I'm Manda, newb extroardinaire. I'm looking for a forum that's more populated than where I've been for a while. I want support and to make some friends. I want challenges, and to know I'm not alone.
About me... I'm 27, married, one child (a handsome toddler), full time employed, student, love to cook, play in the SCA, starting an online retail business, and among it all trying to reteach myself how to eat and exercise.
I know what it takes now. It's just the discipline that's left. Well, that, and I'm battling my thyroid. So it takes lots of extra work just to not gain weight. I'm terrible at saying no to things. Before my son, just eating generally healthy kept my weight low, so I never had to say no to the cookies. Now, they're just numbers to me, amounts of calories, and I'm trying to phase out of seeing them as tasty, too. The unhealthy food should look gross to me, or I should at least be able to have one taste and stop. I'm also really bad at making myself exercise. I'm a procrastinator. But I've been working on that, too, and I'm regularly getting 200 calories burned from exercise daily, so it's something.
My husband's being my negative reinforcement - telling me things like, "you know that cookie's going straight to your thighs, right?" It's actually really helpful. He pushes me to meet my goals and stay aware. But I need another level of support, other people doing the same thing. So I hope to make some friends, and you'll probably see me start popping up in the challenge threads
Hi There!
