Who else is ready to work their ass off? I know I won’t miss mine.
Minus 15, Somebody Shoot Me Add commentsI didn’t learn how until I hit my mid twenties, but I am now an expert at gaining weight.
Fortunately I’m also good at maintaining it, so once I hit my target weight it doesn’t take too much effort on my part to stay put. Unfortunately, and this is embarrassing but I may as well admit it — if I spill it publicly then perhaps I’ll be more motivated to work — I’ve been drifting back and forth between 133 and 140 since I had the kiddo. Now, before I get romped on I’d like to state that I realize that I’m within a healthy weight zone for a 29 year old, 5′4″ woman. The embarrassment comes from knowing how out of shape I am. I have flashbacks in the form of some Drill Instructor’s voice telling me I’m a lazy turd. I’m also a victim of the times and like most women, the phrase I could stand to lose 15 or so pounds is permanently etched into the inside surface of my skull. It’s abrasive on my brains and no matter what anyone tells me, I’m not going to be content until I’m back down to 125.
And I do mean a healthy 125. I got back from Parris Island weighing 117 and I remember being horrified at how scrawny I was. Hell, I couldn’t even fill out an A cup bra and I remember going in with a B cup fitting me just fine. ((On a side note, that commercial for the diet supplement where the cartoon woman and her husband go on diets, the husband gets skinny and all that happens for her is her boobs shrink to nothing cracks me up every single time for that reason)) …
Great, typing the side note derailed my thought choo-choo. *scrunches up face and concentrates* I think I can, I think I can, I think I can remember what my point was…
Oh yeah! I’m working out again. Took me long enough, but I’m making the time to get away to bust my butt. Only problem is, our little workout hut here at the apartment complex only consists of a treadmill, a stationary bike, and an elliptical machine. I spend anywhere from 40 to 60 minutes in there at a time and I’m starting to get bored. It doesn’t help that I absolutely hate Hate HATE running. Seriously (and this is also kind of embarrassing and I’m not sure why) the only thing that can get me out of a bored funk while I’m running is listening to the Captain Jack remix from Dance Dance Revolution on my Discman. I’ve even downloaded several other cadences just for gits n shiggles.
Damn it, I’ve gone off track again. Think think think… Yes! Back to what I was going to say: I found some good workouts on about.com and I thought I would share them with anyone who wanted to “join me” in a bit of a weight loss challenge. Hell, I’ll even let you pick your own workouts from the list there. I’ll also (try to) post weekly updates (if I don’t weenie out). The goal is to lose about 15 pounds. Are you with me? (C’mon, I need some motivation here…)
May 15th, 2008 at 3:32 pm
I should probably post my current weight but, uh, I, um… just ate *whispers*
Burger King
Yes, the whole motherfucking King himself. It feels that way anyway.
Oh, and here’s something I found on deviantart.com that perfectly summed up my thoughts on the BK commercials.
Bawrgur King by ~iYellAtYou on deviantART
May 15th, 2008 at 5:24 pm
First I’ve got to eat all those chocolate-dipped strawberries you sent me. I’ll think about losing the weight after they’re all gone, after I get my garden in, after I get the boat out and launched, after I get the dock in and after I haul some firewood logs. Oh…and after I get the rhubarb wine started and pick the prickly gooseberries and start a batch of wine from those. Oh…and then I need to start making my famous sugarfree jams. Crap! I need a beer. Just thinking about all the reasons I won’t have time to exercise tends to wear me out.
May 15th, 2008 at 8:27 pm
Hmmm… this weekly travel and living in hotels has gotten me stuck at a svelte 260. (215-220 is skinny for me.) Sucky thing is that I had been down to 248…
Anyway, count me in, though, I’ll probably weenie out before you.
Is there a prize for the first to fifteen ex-pounds?
May 15th, 2008 at 10:02 pm
We should so do that! Only how can we prove that we’ve hit our mark and haven’t fudged the numbers? Whomever wins should get some interesting (inexpensive) thing we have laying around the house somewhere or else perhaps a found object. The more people participating = more crap in the mail for the person who wins.
I was at 138 before I ate the King, but I’ve just come back from a 60 min treadmill session. Let’s see what I weigh right now. (brb)
139.8!!
I should really be weighing myself in the morning.
May 16th, 2008 at 6:06 am
Good point about the “fudging of the numbers”… it’s too early to come up with a decent idea, but I’m sure it’s do-able.
Liking the prize idea, too! Heheheh… “Yay! Free crap!”
May 17th, 2008 at 6:15 pm
We could always take and post photos of our feet on the scale, just below the digital readout. It would have to be that kind of scale, though. That’s what I was planning on doing, myself, whether anyone participated with me or not.
May 17th, 2008 at 7:34 pm
I don’t wanna post my weiiiight! But I totally feel ya on that, “I neeeeeeeeeeeed to lose weeeeeeeight!”
I need to lose more than 15 pounds, tho.
Damn you, desk job.
May 17th, 2008 at 7:52 pm
Yeah… that would work.
I’ve got my goal to get down to 235… my little brother’s wedding will be coming up, but more importantly, I want to fling myself out of a plane. Where the weight limit was 250 back home, it’s 240 out here. Maybe the air is thinner, or something.
That would help to explain alot of things about Cali…
May 17th, 2008 at 10:13 pm
T1G — Or else Cali only allows under-powered eco-friendly hybrid planes.
Shaebo!! — You should join us ^_^
May 18th, 2008 at 8:44 am
You know what? I should. And I think I’m gonna. Except I’ve come to realize I don’t know HOW to lose weight. I’ve always been chubby. Partly due to the fact that my entire family is (hello, genetics?) and that I’m from eastern Kentucky (hello, southern cooking?).
Wanna let me in on your wonderous little secrets, Ms. Skinny Pants?
OH! And how are we going to track this and communicate? *L* Facebook?
May 18th, 2008 at 11:06 am
I was going to track my progress here on my blog. I figure that if it’s public I’ll be shamed into sticking to my goal *L*. But we can also use facebook!
As for my “secret”, it’s just a matter of calories out vs calories in. You can eat just the same as you always eat as long as you exercise. At first it’s unpleasant but if you start slow it’s not that bad. The most I could do when I started two weeks ago was about 15 min on the elliptical. Now I can do an hour on the treadmill, but I run every other song on my discman.
Boredom is also a factor. When you start to get bored, you start thinking about how uncomfortable, and sweaty you are, and then you start to think about how you just want to stop and that you can’t do it anymore. Right now, to combat the boredness I’m playing around with the mp3s on my CD. I’ll switch around to the songs that have a good beat and then I’ll adjust the treadmill to synchronize with it. IE: Captain Jack works perfectly on level 5.0. And instead of thinking about running, I think about… hehe *blush* dancing.
When I go to exercise, I don’t think, “Okay, I have to get out there and do this to lose weight.” I go out there thinking, “I really need to get out of the fucking house or else I’m going to go insane. This is my fucking hour to shut everyone and everything out and I’m going to take it, damn it, because I deserve it.”
The important thing is to increase the workout a little bit more each time. You know you’re getting in better shape when you notice that you are able to do more than you did the week before.
Oh, and I also feel a bit embarrassed and insecure exercising in public so I go to our little apartment gym. There’s rarely anyone in there and it’s free.
May 18th, 2008 at 2:23 pm
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May 18th, 2008 at 2:25 pm
I’m getting ready to head out for the week, but I went and posted…
May 18th, 2008 at 3:41 pm
Yeah count me in, but I don’t have a scale so I’ll have to see what I can do about that part and then post it.