6 Month 6 Pack Challenge
Once you start a journey you have to keep moving forward to head to the completion.
I just want to start of saying that I have been on this journey on and off a long time and have lost about 60 pounds and have kept it off. I have 60 more pounds that I want to lose and it has been hard trying to get back in the right mindset to complete this journey. When you have been as large as I was or larger It is hard to look at the whole journey in its entirety. If you do that you will get very discouraged and want to give up completely. So I feel like this new journey I am on is only pt. 2 of my weight loss journey. I am going to put my weight loss journey in three parts so I don't get overwhelmed. Losing weight is an extreme battle not just because you have to diet and exercise but when you are fighting obesity there are other reasons why you have gained the weight. No one just eats and gains 100 pounds in 2 years without something being wrong. I gained weight like that before and it has been a journey to take off the weight. I remember from 2003 until 2010 I had gained 161 pounds and I couldn’t believe it. How does a person gain that much and not realize it? I got an answer for you that may not blow your mind and it’s called depression. Depression and eating to control my feelings had caused me to isolate myself and eat myself into frenzy.
In 2010 I began to gain my life back by attempting to lose all of this weight. I remember attempting walking around the block and not being able make it half way around the block. Just years prior to this weight gain I was very athletic and jogging. It took me from 2003 to 2010 become the heaviest I had ever been and being totally unhappy. In 2010 I became very dedicated to walking every day and trying to eat right. My eating right consisted of 6 small meals a day. At my largest weight and trying to attempt to lose weight didn’t make me feel good about myself because all I could think about was how did I allow myself to get that heavy? I would get on the scale and get angry because I was so mad at myself. I would just cry and want to give up but I was determined to lose this weight. I started seeing results very fast, but the problem was that I still didn’t know how to control my emotions so when I got angry, upset, happy, or nervous I ate and ate until I could eat anymore. That’s a pattern with me.
Now in 2012 I have become a little lazy because I have lost 60 pounds and I started to forget how fast the weight could come back on. I looked on the scale and I had gained 7 pounds because it is around the holidays and I decided to gorge myself. I looked at myself in the mirror and realized that I had to get back on this journey because I have to finish what I started. Exercise alone will not help you to lose the weight. 70 percent of weight loss is diet alone and 30 percent is exercise. I was still doing my exercises which I do Zumba Fitness but now in December 2012 I am ready to start what I finished and I am ready to tackle pt. 2 of this journey. So I have put myself on a 6 Pound 6 pack Challenge where I will complete this pt. 2 of my weight loss journey so I can this weight loss process almost finished. I am just eating 6 small meals a day and staying away from simple carbs. I will be drinking half of my body weight in water and staying away from sugar too. Eating small portions and working out 6 days a week will be my goal. I am allowing myself one can of coke zero a day so I don’t feel deprived!!!! High protein meals and very low carbs will be my goal. I will keep you updated.
