Hi.. I'm s0nali and I joined this forum because I needed to have another way of reminding myself that I am not the only precious little snowflake out there struggling with her weight. It seems like a place where good people encourage other good people so .. here I am.
Before I go any further, I want to say that I measure my weight in kilograms, not pounds, and here is why. I have always counted my weight before now in pounds, and numbers above a certain threshold made me feel guilty. The higher they went, the LESS motivated I was because I figured there was no turning back.
So then I moved to India, bought a scale, and the numbers are different. I know that I could easily convert them, but I'm bad at math and I can't do it quickly in my head. Kilograms do not have the same CONNOTATIONS to me that pounds do.
I weigh 73 kgs right now but I don't know, nor do I want to, what I weigh in pounds. I don't feel guilty about 73. I feel guilty about 160whatever it turns out to be. So I think in kgs and my weight loss is easier. So much of this is mental.
Quick facts:
Top weight (recorded): 76 kgs
Current weight: 73
Goal weight: 55
I weigh myself : only on Monday mornings
Main reasons for losing weight:
To keep up with A. playing tennis
To be able to fit in my old clothes so I can spend money on a wedding and not a new wardrobe
To make a healthy and active lifestyle a habit so I can be 80 years old (in 2058) and still travel around the world and swim
Biggest incentive to keep going:
The thought of playing tennis and frisbee with my future husband and kids and being an example of an active lifestyle, so they grow up with that as habit
Biggest pet peeve:
Random people who have never met me saying "You're a little fat. Maybe you should consider going to the gym?" (The weight doesn't melt off overnight, Einstein. And I *am* working on improving myself, while they are still stuck in a cycle of self-hate by pointing out others' imperfections. Why must they hate themselves?)
Favorite "this can't possibly be healthy" food:
Naughty salads! Take a boring salad of lettuce and cucumber and spinach and bell peppers and other things green, jazz it up with some chickpeas, roasted chicken, pineapple chunks and herbs, then put a dressing of yogurt mixed with a TINY bit of garlic. Healthy, but sinfully tasty.
Trigger foods (those that make you want to eat more and more, best avoided except on certain weekends and postal holidays):
McDonald's, especially Filet-o-fish and McNuggets
Pizza of any kind
Ice cream
Anything eaten at my 10:30 AM and 4:00 PM craving times
Favorite exercise songs of the moment:
4 Minutes by Madonna and Justin Timberlake (great for treadmill!)
Hi-Definition by Lupe Fiasco and Snoop Dogg (hip hop good for interval training)
Dus Kahaniyan (a seriously uptempo Hindi movie theme song that makes me work doubly hard on the elliptical)
and for cool-down, Bleeding Love by Leona Lewis
Okay, I have posted my dissertation so now I am going to go read some of yours.
hello from new delhi!
It's just a number in kg, but in lbs, it's suddenly an emotion. But, 55kg seems like a wonderfully healthy weight for your height. Very achieveable. You can do this!
Living in New Dehli, that's pretty cool. I traveled around India for a month but unfortunately never made it there. Loved the food in India though! And I know what you mean about the measurement thing too but mine was the other way round. I used to think in pounds, but when I moved to Korea I had to change to kgs. I seemed so light that I kept eating
Anyways that's why I have to have my weight in pounds regardless of what it's weighed in. Anyways I look forward to seeing more of you on the boards. You'll find plenty of motivation and information here for sure!
