my turn to rant..

When I joined my gym I was down 30 pounds and in the Oklahoma heat of 114 I couldn’t run outside any longer, this is what I told the representative who was showing me what this gym had to offer.. He asked me questions and since I have never been apart of a gym before he asked what type of goals did I have in mind.. I told him I wanted to lose an additional 15 to 20 pounds and tighten everything up.. maybe even add some muscle, I mean who wouldn’t want a little bragging muscle to show off to friends and family to show my hard work. He asked how long did I want to take to do this, and I said how about my 40th birthday. That is 18 months away October 21st to exact, he said perfect that is definitely a reasonable goal. He then set me up an appointment with a personal trainer and I went over the same goals. To be in my healthy body fat % range I would need to lose 20 more pounds. OK he was excited, easy he said anyone can lose 20 pounds in 18 months it’s a crazy goal he said, and you should move it up to like 6 months instead. OK whoop whoop I was excited too…. So I had thought….

Training 3 days a week with a trainer and two extra days alone each week, hiring a nutritionist/dietitian and 17 months later I am not down 20 pounds at all…. Infact all I did was gain muscle under my fat, making me appear fatter all around. Now on to my mistakes….

First mistake was listening to the trainer tell me I should be eating 1500 calories a day with the type of workout that we do… kickboxing, boxing, running, HIIT, circuits.. you name it we did it. …. That added 6 pounds with my measurements going up 2 inches in my waste and hips nothing else changed…., I maintained that for about 4 to 5 months….
Second mistake was listening to the eat more to lose on here people, that little stint add 11 more pounds in one month. Mind you I am still with my trainer and still at the gym 5 days a week.

So dropping my calories back to 1300 I was able to maintain, not lose any of that weight gain from the first two mistakes.

So off to the dietitian now, almost a mistake number three… when she took one look at the logs from my trainer and the logs from the gym of what machines I used and reps and weights she told me I should be at around 1500 to 1600 calories to just maintain my current weight… I laughed and told her I wasn’t going back to that high of calories again because of the last 11 pound gain. She said what I ate was good and to continue to just do what I am doing lol so I walked out and didn’t see her again..

So now I am at plateau again for almost 8 months now, so I went to see a weight doctor…. Not sure if that is mistake number three or not he told me to take my calories and start dropping them by 100 a week until I start showing a loss. I am down to 950 calories a day now and finally am showing a one pound a week weight loss.

To close this rant I started my weight at 154 and I am now at 163 weighing more then before I started the gym, this site and changing what I eat. I am 5 foot 4 and still in a size 14/16 at which I never got out of, by the way.

It is September 18, 2012 and my goal date of October 21st…. my 40th birthday. And I am farther away from my goal weight now, but slowly losing a pound here and there.