Merry Christmas!!!

Well, it's finally the 25th of December!! Merry Christmas to all. Tis the season that brings families closer, joy all around... and an extra helping of mom's famous sweet potato pie!! j/k, I'll try to control myself.

Anywho, I lost another 4 pounds!!! Just weighed myself today. Now that I got the scale to work, I will take it back with me, and hopefully have updates for you more often.

I will be getting back to my workout routine on Monday when I am back in town (doing some small exercises in the meantime). For now, I will enjoy each and every moment I can with the ones I love!!

Bisous! ;)

Biggest Loser: Season Finale

As I was doing a little tele-surfing last night, I stumbled upon "The Biggest Loser: Finale". I've never really watched the show. When it first came on the air, I didn't enjoy how it made the general public feel about overweight people. I would hear people comment on the show, saying that it was bogus, that it exploits "larger people" and "demoralizes and dehumanizes them". The show turns them into some sort of side show. As time went on, I began to feel differently about the whole things, especially after last night. By the way, a BIG congratulations to Heba!! She is my inspiration!! She was the closest contestant to my current weight... and she's a woman, which we all know makes a big difference when it comes to the whole science behind losing weight.

After seeing how much weight Heba actually lost, I had to ask: how long did it take her to lose all that weight. I went onto IMDb.com to see if anyone was blogging about the show... and, oh man they were!! Every minute there was a new post. Go check it out sometime! So, I posted my question, and learned that it only took her 6 months to lose 100 or so pounds!!! That's amazing!! If she can do it, I can do it! Now I know they all went through a grueling, hardcore, boot-camp like experience, but I know that if I push myself, and make sensible choices everyday, I can reach my goal in record time... MY record time, that is.

I went to the gym yesterday, which was pretty fun, even though I pulled a muscle doing a new exercise. I also made the choice NOT to eat a $5 pizza afterwards for dinner. I have to say, every day that goes by, it getting easier and easier to make the right choices. I honestly feel great right now, and that feeling is NOT going away without a fight.

Cheers for now...

Gotta love it...

As each day goes by, I'm finding it harder and harder to resist certain urges, such as stopping to by fast food, $5 pizza, etc., when I don't feel like cooking. Thankfully, I have not given in yet, and I'm fairly confident that I will not give for quite some time. I just don't have the money for it, let alone the amount of exercise I would have to do to burn it all off! I did, however, have a "pasta" moment this past Saturday. I had 2 helpings of spaghetti with meat sauce... yikes! Luckily the calorie intake was not as much as I thought it was going to be. Still, pasta is very, VERY bad for you... except if it's wheat pasta? Now we're just splitting hairs!

I'm also still having urges to drink... a lot. Let me clarify: I have NOT had a drink since the Busch's holiday party, which was on the 5th of the month. I'm just having urges, especially when I get lonely and/or depressed. I'm trying to find ways to occupy my time right now, and I'll update you to tell you what's going on later.

Right now, I'm just taking it one day at a time, which is not always a good thing, but things will get better. I'm going to the gym tonight. I might push myself to exercise at least an hour today... should be a good thing...

Today was an interesting day. I was full of energy from doing a full-body workout yesterday at the gym with my co-worker Lynnette. I think I worked muscles I never knew I had! Afterwards, I wanted to see how much I weighed, since my sister is currently borrowing my scale. Lynnette cautioned me, telling me that checking your weight isn't important. It's actually discouraging. Well, I wanted to check it because I need to know where I'm starting from. Unfortunately the scale at the gym was not working. SO, I decided to check it today, before working out... and I wish I hadn't. Apparently, since my move, I've gained about 15 pounds. I haven't gained that much in 3 months since college!! I wanted to ball my eyes out right there in the gym, but I knew that once I started, that was it for me. Time to call it quits. So, I took a deep breath, said to myself that this is just temporary, and that I'm working on getting this weight off!! So I proceeded with my workout with my head held high. and had a GREAT workout.

I'm not going to document what I eat until January. I just want to get my body used to movin' again, and then shock it with an AWESOME diet. That's all I've got for today. I'm just a wee bit tired... mentally and physically...

First of many!

This is my brand new blog... a blog totally dedicated to documenting the chronicles of my weight loss journey!! But before I get into the details of that, I want to tell you a little about myself!

I am currently 26 years old and I live in a small town near the OH border: Temperance, MI. I've lived here for about 3 months now and it's great, even though I miss being close to my friends. I lived in Ann Arbor for 8 years, and was born and raised in Detroit, MI. I haven't been overweight all my life. I actually was a cute kid... confident, full of life, knew who I wanted to be. On my next entry I'll have to upload some pics! I started to gain weight when I was in the seventh grade. My father always told me that I was listening to the wrong people when it came to my self-image. To make a long story short, it got so bad that I actually stopped caring about what I looked like, and who I wanted to become. I simply let myself go.

Right now, I'm a size 26-28, and I want to get down to a size 8. I want to lose 200 pounds by Christmas 2009. I started my journey back at the beginning of December. I've never been in a relationship, and every time I try, there is resistance, either internal or external. I want to feel confident again. I want men to take a second glance at me. I want to be able to ride ALL the rides at Cedar Point again... and so on and so forth.

So, 200 pounds in 13 months...

There is just so much I want to say, but I will leave that for future journal entries. I just wanted to simply introduce myself. I hope that one day I can be an inspiration to others that are trying to lose weight, and have a happier, healthier life.

Cheers for now...