Day 2 - My story

skinnybjasse

So I'm hesitant to post but figured I might as well since everybody says you always diet better when you have support and people hold you accountable.

Today is Day 2 with MFP. I'm 5'2 and weighed in at Weight Watchers official scale last week at 167.2. My first intermediate goal is 153 (college weight) and then from there 135 which is the MAX I should weigh according to my height. To me this sounds crazy and I'm having a hard time imagining me at 135 but I've seen others do it on here so here goes...

In college I weighed 153 and I was still always the biggest gal of the group. I've always been active but love food too much to be skinny I guess. I ave no sense of portion control and while we mostly ate healthy at home, I don't remember learning anything about good/bad foods and healthy cooking tips. I don't even eat really bad foods, it's just the amount I think. Having MFP on my phone just for the first 2 days has really helped me realize what 'normal' portions really look like.

So fast forward from college 4 years and I'm in a job that I hate and commuting 1 hour each way, with a Chick Fil-A on the way home. What happens? I'll get a grilled chicken sandwich..but reward myself for a bad day at work with a strawberry milkshake each time. The result? In no time I ballooned to 178. Yay me.

I got things under control a bit but still hovered around 176. In January 2013 I said this is IT I have to do something real and permanent about this- I did not want to turn 30 and look miserable.

So that's where I started- my 1st goal was to look decent in pictures at my 30th birthday and I achieved that. With the help of Dance Trance classes 6 times a week ( sometimes for 2 hours straight) I was down to 170-169. With grad school starting, I don't have time for such an intense Dance Trance schedule and so I stopped cardio and didn't pay attention to food really but got down to 167.2 apparently.

On 6/28 I started a food diary and tracked my workouts that I do thanks to On Demand in front of the TV. I try to find high cardio interval training that is about 30 minutes, or 20 minutes with an additional 10 minute abs section. There is no excuse not to fit in 30 minutes of HIIT or TABATA or kickboxing abs no matter how busy my day is.

By tracking my food I found that I had no self control. Sure, 300 calorie micromeals were fine at work but then I didn't know what I was eating for breakfast and dinner so it could be anything. I needed to get smarter about this. I looked up Nutrisystem meals but decided they were too expensive and that there had to be a way to mimic their low glycemic foods at home.

My biggest fat problem is around the belly and the back. Yuck. So I looked up 'best ways to lose belly fat'. I thought if I did 1000 ab crunches that was my ticket. Oh no. Ab exercised are good to make you tighter and sure works the ab muscles but doesn't really make the blubber on top of the muscles disappear. Food was the best option combined with an all over cardio fat burn regimen. Ok, let's do this then.

I have 2 huge weddings coming up in September (28th) and October 5th (best friend and brother back to back weekends!). My next goal is to look good in those wedding pictures. So here's what's happening:

1200 calorie diet
Minimum 3 cardio sessions/week (30 mins) with abs
2 weight training session using my own body weight for resistance
Add additional fun stuff like paddle boarding, golf, tennis and walking to keep it fun
Low glycemic foods for snakcs, breakfast and dinner ( lunches will still be low cal micromeals...)
Lots of water and green tea ( green tea helps with ab fat apparently...who knows, can't hurt right?)

If I follow this, MFP tells me I can hypothetically get down 5.9 (let's say 6 for easy math...) by August 12th. That would hypothetically put me at 161 in about a month. That would leave sufficient time to get down maybe another 5 by mid September, having me back to college weight by the weddings.

Lot's of hypos for now. I'll be back on August 12th with report card