I am still a long ways away from my goal weight but I was browsing through my old photos and saw a quite a difference to the woman I see in the mirror now.
I used to live a very sedentary lifestyle. All I do is sleep till the afternoon, sit on the TV until it's late then work when everyone is asleep. I hardly go out unless it's to dine out with friends. But I had a health scare last July while I was eating steak in one of my favorite restaurants. At some point during a meal, I had a heart burn so severe I thought I was having a heart attack. I panicked which didn't help at all and for about a couple of minutes I was sitting there hardly breathing, sweating and thinking I'm going to die. That's when I said to myself, you need to make a change!
I started right away with exercise. I walk and cycled but still ate a lot. I didn't lose weight at all. Luckily, I stumbled upon MFP and I was able to start on calorie counting. Now I am very active with walking. I discovered the joy of hiking and I do it at least 3 times a week. I'm also starting to run and hopefully soon I can do a 5k race with friends. I've only started here on MFP on July 24th and so far I have lost 32lbs. A lot of people might say that it's such a fast and unhealthy weight loss pace but I've never felt this healthy/active ever. I struggle with eating my calories to be honest coz now I am afraid that every little I eat will make me gain but thanks to a lot of the friends I've met here and lots of information I've read through the forum, I know better that eating healthy and staying active is really the best way to lose the weight.
