Greetings,
I just wanted to introduce myself to everyone. Anyways, I'm 26, married (since July 05), and I'm a graduate student. I'm 5'7 and weigh around 175 pounds.
My story:
Seems as if I have always been aware of my weight and have been trying to control it. For the last 4 years my weight has always flunctutated in the 165 - 170 pound range, but then two weeks ago I was up to 180 pounds so I knew I needed to make a change. My mother is always telling me to "take care of myself" because diabetes run in the family. I've always been a little chunkier than my brother and sister so I guess she felt that it was important to stress it to me. 3 years ago I did Weight Watchers and lost about 25 pounds (got down to 148), but we all know that if you don't stick to the principles then the weight comes back. Oh, I love Weight Watchers by the way. In Jan. my husband and I did Body for Life. From WW, we had a good background on the food aspect (small portion, high fiber, whole grains), but BFL helped us really develop an exercise regimen. We stuck to the program for about 4.5-5 months (lost 12 pounds, BF went down by about 10%, and my overall fitness and endurance really improved), but Life came in the way (husband is a computer consultant and got a client out of state, and I did my proposal for my research and had no time) and well we fell off.
From BFL we felt so great though about our fitness that we decided to sign up for the Chicago Marathon. But since the time that we did BFL and the time that we signed up for the marathon, I had gained back all the weight and even more (that's when I went up to 180). So right now we are training for the marathon, and I'm focusing on trying to lose some weight. My goal is to be a size 8 (okay really a 6, but honestly I don't know if that is possible so I say a size 8). I figure I need to be around the 145 - 150 pound weight for the size 8.....
My plan: I'm just counting calories and working out....I know what I need to do, I just need to do it.
Okay, sorry for the very long post. Just wanted to say that I am here and I look forward to being on this weight loss and lifestyle change journey with you.
Rai
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