Lauren’s Weight Loss Journey

I’ve gotten up to an hour on the treadmill straight and have finally found a Treadmill website that I can enter in my weight and all the info about my workout and figure out how many calories I’ve burned. So excited about that! My dad fell on his way to check and see if he had a blood clot and bruised his ribs severely.. We spent 4 hours in the E.R. and then had to go to walmart & to fill his medicine and all so it had been like 12 hours since I had eaten and it was now midnight, so I had McDonald’s, and I ate what I wanted. 10 piece nuggets, large fry, and large coke, and it wasn’t near as good as I remembered. Don’t get me wrong, it was good, but not as much as I used to think. But then we were kinda off of it the next day and ended up ordering a pizza. The pizza WAS as good as I remembered, if not better. But I’m not willing to let this end my journey. So tonight, I’m going to do some TaeBo and then tomorrow I’m getting back to the gym. On a good note, I’m down another 7.1 pounds this week! That put me down 25 pounds from my highest weight (01/02/2010) and puts me exactly 25 from my first goal (under 300 by June 24th)! So I’m excited. I just have to lose an average of 2 pounds a week for the next 12 weeks to achieve that, so its definitely attainable! Anywho, I’m gonna get off here now. Hope everyone is having a blessed Good Friday and hope you all have a Happy Easter!!

Yayyy! 5.6 pounds down this week! Sooo excited.

Non Scale Victory: 40 minutes straight on the treadmill! So proud of myself.

So this morning I got up at 9.. good for me. I had a delicious breakfast (4 egg white omelet, 2 pieces of whole grain bread, brummel & something butter, a banana, and a coke.) And I’ll be leaving in about 10 minutes to go work out.. 40 minutes is my goal for this morning.. gonna try to do 40 again tonight too but we’ll see.. I don’t want to overdo it! Update later.

I may have missed my date with the elliptical this morning but I more than made up for it tonight!! I only did 5 minutes on the elliptical tonight but I did 35 on the treadmill!! I hadn’t even been doing 20 minutes yet, and I did 40 tonight!! Its very motivating to me to see that I can do ANYTHING I put my mind too!! I’m so exciiiiiiited!!!

Yup, I had every intention of getting up at 830, having breakfast and heading to the gym. But when I didn’t go to bed until after 2 this morning, 830 just didn’t happen. My alarm went off and I could have sworn it was still dark outside! ha. So, I turned it off and went back to sleep until 11. So, I just finished my delicious breakfast (4 egg white omelet w/2 pieces of turkey bacon chopped up inside it, a banana, and a whole wheat mini bagel with some brummel & something butter) and I also had a coke (because I’m still wheening myself off of them. I’ve cut down from between 4-6 a day to 1 each morning… So I’m doing better. When I finish this 12 pack off, thats it. I won’t buy another one!). I’ll be heading to the gym in a few and get my workout on! This is probably the most I’ve ever worked out at a time and I am proud of myself! This makes day 8, and I’ve worked out 7 of those. So, I’m really excited for myself too! But I swear, my dreams are about food/drinks now. Is that weird? I swear I’ve never known you could dream about a chocolate milkshake for so long. It felt like 6 hours! Haha. And I don’t even drink chocolate milkshakes except for maybe once a year!! Oh well though, I’ll manage. Well, I’m jumpin up off here and going to get ready to head to the gym! Hope you all are having a fantastic day!

Its been a LONG time since I’ve posted on here.. Almost a year. And some stuff has changed since then. I’m now 23, and on Tuesday, March 16, 2010 I weighed in at 337.4. So I’ve gained some since the last post. But thats okay. I just have to get it off now. I’ve lost 3 pounds since then. I started watching what I eat on Thursday but started exercising on Sunday the 14th. I exercised everyday besides yesterday cuz yesterday I was feeling kinda lightheaded and dizzy all day, so I took a break. I’ll be going back to the gym tody. I really can tell that this time its different. I am READY for this and can take on anything thats thrown my way! The first day in the gym, I was only able to do 3 minutes (not straight, breaks in between) on the elliptical, 3 minutes on the bike (also with breaks in between) and 10 minutes straight on the treadmill. But as this week has progressed, I was able to do 6 and a half STRAIGHT minutes on the elliptical and then got on the treadmill after that and did 10 straight minutes. I’m so proud of myself. I’m really enjoying trying to do better each day. I’ve set some goals that I feel are definitely achieveable if I work hard at it. My first goal is to give up cokes. My second goal is to diet and exercise on a regular basis for a full month (which is going great so far!) and my third goal is to lose 38 pounds total by June 24th. My mom is getting married that weekend and I’d like to be under 300 by then since I’m a bridesmaid! so those are my first three goals and I’m on my way to achieving them! I’m on the ball now! So, I’ll be updating on here at least once a week on Thursdays (my weigh in days!). I may do more in between with tips I’m finding handy or recipes! Hope everyone out there is doin great!

Hi everyone! Hope all of you are doing great today. I’ve decided that I want to blog this journey so that I can come back and look on all my posts throughout this period of my life. My hopes are that this blog will inspire someone to begin their own weight loss journey (and of course, keep in touch with me!) the way a certain two people have inspired my own weight loss journey. I guess first things first, I need to let you all in on a little about me and how I got to the place I’m at now. My name is Lauren. I’m 22 years old. I’ll be 23 in November and can’t believe I’m already going to be this old. I’m currently living in Western Kentucky with my mother and sister (who are also on their own weight loss journeys!!). I’ve always been an overweight person. Its so hard for me to grasp the idea that I could one day be a skinny, healthy person because I’ve never been that person. But one day I will be! I was overweight as early as the first few grades of Elementary school and have just kept gaining ever since. 2006 was a rough year for me. I lost my Meema in June that year and then my engagement to my fiance ended that November. That took a big toll on my already overweight body. A 100 pound toll over the next 2 years. Now, I’m at a sickening 321 pounds. I’m down already from 332, so I guess thats a start. I’ve decided this is the time, the year, that I’m going to do this. This week, I exercised for the first time in years. My mom and I went walking on one of the tracks at one of the local parks here. And after we were done and had gotten back to the car, I just started tearing up. I couldn’t believe that I had allowed myself to get to the point that I couldn’t even walk more than a mile. But my mom (who has already lost 100 pounds on Weight Watchers, but still wants to lose 40-50 more) said to me: Don’t focus on what you can’t/didn’t do. Focus on what you did! And that was get up off the couch and exercise for the first time in years. And although I couldn’t walk more than a mile, I felt good about myself again. So the next day, I got up off the couch and walked a mile on the treadmill at the hotel where my sister works. Then, I took a day off. Then, exercised 2 more days. Now, I’ve taken another day off. Each of those days I walked a mile. And although some may not see this as a big acheivement, it is for me. My goal is to make exercising a daily habit in my life. I want it to be second nature on a daily basis, just like showering is. So, thats where I’m at now.

Now, I want to go ahead and shout a special thank you to my beautiful mother & to Tara from the Biggest Loser Season 7. Both of these people have inspired me beyond belief. My mother has lost 100 pounds on Weight Watchers, and Tara lost 135 pounds on the Biggest Loser. These women are phenominal.

Comments would be great! Keep me in your prayers please, and also my mom and sister. :]

Also, if someone could tell me how to post pictures on here, I’d like to post some. Thanks!