Sharon's coaching thread

If it's OK, I would like to start this thread too. I am a complete newbie. My whole life I was pretty much a stick, and never worried about what I ate or how much I worked out. ( I know, I know)

I had three kids, no problem. I was always around 125. I began approaching 40, and what the heck happend??!! Suddenly I was 143! Maybe it was being stationed in Germany and all that good European food, maybe it was the fact that i wasn't nursing babies anymore. So my hubby and I started the Atkin's diet, 2 weeks later our lives were forever changed.

He went in for shoulder surgery and never woke up. "Something" happened to his Oxygen , nobody "knows" what, but half his brain was killed. So, 2 weeks of coma, 4 brain surgeries over the course of a year, 2 months of living in rehab, then 2 years of outpatient rehab, and raising 3 small children. Needless to say the first time a friend brought me a diet mt. dew to the hospital bedside I laughed at them and say "screw this diet, life's too short, give me a real one!" Needless to say, being on the first two weeks of the Atkins diet had primed the pump. He, in a coma, and me stressed out and not able to eat, let's just say we both lost weight in a truely unhealthy way. No need to diet then.

So now here we are going on 7 years later, and I'm was up to 155. The same weight I was 9 mos PG!!!! We are as back to normal as we will ever get, BUT it's time to take care of me again. So, I don't know how to diet, I have never really worked out. And now I am pushing 46 and look like my Mom from the waist down. For some strange reason I don't really want to try the Atkin's diet again...

For Lent I decided to give up pop and sugary drinks. I lost 2 pounds(oh yeah, I had the flu too, lol). My friend introduced me to MPF a few weeks later. I began tracking my weight and comitted to exercising 3 times a week for an hour each, and 4 pounds came off in a week! Then Mother nature came to visit and I've been working out at the gym 4-5, maybe 6 days a week. Aerobics, MWF, T n Sat elypcial 30 min, strength weight training circuit for 50 min. And nothing! no gain, no loss for the past two weeks. I've been having probably one day a week of not so great eating, Sunday dinner at Grandma's. I try to work out ahead of time(so sometimes 7 days a week of working!). But i'm stymied.

So now I am reading blogs, and posts. I'm soooo sore from working out,it's like my ribs are brusied. I know I am getting results. My back bulges are gone, my "permanently" tied pj bottoms are hanging low, and I can see my stomach starting to tone up! So I know I am doing good. I just would like to see that scale start going down again! Or even a few inches lost???Maybe I'm just impatient?

Phew! What a lot to post!

My goals: get back to 125#. I am currently down to 149, but depending on which way I lean on my scale I can see 153 or 146! lol I am, or was in my younger days, 5'7"; I might be closer to 5'6" these days. ;-)

My MPF daily calorie intake is supposed to be 1200. I am trying to eat back my excercise calories, some days that's not a problem, and some day's I'm a couple hunded under. But I get full! Never have been a big eater, always eat 1/2. Biggest problem was my love for mt. dew, and tea with my sugar! lol But I'm off that stuff now. MPF say's i should be losing 1-2# a week, but I'm not. I have been religious about tracking everything for 25 days! Who knows. I certainly don't.

Anyway. Hoping to get help here. Am I being impatient????

Good morning! It's my "rest" day today so I think I'll wake up my 18 yo daughter and make her go for a bike ride with me. :happy: Wish me luck...I'm gonna need it. Lol!!