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Kicking My Ass
A Weight Loss Journey Through My Makeshift Bootcamp
Created on 2008-01-11 13:47:30 (#14650171), last updated 2009-10-28
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Basic Info| Name: | Red |
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| Birthdate: | 1979-10-01 |
| Location: | Lakewood, Ohio, United States |
BioHello, my name is Red, and I should have done this a long time ago. What, journaling, you ask? No, I've had a personal online journal for about four years now. I'm talking about this, my weight loss journal.
To give you an idea of a background, I have been a tall (5'9), overweight girl all of my life. I mean, ALL of my life. The smallest size I have ever fit into was a 14, and that's when I was 14. The largest I have ever gotten, which is how I ended up on this somewhat familiar but much more successful journey, is a size 26 jeans at 310lbs.
There are a couple of things that ignited the fire under my ass to GET MOVING. Small, yet emotionally explosive things that, when they erupted, kicked me out of the fog of denial that I had let envelope me.
1.) The Fuel: My boyfriend at the time, who worked at the local theater, had gotten free tickets to see a play. So we got all dressed to the nines and went. Our seats were up in the balcony, and I couldn't fit into them. Luckily, he had an isle seat, so we switched, but that didn't make it any less mortifying.
2.) The Oxygen: One of my his friends is a Japanese tourist. No, she isn't Japanese, but her camera is stapled to her hand at all times, and she not only tooksome of the worst pictures of me that have ever existed, but posted them on her Flickr account for the world to see. Now, I'm sort of glad she did, otherwise I wouldn't have such a good point of reference to how far I've come.
3.) The Match: This dippy(even dumpy) bitch who tried to kiss my boyfriend in front of me (he backed away, obviously, and we left), acting as if it didn't matter that I was his girlfriend because I was fat. This infuriated me, and not only made me envision methods of her demise, but also made me angry at myself for the fact that a girl like that had intimidated me. At a size 18 (in which I looked DAMN good), I would have blown her ass right out of the water. Not so much at a size 26. Fire. Fucking. Ignited.
These are the methods of my boot camp in which I kick my own ass. As I lose more weight, it will get more severe.
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The Results (so far)
To give you an idea of a background, I have been a tall (5'9), overweight girl all of my life. I mean, ALL of my life. The smallest size I have ever fit into was a 14, and that's when I was 14. The largest I have ever gotten, which is how I ended up on this somewhat familiar but much more successful journey, is a size 26 jeans at 310lbs.
There are a couple of things that ignited the fire under my ass to GET MOVING. Small, yet emotionally explosive things that, when they erupted, kicked me out of the fog of denial that I had let envelope me.
1.) The Fuel: My boyfriend at the time, who worked at the local theater, had gotten free tickets to see a play. So we got all dressed to the nines and went. Our seats were up in the balcony, and I couldn't fit into them. Luckily, he had an isle seat, so we switched, but that didn't make it any less mortifying.
2.) The Oxygen: One of my his friends is a Japanese tourist. No, she isn't Japanese, but her camera is stapled to her hand at all times, and she not only took
3.) The Match: This dippy(even dumpy) bitch who tried to kiss my boyfriend in front of me (he backed away, obviously, and we left), acting as if it didn't matter that I was his girlfriend because I was fat. This infuriated me, and not only made me envision methods of her demise, but also made me angry at myself for the fact that a girl like that had intimidated me. At a size 18 (in which I looked DAMN good), I would have blown her ass right out of the water. Not so much at a size 26. Fire. Fucking. Ignited.
These are the methods of my boot camp in which I kick my own ass. As I lose more weight, it will get more severe.
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A diet of the hijacked Weight Watcher's persuasion (basically, a friend of mine made a WW calculator for me and gave me all the info, that way I don't have to spend $50 a month to have strangers crying all over me). The way it works is that I have a certain amount of points that I eat per day (that number depends on my weight range). I can eat whatever I want, just as long as I stay within those daily points. When I get down lower than that weight range, I go to the next tier with less points (this is helpful for people prone to plateaus).
