Reached my short-term goal
I first started this journal in August, when I was 248 pounds. At that point, my short-term goal was to be in the 220s by mid-November... I was going back to my doctor for a follow-up on my thyroid medication and I would be seeing my boyfriend for the first time in three months.
This morning - the morning of my short-term-goal - I weighed 199. ( Read more... )
This morning - the morning of my short-term-goal - I weighed 199. ( Read more... )
My approach has changed a little, although not as much as it could/should have. I still am not comfortable talking about my weight loss efforts with my boyfriend. He lives 500 miles away normally (and he's been in Greece for the past seven months!) so the day-to-day changes I've made haven't affected him in the slightest. Which is part of the problem, really: when he's not around I can do what I think is best for me - keep my own exercise routine, prepare and track my food, and so forth. But when he's around my regular schedule is disrupted anyway, so it's so easy for everything to go out the window (which is what happened over the summer. Hooray for getting to spend the summer together, but boooo for regaining thirty pounds). I have begun talking to him more about my fitness goals, though - he and I are doing the 100 push-up challenge together, trying to see who will get to 100 first (I'm in the lead!), and we've talked about taking up running when he's back in the States. So that's a start.
Recently I've decided to focus less on quantifiable data. I have a tendency to get hyper-obsessive over things, and when this was written I was tracking everything: minutes spent doing various activities, calories in, calories out, weight every day, etc. It became very unhealthy. I would eat at irregular times because all that mattered was the numbers at the end of the day, and I was eating stuff I didn't like for the sake of eating low-calorie food (Lean Cuisine, I'm looking at your rancid carcass). Now I've stopped weighing myself and tracking calories, and I'm just focusing on *healthy* living: keeping regular meal times, preparing healthy meals for myself instead of ordering in all the time, making sure I spend part of the day doing something active, and so forth. It's made me a lot happier, that's for sure.
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