misslynette17’s BodyBlog

After all that hard work, my weight started slowly sneaking back up the scale.  It seems like I went from 172 to 180 overnight!!!  I can’t take it!!  I’m committing to workout 6x a week and get my calories under 1500-1700 and eat every 2-3 hours.  I can’t fully express how horrific it feels to be up here again.  But I’m NOT going to be here for long.  I refuse.  My love of the gym has returned and now its time to get my eating back in check.

So in viewing my progress I really did make great progress, I’m not where I want to be yet and it did take a long time to shed the weight thus far, but thats not going to stop me.  I really wanted it to only take a year to loose 60 lbs…. however it may take longer than that.  I’ve lost about 15 lbs of that 60 so far so 45 more to go.  I’d like to do it before this year is over, however we will see how long it takes.  Either way its getting done, and my story of weight loss will also be on bodybuilding.com!!  Everyday is one step closer, I have to make every food choice and workout count, plan my meals and drink my water.  Here we go, I may have slowed down but I’m not stopping til I’ve reached my goals.  The biggest thing is realizing this is a lifestyle change, not just a diet and kicking out junk food has to be a permanent decision in my life.  No more junk, out with the funk!

So in viewing my progress I really did make great progress, I’m not where I want to be yet and it did take a long time to shed the weight thus far, but thats not going to stop me.  I really wanted it to only take a year to loose 60 lbs…. however it may take longer than that.  I’ve lost about 15 lbs of that 60 so far so 45 more to go.  I’d like to do it before this year is over, however we will see how long it takes.  Either way its getting done, and my story of weight loss will also be on bodybuilding.com!!  Everyday is one step closer, I have to make every food choice and workout count, plan my meals and drink my water.  Here we go, I may have slowed down but I’m not stopping til I’ve reached my goals.  The biggest thing is realizing this is a lifestyle change, not just a diet and kicking out junk food has to be a permanent decision in my life.  No more junk, out with the funk!

So I couldn’t cut out the gym.  When I can get myself to go I  LOVE the feeling after.  Its such a wonderful natural high.  So I have decided to keep my gym membership and make sure to get my butt in there.  I am definitely scaling down my diet and cutting out the crap.  The bottom line is, if I want a tight fit body I have to cut out the excess food.  Period.  No way around it.  I’m giving up my dark chocolate and kashi dark chocolate oatmeal cookies that have been my crutch lately.  (man thats a hard thing to do, I’m addicted to chocolate)  But anyhow, I’m turning a new leaf.  I’m back on track and staying the course until I have reached my desired body composition about 20% bodyfat, weight between 125-135, waist between 24-26".  Here I go.  Please feel free to offer tips and advice. Thanks.

I just want to thank everyone so much who has commented on my post and offered advice.  I’ve put a freeze on my gym membership until I get my diet in check.  I know diet is key.  I think the main thing is just overeating, even though its mostly heathier foods.  And the occasional indulgence when we go out to eat or eat at my parents house.  I’ve got to find was to circumvent those obstacles and be prepared mentally to make better choices in those "sweetly sticky" situations.  So here I go, I’ll be charting my eating habits again and opting for lean salads rather than sandwiches, making sure I get my greens and veggies in there.  It can be done one step at a time.  Thank you again for all of the encouragement.  Slow and steady wins the race so here I go again.

I really just feel like its a battle I’m not going to win.  I want a different body but for me its so much work.  I have to completely change my lifestyle and its far from easy.  I so wish I could be one of those people with a naturally slender figure.  But I’m not, no one in my family is.  I used to think that if I worked hard enough and ate good enough and was consistent that that would do the trick.  3 whole months of the body for life program and granted I could have eaten fewer calories but I ate so healthy and worked out the 6x a week as recommended.  I think I only missed like 3 workouts the whole time.  And in that 3 months I only lost like 4 pounds of scale weight, I lost a couple inches and some bodyfat.  But all that work and little change is so discouraging.  I feel like I’ve run out of ammo.  I’m on E.  And on some level I know I would like to have a fit body but I feel like it is so out of sight.  If I knew that hard work would reap results I would do it but I feel like it just isn’t enough.  HELP.

Lol…. grrrr. I’m so tired of this excess body fat on my body.  Take it off.  I didn’t end up going to the gym yesterday but I went today.  It felt good.

Sometimes I feel like no matter how hard I try my bodyfat just won’t go away.  I know they say that if you stay consistent and keep a clean diet and exercise combining weights and cardio you will eventually loose the weight, but its like my body does not want to let it go.  And I want it off!!! Now.  Like 5 months of consistently working out and only 17 pounds… I mean that sounds like a lot but I’ve got so much more to go.  And I want it off now!  Help. Give me advice to get it off faster.  Maybe its a mental block.  I know my diet could use some cleaning up but even when I was super careful the weight comes off so slowly.

Ok Ok enough venting… I’m going to start keeping meticulous track of my diet and writing EVERYTHING down.

Diet suggestions?  Should I stay around 1200-1300 calories or is that too few?  Before I was eating around 1500-1600 calories a day.

So I’m going back to the gym.  And gearing up to concentrate really hard for the next couple of months.  My goal when I started this year was to go from my all time high of 188 to 130-140 by the end of the year.  I’ve been stuck around 171-173 for the past couple of months.  I know its mostly because I need to clean up my diet and cut out more calories and STAY CONSISTENT.  There is still time.  My short term goal right now is to loose 10-15 pounds each month until I meet my goal.  I think if I work REALLY hard I can do this in 3-4 months.

My major set back as I’ve mentioned is my eating, mostly because of cravings that kick in after days of doing well.  Another goal is to redicrect that energy of wanting to eat junk into working out or drinking water something to divert that craving.  Anyhoo… wish me luck!

This time I’m going to try to blog a little something everyday of my journey until I reach my goal.   Since seriously starting my weightloss journey I think I have identified my main problem.  I have emotional attachments to food.  When I initially started I knew I would have to carefully monitor and document my diet which I did for several months.  And that worked.  Than I did the body for Life Challenege.  I lost a little weight but mostly inches and bodyfat.  After the challenge I gave myself a "break" and allowed myself to indulge in past favorites like pizza, cookies and cake.  BIG mistake.  I had kicked my sugar habit and after the "break" I ignited the sugar freak within.  Now I find myself eating for comfort rather than for nourishment.  My energy is depleated and although I love the gym and working out and reaping the beneits,  I find it nearly impossible to musker up the energy to go.  I feel blahtastic.  No patience, no energy, little vitality.  I long for that clean energetic feeling I get from living a fit lifestyle.

My conclusion, there are just some things that I may not be able to eat or incorporate in my life.  I really have to learn how to make clean eating a permenate fixture in my life and incorporate the 90/10 rule not the 60/40 rule I currently have in place (eating healthy 60% of the time and unhealthy 40% of the time).

So here I go slowly but surely I will make it there. I know I can accelerate my results by cleaning up my diet.  Diet is key.  Eating to live not living to eat.

Wish me luck and feel free to offer insight.

After hitting my all time high of 188lbs (which is a lot for my 5 foot 4 inch body) I made a commitment to myself to loose the weight and get healthy.  So I got super motivated and got down to 171 lost some bodyfat and lost about 4 inches from my waist line.  I’ve plateaued at 173 and find it so hard to get motivated to go the rest of the way.  I worked SOOOO hard just to loose those 17 lbs, it took me nearly 4 months!!  My God.  So I’m muskering up the oomph and the drive and the want and cranking up the mojo to get back in gear and get down to a healthy weight of 135-145 by the end of this year.  I have to do it.  For my health and santity’s sake.