Weight Loss

Setting Weight Loss and Fitness Goals

10/26/2009

These last couple of weeks on my fitness journey have been a slippery slope. The change in weather/daylight has thrown off my exercise routine. And after 15 months of being in control of my food intake, recently, that’s been slipping too. Not measuring here, a little extra there, and really, how bad can that fun-size candy bar or handful of candy corn be in the overall grand scheme of things? Apparently pretty bad if I’m not accouting for it because inevitably one turns into two turns into too many to count. Not that I haven’t allowed myself candy or other goodies before. And not that I haven’t had days where I’ve eaten whatever I wanted. I do. It’s the way I’ve been able to stay in control this time. But, I was in control. Those days where I’d allow myself whatever I felt like eating were planned. And the...

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Developing a Healthy Relationship With Food

10/22/2009

I do not have a healthy relationship with food. Or should I say I don’t have a healthy relationship with the part of my brain that decides what and how much I eat. I so desperately would like this to change, and I’d been hopeful that it could, but I’ve come to the conclusion that it just isn’t going to. And I would venture to guess that for anyone with the food and weight issues that I’ve had most of my life, that relationship will never change either. It would certainly explain why so many people gain weight back after working so hard to lose it. When I started Weight Watchers last year, I was diligent about tracking every little thing I put in my mouth, even on the days that I was allowing myself to eat whatever I wanted. For 9 months, I knew exactly the number of...

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Fessing Up

10/20/2009

You may have noticed my absence from the blog world and even twitter this week. Well, not only did I fall off the edge of the virtual world, I more or less fell off of the “watching what I eat, exercising regularly” wagon as well. I can’t really pinpoint what did me in. A change in the weather (which I had hoped to conquer per my last post)? Stress? Hormones? I’ve been married for 25  years and I deserved a reward? An unrelenting urge for brownies? Whatever the cause, it derailed me big-time. From Tuesday through Friday, there was no exercise. And while I would start the days off eating healthfully, by lunchtime, I was throwing my food out of whack too. The result? I gained 5 pounds in a week. I got back on the exercise train on Saturday with a really strong 3-mile run. The clouds broke...

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A Note Of Thanks To My Body

10/05/2009

At my heaviest weight, I was 267 pounds. That was 15 years ago. Through the years, I dieted, stopped, exercised, stopped, dieted some more, and stopped again. Any of us who has a substantial amount of weight to lose can probably say the same thing. We rarely get it right the first time, or the second or the third time. When I started on my latest and last fitness journey in 2008, I weighed 230.2 pounds the day I stepped on the Weight Watchers scale. I happen to know that I’d managed to drop about 5 pounds before then. I weighed 167.2 this morning. That’s 100 pounds from my heaviest weight to now. Yesterday I ran 4 miles. Running 4 miles is something that I wouldn’t have attempted or believed I could do….ever. Certainly not when I was 267 pounds or 230 pounds. Not even when I was 18...

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Must Be The Weather

09/21/2009

It is officially fall today. And for the past couple of days we’ve had perfect fall weather. Crisp mornings, warm afternoons and chilly nights. No humidity and bright, blue sunny skies. This is my favorite time of the year on Long Island. I was walking at this time of year last year, having started my fitness quest in July, but I wasn’t running yet. That didn’t start until November, and then it was indoors, on the treadmill. Saturday, after 5 days off from doing anything, I went running. It was so gorgeous and I felt so strong, I ran a full three miles at a harder-than-usual pace for me. Could have been because it was chilly starting out? All I know is it was one of my best runs from a perspective of feeling strong and enjoying myself. Sunday, my legs reminded me that I shouldn’t really take 5...

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New Look, New Commitment

09/20/2009

I have finally gotten around to getting my blog moved onto its own site! This is very exciting, although I have a lot of work to do to transfer over all of my favorite links. I believe it will be well worth the effort, just like having gone from being fat to fit has been worth the effort. I’m recommitting to my weight loss journey as well. If you’ve been following my first blog, fatgirltofitgirl.wordpress.com, you know my weight loss has been sloooooooowwwww for the past couple of months while I’ve been concentrating on getting ready for my triathlons. With no races in sight until Spring, it’s time to put the focus back on making better food choices and getting to my goal. I’ve left Weight Watchers for a while, but I’ll still be following that program–with a few tweaks–because so far that has worked well for me. Why...

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