Hi everyone,
I have tried to lose weight for about the past year, and have lost
some, then plateaued and ended up gaining it back again. This cycle
has repeated about 5 times, and with the summer right around the
corner, I am DONE. I currently weigh 138.8 lbs,
and I need motivation and commitment. Having an audience to have to
report the weight loss to will give me the push I need to lose it,
so here is my promise to myself.
I promise to myself that I will lose weight and will do so in order
to be confident, happy, and have better overall health. I will do
so by losing at least 1.25 pounds per
week. By July 13, my first day of summer camp, I will
weigh 121.3 pounds. Good job, but you're not done! By September
1, my first day of high school, I will weigh 129 pounds. By
Thanksgiving, which happens to be my 15th birthday, I will weigh my
ultimate goal weight of 106 pounds. This
isn't going to be easy, but it will be worth every bit of
struggle in the end. Lastly, I promise NOT TO GAIN THE WEIGHT
BACK.
Girls trying to starve themselves to lose
weight. Read this:
Starving yourself won't automatically result in weight
loss
When you start to starve yourself, your body holds on to any food
it can get
your metabolism slows down to conserve energy
which means the less you eat, the less calories you burn
This is why people who go on crash diets, and extremely restrict
their eating
may lose weight, but they gain it back once they go off the
diet
Starving yourself is an extreme and highly dangerous thing
and the fact is you can't totally starve yourself forever,
without causing some serious damage to your body
Some people are naturally smaller, so weight may be easy for them
to lose, or difficult for them to gain, due to metabolism
and other things.
Some people are naturally bigger, weight is difficult for them to
lose,
and they may gain weight easily because of their metabolism also.
Some people will always be smaller, no matter how much they try
to gain weight. Some people will always be bigger, no matter how
much they try to lose weight.
I am anorexic, i speak from personal experience
self starvation is one of the most god awful feelings on the
planet
If starvation goes on for too long, it can and will kill you
It's not cute to post things claiming that you are "not
eating"
It's a horrible thing to even encourage others to "not
eat or stop eating"
Not eating or starving yourself isn't pretty or benefical at
all
And if you admire people who are anorexic because they wind up
sick and malnourished, underweight, and in many cases,
dead-from an eating disorder
then you have some serious issues
.Using
pictures to motivate yourself to lose weight is completely stupid.
Your not going to get someone else's genetics (what determines
the size and frame of your body) or their metabolism (what
determines how much or fast your body burns calories) by looking at
pictures...you cannot copy someone else's metabolism, genetics,
bone structure, height, or weight.....it makes me sad how pictures
of impossibly skinny or fit women have so much influence on
people
I feel accomplished today. I woke up, went to class, did my
homework, worked out and even wrote a paper. However, as because of
the amount of exersize I did today, I will probably take tomorrow
off as recovery, or greatly shorten it. Other than that, there is
really not a lot to say about today.
For those who favorite my quotes, thank you.
Acctivity Log:
30 minute run
20 minutes yoga
5 minute ab work
60 minutes yoga
60 minute run
I know technically it is the 6th (it's 2:26am), but seeing as I
haven't had a chance to post yet today, this is when it will be
done.
Today was rather uneventful. Due to a late night last night (a 2am
perkins run in a town 45 minutes away), I slept in. I actually did
not get out of bed until amost three in the afternoon. I did a lot
of lazing around today. I watched a lot of Teen Wolf this afternoon
and actually did not leave my room until my friend Megan asked me
to come hang out with her. We went shopping and when we got back,
we sat in her room for awiile and she worked on some homework.
After a bit, I went back to my room and went mad cleaning, because
it desperatley needed to be done.
After I was finished cleaning, Megan asked me if I wanted to run
some errands. At about 11pm, we left to go to Walmart and the
grocery store. While we were there, I was talking to her about the
decision I had to lose weight, and she offered to do it with me. It
will be nice to have someone to help me along this journey, and I
look forward to having someone to workout with and make healthy
choice with in regards to eating habits.
Activity Log:
I took the day off because I was sore from the previous two days.