I’ve been dreadful with this weight loss thing. I want to be healthy and feel good about myself. I don’t think I can get a goal weight because I’ve been doing some pretty heavy duty exercise (in between toe breakings) and so I think by the time I feel better I’ll weigh more than a goal weight I could come up with. I like to fit a size 7 and pick out the small shirts.
Now I know that I wrote that whole thing about beauty and the standards being too high but this is a health issue as well as a mental thing. A woman’s stomach needs to be under 35 inches for it to be healthy for your heart. It’s pretty hard for me to get my tummy that small. I do think I look better when I’m smaller too. Health is beautiful right? Not skin and bones.
My problem is opposite to most people when it comes to body image. I think I look way better than I actually do. My sister Jennie claims to feel the same way as I do as well. I’ll be strutting down the street with this image of myself being really skinny and amazing-looking and then I go to check myself out in a store window (don’t say you don’t all do it too) and I like stumble back “OH MY GOSH!!” then I forget and go back to thinking I’m a babe again. Is it healthy to have body dismorphia the opposite way?? Ha ha.
I need to blog about this weight loss thing. To inspire myself and to hopefully inspire others. I’m putting my body out there for everyone to see because, well, lets be real with each other for once. I believe in sharing struggles rather than hiding them because when you share yourself, you realize that everyone else out there is dealing with similar issues.
I have this pair of shorts that I bought right after having Isaac. They were too tight but I thought I’d lose the weight as quickly as I did with Silas. They still are too tight but I can get them up. So I will display update photos of myself in those shorts and a sports bra so you can see them get too big for me. I started a new page where you can view progress because there’s certain family members who’d rather not see certain parts of me (yes, I do write this for a lot of people, this blog would be like…10x more shocking if I didn’t have family reading..ha ha) so you can go there to see progress. I don’t have any of those photos yet but I’ll get Brently to take some tonight.
Anyway, my goal is to feel good. I don’t know if I can set times or dates, I’m trying to lose a big chunk before Christmas with a friend. We’re motivating each other. After that I’ll hopefully be on my way to 135-140 pounds in a steady, healthy way. If you want to see my plan of action and how I lost all my weight after having Silas you can hop on over to my Health Blog (that I haven’t written in in 500 years) and read “How I Lost Weight Without a Stupid Diet”.
Anyway kids. Check out my weight loss progress page for photos, graphs, measurements, and updates. I’ll update on the main page every Wednesday…Weight Loss Wednesday.
7 Comments
October 22, 2007 at 5:35 pm
Good luck! How tall are you?
October 22, 2007 at 5:41 pm
I’m 5′5 1/2″
October 22, 2007 at 6:47 pm
I didn’t know we were the same height!
October 22, 2007 at 7:20 pm
I’m a little taller than you I think, you’re like 5′5″
October 22, 2007 at 9:49 pm
I’m hoping to get down to about 145, which was how much I weighed when I got married. I look back at the pictures and want to punch myself in the throat because I looked great and thought that I was too heavy. ::sigh:: Now that I’m 185? I would die to be that skinny again.
I’ve started to go to the gym again, so maybe we can lose weight together!
October 23, 2007 at 1:38 pm
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October 24, 2007 at 11:42 am
Where’s the website and photos?