Quick = bad; Slow = good
Being overweight can lead to an early demise
Pills are over-rated and NEVER work long-term
It has to be a lifestyle change
Shaming yourself to a size 0 never works
All goals can be achieved with a simple balance of strength/cardio, nutrition, healthy fun activities.
My observations
Every"body" is different/ diet and exercise will not change your DNA. No matter what you'll still look like you, just a thinner you.
No one formula works for everyone
It is impossible to change diet over-night because then you starve. Literally. I mean, what normal person grows up knowing how to cook with wheat germ?
For Myself
I've been paying attention to my own health since 2008. I've never lost more than 10 lbs. I'm not complaining, I'm a hot fluffy and I know it. And granted, I've never been all that consistent when it comes to exercise, but I have learned that six peanut butter and jelly sandwiches in an afternoon does no equal a snack.
I started at 201 lbs and lost the weight that typically comes with the first stretch grace to a life style change. Biggest Loser fans know it as Week One, the big numbers weight loss. I have been bouncing around the lower 190's ever since. The eternal Week Two!
A roommate introduced me to the show Biggest Loser and I learned some more things from that. I took a nutrition class and a couple of fitness classes in college and learned even more. All last year I was in the gym at least 5 times a week with my schools version of Biggest Loser, Biggest Winner. First as a contestant, then as a trainer. I know about the balanced diet and practice it the best of my abilities.
I'm still at or around 192-193 except now it's more like 194-195 because of the holidays and being home makes me too lazy to go to the gym everyday. But I did loose at least two inches all over the place.
Still, it's been five years, why no weight loss? I don't want to know because I'm depressed or anything, as I said, I'm pretty hot. I want to know because even with all of my fitness-know how that I have it just doesn't make sense that I'd lost zero pounds last year. It defies science.
My conclusion?
I like chocolate too much. It's a rare month if I don't have chocolate at least three times and always once around the same time. Being home where my mom keeps a store of chocolate chips doesn't help matters either. I keep having diet changes between coming home and going to school, plus school stress (stress causes weight retention), and I experience lonely/boredom depression when I come home that sometimes gives me the munchies.
Still, even with all these road blocks none of them are really big enough or consistent enough to explain my issue.
Hmmm I think I need to do some research....
But it hasn't all been for nothing. I would have quit long ago if it had all been about the weight.
I move more now than I used to. My lower back experiences less pain. The feminine monthly experience has been easier to deal with too. (Halle-freakin-lujah!) I can see/feel my muscles even if no one else can see them. (They can feel them though!)
So as far as I'm concerned I think I've replaced a lot of my fat with strength, but you can't see it.
I bring this up because I'm considering getting one of those online weight counter things that you post in blogs, threads and such. Like this one...
Maybe that will give me the extra boost to keep to my goals, or it might just make me depressed because I don't have a great record for losing weight at any rate at all. I wonder if they've come up with an inches calculator? I can loose inches in a month, I know that much.
I guess I'm just looking for some motivation. I workout best with people. Mom and I go for walks, but it's not the same as working up a sweat running on the treadmill and lifting weights.
I never thought I'd say this, but...
I miss school! I miss Biggest Winner and its motivating environment. I miss sweat, and the smell of disinfectant and machinery at work.
Eh, why not. It could work.
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