING to be healthy. Know what I’m saying? From the very beginning, being SKINNY wasn’t my goal. Being healthy is more important than being thin] and I wanted to make a permanent and sustainable change in my life style so that I could increase my overall health and losing weight, which is also important in order to be healthy, was a by-product of this new life style.


I feel that a lot of people fail at losing weight because their goal is to lose those 10 or 15 lbs by exercising and starving themselves with gross salads and once they reach their goal weight they stop exercising and start eating the wrong things because, hey, they just lost 15 lbs! It doesn’t work like that! If you want to lose weight and keep it off you’re going to have to make permanent changes FOR THE REST OF YOUR LIFE. Otherwise you will always and forever be in a constant battle with delicious greasy foods and gravity will hold you down to the couch instead of getting out there and working out.


My story began last year one day when I weighed myself and got sad because that was the heaviest I’d ever been in my life. At the time, I couldn’t exercise due my back being all messed up and what not so I started making small changes to my eating habits. The hardest habit to break in the history of forever is not drinking soda or ANY sugary drinks. That’s right; I cut out sugary beverages one day COLD TURKEY. Ok, it didn’t actually work like that cuz soda is SOOO GOOD and fruit punch is also good. It was a slow and painful process, and especially difficult since soda is so readily available for me at work. Every time I would want to drink soda I would just get water instead. After a couple months I can honestly say that I have cut out all soda and sugary drinks from my diet! I do have a few sips of lemonade or diet coke every now and again, but my intake of sugary drink has been reduced to almost zero! Think about it: if you drink 32oz of coke let’s say, 5 times a week (and I hope you don’t actually drink that much!!) that’s approximately 300-ish calories PER DRINK. So have that 5 times a week? 1500 calories just by drinking soda once a day. Think of all that sugar you’re putting into your body!

 

The process what slow, but, all I drink now is unsweetened iced tea, water and milk. Oh yeah, earlier this year Vince, for some unknown reason, decided that he was also going to change his eating habits and what not. He eats better and exercises several times a week and he’s lost around 30 lbs!!! Anyway, uhhh where was I… Oh yeah, so, after my back was fixed I was able to start exercising! Vince and I started playing basketball a few times a week, I sometimes go to the GYM and walk for an hour while watching Grey’s Anatomy (so the GYM isn’t HELLA boring), I play Just Dance & DDR and, like a lame-o, I take the stairs instead of the elevator… unless I’ve just finished eating a fatty meal, in which case I take the elevator like a fatty cuz my knees can’t support my own weight!!


The point is, small changes, such as giving up sugary drinks, make a HUGE difference in the long run! I still eat pizza and have Chick-fil-A, the difference is that when I get the #1 combo I get iced tea instead of soda and replace the fries with a fruit cup and when I eat pizza I control how may slices I eat… cuz I never go past 4! LOLOLOL. If you want to lose weight and you’re not super motivated but want to eventually be healthier the best way to do is it slowly because the weight will stay off. And if you’re not starving yourself you’re less likely to binge eat one day because you’re having a bad day and you’re super hungry and all you wanna do is eat your feelings (be every other day lawl jk… kind of).


As of today, I have lost about 20lbs. My goal is to lose at least 20-25 more by my birthday which is January 28. I don’t know if I will be able to reach my goal weight by then since I’m kind of lazy when it comes to exercising. And if I do lose that weight (which I will eventually) I STILL have about 40 more to go. YEAH I WEIGH A LOT WHAT OF IT?! I think that I will be able to accomplish my goals because I realized before I started that these changes were for life and not just for this year, or the summer, or before summer in order to get ready for bikini season, or to be able to fit into those jeans I bought months ago in the hopes that ONE day they would fit (which, by the way, I tried on two days ago and THEY TOTALLY FIT!!) It’s a slow process but, so far, it has been very rewarding! I don’t see any difference in my physical appearance when I look at my body, but I KNOW changes are happening because all my clothes fits a lot looser, people have been asking me, “Did you cut your hair?!” which usually means they can tell I’m losing weight but maybe don’t wanna mention weight because I’ll punch them right in the face!!!


The most important thing of all is that I FEEL healthier. I have more energy, I have built up my stamina and I can play basketball and run up a flight of stairs without being winded. I would like all you pretty ladies out there who need to shed a few lbs to know that it IS possible and you don’t have to kill yourself to do it. Just start with small changes because all those small things add up! If you have a smart phone I also recommend My Fitness Pal to help you track your caloric intake! If you do get it add me! My username is marpizza (duh!)

 
Now if you’ll excuse me, I have to go stuff my face with BREAKFAST! It's the most important meal of the day so DONT SKIP IT!!!