Weigh in
so at the beginning of every month I'm going to post on how the weight lost thing is going for me.... at least try to anyway.
Just now I weighed my self at 280 lbs. Remember I am 5'6". I started this whole thing back in January where I weighed 329 lbs... and in May I weighed 300 even. So..... I have lost a total of 50 lb so far.
I still where size 40 or 42" waist pants. I don't seem to be loosing it around my stomach but more around my face and and upper torso.
My diet is sparatic and is not as good as it was during the school year. It is harder where I have to depend on my wallet and buy what I can afford and not to mention cook myself. All the foods I know how to make for myself are cheap of course cause I grew up poor but they are my mother's food and not good for me. That is probably what made me fat to begin with. However I can stretch a box of macaronni till it shits and don't even ask what I can do with a pound of hamburger, crackers, and a dozen eggs.
When I get my meal card back in the fall and I have the variety and accesibility of the dining hall I will be able to make smarter choices and urge the dietetic part of my weigh loss a little bit more. RIght now I live off stir fry, lean cuisines (which have way to much fucking sodium in them) and the occasional fling.... chinesse take out etc.. which is totally not good for me and I know it.
Well that covers food.. now to excersise.
I figure genetics can either work for me or against me. I will always be big.. so will I be fat or muscular? I combine weight lifting with cardio. I tread mill almost everyday, speed walking which gets my heart rate up to it's target range for about half an hour. I also go to the gym every week day. MWF I do upper body... Tues and Thur I do lower body. Takes me over an hour each time. I work each muscle group with about 4 sets or more and I sweat my ass of... it's so disgusting but feels so good!
My main consern now... is how am I going to be able to keep this excersise routine that I have adopted in the summer, in the fall as well. With a full course load, being in an opera, writting an opera, writting something else in private comp lessons with Mr. Foley, and god knows what else might fall down the tube, without going crazy!
So we will see, but I'm having fun. It's not hard. I always thought it needs to hurt and be hard but it doesn't have to be.
My 1 year aniversary of weight loss is January 20th, is it possible that I could lose another 30 lbs by then. It is early August, ya know. See, if I was to lose another 30 lbs.. then that would make a grand total of 80 lbs in one year which is pretty fucking amazing. Am I asking too much?
Just now I weighed my self at 280 lbs. Remember I am 5'6". I started this whole thing back in January where I weighed 329 lbs... and in May I weighed 300 even. So..... I have lost a total of 50 lb so far.
I still where size 40 or 42" waist pants. I don't seem to be loosing it around my stomach but more around my face and and upper torso.
My diet is sparatic and is not as good as it was during the school year. It is harder where I have to depend on my wallet and buy what I can afford and not to mention cook myself. All the foods I know how to make for myself are cheap of course cause I grew up poor but they are my mother's food and not good for me. That is probably what made me fat to begin with. However I can stretch a box of macaronni till it shits and don't even ask what I can do with a pound of hamburger, crackers, and a dozen eggs.
When I get my meal card back in the fall and I have the variety and accesibility of the dining hall I will be able to make smarter choices and urge the dietetic part of my weigh loss a little bit more. RIght now I live off stir fry, lean cuisines (which have way to much fucking sodium in them) and the occasional fling.... chinesse take out etc.. which is totally not good for me and I know it.
Well that covers food.. now to excersise.
I figure genetics can either work for me or against me. I will always be big.. so will I be fat or muscular? I combine weight lifting with cardio. I tread mill almost everyday, speed walking which gets my heart rate up to it's target range for about half an hour. I also go to the gym every week day. MWF I do upper body... Tues and Thur I do lower body. Takes me over an hour each time. I work each muscle group with about 4 sets or more and I sweat my ass of... it's so disgusting but feels so good!
My main consern now... is how am I going to be able to keep this excersise routine that I have adopted in the summer, in the fall as well. With a full course load, being in an opera, writting an opera, writting something else in private comp lessons with Mr. Foley, and god knows what else might fall down the tube, without going crazy!
So we will see, but I'm having fun. It's not hard. I always thought it needs to hurt and be hard but it doesn't have to be.
My 1 year aniversary of weight loss is January 20th, is it possible that I could lose another 30 lbs by then. It is early August, ya know. See, if I was to lose another 30 lbs.. then that would make a grand total of 80 lbs in one year which is pretty fucking amazing. Am I asking too much?