6 down!!! My birthday present to myself

neeterskeeter

Hello fellow myfitnesspalers. I just had to share the good news. Today I stepped on the scale and it said 133! I started out this journey a couple months ago at 139... I'm not even 5'2" and small boned, so that was quite a lot for me and I thought, time to do something about it. I went on a crash diet, as usual, and lost about a pound, then gained most of it right back. I would lose a couple, gain a couple, etc. and it was so frustrating. I *knew* could be in good shape if I was dedicated (the picture to the left is from over a year ago when I was training for a trail race that consisted of running 5,000 feet up the Sandia Mountains... I had not looked like that since I finished the race.) So I thought, it's time to get dedicated and stop this madness.

That's when I found MFP, at about 138 lbs (in the midst of rising and falling with weight due to my crash dieting and crash workout plans etc.) I soon lost a couple pounds. Then I fell off the wagon for awhile. Again, yo-yo'ing. It felt like it would take me *forever* to lose the weight I wanted at the .9 lb a week rate that MFP prescribed for me. So I just stopped trying. In October I found a chart I had made when I started MFP, listing the pound or so I would lose each week, up to (what was) my goal weight of 125 by my birthday, which is on Tuesday. I realized that if I had stuck with it, I would have been almost half way there, and that was way better than what I was doing (nothing, or crash dieting).

So, I came back. I have been doing things the right way, slow and steady. I had a bump over Thanksgiving vacation when I was visiting my family in PA where I ate more than I should have, so I re-gained a little bit, but when I came home I knew how to eat well again and work out, and now I am dropping weight right on schedule!! The Thanksgiving bump did not deter my progress... on my new and revised (since coming back to MFP in October) weight loss chart, I was supposed to be at 133.7 today, and I am at 133.0!

I only have 8 more pounds to go until I reach my goal of 125. Even though it won't happen by my birthday (now it's set to happen by Valentine's Day hee hee), I am so proud of myself for sticking with it, staying patient, and not getting discouraged. I feel that this is the best birthday present I could have given myself!!! It's not even about the numbers, it's more about feeling healthy and realizing that I *can* get trimmer and stay trimmer if I stay focused. The numbers coming down sure do help me stay inspired though.

Good luck to all of you in your journey.

neeterskeeter

Hello fellow myfitnesspalers. I just had to share the good news. Today I stepped on the scale and it said 133! I started out this journey a couple months ago at 139... I'm not even 5'2" and small boned, so that was quite a lot for me and I thought, time to do something about it. I went on a crash diet, as usual, and lost about a pound, then gained most of it right back. I would lose a couple, gain a couple, etc. and it was so frustrating. I *knew* could be in good shape if I was dedicated (the picture to the left is from over a year ago when I was training for a trail race that consisted of running 5,000 feet up the Sandia Mountains... I had not looked like that since I finished the race.) So I thought, it's time to get dedicated and stop this madness.

That's when I found MFP, at about 138 lbs (in the midst of rising and falling with weight due to my crash dieting and crash workout plans etc.) I soon lost a couple pounds. Then I fell off the wagon for awhile. Again, yo-yo'ing. It felt like it would take me *forever* to lose the weight I wanted at the .9 lb a week rate that MFP prescribed for me. So I just stopped trying. In October I found a chart I had made when I started MFP, listing the pound or so I would lose each week, up to (what was) my goal weight of 125 by my birthday, which is on Tuesday. I realized that if I had stuck with it, I would have been almost half way there, and that was way better than what I was doing (nothing, or crash dieting).

So, I came back. I have been doing things the right way, slow and steady. I had a bump over Thanksgiving vacation when I was visiting my family in PA where I ate more than I should have, so I re-gained a little bit, but when I came home I knew how to eat well again and work out, and now I am dropping weight right on schedule!! The Thanksgiving bump did not deter my progress... on my new and revised (since coming back to MFP in October) weight loss chart, I was supposed to be at 133.7 today, and I am at 133.0!

I only have 8 more pounds to go until I reach my goal of 125. Even though it won't happen by my birthday (now it's set to happen by Valentine's Day hee hee), I am so proud of myself for sticking with it, staying patient, and not getting discouraged. I feel that this is the best birthday present I could have given myself!!! It's not even about the numbers, it's more about feeling healthy and realizing that I *can* get trimmer and stay trimmer if I stay focused. The numbers coming down sure do help me stay inspired though.

Good luck to all of you in your journey.

stylistchik

Way to go! we're all in the same boat and we're all here for you!! congrats on sticking with it!!:bigsmile:

neeterskeeter

Thanks! I'm so proud of all of us!