Winter is coming... and my pants don't fit!

buffinatorsov

Hi there. A friend asked me to sign up for this and Couch to 5K a couple weeks ago and I've been trying to stick with it. At my most I weighed somewhere above 240lbs (I was and am scale averse so Idk exactly what I weighed). in 2008 I dropped from 220 to 190 when I was doing casual MMA stuff and last august I decided I was overly fat when I got my wisdom teeth pulled and I was too fat for the anesthetic and kept waking up so worked at it and I got down to 210, but later reverted back to 230.

Right now, depending on whose scale you ask I am either 230 or 220 and I want to get down to 190<X<200 ish

My plan is to eat between 1200cal and 2000cal and burn back down to or below 1200 each day. I'm going to run twice a day using the C 2 5K app and lift weights morning and night. I need to do pushups somewhere in there and I need to build shoulder strength to do pullups.

I'm going to do my third weigh-in tonight but then I need to switch scales so its going to get wonkey. Here's hoping I've made progress!

-This post is getting kind of long and I'm realizing it's more of a self-reflective thing so you can stop here.-
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I've been doing the couch to 5K thing and it's my third week but I'm on the W2D3 run. So far I havn't gotten shin splints or anything! I'm looking forward to the winter so I can cross-country ski and I got a YMCA membership and have found I quite like the rowing machine. I also have my own set of adjustable 25lbs dumbbells and some 35lbs paperweights.

The thing is, I know I can lose weight... but I can also eat pizza and one of those sounds more fun than the other. The bane of my workouts is usually getting sick, those 2 days of "stay off your feet" advice is usually the end of my workout, and my diet normally ends at the one-two punch of thanksgiving, Christmas, extraneous holidays and celebrations where not eating to excess gets you disowned and the joy of a face full of cake eradicates all of the hard work before it.

So my goal is to maintain a healthy lifestyle, to pull of this weight and keep it off. My assets right now are supportive friends, exercise tools, and not having money to spend on too many snacks (XD). My liabilities are conflicting schedules, demoralization, insomnia, and lack of self-confidence.

I can resolve conflicting schedules by being self-motivating in my workouts
I can gtfs instead of watching netflix all damn night

maintaining diet, sleep, and friends should help ward off depression... but if not I'm not sure.
and honestly the confidence thing is a fxn of the depression (though oddly is inversely proportional to my actual overweightedness)

KLangleydoula

Sounds like you need some accountability and encouragement...feel free to add me!