A delightful blend of exercises that I've actually learned throughout the years compacted into a 100-minute biweekly routine that works my entire body, and yet is also alot of fun and very flexible. It is a bastard child of:
*Standard Aerobics (from all the Jazzercise classes I went to with my mom when I was a kid)
*Dancing (which I love to go out to my frequent dance club and do anyway)
*Kickboxing (which I took just long enough to learn good form and how to deliver a mean right hook)
This routine is ideal for me because I love music and dancing, and also because can I do it at home where nobody can look at me like I have tourettes. And if I get sick of a song, I can just replace it with another one.
Recently, I have added (and I never thought in a billion years I would do this) Dance, Dance Revolution to my project. I also do this
The Results (so far)
STATS
This would be my real-time monthly weigh-in and measurement.
* *Weight Sunday 9/14 - 195lbs yes!!!* *
**Waist Measurement Sunday 9/14 - 38 inches**
Weight Saturday 8/23 - 200lbs
Waist Measurement Saturday 8/23 - 40.25 inches
Weight Tuesday 07/23 - 208lbs
Waist Measurement 07/23 - 41.5
Weight Saturday 06/14 - 215lbs
Waist Measurement 06/14 - 42.5 inches
Weight Wednesday 05/14 - 225lbs
Waist Measurement 05/14 - 44 inches
Weight Monday 04/14 - 228lbs
Waist Measurement 04/14 - 44 inches
Weight Friday 03/14 - 240lbs
Waist Measurement 03/14 - 46 inches
Weight Thursday 02/14 - 250lbs
Waist Measurement 02/14 - 46.75 inches
Weight Monday 01/14 - 268lbs
Waist Measurement 01/14 - 48.75 inches
Weight Friday 12/14 - 280lbs
Waist Measurement 12/14 - 51.5 inches
Weight Monday 11/19 - 292lbs
Waist measurement 11/19 - 53.25 inches
Starting weight on 10/23 - 310lbs
Starting waist inches 10/23 - 56.5 inches
VISUAL AID Here are my progress photos so far:
The Beginning...(photos courtesy of aforementioned Japanese tourist :-p)
This photo makes me cringe...
Me bending over to cut a spring in the couch....Ugh....
I was so miserable....
But then I decided to do something about it. Here's me at 280lbs Not a great improvement, but I guess it doesn't help that I look like I've just seen a car crash.
This is me at 268lbs. I look alot better, I just can't figure out why I am physically unable to smile in my progress shots. I smile all the time!! Honest!!!
Side shot!
This is me at 260lbs (very much fluctuating toward the 250's) in my NEW SKIRT!! YYAAYY!!!
Here I am at 250lbs! This means I'm only 15lbs from the halfway mark!
Here I am at the 70lb mark at 240lbs!! Please excuse the sloppiness of my appearance, but I had just gotten out of work, and I figured it would make an honest picture:
YAY!! 220lbs!! The 90lb mark!!!
100LBS GONE!!!!!!! Only 50 more to go!! WEEEE!!!!
YAY!!
**UPDATE**9-24-09 After much biking, running, and gnashing of teeth, here I am right now at 185lbs, taken last weekend before Lori and Andrew's wedding :-)
Hell-to-the-YES! ;-) (I know it's a little off-center, but you'll have that when taking the pics by yourself ;-D)
More to come...you'd better believe it ;-D
My Ultimate Goal and Milestones To Get There
STARTING LINE: 310lbs SIZE 26
*FINISH LINE: 160lbs SIZE 10**Milestone #5B - 36 inch waist
*Milestone #6B - 34 inch waist
*Milestone #7A - Get to 180lbs
*Milestone #7B - 32 inch waist
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awesome clothes, being happy, cooking, cutting back on smoking, dancing, ddr, determination, everything in moderation, focus, healthy food, hijacked weight watchers, kickboxing, motivation, puppies, reading, red hair dye, self control, stompy music, strength, style, swimming, the george foreman grill, walking, who i am, writing
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