Weight Loss

Current "Numbers" 8-05-2010
Weight 167.1 lbs
Waist: 30"
Hips: 39.5 - 40"

Posted March 2010
How did I get here?!?
About six years ago I looked at a picture of me and thought "OMG where is the skinny farm girl?"
Growing up, I spent almost every available second running around outside, swimming, biking and sometimes even lending a hand on the farm.
I remember being in Girl Guides and wearing one of the smallest uniforms.
Even when I moved to the states I was dressing out of the Children's Department.
Things started to change about the time I started dating Brandon. We didn't have a lot of food or money at home and I spent most of my time at Brandon's because they always had junk food.  Brandon's mom always cooked big meals. The bad thing about that is she used lard in almost everything. One day last week she added lard to Brandon's sausage biscuit. *Vomit*

I started going to the gym the spring before I got pregnant with Brye. I had planned on joining the Army and was losing the weight to enlist. Once I got to 218 lbs I got pregnant. I delivered him weighing 256 lbs.
The next 2.5 years were spent my me visiting the gym off and on. Once I started a low/no carb diet the weight dropped like crazy. Guess what happened? Yep. I reached my pre-pregnancy weight and within a week was pregnant. Creepily enough, I also delivered Freedom at the exact same weight as Brye. Over the summer, thanks to partying, my weight climbed back up and PAST the delivery weight ... I reached 265 lbs.

At the end of February 2009, I convinced Brandon to go to a weight loss clinic with me. We did hcg shots along with a strict diet. HE lost 40 lbs in a month.  Me? Well in the two months of going there I lost 30 lbs. I gained 20 back when I stopped being OCD about weighing my foods.
I tried all summer to lose weight to no avail.

Then along came the Body After Baby Challenge.
I started back on a low calorie diet and mixed in some of the information that I learned at the weight loss clinic. I've tried several times to get in the habit of working out with the Wii. I own both Wii Fit and Wii Fit Plus. I just find it hard to motivate myself to work out in my living room. February of this year, I started going to the gym. I feel great, and feel like my fitness is improving.


So as I write this, I currently weigh 190.6 lbs.
I plan to update the ticker above, as well as the numbers above as I progress though this "Journey to a New Me"!


I have to say that, to date, the greatest tools that I have come across are My Daily Plate at LiveStrong.com, Traineo.com, and skinnyr.com. I am dorky and love statistics and graphs.
For motivation, I really like SparkPeople.com and the Body After Baby Challenge at MamaNotes.com.







 
 
Before Sept 2009, After Dec 2009 
Body After Baby Challenge
























View all my posts regarding my weight loss and the Body After Baby Challenge.